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Games - Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Facebook Game App Developer AlamoFire Raises $3M

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We are not yet sure what makes a good Facebook game developer. Most of the games that we have seen are painfully childlike. We are not passing judgement on whether this makes a bad or good company - let the market decide, but hard-core gamers would puke on Packrat. The first game from AlamoFire - called PackRat is no exception. The trend seems to be go to after the lowest common denominator to get users.

PeHub is reporting that Southlake, TX-based AlamoFire has raised $2M in Series A funding from The Founders Fund and Alsop Louie Partners.

AlamoFire came out of another startup called Firewheel, which had launched IconBuffet, a popular icon trading site. The idea behind packrat is for Facebook users to collect, buy, and steal iconic objects.

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