Inside Social Apps 2010: Sebastien de Halleux Says Brands Rule, and Social Gaming Will Consolidate

Our second gaming-related talk at Inside Social Apps was given by Sebastien de Halleux the co-founder and COO of Playfish, which wasacquired for $400 million last year by EA. Halleux, who also previously a director at Glu Mobile, wanted to give a retrospective of gaming, with a view to predicting the future.

The take-home message: social games will very quickly balloon out into gaming as a whole, so that the industry is expanded for everyone. But at the same time, the idea of “social games” will quickly disappear.

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