By Ben Popper 12/09/11 12:57pm

Q&A

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Stack Exchange Growing 40 Percent a Month, Gaming Vertical Up 250 Percent

Betabeat stopped by Stack Exchange the other day to interview the CHAOS team. We snapped some pictures of the big monitor array they have set up, including some eye popping stats on the way traffic is growing. But we didn’t want to make those public just yet, since we were invited in to visit to report another story.

But today Stack Exchange COO did an interview with founder Joel Spolsky about the big board and tipped their hat about some of these numbers. Over the last 30 days Stack Exchange has grown 40 percent, hitting more than 17 million page views on 6.3 million unique visitors. Gaming.stackexchange.com led the way, with 245 percent growth in the last month.  Read More

By Ben Popper 4/27/11 10:55am

Funding

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NY Gaming Shop Playmatics Raises $1 M. To Build “Shadow Government”

The best part of Sim City was always reacting to the natural disasters. Local gaming vets Margaret Wallace and Nick Fortugno have just raised a million bucks to build Shadow Government, a Facebook game that where players can build or destroy their own nations.

The interesting part is they are using software initially designed for real world governments by the Millennium Institute. Read More