November 16th to 18th, Frédérique Doumic (CEO), Sébastien Doumic (Senior VP) and Fabrice Passaquay (Vice President of Distribution and CTO) participated to the 10th edition of Game Connection in Lyon (France)
They came back very enthusiastic, because of the numerous meetings made during these three days.
This Game Connection was an opportunity to confirm that OUAT is a key partner on the social gaming market;
from the declination of Totally Spies! Fashion Agents on new social networks to new social games projects, the discussions have been numerous abd very interesting for OUAT and its staff.
Thanks to  all participants and the organizing [...]

Twitter Lets You Automatically Follow Your Facebook Friends

Twitter just updated its Facebook application. It was already possible to create links between those two platforms, updating your Facebook status with your tweets. Now you also can find which of your Facebook friends use Twitter. It’s an efficient way to make Twitter grow, meeting numerous new people.

Source : Mashable.com

Apple sold 3 million iPads in 80 days

Apple goes from one record to another since it launched the iPad. After having sold 2 [...]

Zynga Raises Massive $147 Million Investment from Japan’s Softbank to Fund Asia Expansion

Japan’s Softbank could have bought between 2.5% and 5% of Zynga for $147 millions. The aim of this operation could be to allow Zynga to enjoy numerous mobile services offered by the bank in order to expand its business in the Asian market. After the disagreement between Zynga and Facebook, and the agreement signed by these two giants, Zynga seems to seek his independance by multipliying its support. [...]

Ubisoft launches digital game publishing business

Ubisoft has been publishing games digitally for a while now – including on iPhone – but the publisher has just created a dedicated digital games publishing business, headed  by former Microsoft exec Chris Early. iPhone will be included in the division, along with Facebook, Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, and Android. The division will have its own budget to develop digital games, but it will also work with other parts of Ubisoft on games for [...]

Serious game at the British Museum

The British Museum’s new website for kids called Young Explorers features a serious game. Aimed at 9- to 14 year-olds, Young Explorers invites everyone to travel back in time to explore ancient cultures and rescue precious objects from imminent disaster. A typical serious game that makes culture and arts accessible and fun to young audiences.
Source : Serious Game market

Zynga signed a partnership with Yahoo!

This partnership will integrate Zynga’s popular social games through Yahoo!’s global network.
‘For Zynga, [...]

Starting from today and every week, we will share with you our web picks of the week. News and trends in casual and social games, mobile games, social networks… Share your thoughts!

- Facebook and Zynga have signed a five-year “strategic partnership” to maintain the symbiotic relationship between the social network and games.

- Zynga acquires Chinese social game developer XPD Media build an official and strategic presence in this country.

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The last conferences we attended including Inside Social Apps, f8 and the Web Game Conference do confirm how right OUAT Entertainment is to bet on social and mobile games.

Here are some notes and tweets shared by Joëlle, our new Head of Marketing and Communications, and Fabrice, VP Online – CTO during and after the Web Game Conference. Were you there?

Congratulations to Owlient for this successful first edition, for the quality of the panelists and the agenda, and for this very nice networking opportunity.