Facebook Upgrades Games And Tests Mobile Updates

Facebook is getting serious about its games, announcing category updates, more bookmarks, a combined dashboard for applications and games, and testing game stories on its mobile platform.

Facebook is getting serious about its games, announcing category updates, more bookmarks, a combined dashboard for applications and games, and testing game stories on its mobile platform.

The “other” category is history, but the social network added new categories for casino, family, sports, strategy, and words.

In addition, role playing is now labeled adventure, and virtual world is now called simulation.

Developers can edit the settings for their games via the developer app.

Game canvas pages now feature six bookmarks, up from four, which Facebook said has increased referrals by 20 percent.

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