Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is sinking its teeth into free-to-play Facebook games as an extension of its television programs. Its newest is "The Vampire Diaries: Get Sucked In," based on the weekly travails of angst-ridden yet sexy young adults in "The Vampire Diaries."

Gamers’ social service Xfire has secured $4 million in funding, led by Intel Capital, and is splitting from its parent company Titan Gaming. This is the second significant change for Xfire in slightly over a year: Titan bought Xfire from Viacom in 2010 for significantly less than the $102 million deal that put Xfire into Viacom’s portfolio five years ago.

Kid-safe social media site Everloop has gone live with EverText, a SMS feature that is always on and protected by moderators in real time. It works across all mobile carriers and does cost anything beside whatever the mobile data plan charges. The company said EverText is the first service of its kind.

Mythic Entertainment co-founder and former CEO Mark Jacobs took the wraps off his new venture, City State Entertainment, an independent game development studio he co-founded with Andrew Meggs. The duo has been building up a team and working pretty much anonymously since March 7 on project that include a game the company plans to release before the end of the year.

One way to lure customers into physical stores is to gamify the real world, which is exactly what GameStop and Coca-Cola are doing with Scvngr and the "Happiness in Numbers" campaign. The companies say it’s the biggest real-life location-based game ever. Challenges are tasks like visiting a GameStop and taking a photo with a favorite game box and a Coke, or getting the high score on one of the in-store game kiosks and taking a picture posing with the game while holding a Coke.

GigaMedia Ltd. confirmed it received formal notice on Sept. 29 that it was in danger of being delisted. The letter from the Nasdaq Global Market came about a week after the company announced updated information on the free-to-play “SpongeBob SquarePants” massively multiplayer online game, Viacom’s first MMOG to be developed outside of the United States. The caution said that for the previous 30 consecutive business days, the bid price of GigaMedia’s common stock closed below the minimum dollar per share.

Rather than squish the popular virtual world "Habbo Hotel" onto the small screen, its parent company Sulake opted to branch out for its first mobile game. The free-to-play "Lost Monkey" challenges players to keep the simian star healthy and entertained with mini-games now that it’s stranded on an island after entering a broken Habbo teleport. Players who successfully complete the challenge can keep the exclusive virtual monkey as a pet in "Habbo Hotel."

Sunday marks the end of an event from mobile rewards network Kiip and the Guinness World Records to get one player into the famous record book for “The Highest Score Achieved on 'Mega Jump,'” the free-to-play mobile game from Canadian developer Get Set Games with more than 16 million players in dozens of countries. This competition, which started Sept. 28, kicks off an ongoing network integration that will see players of every Kiip-enabled game being potentially eligible to become a Guinness World Records holder.

Enrique Iglesias, one of the most popular Latin musicians of all time, wants to add some additional venues to his upcoming tour. These new stages will be built by his fans, and they will exist only in Zynga’s "CityVille." Between Oct. 4 and 10, players who have attained at least level six will encounter Iglesias in their city and can get him to say a few words. Among other things, they also can collect the brown boots, leather bracelet and military cap familiar to all of his fans, along with a two-seater plane commemorating his love of flying. The more dedicated can enhance their cities with a limited-edition “Enrique” speedboat and a high-rise like those near his Miami home.