MXP4 & Mobile Roadie integrate MXP4’s Bopler’s games into Mobile Roadie artist apps starting with a David Guetta version of the Pump It!
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The US social gaming market will blow past $5.5 billion in 2015, according to a new report by BI Intelligence.
The social games market, including smartphones, will more than double from last year, where we estimate it was $2 billion.
Highlights:1- Social games will disrupt the traditional gaming industry2- Social games will break into the mainstream,3- Monetization will improve

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Shazam revenues up 47% as its mobile discovery apps find new usersFebruary 21st, 2012 by stuartdredgeBritish startup Shazam has published its financial results for the year ending 30 June 2011, revealing a year-on-year revenue growth of 47.3%.Shazam posted revenues of £15.6m for the year, up from £10.59m in the year ending 30 June 2010, according to its filing with Companies House in the UK. The company didn’t turn a profit for the year, although its net losses narrowed from £0.35m to £0.28m in the same period.Shazam’s cost of sales for the year ending 30 June 2011 were just over £932k, up from £517k the year before. The company’s ‘recurring administrative expenses’ also increased from £10.5m to £14.83m in that time period.
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MXP4’s Pump It! application has been dominating Facebook’s gaming apps for some time now as part of their Bopler Games musical suite. Android and iPhone addicts will be pleased to know that MXP4 is teaming with Mobile Roadie to ‘bring the noise’ to mobile platforms this month.The success has been fuelled by an addictive mix of core gaming traits (reaction times and hand-eye coordination) coupled with the ability of the user to apply the game to their own personal choice of music (their audio avatar, in effect).For anyone unfamiliar with the concept, Pump It! will play your selected track over a virtual speaker whose four ‘quadrants’ light up and flash against various BPM changes and riffs within the musical track. The player simply hovers over the quadrant that is flirting for their pointer, thus building up a musical momentum gauge and charging the central Pump It! button of the app’s title.All the while grooving to one’s favourite tunes, users then click like crazy to build up points during the ‘bonus’ section, before the quadrants effectively reset themselves and the rhythmic mouse-baiting begins again in earnest until the track has played out.
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