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Facebook now hosting 250 million gamers per month

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 27 Mar 2013 1:26 User comments (1)

Facebook now hosting 250 million gamers per month

Speaking at this week's Gaming Developers Conference, Facebook proudly boasted its social gaming stats.
The social networking giant now has 250 million monthly gamers, with 200 games boasting over 1 million active users.

In August 2011, the monthly gamer figure was 205 million, which jumped to 235 million by August 2012.

Additionally, the company says they paid out $2 billion to developers in 2012, a huge 30 percent increase from 2011.

Finally, the social network announced that a full 55 percent of the top 400 iOS apps are currently integrated with Facebook, with the company actually driving 263 million clicks to either the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store from mobile devices.

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130.3.2013 11:07

Should people who play Angry Birds and Farmville be called "Gamers"?

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