Recap of Facebook’s Gaming Announcement
Earlier this week, Facebook held a special event focused on updates being made to games / apps within Facebook. At the event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed a pretty impressive statistic: more than 200 million people play games on Facebook each month. However, those users that don’t play games on Facebook tend to have a negative reaction to the notifications that show up in their news feeds. Facebook has recognized this and they want to have as few people as possible have a negative experience while using the social network. The biggest change is that Facebook is altering how the news...
Read MoreMove over guys, the ladies are gamers [STUDY]
According to a recent study by PopCap Games, the average social gamer (games played on social networking platforms) is a 43-year old woman. Majority of social gamers are in fact women (55%) and they play often with 38% of women said they play social games multiple times a day. But don’t worry guys, the women haven’t infiltrated game play within console games like Xbox and Playstation. Facebook is the most popular place for online games (not surprising). The average social gamer has played at least 6 social games and over half of gamers started playing a game because a friend...
Read MoreFacebook adding Games & Apps Dashboard
Facebook announced yesterday that they will be rolling out two new features: the Games Dashboard and the Applications Dashboard. These features are designed to make it easier for you to interact with your applications. If you interact with games & apps now, you know how difficult it is to navigate back to a game or app. Below is a preview of what the Games Dashboard could look like (of course it’s subject to change). I really like the recently used games section. For those users who actively play a lot of games, this will make it easier for them to reengage with games they use most...
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