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Conduit Labs expands its musical reach; signs deal with Universal Music Group

Conduit Labs has announced a landmark deal with Universal Music Group

Universal Music’s future is fun and games

“has a hit on its hands with the launch last month of Music Pets”

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Music Pets ads harmony to pet game genre

“one of the most talked about applications”

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Music Pets Amps Up the Facebook Pet-Caring Genre

collection is what makes this game standout

Local TV news program Chronicle wanted to talk to the coolest companies in Cambridge as part of a piece on how rapidly the area is growing. So after talking with Microsoft N.E.R.D. and Cambridge Innovation Center, enough other people must have turned them down that they ended up at little old Conduit Labs last week.

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Conduit Labs Raises $3 Million B round

Conduit Labs Raises $3 Million B round

LoudCrowd Turns Music into Social Video Arcade

“…we feel like that hype is justified.”

Can Video Games be the New MTV?

“Hyatt says that games can more easily tap into the social aspect of listening to music, which has always drawn people out to concerts or clubs.”

Conduit Labs unveils Loudcrowd social music game site

Conduit Labs is launching a public beta for its Loudcrowd social music game site today in an attempt to create a community that combines social networking with casual game play. Competitors are less the music console games and more like Pandora or Lastfm, which focus on building communities around music.

Moving from MMO to the Web

Many MMO developers are moving away from large packaged releases and toward the web as a platform for development — including Raph Koster of Areae, Dan Ogles of Conduit Labs, and Scott Hartsman of Ohai. But why?