| Acquired by | Electronic Arts |
| Price | $15M |
| Date | 5/08 |
| Terms | Cash |
| Website | rupture.com |
| Blog | rupture.com/blog |
| @rupture | |
| Category | Games, Video and Entertainment |
| Employees | 25 |
| Description | Gaming Social Network |
| TOTAL | $3M |
| FUNDING TOTAL | $3M |
| Angel, 7/07 Joi Ito Ron Conway Reid Hoffman Baseline Ventures Michael Parekh SV Angel | $3M |
Rupture is a new company started by power entrepreneur Shawn Fanning and investor Ron Conway. After working together with the original Napster and then with music distributor Snocap, the two have begun work on Rupture, a social network for MMORPGs; primarily for World of WarCraft (WOW) gamers.
The site is not run in cooperation with Blizzard, the provider of WOW, yet Fanning says rupture does not breach any of WOW’s terms of use. This is quite fortunate as the number of WOW gamers alone hovers over 8 million. In fact, the WOW community is so large it can support multiple companies other than its creator, Blizzard.
| Website | rupture.com |
| Stage | Live |
| Tags | games |
Rupture works through an add on or software download that grabs your information from WOW. Character names, stats, profiles and other information is taken directly from your account and put up on your Rupture profile. Rankings and points are dynamic and change as your game play improves or suffers.
