Mobile and social game developer PerBlue has had a busy week, launching two significant updates for their mobile games. PerBlue’s flagship game, Parallel Kingdom, saw the release of the fifth “Age” for the game. This was the first Age to be released in nearly 2 years, and contains a huge swath of new game features. …
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CE member PerBlue – a mobile and social gaming company, and PlayMob – a London based social company for gaming and doing good through games, paired last month for a unique fundraising campaign benefiting SOS Children. The virtual giving initiative resulted in a donaion of over 2500 meal vouchers for orphans affected by the droughts …
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Forrest Woolworth of PerBlue emailed me today to let me know that they just launched their third age of their popular mobile game Parallel Kingdom. Parallel Kingdom is a mobile, location based, MMORPG, or Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. PerBlue recently closed an $800,000 funding round and has been using the money to continue to grow their flagship game, Parallel Kingdom.
PerBlue’s Parallel Kingdom was on LiveWire 2.0. From the link: Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) is the reference for application developers at the moment, as the App Store has reached critical mass. The natural inclination, then, is the subject of the iPhone – and by extension, the IPAD. “The process of Apple’s approval to enter the App …
PerBlue’s head of marketing Andy Gilbertson was quoted in Tech News World about Apple’s approval process for applications in the app store. From the link: “Apple’s approval process to get into the App Store can be a mysterious one with little feedback from them, and they make no guarantees about how long your app will …
PerBlue’s location based game Parallel Kingdom was featured in UK’s The Guardian in a story called Location: Facebook edges closer, while rivals plough on. From the link: Parallel Kingdom started as a role-playing game where users had to move in the real world to move in-game. Users reluctant to leave the sofa thought that “sucked”, …
PerBlue’s Parallel Kingdom was featured on Venture Beat yesterday in a story called New Generation of Location Based Games Catches On. From the article: Then there’s Parallel Kingdom (pictured) for the iPhone and Android platforms, designed by a company called PerBlue in Madison, Wisc. It has 125,000 registered users, of which around 15,000 are active …
Parallel Kingdom, the main game of Capital Entrepreneurs member company PerBlue, partnered with Capital Entrepreneurs member company Powered Green to make the entire virtual world of Parallel Kingdom carbon neutral. From their release: PerBlue, the developer of Parallel Kingdom, has decided to celebrate the upcoming Earth Day by purchasing enough carbon offsets to power the …
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Capital Entrepreneurs member PerBlue‘s main game Parallel Kingdom was featured on ZDNet’s article “Locative Gaming: The First 10 Years.“ From the link: Kati London from Area/Code spoke at Where 2.0 today in San Jose. She had some awesome examples of how location has changed social interactions in gaming. Parallel Kingdom in 2008 was an iPhone …
Parallel Kingdom, by Capital Entrepreneurs member company PerBlue, recently registered their 100,000th user. Congrats to the PerBlue team on their continued success! From PerBlue’s blog: …Parallel Kingdom recently achieved a long time milestone. We now have over 100,000 PK user accounts. That’s a lot of PK’ers from all around the world. Some other fun numbers: …
Parallel Kingdom, from Capital Entrepreneurs member PerBlue, was featured on GamerRoad. From the article: …you will want to download a little game called Parallel Kingdom. P.K. is an MMORPG style game that uses Google Maps and the phone GPS to show your current position. The in game world is the real world. You move your …
Parallel Kingdom, by Capital Entrepreneurs member company PerBlue, was featured in a Mashable blog post entitled Three Of The Best Free Multiplayer Android Games. From the post: Parallel Kingdom, which has been available on Android and the iPhone for some time, gives new meaning to persistent multiplayer online gaming. The game world is overlaid on …
PerBlue’s location-based mmorpg, Parallel Kingdom was nominated for “Best App Ever” in four different categories. From the site: In December the Best App Ever Awards held nominations through online voting. The Parallel Kingdom community showed their dedication and as a result, PK is a finalist in FOUR categories! I’ll say it again, our players never …
Capital Entrepreneurs member PerBlue had their flagship product Parallel Kingdom featured in HTC Source. From the article: …the first release of the app had me hooked from day one. I would find myself waking through the skyways in Minneapolis on my lunch breaks just so I could discover new areas on the map so I …
Capital Entrepreneur member Per Blue is about to launch its new Age of Emergence version of Parallel Kingdom. Below is info from their press release regarding the launch: Beginning Halloween, October 31st, Parallel Kingdom will be having an in-game event called the Scroll Hunt that will involve players gathering randomly placed scrolls and then uniting …
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