Facebook has announced that game developers generated $2.8 billion through the site in 2012, with more than 100 of them bringing in more that $1 million. It is also claimed that game installs have risen by 75 percent since this time last year, with a growth of 24 percent year on year in the number of people who actually pay to play games on the site.
“Anywhere in the games business we are investing heavily,” said Facebook’s head of game partnerships Sean Ryan.
Ryan also said that there are now more than 200 games on Facebook with over 1 million monthly active users, with 20 percent of daily visitors to the site also using it to play games. In the mobile realm, 55 percent of the top 400 iOS apps have Facebook integration and 263 million clicks to the Apple App Store and Google Play were directed from Facebook’s news feed.
Source: CNET
