Facebook starts letting developers monetize Instant Games on Messenger
Facebook has launched advertisements to monetize a new type of popular casual game, dubbed Instant Games, which people play on the Facebook Messenger feed....
Has Facebook become the game developer’s best friend?
Gaming is better with friends. And gaming is important at Facebook. Those are the takeaways that Brian Boland, vice president of publisher solutions at...
Zynga reports one of its best revenue quarters in years as mobile growth takes off
Zynga reported one of its strongest revenue quarters in years as it hit $207 million in bookings, up 14 percent form a year ago....
Blackstorm Labs adds AI chatbot to its EverWing Messenger game
Blackstorm Labs is launching an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot for its EverWing game on Facebook Messenger’s Instant Games platform. The chatbot is part of...
Zynga launches Words With Friends for Instant Games on Facebook Messenger
Zynga is starting to bet big on Instant Games, the instantly playable games on Facebook Messenger and iMessage. And today, the company is launching...
Facebook rolls out Instant Games on Messenger to 1.2 billion people
Facebook is announcing today that it is rolling out Instant Games on Messenger more broadly to the 1.2 billion people who use the messaging system...
Facebook hits 800 million monthly gamers, up 23% from 650 million a year ago
Facebook has hit a new milestone that indicates just how large its community of gamers has become: 800 million monthly active users. That number includes...
Blackstorm Labs seizes the HTML5 instant games opportunity
Facebook opened up a new gaming platform with Instant Games for Messenger in November. And Blackstorm Labs seized the chance to launch its own...
Facebook brings ‘instant’ HTML5 games like Pac-Man to your News Feed and Messenger
Facebook wants to completely remove the barrier between you and games on its platform, and it is using HTML5 to accomplish that across mobile...
Instant video game lets you kill bin Laden yourself
Kuma Games has created a new episode of its reality-based video game KumaWar where you can kill Osama bin Laden yourself. Based on publicly...