In a post written on Medium, Chase Freo reported that Alto.io is pivoting to Outplay Games. Chase wrote, this is a complete overhaul of the product and services it is developing. This pivot is taking Outplay Games to an entirely different direction from its last year’s offering of NFT centric tool sets. These are the types of rebrands that many who are fans of new gtld domains like to … [Read more...]
Star Wars First Assault Game Back In The Works? Domain Reg Hints At It
*See update at bottom of page, which announces beta release of First Assault by Nexon. FirstAssaultGame.com has been registered by a currently unknown CSC Corporate Domains client using generic whois data currently. Does this mean that the Star Wars game, First Assault may be back in the works? Doing some research, here are some findings: According to StarWars.Wikia.com : “Star … [Read more...]
After spending $30MM for Sometrics, Amex allows its most popular site Gamecoins.com TO Drop
I noticed the domain name GameCoins.com was in an expired domain name auction over at GoDaddy Auctions after it expired on May 5, 2015. The domain name has a very interesting history. For starters, GameCoins.com sold at Sedo.com for $10,500 on September 3, 2009 and the buyer was Ian Swanson of the company Sometrics. According to an article on AdWeek.com published October 12, … [Read more...]
King.com opens to Stock Crush Saga – Dropping 16% on First Day of Trading
King.com the maker of Candy Crush Saga could have titled their first day of trading as Stock Crush Saga. The stock had a very poor performance on its first day of trading. Perhaps people were looking at King and thinking it was going to be another Zynga, wildly popular before the IPO but as soon as it went public it could not make any gains in the public market. Zynga had Farmville and King has … [Read more...]
King.com Seeks Up to a $7.6 Billion Valuation
King.com the maker of Candy Crush Saga could be looking at as much as a $7.6 billion valuation in their I.P.O. The Wall Street Journal reported today that the valuation would put King in the big leagues with a valuation rivaling the top video game companies on the market. Of course King.com has had some negative publicity lately with their attempts to trademark Candy and Saga. Smaller game … [Read more...]