1）从谷歌在近日的Google I/O大会上宣布，社交平台Google+月活跃用户已超过1.5亿，有50%以上的用户每天都登录Google+；通过移动设备访问Google+的用户超过电脑用户。

google plus(from techcrunch.com)

同时谷歌还将推出针对平板电脑设计的Google+应用（Android平板电脑版本已发布，但iPad版本“即将”上线），该版本将兼容Google Hangout功能，并重新设计用户好友圈中的发贴展现方式。

2）据venturebeat报道，加拿大名模Pamela Anderson（曾多次成为《花花公子》封面女郎）日前进军Facebook游戏领域并推出一款社交博彩游戏《BamPoker》。该游戏由加拿大企业家Elton Pereira和Jeremy Nichele开发，整合了Facebook扑克游戏玩法，在线社区以及Anderson的名人效应，支持玩家与Anderson共同体验德州扑克，并通过粉丝页面与她互动。

bampoker-pamela-anderson(from games.com)

玩家在这款免费增值游戏中可以花真钱购买虚拟筹码，从而晋级获得VIP徽章，进入精英牌桌参与挑战（游戏邦注：报道称社交博彩游戏是Facebook最热门游戏类型之一，吸引了13%的Facebook游戏玩家）。

3）互联网巨头IAC旗下游戏公司Rebel Entertainment最近向Facebook推出《Dungeon Rampage》，该游戏已在数月的测试时间中吸引50多万用户。

dungeon-rampage(from venturebeat)

这款游戏要求玩家在实时在线环境中参与同步游戏，其风格类似于暴雪的《暗黑破坏神3》，不过更为轻松活泼但又不同于典型的Facebook休闲游戏；据其所称，该游戏玩法更像街机游戏，容易上手，但难以精通。

4）《半条命》开发商Valve Software日前推出免费工具Source Filmmaker内测版本，支持开发者在Source游戏引擎中记录和创建影视内容（Valve曾使用该工具为其游戏制作宣传视频）。

Source Filmmaker(from gameinformer.com)

Source Filmmaker支持用户使用Source游戏中的素材采集和编辑动画，它将不同动画工具浓缩成单个集合，甚至还提供了一个带有对口型的脸部动画系统。

在数周前电影导演Shane Acker（代表作是《机器人9号》）以及Brown Bag Films公司曾宣称他们使用基于Source游戏引擎的工具和技术制作即将上映的动画电影《Deep》，并打算使用这些工具推出具有可玩性的新内容。

5）在本周DAU增长最快的Facebook游戏排行榜上，FreshPlanet游戏《Song Pop》位居榜首，新增50万DAU，增幅为50%；FunPlus Games的阿拉伯语农场游戏《المزرعة السعيدة》新增10万DAU，增幅为4%；Halfbrick游戏《Fruit Ninja Frenzy》位居第三，新增2万DAU，增幅为9%；Playdom游戏《Garden of Time》位居第五，新增2万DAU，增幅为2%；位居第11名的角色扮演游戏《Gun Bros》新增1万DAU，增幅达100%。

top gainers this week-DAU(from AppData)

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1）Google+ now has over 150M active users, adds Android tablet and iPad compatibility

Mike Thompson

Today during the Google I/O 2012 keynote, Google announced it’s rolling out a tablet-friendly version of Google+, both for Android devices and the iPad.

The revelation was made by Vic Gundotra, Google’s SVP of Engineering. This new tablet-friendly version of G+ will feature Google Hangout compatibility, and will redesign the way  posts from friends in users’ circles are displayed. During the keynote, it was demonstrated how posts by people that are gaining popularity will be larger than other posts. Gundotra also said — but didn’t show — there will be other re-designed features like a new ribbon bar and profile designs. Android tablet compatibility is coming out today, while the iPad version will arrive “very soon.”

Gundotra also revealed the following milestones. Google+ now has over 150 million monthly active users, with over 50 percent of them signing in every day, with the average user session being over 60 minutes across Google. Finally, Gundtora said there are now more people using G+ from mobile platforms than from desktop computers.（source:insidesocialgames）

2）Pamela Anderson takes on Zynga with BamPoker game

Dean Takahashi

Zynga has the biggest online poker game in the world, but actress Pamela Anderson has the biggest…well,  a bigger name. So she is entering the Facebook social gaming market with a new title called BamPoker.

The celebrity tie-in could help the new poker game stand out among many competitors. It’s another sign that social casino games, which are now played by 13 percent of all Facebook gamers, rank as one of the hottest and most crowded categories in gaming today.

BamPoker combines speedy Facebook poker gameplay, an online community, and the appeal of actress and supermodel Anderson. Zynga, on the other hand, has a five-year head start and it has 33.7 million monthly active players on Facebook.

BamPoker users can play Texas Hold ‘Em poker with former Baywatch star Anderson herself and talk with her via a fan page. The game pits real people against one another in both casual and tournament-style play. It’s a free-to-play game where you purchase virtual chips for real money if you want to. The goal is to obtain a VIP badge so you can play with the elite at exclusive tables.

BamPoker is the creation of Canadian entrepreneurs Elton Pereira and Jeremy Nichele.

“In a poker game, anything can happen,” Pereira says. “Even a flop can make you a winner.” Hence BamPoker’s motto: “That’s the Beauty of the Game!”

“When I first met Elton and Jeremy, I knew they were on to something special,” Andrerson says. “They weren’t interested in creating just another game — they wanted to take the social elements of online poker in a bold new direction. There is nothing like BamPoker out there today, and I am excited to be a part of such an innovative platform.”（source:venturebeat）

3）IAC’s Rebel Entertainment comes out swinging with Dungeon Rampage social game

Dean Takahashi

Rebel Entertainment is coming out of stealth today as a new game publisher with a popular browser-based dungeon-crawling game on Facebook.

Burbank, Calif.-based Rebel, a division of Internet giant IAC, has been testing Dungeon Rampage for months, and it has garnered more than 500,000 users during that time. It’s a cartoon-like fantasy dungeon-crawling game, sort of like Blizzard’s Diablo III title but a lot less serious, Rebel general manager Mike Goslin told GamesBeat.

The title is unique as a fast-action, synchronous game in which players fight alongside each other in real-time, Goslin said. Most Facebook titles are slower games in which players take their turns one at a time. And while Dungeon Rampage is light-hearted and full of humor, it’s going after more serious gamers than your typical Facebook FarmVille game.

Goslin said he knows that moving into Facebook will bring the company into competition with established leaders such as Zynga in casual games and Kixeye in serious hardcore games. But he said that the company’s first title delivers a fast-action fighting game that you wouldn’t otherwise find on Facebook.

“Our game play is a lot more like an arcade title,” Goslin said. “It’s easy to play, but hard to master.”

Rebel is funded completely by IAC. Previously, IAC launched InstantAction, a web game publisher that it shut down a while ago. Dungeon Rampage will officially launch later this year on multiple platforms. Goslin said the company will add more features, heroes, maps, and weapons.

“We are going out as fast as we can to get up and running,” Goslin said.

Rebel was founded in 2011. The team comes from companies such as Atari, Disney, Insomniac, EA, and Zynga. It’s working on a number of different games. With Dungeon Rampage, players choose from six different warriors, like a hammer-wielding Berserker, a Battle Chef, and a katana-slashing Ghost Samurai. As the player, you explore dungeons, avoid traps, and kill monsters. The Flash-based browser game uses a two-dimensional, isometric view of the action.（source:venturebeat）

4）Valve releases free tool for making in-game movies with Source

by Eric Caoili

Half-Life developer Valve Software has launched a closed beta for Source Filmmaker, a free tool allowing users to record and create movies inside its Source game engine.

It’s the same tool Valve has used to create promotional movies for its games. Source Filmmaker enables users to capture and edit animation using assets in a Source game. It’s meant to condense various animation studio tools into a single suite, and even offers a facial animation system with lip-syncing.

This news follows a couple of weeks after director Shane Acker (of the film “9″) and Brown Bag Films announced that they are using tools and technologies based on the Source game engine for their upcoming animated film Deep. They also intend to release playable content to complement its movie with the tools.

Information on signing up for Source Filmmaker’s free beta, as well as a video demonstrating the tool, is available here. Valve will release the tool through Steam later this year.（source:gamasutra）

5）Song Pop hits new high note among this week’s fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU

Mike Thompson

FreshPlanet’s Song Pop took the top spot this week among the fastest-growing Facebook games by daily active users, gaining 500,000 DAU for a 50 percent increase.

In the No. 2 spot was FunPlus Game’s Arabic-language farm sim المزرعة السعيدة (“Happy Farm”), up by 100,000 DAU for a 4 percent gain. Halfbrick’s Fruit Ninja Frenzy took the No. 3 spot, gaining 50,000 DAU for a 12 percent surge. Syntasia’s Baseball Heroes came in at No. 4 with its 20,000 DAU growth, up 9 percent. Finally, Playdom’s Gardens of Time reappears on our list at No. 5 with 20,000 DAU for a 2 percent gain.

Five other games had gains greater than 100 percent this week. Ricochet Labs’s QRANK – Your Social Quiz Addiction was up by 15,000 DAU, a 300 percent increase. Telaxo’s Cupcake Frenzy was up by 10,000 DAU, a 100 percent gain. The role-playing game Gun Bros was up by 10,000 DAU for a 100 percent increase. Finally, NGames’s Game321, which doesn’t seem to work with secure browsing turned on, grew by 10,000 DAU for a 100 percent gain.（source:insidesocialgames）