The number of Internet users in China reached about 253 million last month, overtaking the United States as the world’s largest Internet market. An increase of of more than 50%, about 90 million during the past year. China could soon have more than 300 million people using the Internet for everything from news to online shopping. The potential for growth is phenonemal.
By contrast, the United States is estimated to have about 220 million Internet users, about 70 percent of its population, with similarly high percentages in Japan and South Korea.
Even though Internet sites inside China are heavily censored of political content, and foreign Web sites operating there have strict restrictions, online gaming, blogs and social networking and other entertainment sites are incredibly popular particularly amongst teenagers. 70% of China’s internet users are 30 years old or under.
The investment firm Morgan Stanley says that “Online advertising and paid search market is growing by 60 to 70 percent a year, and forecasts that by the end of this year, online advertising in China could reach $1.7 billion. And only 19 percent of Chinese people have access to the Internet. We are still far from saturation. So the next three to five years, we’re still going to see hyper- growth in this market.”
More than 500,000 Facebook users log on to play Scrabulous every day. Sanctioned by Hasbro, the Scrabble application for Facebook has over 8,000 fans. Scrabulous fans are also scoring triple points by setting up 55 “Save Scrabulous” Facebook groups shortly after Hasbro sent a cease-and-desist letter to the application’s makers, India-based RJ Software, in January.
Facebook isn’t saying if the network would eventually remove the game while the lawsuit proceeds but believes that “games are an important part of the social experience on Facebook.
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Set in the backdrop of a factory surrounded by cogs and the sounds of machinery clunking and whirring is the latest of uVme games; Blob Factory!
If things get a little tricky then use the spacebar to swap blobs in the dispenser.
There are some very useful powerups which occur at regular intervals and levels. My favourite and the one I find particularly useful is the ‘time freeze’ bonus.
Blob Factory is Live!
uVme’s brand new game, which some think is better even than Fruit Frenzy is on uVme now!
I make no apology for this post being so short, we want to go again!!
We will write a review for you asap, but right now we can’t stop playing the game and just wanted to let you know it is live…
Those of you who love a bit of darts action will be thrilled to know that uVme’s Jumper Darts game has been updated with a new, easier-to-see power indicator!
And better yet, you can now enter a Jumper Darts tournament with an estimated jackpot of £250! Of course, the final jackpot may be even bigger… it depends on how many people enter. The jackpot will be split between the top 25% of players based on their highest tournament score - and the closer you are to the top, the bigger your portion of the pot will be!
What makes this tournament different to the other progressive tournaments on uVme so far is that this one is going to actually consist of three different tournaments running at the same time, for three different skill levels! So, based on your previous scores on Jumper Darts, you will be placed into a beginner’s, intermediate, or advanced level tournament. This gives everyone a better chance at a prize because you will be playing against people of similar ability to your own.
Go on, even if you’ve never tried it before, challenge your mates to enter as well… and see which group you end up in! PLAY NOW…
The first 24 hour Fruit Frenzy tournament worked to plan and the jackpot was over £250 without any marketing!!
This really shows the power of these progressive tournaments…
So uVme have released three more tournaments for various time periods. The new tournaments include Speed Pool, Tetrablock and another 7-day Fruit Frenzy tournament.
Imagine what the jackpot of the new Fruit Frenzy tournament could be after 7 days, when it was £250 after only 24 hours without any marketing!
Mark this day in your calendar! After rigarous testing the first uVme tournament is now live, and the game being used to test the tournament system out in the market is none other than the infamous Fruit Frenzy!
Sam Serpent is another of the “uVme Classics”.
The aim of Sam Serpent is to score as high as possible by collecting food nuggets and completing the game before the timer runs out.
However it is harder than it looks and certainly a challenge to collect all fifty food nuggets.
TetraBlock is one of the first to be launched “uVme classics”!
TetraBlock is on a timer so the quicker you are to create rows the slower the countdown becomes.
And it’s great fun trying to complete multiple rows to gain a higher score.
The technicians and programmers have been hard at work at uVme to bring you progressive tournaments. You can probably imagine that with the potential to have many thousands of players in one tournament over a short period of time, we need to be very sure that the systems operating them are running with maximum efficiency.
With that in mind we have decided to continue testing for the rest of this week and launch the first progressive tournament next week. By popular demand the first progressive tournament will feature the very popular game… Fruit Frenzy. The entry fee will be £1 and 33% of the top scoring players will win a prize!
We are also launching two new “classic” games, which you will find on your games site a little later on today. Recently featured in our Pioneers web-conference, the games are Tetra Blocks and Sam Serpent… If you were around when computer games were first introduced, (some years ago)… you will remember these games… you’ll notice also, that we have kept the classic look…