Skype Payment Pages ...

... and methods offer a good model for your virtual world or mmo. http://www.skype.com/intl/en/prices/paymentmethods/

5 Global Payment Partners ...

... for your consideration. All with individual strengths and weaknesses of course. But for those of you looking to expand your payment systems with a large international payment provider, PG says check out, in no particular order:

1. Chase Payment Tech: http://www.chasepaymentech.com/'


2. Netgiro http://www.netgiro.com/home.aspx


3. Adyen


4. Global Collect http://www.globalcollect.com/


5. Cybersource http://www.cybersource.com/


GMAIL PG to sort which is best for you and get the best T&C - guaranteed! PAYMENTGUY@GMAIL.COM

ClubCooee Partners With KOINUP

http://blog.koinup.com/2009/09/koinup-is-now-partnering-with-club.html
For those PG Readers un familliar with KOINUP, it is a scoial network for virtual world users. Innovative, unique and cool. http://www.koinup.com/support/about-us/

Wild Tangent Still Social Games Ad King

And they also have a virtual currency ... http://paidcontent.org/article/419-popcap-games-raises-22.5-million-funding-from-meritech-capital-partners/
and you can even play Club Penguin on PC's thanks to Wild Tangent - very cool! http://about.wildtangent.com/static/u/Club_Penguins_on_WildTangent_--FINAL.pdf

Pop Cap Raises An Eye-Popping Amount of Cash ....

Eying the growing popularity of social games, casual gaming company PopCap Games has raised $22.5 million in late-stage funding from Meritech Capital Partners; private investors Larry Bowman (formerly of Apple and Fidelity) and John McCaw also participated. The company plans to use the new money for potential acquisitions in the social gaming space. The new funding round represents a minority stake; a first for outside investors, PopCap says.

Founded in 2000, Seattle-based PopCap has grown into one of the largest casual gaming companies, with mobile and iPhone divisions, as well as deals that bundled its games suite onto new PCs from HP and Lenovo. It offers both pay-to-play and and ad-supported games; it turned over ad sales to rival WildTangent last year. Some of its games, like Bejeweled, have even gained popularity with more “hardcore” gamers (a version of Bejeweled was featured as side activity in World of Warcraft earlier this year). The company says it has “maintained profitability” since its inception; it now has over 240 employees, with offices in Dublin and Shanghai.
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-popcap-games-raises-22.5-million-funding-from-meritech-capital-partners/

Elvis Quietly Leaves The Virtual Building

So Philip Rosedale is starting a new company and leaving Linden Lab but will keep an office in Second Life https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/features/blog/2009/10/15/next-chapter. Kinda sorta big news but this announcement has met with little fanfare or press hype. Just GOOGLE "philip rosedale" in NEWS search http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&source=hp&q=%22philip%20rosedale%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn and you get 3 hits, 2 of which are off-topic and the 1 relevant one being in French. The blogosphere is somewhat more interested in PR's new plans but there is a striking lack of mainstream press attention paid to this. On the new plans, PR says; "I'm starting a new company, and wanted to let you know. It's a big idea - something that actually depends on Second Life existing to get started, and that I have been thinking about almost as long as I've been thinking about Second Life. I don't want to try to explain the idea here, because it is a decision I've just made and honestly I don't think I can do a good job describing it yet."

A big idea that cannot yet be explained. OK... clever subterfuge or just a guy who has not quite figured out what to do from 9-5 yet. PR has consistently said he could make more money "working in Second Life" than "working for Linden Lab". Let's see if this turns out to be true.
PG PS: PR will remain Chairman of Linden Lab