March 10th, 2013

The Facebook Gaming Ecosystem: A Cross-Sectional Study Of The Top-Rated Apps

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Editor’s note: Hassan Baig is an entrepreneur who runs White Rabbit Studios, a South Asian gaming startup he founded four years ago in Pakistan.

Services like AppData have been providing individual stats for a long time, but snapshot-like analyses of top-rated games on Facebook’s App Center have not yet been done. Such a study could be useful for game developers or strategic investors who… → Read More

September 25th, 2012

Wedge Buster Lands $2.2M From Drew Brees, Rob Dyrdek & Others To Build The “Zynga For Sports”

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Mobile and social gaming have exploded in popularity over the last few years and both are quickly becoming multi-billion dollar industries. With an estimated 35 million players in the U.S., fantasy sports has become a sizable market in its own right, with growth expected to continue as it reaches new players through increasingly mature mobile and social channels. It’s no surprise, then, that Wedge→ Read More

May 25th, 2012

Death To The Install! Play Facebook Games Straight From News Feed

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Facebook games just got a lot more viral. People don’t want to install and give data permissions to games, they want to play them, so now Facebook is allowing games to be played directly from within news feed or Timeline stories. These previews give gamers a taste and could get them over the install hurdle once they’re already addicted.

Facebook has to keep delivering growth for apps to get… → Read More

September 21st, 2010

Facebook Makes Games Less Noisy, But Only If You Aren't Playing Them

Facebook product manager Jared Morgenstern is on stage at the Facebook Gaming event in Palo Alto and after describing the internal codename “Super Mario Party” as “Doing things with your close friends is better than doing things with strangers,” (yes, random) he finally got into what newsfeed changes Facebook will be making with regards to games in order to make the Facebook gaming experience less… → Read More