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The Daily Pulse: 01-01-10
December 23rd, 2009 - by Inside Social GamesDante’s Inferno surged today, reaching over 2 million players in its third week. It looks like within a few weeks, Dante’s Inferno is likely to become Lolapps top application. I’ve been getting into this game a little bit myself; if there is any interest, I may just put up a strategy guide.
EA Launches Dante’s Inferno RPG with Lolapps to Promote New Console Title
December 23rd, 2009 - by Inside Social GamesDante’s Inferno, Battle of the Damned is a new role-playing game that has been growing fast on Facebook. Up to nearly 1 million monthly active users in less than a week after launching, it lets you “fight through the 9 circles of hell” to rescue your murdered and damned wife.
Electronic Arts has turned its Dante’s Inferno console video game into a Facebook RPG with the help of developer Lolapps. The purpose is to promote the release of Dante’s Inferno, due out in early February."
This Week’s Top 20 Applications List Shows Some Games Still More Popular than Holiday Apps
December 14th, 2009 - by Inside FacebookChristmas Cards! is the highest ranked holiday-themed app in the short history of Facebook applications. Launched in November 2008, it ranks 33rd with a total or 8.27 million monthly active users; it’s actually yet another gifting app made with LOLapps’ popular white-label Gift Creator app. While Christmas Cards may only be useful for one month of the year, but in that one month has a larger user base than the amount of people who bought Modern Warefare 2 in the first month a game taunted with the largest entertainment release of all time.
Fish Games Entertain the Multitudes On This Week’s Fastest-Growing Facebook Games List
November 23rd, 2009 - by Inside Social GamesSocial games saw a lot of growth this past week on Facebook, according to AppData, with Zynga continuing to lead, CrowdStar continuing to rise, and Lolapps’ white-label role-playing games hitting the big leagues. Zynga’s latest game, virtual aquarium simulation FishVille, has swollen by 6.72 million users over the past week to reach 16.0 million monthly actives. Behind it is the company’s FarmVille virtual farming game, which has consistently been adding new users even though it is already by far the largest third-party app on Facebook.
Lolapps Partners with Atari’s Cryptic Studios, Launches Champions Online on Facebook
November 17th, 2009 - by Inside Social GamesLolapps, a developer of Facebook apps and games funded by Polaris Ventures, got its start building a white label quiz and gift creation platform for Facebook users. Since then, however, it started developing its own original Facebook games, which have been moving up the charts recently. Today, the company’s new strategy is being revealed: Lolapps has productized its Facebook role-playing game platform, and is partnering with large developers to bring their IP onto Facebook.
Small Facebook Games See Solid Growth on This Week’s Top Gainers List
November 16th, 2009 - by Inside Social GamesLast week was notably good for smaller games and game developers, juding by our top 20 growing apps list. The most obvious "small app" is Zynga’s FishVille, which we’ve covered separately as it grew by an impressive 8.24 million monthly active users last week to reach 9.24 million. Considering FishVille is from the largest developer on the platform — and the one with the most cross-promotional power as well as money for advertising, let’s take a look at some smaller ones.
Lolapps Few Diamonds in the Rough On This Week’s Up-and-Coming Apps List
November 13th, 2009 - by Inside FacebookTwo other role-playing games are also growing fast, and although neither lists a developer, both appear to be made by Lolapps. While both have the same underlying interface components (more on that over on ISG), each one has surprisingly striking, unique-looking graphics. One, Asian mafia-themed Yakuza Lords, grew by 155,000 users to reach 930,000 monthly actives. It is on its way to graduating from this list. The other app, World War II RPG Band of Heroes, is smaller but growing relatively more quickly. It gained 161,000 to reach 269,000 monthly actives.
Forget Those White-Label Games, Check Out Lolapps’ Diva Life
September 18th, 2009 - by Inside Social GamesPopular white-label application developer, Lolapps had earlier this year told Inside Facebookthat it was looking to create a white label platform for games. It has previously created ways for Facebook users to create their own quiz and gift apps. So, it recently seemed to us thatYakuza Lords might be a precursor to a new game creation platform. But as it turns out, Lolapps has since explained to us that they had actually experimented with a white label game creator last year — and are now moving into making their own games.
Is Yakuza Lords a Prototype for Lolapps’ White-Label Game Platform?
September 3rd, 2009 - by Inside Social GamesLaunched in July by white-label application developer Lolapps, Yakuza Lords at first glance looks like yet another text-based role playing game with a gangster theme. But it might be something more than just an Asian-themed version of Mafia Wars. For those not familiar, Lolapps is the creator of prominent Facebook apps Quiz Creator and Gift Creator. These have proven popular enough to get Lolapps 44 million unique visitors each month.
Lolapps Claims 44 Million Uniques on Facebook Platform
April 21st, 2009 - by Inside FacebookWhen we first covered white label Facebook application developer Lolapps last September, the company had just closed a $3.5 million Series A funding from from Polaris. Today, the company has disclosed for the first time that its network of applications is reaching 44 million uniques per month on the Facebook Platform. How? Rather than developing its own applications, Lolapps has developed a tool for anyone to white label their own. The company’s flagship products, Quiz Creator and Gift Creator, have been used to create “hundreds of thousands” of Facebook applications (like What Greek God Are You? and Girly Girl Gifts), Lolapps co-founder and CEO Kavin Stewart tells Inside Facebook. Collectively, those applications reach 44 million people inside Facebook per month – nearly 25% of the entire Facebook audience.
Facebook Announces Winners of French and Spanish Application Contests
March 3rd, 2009 - by Inside Facebook1st Prize: Mariposa Mensajeras
Mariposa Mensajeras (Butterfly Messengers) is a virtual gifting app where users can send different kinds of butterflies to their friends.
In case you haven’t heard, Facebook is growing a lot internationally. And in order to promote the development of localized applications, Facebook has been holding international application contests. Today, Facebook announced the winners of its French Application Contest and Spanish Application Contest. Each of the Grand Prize winners took home 5000 Euros, while the 1st prize winner took home 3000 Euros and 2nd prize took 2000.