Social gaming news roundup: Popcap, Kixeye and Digital Chocolate

Popcap says Facebook’s infrastructure is key to social play — Speaking to Gamasutra, EA Popcap’s Dennis Ryan noted that Facebook is becoming increasingly useful for developers making games that aren’t even playable on Facebook. “It’s important to realize that even without the Facebook site on which to actually play games,” he said, “the social network provides that important infrastructure that is becoming key to social play — even for games that don’t necessarily take place on Facebook itself.”