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Facebook’s Strategy: Growth In Desktop, Core, Mid-Core Games

Justin Lafferty — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:30:26 +0000

Facebook has a sizable share of the games market, but it wants more. Most of the people who pay for games on Facebook are casual gamers, with titles such as King.com’s Candy Crush Saga at the forefront. But as Sean Ryan (pictured), Facebook’s director of games partnerships, discussed at the Game Developers Conference Tuesday in San Francisco, the company wants to become a bigger player in the games market through more action and console-like games.

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Social Media Jobs: KIXEYE

Nadine Cheung — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:29:03 +0000

This week, KIXEYE has several new job openings. The company is looking for a gameplay engineer, a 3D/Unity game engineer, a mobile client engineer, a senior server engineer, and a game designer. Get the scoop on these openings below, and find additional social media jobs on Mediabistro.

Gameplay Engineer KIXEYE (San Francisco, CA)
3D/Unity game engineer KIXEYE (San Francisco, CA)
Mobile Client Engineer KIXEYE (San Francisco, CA)
Senior Server Engineer KIXEYE (San Francisco, CA)
Game Designer KIXEYE (San Francisco, CA)

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Facebook Lauds King.com As Model Of Facebook Integration

Justin Lafferty — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:23:50 +0000

Game developer King.com announced its newest Facebook game, Pet Rescue Saga, last night at a launch party. King.com also previewed a mobile version of one of their most popular games, Candy Crush Saga. The company had a very important fan in attendance — Sean Ryan, Facebook’s director of games partnerships, who said King.com is making all the right moves.

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Facebook Continues To Improve Notifications

Justin Lafferty — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:01:19 +0000

Facebook wants to push more notifications, alerting users that there are games to be played and applications with which to be interacted, but it wants to make sure that it doesn’t spam people. The site announced Friday that is putting more controls in place to ensure that users aren’t bombarded with notifications that will only be ignored or hidden.

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Zynga Lays Off 100+ Employees, Closes Boston Studio

Justin Lafferty — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:46:24 +0000

Zynga’s days as the top dog in the Facebook gaming world appear to be fading. As challengers such as Kixeye and King.com emerge, taking up more of a share in the Facebook gaming ecosystem, Zynga’s financial stake has decreased. Sister site Inside Social Games reported Tuesday that Zynga has laid off more than 100 employees from its Austin office and plans to close its Boston studio.

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Facebook’s Sean Ryan Discusses The Diversity Of Games And Latest Trends

Justin Lafferty — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:52:21 +0000

Not long after King.com’s Alex Dale weighed in on the state of Facebook games, the social network’s own director of game partnerships, Sean Ryan, sat down with VentureBeat. Ryan talked about how Facebook games are now a worldwide phenomenon and also addressed subscriptions, SongPop, trends, and 3D games.

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Test Users Allow Developers To Vet Facebook Subscription Payments Process

David Cohen — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 13:47:39 +0000

Facebook is now allowing developers that are implementing subscription payments to use test users in order to ensure that the entire process goes smoothly.

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Facebook Trying To Balance Zynga With Other Game Developers

Justin Lafferty — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:03:52 +0000

Facebook’s relationship with major game developer Zynga has gotten complicated. The two companies have been tied at the hip for a long time, but Zynga has been trying to cut back its reliance on the social network, since Facebook takes a 30 percent cut of profits from games on its platform. Facebook also wants the entire games ecosystem to thrive, not just Zynga. So when Facebook opened the app center, it gave smaller developers — such as Kixeye — a chance to compete.

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New Facebook API Tells Game Developers Which Players Are Eligible For Promotions

Justin Lafferty — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:44:14 +0000

Facebook announced Monday that it has launched a new application-programming interface that lets game developers know if a user is eligible for an upgrade or gift through the payer promotion system. The social network noted that companies such as Kixeye have utilized payer promotion to grow revenue and get gamers more fiscally involved.

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Facebook App Subscription Payment Model Now Available To All Developers

David Cohen — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:21:52 +0000

The test of a subscription payment model for applications with developers Zynga, Kixeye, and Playdom that Facebook launched in June is over, and the social network has extended the capability to all developers.

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Average Player Of Kixeye Facebook Game War Commander: Two Sessions, 1.5 Hours Daily

David Cohen — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:54:43 +0000

Facebook touted the success of massively multiplayer strategy game War Commander, from developer Kixeye, in a post on its developer blog, saying that the game has become one of its top-rated applications.

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Facebook Tests Allowing Users To Start Games Instantly, Bypass Permissions Dialog

David Cohen — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:30:28 +0000

Facebook game developers Zynga, Kixeye, and Electronic Arts reached agreements with Facebook to test a new “start now” feature, that allows users to begin playing games including Zynga Slingo, Indiana Jones Adventure World, Backyard Monsters, and Battle Pirates instantly, bypassing the permissions dialog.

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Facebook Launches App Center In More Countries

David Cohen — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:30:15 +0000

Facebook announced Monday that its app center portal for discovery of applications is now available to 100 percent of its users in the U.S., Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the U.K.

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Facebook Swapping Out Credits, Adding Subscription Billing

Justin Lafferty — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:28:20 +0000

Facebook announced Tuesday that the company is doing away with Facebook Credits and transitioning to local currency. The social network also announced that it is accepting subscription billing for apps.

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