As part of our ongoing coverage of the social games and social media spaces, we are introducing a series of posts entitled “Imagine”. In these posts, we at Social Times will aggregate our creativity to come up with some interesting new experiences that are made possible by the latest in web, mobile and social technology. To kick it off, let’s look at the potential for people to use their iPhones as console controllers for bigger, richer games on their iPad.
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With games like Blur implementing Facebook Connect and XBox 360 and PS3 integrating Facebook directly into their dashboards, we’ve seen console game makers and console makers actively connect with Facebook. That said, the proliferation of gaming on Facebook and the power of the social graph mean that even the most hardcore console games will want to enable their players to connect with one another with the help of Facebook. We take a look at 5 ways that console gamers will likely do this.
As the Facebook gaming era moves into a new generation, spurred by the meteoric rise of Farmville, we’re seeing a dramatic rise in visual quality. This echoes the trends of the early 80s, when console gaming came to prominence with the Atari 2600, and bigger developers are making bigger budget games for Facebook. We take a look at 5 social games that look as good as console games.
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At GDC this year, Gareth Davis, program manager for games at Facebook, went on record as saying that “pretty soon all games will be social”, and explained that Facebook, with 100 million players per month, is “the biggest game platform in the world”. Well if all games are trending towards becoming social, I thought it’d be interesting to analyze just how social console games already are.
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