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Kongregate to launch Facebook games, raises $3 million from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos

As part of the “indie” movement, Kongregate has been trying to do for user-generated video games what YouTube did for user-created videos.

The company is announcing today that it will launch seven new games within a couple of weeks on Facebook, a move that represents its first expansion beyond its current web site, which currently gets about 3 million unique visitors a month. The company expects to hit 10 million by the end of the year.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.