Virtual Piggy, Inc. announced that it has reached an agreement with Gaia Interactive, Inc. (Gaia Online) to incorporate its safe youth payments technology onto their site. Virtual Piggy allows parents to set up a monthly allowance for their children and promotes financial management while empowering U21s to make purchasing, saving and other money management decisions for themselves, within the boundaries setup by their parents.

Gaia Interactive, Inc. announced the official launch of Soul Crash -- an anime-inspired action role-playing game (RPG) on Facebook. The game has seen steady growth since its debut in late February, underpinning the hunger for fighting games on the social network. Soul Crash is Gaia's first entry into the game publishing business, working with PlayPlus to bring the anime-inspired, fighting title to Facebook's 800 million plus users. Gaia takes an active role in its publishing approach, offering services beyond marketing and community management. Gaia was deeply involved in the game development process, leveraging its expertise from the hit Monster Galaxy to provide feature, design and monetization direction for Soul Crash, and owning technical operations, QA, and analytics. Soul Crash brings the same extraordinary quality of artwork inherent to Gaia games to Facebook. Players customize a character and play through a series of action-packed battles to regain their lost memory and prove their combat dominance. The core gameplay takes place in three-on-three tag-team battle sequences. Gamers can play with Facebook friends, use them as allies or fight against them to hone their own skills. Between battles, players can also buy new equipment and enchant weapons to assist in future combat. An online leaderboard and upcoming tournament system makes the gaming more fun by competing with friends and players worldwide to see who can stay on top.

Virtual Goods Market, Inc. has signed a partnership with Gaia Interactive, Inc. Viximo will launch top social games on Gaia Online and will also distribute the immensely popular Monster Galaxy -- developed by Gaia Interactive -- to its network of social sites. The new addition helps Viximo's global reach surpass 170 million users. The social networking and forum-based site includes various mini games, which can be played to earn virtual currency known as Gaia Gold and virtual items. The site also includes virtual worlds, such as Gaia Towns in which users can interact with one another's avatars. Viximo will bring its portfolio of high quality social games to Gaia Online, including Resort World (Game Insight) and Backyard Monsters (Kixeye).