Pulse2 Technology and Social Media News » Wooga http://pulse2.com Sun, 27 May 2012 19:13:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Facebook Paid Game Developers $1.4 Billion In 2011 http://pulse2.com/2012/03/06/facebook-paid-game-developers-1-4-billion-in-2011/ http://pulse2.com/2012/03/06/facebook-paid-game-developers-1-4-billion-in-2011/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:34:01 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=57240 Continue reading →]]>
Facebook has paid developers over $1.4 billion in 2011. Facebook games product manager Matt Wyndowe made the milestone announcement at the Game Developers Conference. Wyndowe said that Facebook has gotten very serious about supporting games on Facebook despite the market being

“As early as 2010, we didn’t have a dedicated game team. Now we have 40 full-time people on games. We meet weekly with Zuck (CEO) and Bret Taylor (CTO).” Wyndowe said that Facebook has been working on improving game distribution for the past 6 months to make it easier to discover games on the home page and through interactions with friends.

User engagement from the “recently played” notification from the Facebook News Feed has increased 60%. Wooga CEO Jens Begemann and Kixeye CEO Will Harbin talked about their experiences on the Facebook gaming platform. Wooga broke into the top 10 on Facebook. Kixeye is nowhere near the top 10, but they are one of the most profitable game companies on the platform.

“Our game design and approach is a bit unusual.” Kixeye focuses on hardcore games said Harbin. “With 845 million users on Facebook, it is a big slice of the world’s users. We have chosen Facebook out of its hyper accessibility.” Kixeye has a 97% male audience and the average session is 30 minutes. Their retention is seven months or more. There are millions of player versus player attacks per day. Kixeye sells speed-ups, which accounts for 85% of their revenue. Kixeye has been profitable for two years now and their revenue was up 11x in 2010.

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Berlin, Germany based Wooga is a company that develops games for social networks.  The company has raised funding from Holtzbrinck Ventures. Holtzbrinck Ventures started in April 2000 and they are the corporate venture company of the publishing group Georg von Holtzbrinck.

The first game that Wooga released on Facebook is called Brain Buddies.  Wooga was founded in January 2009 and launched Brain Buddies five weeks ago.  Brain Buddies has about 2.5 million users.

Holtzbrinck Ventures has also previously invested in StudiVZ, Germany’s largest social network.  StudiVZ is basically a replica of Facebook.

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