Tag Archives: virtual worlds
Thu, Dec 08, 2011 | 04:30 GMT
Thursday Shorts II: Spyro, MotorStorm, Iran 1979, WoW, Total Recall, Witcher 2
Time for some more shorts to get you ready for Friday. Just think: when you wake up tomorrow, your work week will be almost over. Isn’t that grand?
Wed, Oct 15, 2008 | 21:47 BST
$148.5 million pumped into virtual worlds in Q3, says VWM
According to Virtual Worlds Management, $148.5 million has been invested in in 12 virtual worlds-related companies during the third quarter, says IGN.
The total investment in the virtual worlds space is now over $493 million and counting for this year alone.
The Virtual Worlds London conference takes place October 20-21.
Full thing through the link.
By Mike Bowden
Thu, Jun 05, 2008 | 07:16 BST
1 billion virtual world users in the next decade, says report
According to this GamesDaily piece, a Strategy Analytics report has predicted that more than 1 billion people will use virtual worlds in the next ten years.
The firm claims this will present an MMO service opportunity of some $8 billion.
“Despite a multitude of challenges, virtual worlds present a unique marketing opportunity to target a highly sought demographic, and virtual worlds should be part of a company’s marketing portfolio,” said Strategy Analytics president Harvey Cohen.


GameStop posts quarterly decline, shrugs off Microsoft’s evasive stance on used games