If you use Facebook on your phone or tablet - and science says that there's about a 95% chance that you do - you may have noticed something different lately. And no, we're talking about the fact that the app is finally working. Rather, the social networking giant recently stepped up its mobile ad program from featured news stories to include a select pool of game developers. Starting today, that pool will be a whole lot bigger.
During E3, Editor-in-Chief Jim Squires stuck it to Microsoft for neglecting Windows 8 as a gaming destination. Well it seems the company was listening (that's our story and we're sticking to it). Just prior to writing, company spokesperson Major Nelson took to his blog to announce 40 titles headed to "any Windows 8 PC, laptop, or tablet" beginning October 26th. Microsoft fans? Your casual games have arrived.
You know when you've had a bad day at work? The boss is breathing down your neck, deadlines are whizzing by you almost as fast as the e-mail reminders about them? And you just want to take a load off somewhere that everybody knows your name? Well cheers, because Zynga things they have the answer with Zynga With Friends: the new social hub for all things Zynga.
For fans of Zynga, today continues to be a pretty great day. Amid the hooplah of their "Unleashed" press event, the social gaming big dog has announced new partnerships, promised new games, and revealed new entries in their classic series. Making sure not to leave their existing players in the dust, however, the house that Pincus built went on to announce some new features for things you might be playing right now.
Here at Gamezebo, we get a lot of press releases. As I type this to you right now, I'm swimming in press releases. Wearing a bathing suit made of press releases. In all seriousness, though, not everything can make the cut. But when the already fast-growing game startup by the name of Peak e-mailed to tell us that they were in fact growing explosively? I took notice. Why? Because now they're outpacing Facebook themselves.