Big Fish Games扩大全球影响力——上周初，Big Fish Games公司宣布将分别以巴西葡萄牙语，丹麦语，荷兰语，意大利语和瑞典语发布5款本地化游戏门户网站。此外，该公司目前可接受16种国家货币的支付方式，这16个地区分别为阿根廷，澳大利亚，巴西，英国，加拿大，丹麦，欧洲，日本，墨西哥，新西兰，挪威，南非，新加坡，瑞士，瑞典和美国。

EA Sports发布Facebook版PGA Tour——EA Sports游戏PGA Tour有望成为Electronic Arts公司的新款Facebook特许经营游戏。与此前非即时团队管理游戏《Madden NFL》和《FIFA Superstars》不同，PGA Tour Golf Challenge是一款技术型即时游戏。

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OpenFeint无畏Game Center，用户数翻倍增长——尽管很多人认为Aplle公司发布Game Center将造成手机社交游戏网站OpenFeint用户数有所减少，但据VentureBeat报导事实却与此相反。Game Center发布后，Openfeint的用户不减反增至近5000万人，增长率高达119%。

Scoreloop每月新增用户破300万——自从在Android系统发布Scoreloop2.0 SDK以来，Scoreloop手机和社交游戏平台每月新增用户超过300万人。而且与OpenFeint不同，Scoreloop的新增长用户主要来自于Android系统和跨平台游戏。

GameGround集资530万美元——注重开发“个性化游戏应用”的GameGround在上周的系列B集资活动中总计筹得资金530万美元。其中投资方包括有Sequoia Capital, Softbank Capital, Vodafone Ventures和Novel TMT Ventures.

Zattikka获得《巨蟒》许可——目前已经成功集资550万美元的英国社交游戏公司Zattikka最近获得了《巨蟒剧团之飞翔的马戏团》的许可。据Worlds In Motion报导，该公司将首先发布《巨蟒》的Facebook游戏。

Zynga“不再”从慈善捐款中提成——在2009年的海地地震灾难后，社交游戏开发公司Zynga在游戏中发布了特殊虚拟商品以作慈善之用。然而，部分人质疑Zynga公司从筹得善款中提成50%。据TechCrunch报导，针对这些批判，Zynga表示在今后的慈善活动中并不会提成。另外，Zynga表示将在12月初为UCSF建造儿童医院在FarmVille社交游戏开展慈善活动。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

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Big Fish Games Expands Global Reach — Earlier this week, Big Fish Games announced that it is expanding its “direct-to-consumer reach” by launching five localized game portals in Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Italian, and Swedish. Additionally, the company is now accepting payments in 16 new currencies; the Argentine peso, Australian dollar, Brazilian real, British pound, Canadian dollar, Danish krone, euro, Japanese yen, Mexican peso, New Zealand dollar, Norwegian kroner, South African rand, Singapore dollar, Swedish krona, Swiss franc, and US dollar.

EA PGA Tour ChallengeEA Sports to Bring PGA Tour to Facebook — It looks like EA Sports PGA Tour will be the next Electronic Arts franchise to make its way to Facebook, according to an announcement earlier this week. Unlike the previous titles, such as Madden NFL and FIFA Superstars, PGA Tour Golf Challenge will feature skill-based, real-time game play rather than asynchronous team management.

OpenFeint Grows Despite Game Center — Though some expected OpenFeint, a mobile social games network, to decline after the release of Apple’s Game Center platform, VentureBeat reports the opposite. Since the release of Game Center, OpenFeint has actually doubled its user base to around 50 million users, with the number of OpenFeint-enabled games up 119%.

Scoreloop Breaches 3 Million New Users a Month — Along with the release of Scoreloop’s 2.0 SDK for Android, the mobile, social games platform is now gaining more than 3 million new users each month. Unlike OpenFeint, Scoreloop says that most of its growth stems from the Android and cross-platform gaming.

GameGround Raises $5.3 Million — GameGround, a developer of a “personalized gaming app” of the same name, raised $5.3 million in a Series B round this week. Among the participants were Sequoia Capital, Softbank Capital, Vodafone Ventures, and Novel TMT Ventures.

ZattikkaZattikka Acquires Monty Python License — Already with $5.5 million in funding and still raising more, the UK-based social gaming company Zattikka has acquired the license for Monty Python’s Flying Circus. According to Worlds In Motion, their first release will be a Facebook title that will “pay homage” to the 1970s sketch comedy program.

Zynga to No Longer Take Cut of Charity Donations — From the Gulf spill to Haiti, Zynga has set up special virtual goods to help raise money in the past but have been heavily Gulf Coast Turtlecriticized for taking up to 50% of the revenue. Following criticism, Zynga will no longer take any cut from their charitable efforts, according to TechCrunch. Additionally, Zynga has also noted that it will begin a new campaign in December with FarmVille for the UCSF Children’s Hospital Challenge for Charity. （Source：Inside Social Games）