70 PERCENT OF AMERICANS WITH A MOBILE DEVICE WILL PLAY HOLIDAY-THEMED VIDEO GAMES ON IT THIS HOLIDAY SEASON. San Francisco, CA – November 16, 2011 – Santa’s Village, a great new game for all ages and skill levels, launches today as millions of Americans prepare to take part in various traditions around the approaching holiday…

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August
25

SAN FRANCISCO-BASED SOCIAL GAMES PUBLISHER COMMISSIONS EMERGING ARTISTS TO CREATE LIMITED EDITION CARDS FOR CLASH: RISE OF HEROES. San Francisco, CA – August 25, 2011 – Making Fun, Inc., a mobile and online social games publishing company and division of News Corporation Digital Media Group, has partnered with Qunify Games and emerging comic book illustrators…

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August
15

Why are there so many companies and brands spending large percentages of their advertising budgets to get consumers to ‘like’ their Facebook pages? While the trend somewhat reminds me of the time when advertisers used to tag their ads with “AOL keywords” (remember that?!), it’s now become a given that companies have a corporate Facebook…

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the fun is just beginning

By Don Takemura

We’re extremely excited to launch our new logo and new website today! The new brand identity is a result of a huge team effort, with our entire company participating in a brand exploration session about the Making Fun brand and what it should project to fellow gamers and game developers. We looked at various game…

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In February, we sent out a press release. This press release announced our debut as the first full-service social games publisher. The first in the world. The first, you might say, in the universe. We were pretty proud of our press release, which was written in the most press-release-ey way we could imagine. It turned…

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