Friday, April 30, 2010

New Genre New Platform : Social Games

Social gaming, in particular gaming on Facebook, is the fastest growing and one of the most exciting areas in tech right now. Zynga the current social games leader, has gone in just a few months to a 10-figure valuation, while established companies like Electronic Arts are putting serious resources into the space and acquire PlayFish for 400 million to get to the top of the business.

The explotion of the social gaming sector had been attracting more and more talent from the traditional PC and video game industry. Infact everyone wants a piece of this social games pie, DigitalChocolate from the mobile games industry had marked as a new top performer on Facebook. Social gaming really is just becoming an extension of the overall games ecosystem, it's another new platform that games companies can target like console, handheld, mobile, PC, iPhone, iPad and so on.

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