1）巴西社交游戏公司Vostu近日宣布与同Zynga解决游戏侵权问题，Vostu将向Zynga支付一定赔偿，并针对案件所涉及的4款游戏更改相关功能。

Zynga vs Vostu(from insidesocialgames)

Zynga与Vostu的侵权争端始于今年7月份，当时Zynga称后者几乎照搬其游戏设计，而Vostu则反称Zynga自己也难免模仿他人的嫌疑，后来Zynga又起诉了Vostu游戏所投放平台Orkut的运营者谷歌。

观察者认为，Vostu本次能够轻松过关，原因可能在于Zynga急于在IPO前解决其现存的法律诉讼问题。

2）民意调查公司Poll Position最近报告显示，70%美国Facebook用户并不在乎自己发布到网站上的个人信息安全问题（游戏邦注：其调查对象是1174名用户），有23%受访者很介意此事，还有7%对此“没看法”。

facebook-privacy(from mashable.com)

调查发现，比起年长的用户，年轻用户对Facebook个人信息安全问题更为放心。在18-29岁的群体中，81%的Facebook用户称自己不介意此事，而在65岁及更年长的用户群体中，这个比例则是50%。

3）DeNA子公司Ngmoco最近与移动广告平台MoPub签署合作协议，将使用后者的广告服务平台增加公司基于Android的Mobage营收。

MoPub由谷歌及移动广告服务AdMob元老于2010年成立，主要通过MoPub Marketplace帮助发行商向手机游戏投放并管理广告。除了Ngmoco之外，另一家手机游戏公司Neon Play也宣布将采用MoPub平台的广告服务。

4）MinoMonsters Inc., 公司日前宣布其Facebook游戏《MinoMonsters》推出售价0.99美元的iPhone和iPad应用。

MinoMonsters(from games)

在这款《口袋妖怪》风格的游戏中，玩家可以让自己的怪兽宠物获得更多新能力，以便找到新怪兽并打败更强的对手。

5）由彼岸天(www.xxbt.com)创作的首款社交游戏《BT小星球》近日登陆新浪微博微游戏平台。

BT 小星球

《BT小星球》以经营星球和抓怪物为主要玩法。该游戏每一个细节的操作都有丰富、细腻的动画表现支撑，使玩家感受操纵一部动画片的乐趣。据了解，以《BT小星球》中九位形象为主角的动画电影和周边产品正在筹备中，未来还将推出一系列衍生产品。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，拒绝任何不保留版权的转载，如需转载请联系：游戏邦）

1）Zynga and Vostu Settle Lawsuit

By Sebastian Sujka

Zynga and Vostu have settled their copyright lawsuit according to Vostu. As part of the agreement Vostu will have to pay an undisclosed amount to Zynga and change some gaming features.

In June this year Zynga sued Vostu for copying their games almost one to one. Vostu claimed Zynga did the same with other games and, hence, did not have a case against them. The mud fight continued by Zynga suing their shareholder Google over publishing Vostu games on Google-owned social network Orkut in South America.

It is likely that Vostu got away with a relatively mild punishment as Zynga is currently under pressure solving their existing legal issues before going public in the next weeks. Read the issued statement from both companies:

“Zynga and Vostu have settled the copyright lawsuits and counterclaims against each other  in the United States and Brazil.  As part of the settlement, Vostu made a monetary payment to Zynga and made some changes to four of its games. The parties are pleased to have settled their disputes and to now put these matters behind them.”（source:socialgamesobserver）

2）70% of people just fine with how much info is on Facebook

By Colleen Taylor

Worried about how much of your dirt is out there on Facebook? Well, according to a new poll, you’re in the minority.

Seventy percent of U.S.-based Facebook users polled in a recent survey said they were comfortable with the personal information they have on the site. Twenty-three percent said they were uncomfortable, and seven percent had “no opinion.”

Facebook is such a hot topic that extra caution is needed when evaluating third-party information about the site, but this data seems legit: The survey (PDF) was conducted last week via telephone across 1,174 registered voters by Poll Position, the polling firm run by former CNN executive Eason Jordan.

Not surprisingly, the poll showed young people were more comfortable with their Facebook personas than older people. In the 18- to 29-year-old age group, 81 percent of Facebook users said they were OK with the personal information they provide on the site; in the 65 and older category, only 50 percent said they felt comfortable with it.

In some respects, the poll is surprising. After all, Facebook has come under fire from the Federal Trade Commission for allegedly being duplicitous with users about how their information has historically been handled on the social networking site. In response, Facebook has made a series of recent feature additions aimed at making it easier for users to understand how much of their data is visible on Facebook and to whom, so that could play a part in the current public opinion. But the poll also makes sense on a basic level: Facebook probably wouldn’t be as widely used as it is — more than 800 million users at the moment — if all those people were uncomfortable with sharing on the site.（source:gigaom）

3）Ngmoco’s Mobage To Utilize MoPub Ad Serving Platform

by Tom Curtis

The DeNA-owned Ngmoco has signed a new deal with mobile ad platform MoPub, which provides mobile publishers with a unified system for selling and controlling the ads that appear within mobile apps.

MoPub, founded by veterans from Google and mobile ad service AdMob in 2010, feeds ads into mobile games and aims to help publishers sell directly to advertisers, manage ads, and conduct real-time bidding campaigns through the service’s MoPub Marketplace.

Ngmoco announced that it will be using MoPub’s ad serving platform worldwide, particularly to power ad distribution and increase revenues on the company’s Android-based Mobage network.

“MoPub will open access to new revenue opportunities for us by selling spots directly to advertisers, leveraging ad networks or even auctioning impressions on Marketplace to drive pricing,” said Jason Oberfest, VP of social apps at Ngmoco. “We are impressed with the efficiencies that MoPub brings to the table, even as we retain the control we desire.”

In addition, mobile gaming startup Neon Play (Traffic Panic 3D) has also revealed plans to adopt the MoPub platform. For reference, previous MoPub partners include Animoca, Miniclip, Fluik, and Com2Us.

MoPub also recently announced that has added support for games built with Unity 3D, and that it has adopted the ORMMA and MRAID industry standards, which will allow for more robust and complex ads within the MoPub platform.（source:gamasutra）

4）Facebook Pokémon clone MinoMonsters migrates to iOS for $1

by Joe Osborne

You might remember MinoMonsters, game developer Josh Buckley’s take on Pokémon for Facebook. Well, that game was either just a test or a flop for the 17-year-old entrepreneur, as his new studio has re-released the game as an iPhone and iPad app. In this new-and-improved MinoMonsters, players must journey across the Kingdom of Zancardi, capturing and battling creatures called Minos for, well, the sake of battling monsters. Come on, it’s not as if Pokémon’s plot is rock solid either.

The youngin’s new studio is called MinoMonsters Inc., so you can tell the guy’s dedicated to the concept, which will cost you $.99 on the App Store. Once purchased, you can start trading blows back and forth in turn-based bouts with opponents’ monsters either within the game’s story or your friends from anywhere in the world. Just like in Pokémon, players’ monsters gain new abilities and will become stronger, which helps players find new monsters and defeat tougher opponents.

The first thing we noticed with these screens of the game in action are the impressive, seemingly hand-drawn graphics. Seriously, this game looks like an episode of Pokémon–look, the comparisons are inevitable at this point–at least when still. MinoMonsters (the company) promises that you can find players to do battle with in under 30 seconds. The game’s primary competition on iOS, Monster Galaxy, doesn’t seem to have multiplayer just yet. So, now MinoMonsters is the closest you’re going to get a Pokémon game on your iPhone.（source:games）