Comments on: Deals Heat Up in Facebook Gaming Space

By: Average Social Gamer Is a 43-Year-Old Woman « vince.degeorge

Average Social Gamer Is a 43-Year-Old Woman « vince.degeorge — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:53:22 +0000

[...] More than 24 percent of those who responded to the survey (full results in PDF form here) said they regularly play social games, a category that includes Facebook games such as Farmville, Mafia Wars and Happy Aquarium. According to survey company Info Solutions Group, that level of response suggests a total social gaming population of approximately 100 million. Social gamers were defined as those who said they play games on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace at least once a week. The market for social games has been growing so quickly that companies that make them, such as Zynga and Crowdstar, have become investment and acquisition targets. [...]

By: Cyberstorm

Cyberstorm — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:59:45 +0000

In reference to the last paragraph:
This comic here best illustrates that trend of social browser games being popular and bigger console game makers suffering…addictiveness.
http://xkcd.com/484

By: Average Social Gamer is a 43-Year-Old Woman – GigaOM

Average Social Gamer is a 43-Year-Old Woman – GigaOM — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:01:20 +0000

[...] More than 24 percent of those who responded to the survey (full results in PDF form here) said they regularly play social games, a category that includes Facebook games such as Farmville, Mafia Wars and and Happy Aquarium. According to survey company Info Solutions Group, that level of response suggests a total social-gaming population of approximately 100 million. Social gamers were defined as those who said they play games on social-networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace at least once a week. The market for social games has been growing so quickly that companies who make them, such as Zynga and Crowdstar, have become investment and acquisition targets. [...]

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:58:43 +0000

Dude, you're no longer working in the newspaper industry. We're not looking for "just the facts". We want opinion, insight, commentary, knowledge and expertise. Your articles suck because they are nothing but a series of facts and obvious statements. Seriously, why did they need to hire you when they could get an intern to go to Techmeme, review the top articles, change a few words and verb tenses and post it as an original GigaOm post. Man up and get yourself a pair.