Zynga and Facebook engaged in a five-year-long commitment in May, agreeing that Facebook Credits would be the exclusive form of currency used for all Zynga games hosted on Facebook.
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Today Zynga has all the top games on Facebook, including Zynga Poker and the newly launched Empires and Allies.
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Agawi, formerly iSwifter, recently launched its version 2.0 to offer cloud streaming of all forms of games content-including social Facebook games as well as mid-core and hardcore titles-to all devices.
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The top Facebook games, meanwhile, are simply nothing at all like the top PC or console games in any way, shape, or form.
In the U.S., Zynga and Facebook get all of the press regarding the growth of casual online games.
Facebook apps transform Facebook into a hub for all kinds of activity, from playing games to setting up a family tree.
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Impressed by the success of Zynga and Facebook, virtually all of the major traditional game publishers have begun incorporating social games or elements into their products.
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But now, Zynga is an entity all its own: a public company before Facebook and a global brand both through its games and as Zynga.
GamersGate, an online videogame retailer that sells digital copies of Mac and PC titles, has recently opened up a storefront on Facebook that will eventually contain all of its catalog of more than 2, 300 games.
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According to Venture Beat, EA has employed 1500 engineers over eighteen month to create a single ID system, Single Identity, which will unify all their games across every platform: PC, Xbox, PS3, even iOS and Facebook.
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This is because Facebook announced this month that from July, all game developers on Facebook will have to process payments through Facebook Credits, which is used in more than 350 games and applications like Farmville and Bejweled Blitz.
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