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‘Serious Financial Problems’ Plague Coco Girl Social Dev MetroGames

The emerging social and mobile gaming sectors have a good amount of success stories, but they aren’t immune to the kinds of problems that often affect the larger games industry. Take MetroGames, the Argentina-based developer behind the Facebook game Coco Girl. Despite the game being a consistently strong performer on Facebook’s fastest-growing charts, and despite receiving a substantial amount of funding, the company recently issued a round of layoffs, Gamasutra can confirm. The move towards …