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What does the 3G iPhone mean for social games?

June 10, 2008 by Kristian Segerstråle

Like thousands of fellow geeks, we were glued to our screens yesterday for Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote, in which he unveiled the 3G iPhone and talked about iPhone games and the related App Store. Naturally, we have some thoughts on what it all means for social games, and us as a company.

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All three Playfish titles in Facebook games top 10!

June 9, 2008 by Kristian Segerstråle

At Playfish we love to celebrate - and this time we have a good reason! As of today, all three of our social games - Who Has The Biggest Brain?, Word Challenge, and - are nestling in the Facebook Top 10 games chart.

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Our third title is.. Bowling Buddies!

May 8, 2008 by Kristian Segerstråle

It feels like only a few days since we launched our second title Word Challenge (mainly because, well, it is), but it´s time to reveal our third title for social networks. It ´s called...

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Facebook’s stricter app regulations are a good thing!

May 7, 2008 by Kristian Segerstråle

There´s some interesting data over on the 20bits blog, showing how the level of activity in the Facebook developers forum has been declining since the start of this year. There are...

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Our second title is.. Word Challenge!

May 1, 2008 by Kristian Segerstråle

One of the frequent bits of feedback we´ve had on Who Has The Biggest Brain? is people asking if we can include some verbal games, to complement the ones based on numbers and abstract thinking. So we´re pleased to announce...

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Activision CEO says Facebook is a threat to games - we think it’s an opportunity

April 25, 2008 by Kristian Segerstråle

We were interested to read comments yesterday from Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, in which he suggests that “figuring out how to make the game experience more fun than any one of a hundred Facebook applications is going to...

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Kicking off in-game advertising in Who Has The Biggest Brain?

April 14, 2008 by Sebastien de Halleux

Just as Who Has The Biggest Brain? is approaching the two million installs mark on Facebook, you might have noticed our first steps into in-game advertising, courtesy of Google.


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Featured game - Bowling Buddies™

Check out our latest title where you get to go bowling with your friends! Featuring stylish 3D graphics, easy controls, tons of achievements, customised characters and challenges against your friends.





Playfish data

  • 200 million games played per month
  • 8 million players
  • 500 million minutes spent playing per month


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