Curse, a growing site for online gamers

Curse, a growing site for online gamers

The online gaming community has ballooned over the past two years, as have the business opportunities around them. Game sites offer support, virtual currency exchange, and never-ending performance data. They’re looking more like stock investment sites than game sites.

Curse is an example of what may be the future for gaming support sites, offering both community and information features. The site reports strong growth, and is considering offers for a funding round at least twice the… Continue Reading

Curse, a maker of social networks for multi-player games

Curse, a maker of social networks for multi-player games

Curse, another online company that offers social networking around multi-player online games, has received a $5 million in a first round of venture capital funding.

Curse offers gamers the standard social networking features around their games, from image and video uploading, to blogging, social bookmarking, wikis, databases, forums and guild website hosting.

The funding, which comes from France’s AGF Private Equity and other individual investors, follows more than $800,000 in angel money, the company said in a… Continue Reading