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GamerDNA

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GamerDNA is a social network for online gamers and the massively multiplayer online roleplaying games (or MMORPG) community. The site is focused on providing a place for guilds, gaming groups and individual gamers to interact, find friends, discover gaming content and plan gaming sessions. You can find social networking features like profiles, blogs, pictures, videos and forums on the GamerDNA. Plus, they have special areas for gaming news and actual games.

They want to provide gamers a place to socialize while they are still in gaming mode. Users can create their profile pages using characters they play while gaming. For instance, you might write blogs posts and message friends as a wizard, starfighter pilot or elf.

GamerDNA’s team is made up of veterans from Eprise, New York Times Digital, Electronic Arts and Mythic Entertainment.

The company was previously knows as GuildCafe. GuildCafe.com (a website devoted to organizing groups within MMORPGs like World of Warcraft and Guild Wars, as well as clan-based multiplayer games such as Halo and Call of Duty) will continue as a separate site, and be improved with new features the company is developing under the GamerDNA brand

Conduit Labs is a similar gaming social network built around virtual worlds.

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  GamerDNA was acquired by Crispy Gamer. (12/21/09)
  Posted 12/23/09 at 1:16am
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  GamerDNA — 12/17/09 - New York-based Crispy Gamer, an online video game review site, has acquired GamerDNA of Cambridge, MA, which attempted to build a community website that used real-time game play information to generate video game recommendations for community m (12/17/09)
  Posted 12/17/09 at 10:56am
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  GamerDNA received $3M in Series A funding. (4/18/08)
  Posted 4/22/08 at 9:38am
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  GamerDNA received in Seed funding. (7/1/07)
  Posted 9/5/07 at 9:58am
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  GamerDNA added John Findlay as GM/Alliance Program.
  Posted 3/25/08 at 3:40pm
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  GamerDNA added Darren Torpey as Development Team.
  Posted 3/25/08 at 3:40pm
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  GamerDNA added Russell Miner as Development Team.
  Posted 3/25/08 at 3:40pm
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  GamerDNA added Ian Jones as Network Operations Manager.
  Posted 3/25/08 at 3:40pm
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  GamerDNA added Peter Blacklow as Board of Directors.
  Posted 3/25/08 at 3:40pm
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  GamerDNA added Sean Duhame as Creative Director.
  Posted 3/25/08 at 3:40pm
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  GamerDNA added Angela Bull as Founder & Development Team.
  Posted 3/25/08 at 3:40pm
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  GamerDNA added Sanya Weathers as Director of Community Relations.
  Posted 9/5/07 at 9:54am
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  GamerDNA added Jon Radoff as President & CEO, Board.
  Posted 9/5/07 at 9:51am
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  GamerDNA added Jon Karlen as Board of Directors.
  Posted 3/25/08 at 3:40pm
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  GamerDNA added Sam Houston as Online Marketing Manager.
  Posted 6/27/09 at 3:46pm
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  GamerDNA added Jon Phenix as VP of Sales.
  Posted 6/27/09 at 3:46pm

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GamerDNA

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Website	GamerDNA.com
Blog	blog.gamerdna.com
Stage	Live
Launch Date	June 10, 2008
Tags	social-networking, video-game-industry, video-game-social-network, real-time-web

Above: GamerDNA Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

Above: GamerDNA Sept 2008
Uploaded: 9/18/08

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Sources

1. CrispyGamer Buys SocNet GamerDNA (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
2. idgvb.com [edit]
3. GamerDNA blog (gamerdna.com) [edit]
4. Xconomy.com [edit]