While we all wait for Google to officially institute PayPal as a payment option in the Android Market, Scoreloop has decided to beat Google to it by including it in their latest update. Developers who use Scoreloop with their games can now use PayPal to offer in-game purchases to gamers. In-game purchasing is the key to many games success, and its implementation is essential if Google would like to lure developers to their platform. This business model, known as Freemium, allows gamers to get the full version of a game that would otherwise be a paid application and in exchange, the developer can offer premium in-game content for a fee. Many games that have been very successful on Apple’s App Store use this business model and a lot of these games are really top quality. To get these games onto Android, there needs to be an in-game payment solution and while Read More

Google may be snapping up a bunch of social and mobile gaming companies, but there are several others out there that are still doing their own thing.  Scoreloop is one such company, expanding its Android reach with a new app and an updated Social Developer Kit.  Good thing, as Android’s gaming options are still very pretty thin when compared to the iPhone’s. The new stand-alone Android app is actually a social discovery tool, built around Scoreloop’s social gaming infrastructure. This provides gaming recommendations amongst friends, tapping into their existing social networks and receiving updates for the games they play. The new sharing tools are centered around a news feed system, which is becoming a relatively standard format for social interaction, thanks to Facebook and Twitter. This type of network naturally lends itself to cross-promotion for game apps, which can be useful for Android developers.  There aren’t many tools like this for Read More

Scoreloop, an innovative gaming platform that allows publishers to easily add social components to their games, has made the move into Android. The application allows users to manage their friends, social network connections and get news about popular games within their social network. The goal here is to aid in discovery of new games, and Scoreloop establishes itself as an effective way for a new game publisher to get their game out in people’s news feeds. Typically Scoreloop provides the platform for games to leverage friends and social activities within their games, and they’ll be doing this for Android as well, but to start they’re releasing this standalone application. The application lets people see other Scoreloop users’ latest gaming activity, and that includes expansion to the iPhone. The userbase is apparently growing at over 100,000 users a day, and has millions of current players. As you can see below, the application Read More

Scoreloop, a provider of infrastructure, implementation services and enhanced end user experiences for game publishers and carriers, announced that their newly unveiled standalone Android (News - Alert) app is designed to help users manage friends, social network connections and stay up-to-date about the latest games friends are playing. The app will also act as a launch pad of games for Scoreloop’s community of over million users as well as offer a Facebook (News - Alert)-like feed to view gaming experiences. Users can utilize the android app to figure out new games based on their social graph and gaming experiences. They can also connect to friends who are utilizing other platforms such as iPhone (News - Alert). Recent researchers have indicated that the recommendation of an app or game via social networking feeds is a powerful way of cross-promoting to a user’s graph because it happens automatically while doing what the user loves: playing games. Read More