We made the decision to open our Fight My Monster branch office in the Bay Area shortly after we closed our seed investment round. Although our investors were mostly from LA and SF, they never put us under any pressure to actually do this. The decision was entirely ours. Our core UK team remains in London but our US branch office is now open and operating with some awesome new additions. Here’s a few lessons we’ve learned along the way.  [click to continue…]

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Check out our Member of the Month, Sam6366450, who recently won a Nintendo 3DS & Game from Fight My Monster!

Member of the Month!

Sam6366450 is a force to be RECKONED with!  If you end up challenging him to a battle, we wish you the best.  He has mad skills and is one of the greatest we’ve seen yet.

Have a player you’d like to nominate as Member of the Month?  Email the Monster Tamer at Community(at)FightMyMonster.com.

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Gamesindustry.biz has an interview with our Chairman about how the under-13 generation are completely reshaping the gaming landscape. And something about shooting VCs. But mostly the first thing. Read the full interview here.

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Fight My Monster Dubstep

April 26, 2012

Sheer awesomeness. Some of the players got together to create their own Fight My Monster tune. It’s enough to put most dubstep producers out of business. Make sure you wait for the very last line-it’s a classic!

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We’re delighted to announce that the awesome Izzy Neis has joined the Fight My Monster team in San Francisco as VP Community & User Engagement. She’s a published author, a youth virtual world & safety guru, a cookie connoisseur, pop culture aficionado (especially in children’s entertainment), and a zealot in the pro-kid movement. Izzy earned her degree in Elementary Education, a Masters in the Teaching and Practice of Creative Writing, and has worked with children for 15+ years. [click to continue…]

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Dominic (CEO) was interviewed by Colleen Taylor as part of her tour of RocketSpace in San Francisco. Embedding is behaving a little strangely so catch the full video on TechCrunch here.

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In an article for The Journal our Executive Chairman, Dylan Collins, talks about why kids are going to completely change the face of the Internet. And what will happen to a custard doughnut. But mostly the former. Read the full piece here.

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One Million Monsters!

April 11, 2012

Wow. Some seriously major news. We just hit our millionth player. And our six millionth monster card. And our thirty-second millionth battle. I think it’s now fair to claim the title of fastest-growing boys online game in the UK. We’ve put together an infograph which shows a few interesting facts about our community. The high-res version is here and you can read the larger story on Venturebeat.

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Ian Sigalow (Greycroft Partners) discusses social gaming and Fight My Monster on Bloomberg.

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Good, because we’d like to talk to you. We’re looking for talented and experienced Java developers to join the Fight My Monster team in the Bay Area. If you don’t know who we are, have a read of what PandoDailyTechCrunch and The Guardian had to say about us. Or you could sign up to the game first :) [click to continue…]

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