Facebook Sponsored Ads Show Games that Use Its Credits Virtual Currency

Facebook’s Credits virtual currency continues to expand. It brought on a huge new payment service provider, PayPal, last week, and it began showing apps that use Credits within the “Featured” column of its new Games dashboard. We’ve also been hearing rumblings from developers about expansion, with the possibility that Facebook might somehow make Credits compulsory.

This weekend, Ryan Spoon of Polaris Venture Partners spotted another way that Facebook appears to be giving Credits new emphasize: running in-house ads on users’ home pages.

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