The Facebook game platform: Expanding into mobile, the Middle East, and all game categories (interview)
Sean Ryan says that Facebook gaming is becoming more diverse, and it will soon include a new wave of hardcore and midcore games.
Kixeye steals a general manager from Zynga, rescuing him from the ‘dark side’
August 23, 2012 6:00 AM
Dean Takahashi
Kixeye recruits a general manager away from Zynga so he can make "real" games.
Kixeye promises console disruption with free-to-play, browser-based hardcore games (interview)
Facebook's been good to Kixeye. In our fireside chat with chief executive Will Harbin, he explains how the social hardcore gamemaker is branching out.
Kixeye quietly makes big bucks on hardcore Facebook games
March 16, 2012 8:00 AM
Dean Takahashi
At first glance, Kixeye looks puny as a social gaming company on Facebook. It has only 4.6 million users compared to Zynga‘s more than 240 million monthly active users.
But the San Francisco company has become a financial juggernaut because …
Facebook paid $1.4B to game developers in 2011
March 5, 2012 10:39 AM
Dean Takahashi
Facebook paid more than $1.4 billion to game developers (and other app makers) in 2011, according to a Facebook talk at the Game Developers Conference this morning.
Matt Wyndowe , games product manager at Facebook, said that the social network …
Kixeye’s War Commander brings real-time strategy to Facebook gaming
September 13, 2011 2:00 PM
Dean Takahashi
Kixeye is bringing real-time strategy games to Facebook today with the public beta launch of its War Commander title.
Inspired by games like Command & Conquer on the PC, War Commander is aimed at recruiting a new generation of Facebook …
