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TreasureHunt teams with Universal and Telemundo to make Goal! Shootout Messenger game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Berlin’s TreasureHunt has teamed up with Universal and Telemundo to launch Goal! Shootout, a soccer app on Facebook’s Instant Games platform on Facebook Messenger. This Universal Brand Development’s first Facebook Instant Game and the first licensed FIFA World Cup football game on Facebook.

Mobile messenger games are becoming popular on a variety of platforms, and Facebook recently said it will turn on monetization for the games. Goal is free-to-play and available now on Facebook’s Instant Games platform.

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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.