MetroGames And Playdom Join Forces To Tackle Facebook Gaming Market
The social gaming present on networking sites like Facebook and MySpace has spread like wildfire over the past few years and the companies producing games like Lil' Farmlife and Mob Wars are battling for your time and your money.
Major social gaming contender Playdom, known for games like Mobsters 2: Vendetta has recently placed funding of 5 million dollars into Argentine gaming company MetroGames in hopes to expand its already large presence on MySpace and push its way further into the Facebook market. MetroGames currently has a large stock of games on its own gaming site and many more already on Facebook. John Pleasents, Playdom's CEO has joined the board of MetroGames and had this to say:
"MetroGames has a proven track record for developing very appealing social games, so we are convinced that with Playdom's help they will become a big player in the social gaming market."
Playdom has also recently purchased Facebook game developer Offbeat Creations, suggesting it has a strong interest in diminishing competitor Zynga's control over the Facebook market.
It looks as if Playdom will continue to produce even more of its ubiquitous and addictive games, continuing to make the niche that was "Facebook gaming" into a full scale video game phenomenon.
Playdom Fuels MetroGames' Plans For Explosive Growth [PR Newswire]
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Posted to Video Games on 20 March 2010
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