GamerDNA launches way to discover games that fit your tastes

GamerDNA launches way to discover games that fit your tastes

GamerDNA has launched a new way to discover games that fit your tastes. The new service is part of the company’s social network that finds out everything about your gaming habits across a variety of platforms and lets you share that data with friends.

The Cambridge, Mass.-based social network for gamers launched its Discovery Engine today. The engine identifies new games to play that fit with a player’s individual interests and preferences. It isn’t just another… Continue Reading

Roundup: The financial crisis explained, land line usage still dropping, and more

Roundup: The financial crisis explained, land line usage still dropping, and more

Still don’t understand the financial crisis? — Neither does anybody else, it seems, but The New York Times has a good write-up of various issues, in brief question-and-answer format.

Telephone land lines continue to get unplugged — More people are switching to just using cell phones. See screenshot.

Conservative commenter Bill O’Reilly’s site hacked — Hackers took over billoreilly.com after his comments on the earlier Sarah Palin email hack. The full report on Wikileaks.

Google has closed its Phoenix branch
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GamerDNA raises $3 million for gamer social networking

GamerDNA raises $3 million for gamer social networking

GamerDNA has raised $3 million in a first round of venture capital to bankroll an online community for video game players.

Flybridge Capital Partners led the financing for the company, previously known as GuildCafe Entertainment.
The company will use the funds to expand product development, open new offices in Cambridge’s Central Square, and launch the GamerDNA.com social networking site.

GuildCafe was focused on massively-multiplayer online games such as World of Warcraft, but now the Cambridge, Mass., company says… Continue Reading