| Website | curse.com |
| Category | Web |
| Phone | 415.856.0056 |
| community@curse.com | |
| Employees |
| Series A, 7/07 AGF Private Equity | $5M |
Curse is a portal for the MMO, or massively multiplayer online, community. The site provides resources for MMO gamers including forums, wikis, reviews, downloads, blogs, and video. Curse focuses on gamer-generated content and allows all gamers to create their own pages.
Curse includes gaming portals for World of WarCraft, StarCraft and Age of Conan.
| Website | curse.com |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | July 25, 2007 |
| Tags | games |
Curse users can set-up their own My Curse pages, which allow them to track news, downloads, blogs and videos revolving around their favorite MMO games.
The download page allows gamers to share tools for better gaming experiences. The tools are categorized in sections like health, game maps, combat etc. For instance, you can find a combat tool for World of WarCraft called “WeaponsQuickSwap”.
The news page allows gamers to view aggregated articles on any of their favorite MMO games. It also allows gamers to submit news links. The video page also allows users to upload gaming videos.
Curse uses extensive tagging throughout their site so all aggregated news and in-house blogging can be tagged for better results. You can see tag clouds throughout the site for what is popular.
Curse’s forums and blogging platforms allow gamers to create rich, gamer-generated content. Any user can create their own Curse blog.
