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	<title>Matthew Roszak</title>
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		<title>FarmVille maker Zynga hiring MySpace, Facebook survivor Owen Van Natta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Owen Van Natta is back in the game.  He’s back in business. And he’s back in the games business.
Zynga, the maker of FarmVille, Mafia Wars, and other popular Facebook  games, is hiring the social-networking veteran as executive vice  president of business operations. Van Natta, who’d been consulting for  the company, starts work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matthewroszak.info/?p=33</link>
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		<title>Mentez gets investment to build social games in Latin America and Brazil (exclusive)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Social gaming firm Mentez has raised a round of funding to build games for the Latin American market and Brazil.
New York-based Insight Venture Partners has invested an undisclosed amount of money into Miami-based Mentez.  Mentez will use the money to expand its portfolio of social games across  Latin America and Brazil. It currently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matthewroszak.info/?p=31</link>
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		<title>Nintendo reports a quarterly loss as Wii game sales tumble</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nintendo  reported a loss for its first fiscal quarter, which ended June 30, as the Japanese company saw its Wii game sales wither.
Kyoto, Japan-based Nintendo said it had a loss of 25.2 billion yen, or $287 million, compared to a profit of 42.3 billikon yen a year earlier. Revenues were 188.6 billion yen, down 25.6 percent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matthewroszak.info/?p=28</link>
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		<title>Is Disney ready to buy social game company Playdom for more than $600M?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rumors have surfaced that Disney is in the process of negotiating to buy social game company Playdom for more than $600 million.
Techcrunch reported tonight that it had heard from six or seven sources that a deal was in the works. We also heard the rumor from a credible source earlier today and sent messages this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matthewroszak.info/?p=25</link>
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		<title>SGN launches Skies of Glory as the first cross-platform Android-iPhone game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SGN today launched its first game where players with Android phones can engage in multiplayer competition with players using iPhones.
The Skies of Glory flight combat game launched last fall on the iPhone, and its Android version is launching today. Players can connect via Wi-Fi and other wireless modes and play each other in multiplayer dogfights. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matthewroszak.info/?p=23</link>
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		<title>Free-to-play business model starting to generate a “geiser of money” for iPhone game makers</title>
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Purchase of virtual goods are starting to take off on the iPhone and game startups are starting to prosper from the added revenue,  according to data from mobile analytics firm Flurry. For game developers, that means that the iPhone is finally living up to its potential as a revenue generator for third-party app creators.
Apple turned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matthewroszak.info/?p=21</link>
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		<title>Nvidia goes for price-sensitive gamers with powerful new graphics chips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After much delay, Nvidia launched its high-end graphics chip, code-named Fermi, this spring. But a new generation of Fermi has arrived just in time for back-to-school season.
A no frills version of Fermi, formally named GeForce GTX 460, debuts today as a high-performance graphics chip for price-conscious gamers. The GTX 460 targets graphics cards that sell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matthewroszak.info/?p=19</link>
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		<title>Titan Gaming takes on billionaire Richard Branson in video game tournaments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you’re taking on a billionaire, you have to bulk up. That’s what Titan Gaming is doing as it readies to challenge Virgin Gaming, the recently announced affiliate of Richard Branson’s Virgin Group. Titan is forming new partnerships and adding video game veterans to its board and management team to build itself a stronger position. The Los [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matthewroszak.info/?p=17</link>
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		<title>Helios Interactive snares indie game developers with cross-platform GameCore tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Helios Interactive doesn’t have the greatest pedigree for success in video games. Its parent company, Mehta Group, is a multibillion-dollar transportation company.
But Helios is making an interesting play to capture the hearts of game developers with its GameCore development platform, which can be used to create cross-platform games with cool 3D graphics. A couple of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matthewroszak.info/?p=15</link>
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		<title>FavRav lets Facebook users refer local businesses to friends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facebook can be a daunting place for many small businesses. While  they dream of reaching some of the social network’s more than 450  million users, they don’t always have the time or money. Enter a new  Facebook application, FavRav,  that aims to help local businesses tap current customers to create  positive recommendations for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matthewroszak.info/?p=13</link>
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