1）德国在线游戏发行商及开发商Bigpoint宣布其用户总数已超过2亿，在不足18个月的时间中注册用户已从原来的1亿增加了一倍。Bigpoint旗下游戏共推出25种语言版本，现有全球员工700多人。

bigpoint_logo(from gx.com.sg)

据gamesbrief报道，该公司自2007年以来收益增长了三倍（Bigpoint的主打产品是锁定硬核玩家的MMO游戏），2007年收入是1000万欧元，2008年是2800万欧元，2009年是6000万欧元，2010年是2亿欧元，并且有可能在2011年实现5亿欧元营收。

2）休闲游戏公司Slingo日前宣布任命游戏行业元老Coray Seifert为公司产品开发总监。该公司准备向新平台拓展业务范围，Seifert将负责把Slingo旗下的在线游戏、手机游戏引进新的市场领域。Seifert是国际游戏开发者协会最年轻的董事之一，同时还是Kao Studios的设计师和写手。

3）印度Hungama Game Studio（Hungama Digital Media Entertainment旗下工作室）日前将GamingHungama.com网站重命名为TheGameBox.com，并将其定义为社交游戏网站，提供益智解谜、赛车、体育、宝莱坞、动作和文字等多种类型的Flash休闲游戏。

hungama-gamebox(from gamingxpress.com)

该网站植入了Facebook和Twitter社交功能，支持TheGameBox用户邀请这些社交网络好友共同参与游戏。玩家不注册也可以体验这些游戏，但只有注册用户才可以使用社交功能，每名注册用户都将拥有一个完整的个人资料页面，显示其好友列表、最近玩过的游戏，游戏徽章、评论、参与挑战、积分和最喜爱的游戏等内容。

4）俄罗斯开发商Questa日前在该国最大的社交网站VKontakte（游戏邦注：其注册用户超过1亿，约占俄罗斯网民的73%）推出了一款反映政治现实的社交游戏《Politics》，玩家在游戏中一开始都只是一个普通公民，随着游戏发展，逐渐步入政坛，然后参与总统选举，组建自己的政党，制定新法规，并发挥领袖的作用，对世界其他地区施加影响。

politics(from socialgamesobserver)

Questa游戏开发者及制作人Max Masin表示，他们只是想让人们从游戏中获得乐趣，并从中受到教育和启发，更加关注俄罗斯的立法、选举等各种事务。

5）《Bingo Adventure》是一款由知名社交游戏开发商King.com于5月12日推出的新游戏，目前已跻身Facebook前20名新晋游戏榜单，据AppData数据显示，《Bingo Adventure》目前MAU总共21万41，DAU是1万5430。这是一款以传统Bingo填字游戏为主题，并植入实时社交互动元素的模拟游戏。该游戏划分成了世界各地区的活动空间，每个空间又有各自的聊天室，支持玩家在其中交流并互赠礼物。

Bingo Adventure(from insidesoicalgames)

6）在本周MAU增长最快的Facebook游戏排行榜上，Zynga新作《Empires & Allies》的MAU是3297万，Digital Chocolate推出的《Army Attack》则是418万，两者分别居于第一、第二席位，而另一款硬核风格的策略类游戏——Kabam开发的《Global Warfare》也从上周排行榜上升了11名，目前排行第7名，MAU是120万。

Top Gainers This Week-Games(from AppData.com)

在非战斗题材的游戏中，《Zoo World》和Namco Bandai的经典游戏《吃豆人》表现不俗，均跻身前10名榜单；值得注意的是，《口袋妖怪》克隆版本《Monster Galaxy》排名仅次于《Army Attack》，目前MAU超过1600多万。本周新面孔是《Nomi Cose Citta》这款意大利文字游戏（MAU为155万），以及餐厅模拟游戏《Tea4Friends》（MAU约167万）。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，如需转载请联系：游戏邦）

1）Bigpoint Reaches 200 Million Registered Users

by Mike Rose

German online games publisher and developer Bigpoint today revealed that it has surpassed 200 million registered users in total.

The company, which processes over one billion transactions every day, has doubled its registered user base from 100 million users in less than 18 months.

Bigpoint’s games are translated into more than 25 languages, with over 700 employees in multiple headquarters around the world creating console and PC games.

Heiko Hubertz, founder and co-CEO of Bigpoint, explained, “This is another major milestone that our company has achieved in a short period of time.”

“It shows that members of our community recognize our commitment to delivering high-quality games and online experiences, and we want to celebrate that.”（source:gamasutra）

Bigpoint’s revenue growth

Nicholas Lovell

I’ve just been going back through some old blog posts for GAMESbrief Unplugged: Volume 2.

What struck me was the impressive revenue progression of Bigpoint, the browser-based games company that makes free-to-play games mainly aimed at core gamers.

Here are the numbers:

2007: €10 million

2008: €28 million

2009: €60 million

2010: €200 million

That’s pretty impressive stuff. Revenues have pretty well tripled every year since 2007. If they do it again, they’ll make half a billion euros in 2011.（source:gamesbrief）

2）Casual Game Developer Slingo Appoints Coray Seifert As Director

by Mike Rose

Casual gaming company Slingo has appointed industry veteran Coray Seifert as its new director of product development.

The company, which also specializes in casino games machines, is looking to expand its presence to new platforms, and Seifert will be responsible for bringing its online and mobile games to these new markets.

Seifert is the youngest ever member of the IGDA board of directors, and has also worked as a designer and writer at Homefront developer Kaos Studios.（source:gamasutra）

3）Hungama launches TheGameBox.com as a social gaming site

By SiliconIndia

Bangalore: Hungama Game Studio, a division of Hungama Digital Media Entertainment, has renamed GamingHungama.com as TheGameBox.com as a social gaming site. The site offers Flash-based casual games in various categories including logic and puzzle, racing and sports, Bollywood, action and word games, among others.

Founded in 1999 with a team of just four inspired individuals, today it encompasses more than 750 employees and offices located in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Dubai, Singapore and the U.S.A. It has now become the largest aggregator, developer, publisher and distributor of Bollywood and South-Asian entertainment content in the world. With partnerships with over 305 content creators, across record labels, studios, broadcasters Hungama has licensed worldwide exclusive digital rights to over 4 million music and video titles.

The social element comes encompassed with Facebook and Twitter integration to invite friends from the social networks to play or network with other Game Box users, chat, compare scores and challenge them. The home page of the site displays popular games for Quick Play, a list of the top 10 games, challenges and score leader board. The games can be played without registering on the site, but the user will be able to social features only after sign-up. Each user will get a profile page complete with personal information, friend list, list of recently played games, game medals, comments, challenges played, top scores and favorites. （source:siliconindia）

4）Russian Developers Explore Daring Concept in Social Gaming

By Sebastian SujkaShare

A unique and thought-provoking game has joined the social gaming community through Russian-based VKontakte network. According to the developers politics reflects the reality of Russia’s political arena with its conflict, intrigue and all of the key players. Whether you are announcing your presidential bid or gossiping within high-profile societal circles, Politics is meant to educate, challenge, entertain and shock. Designed by a team of Moscow-based developer Questa, the game was launched today on Russia’s leading social network, Vkontakte, a social network with over 100 million registered users, reaching 73% of all internet users in Russia. Funded by a group of private investors, the game is not affiliated with any political group, but rather is a progressive attempt to raise interest to politics among the Russian youth.

“This is the election year for Russia and people’s interest to politics, already blended with pop culture, will grow,” said Max Masin, game developer and producer at Questa. “The idea behind the game combines the interactivity of social gaming with relevant, newsworthy content.” Social media has demonstrated its power to inspire people to make a difference in the Middle East as well as other parts of the world. Politics pokes fun at the elected officials and pushes the envelope with its humorous approach, but also empowers the users to create their parties, amend the constitution and make up new laws.

“The concept of the game is transferable to other legislative systems and countries, given the appropriate characters,” said Masin. “We want people to play for the fun of the game, but we hope to educate and interest them in the process.”  Each participant in the game of Politics starts out as an average citizen with an opportunity to make waves in the political arena and, potentially, run for President. The current version of the game outlines every aspect of Russian legislation, taking jabs at such stereotypes as corruption, bribery and kickbacks.（source:socialgamesobserver）

5）Bingo Adventure Provides Real-Time Virtual Social Club Gaming

By Pete Davison

Bingo Adventure is a new game from well-established social game developer King.com. It launched to the public on May 12, appearing on our list of the top 20 emerging Facebook games about two weeks later, though it has since lost some of its growth momentum.

According to our traffic tracking service AppData, Bingo Adventure currently has 310,041 monthly active users and 15,430 daily active users.

Bingo Adventure is a simulation of various forms of the classic game of chance, Bingo, with a strong real-time social interaction component. Players can visit one of several different worldwide locations, each offering a variation on the basic Bingo game, and play against randomly matched opponents in real time. Locations are split into rooms, and each room has its own chatroom, allowing players to talk, interact and buy each other gifts during play.（source:insidesocialgames）

6）Army Games Battle it Out on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by MAU

By AJ Glasser

Get used to this picture: Zynga’s Empires & Allies and Digital Chocolate’s Army Attack battling it out in the top two spots of fastest-growing games by monthly active users. The only possible surprise we expect to see in the next three months or so as the army-themed strategy genre balloons is Kabam’s army game, Global Warfare, creeping up behind them at a steady pace.

It’s up more than 11 spots from last week’s rankings for a solid position at number seven.

On the non-army front, Zoo World (a.k.a. Zoo World 2) is off to a good start following last week’s launch and Namco Bandai’s arcade classic Pac-Man eats its way toward the top of another top 20 list, having gobbled up Friday’s list of emerging Facebook games. Pokémon clone Monster Galaxy, meanwhile, maintains its monstrous growth pattern; it might be time to start giving awards to social games with longest-running top 20 stints.

Newcomers to the rankings this week are Nomi Cose Città, which appears to be an Italian word game, and restaurant simulation Tea4Friends, which we’ll have a review of later this week.

Turkish language aquarium sim, Akvaryum, also makes its first appearance here after turning up in last week’s emerging games list.（source:insidesocialgames）