This summer, Facebook launched Fb.gg, its online gaming hub and Twitch competitor, designed to attract game streamers and their fans to watch videos on Facebook instead of on rival sites.
It has also developed several features to attract game enthusiasts and sports fans.
The major challenge for plaYce will be to find 2-3 killer games that will bring the critical mass of users necessary to attract game developers to the platform.
Mesolithic hunter-gatherers are suspected to have manipulated vegetation in northwest Europe [18] by deliberately setting fires to improve the sight-lines for missile-based hunting and/or change vegetation to attract game species [19].
The company has also attracted games industry vet John Maffei to become its new CEO, as well as Lisa Serwin, who was appointed COO.
The project first went live on Kickstarter's site in early July and quickly began attracting game enthusiasts who pledged money to help bring the project from the prototype stages into production.
Relan explains that while Zynga makes outright acquisitions for talent, CrowdStar is taking a slightly different approach to attracting game development talent by funding fledgling game developers.
Obviously, the key, however, is attracting game developers, evident in Zynga and EA rushing to offer direct-to-consumer services and increase the rate at which they pump out viable, original games.
Other manufacturers have similar interests, like Samsung's push for more Android tablet apps for its Galaxy Tab devices, or Sony Ericsson's interest in attracting game developers to build for its Xperia PLAY, for example.
Whether the drive to attract the Games will again become a factor in the battle over skiing and public lands is worrying to environmentalists.
