CasualCafe to launch Facebook games for casual players
CasualCafe has joined the ranks of game companies looking to make a fortune with games on Facebook. The Los Angeles company has launched its first two games, Spyde Solitaire and Burdaloo, for Facebook and is showing them off at Facebook’s F8 development conference.
Michael Scholz founded the company two years ago to create PC-based online games for the casual market. The games are based on Adobe’s Flash technology and run in a browser. As such, they… Continue Reading
Friends For Sale creators raise financing, not for sale
In the often silly world of third-party Facebook applications, Friends For Sale is especially silly — and smart.
It’s a game where you and your Facebook friends compete to buy and sell each other as “pets,” with each person receiving a market-based virtual valuation.
The San Francisco-based company says it is not for sale, even though other social game developers have recently been acquired by market leaders Zynga and SGN.
The company has just raised $4 million from… Continue Reading