{"id":36033,"date":"2012-04-16T12:43:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T10:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=36033"},"modified":"2012-04-16T12:52:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T10:52:32","slug":"king-com-games-overtake-ea-on-facebook-hunting-down-zygna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/36033-king-com-games-overtake-ea-on-facebook-hunting-down-zygna","title":{"rendered":"King.com games overtake EA on Facebook, hunting down Zygna"},"content":{"rendered":"

King.com now has nearly 10 million daily players on Facebook, overtaking EA as the third most popular games company on the social network.<\/p>\n

The company, known for its saga series of games which includes Bubble Witch Saga, shot to fame when they launched on Facebook a year ago.<\/p>\n

Bubble Witch Saga is King.com\u2019s most popular game on Facebook, and has more daily players than Zynga\u2019s hit game Farmville.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s sixth Facebook game, Candy Crush Saga, has tallied up nearly half a million players within a week according to AppData, who track metrics on Facebook.<\/p>\n

Zynga is currently the most popular gaming company on Facebook with 65 million daily visitors and nearly 80 games, including Texas Hold’Em Poker and Mafia Wars.<\/p>\n

German social games firm Wooga, whose games include Diamond Dash follows Zynga as the second most popular company on the site.<\/p>\n

“Our ultimate ambition is to be the leader in our segment of games for the casual social player, mainly female, social and mobile,\u201d King.com\u2019s Chief Executive and co-founder Riccardo Zacconi said in an interview with Reuters. \u201cOur target is to reach Zynga.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the full story at: Mybroadband<\/a>.<\/h5>\n

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Games maker King.com overtakes EA games on Facebook, hunting down Zygna for top spot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":36062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,813,199,303,3502,3503,1353],"class_list":["post-36033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-electronic-arts","tag-facebook","tag-farmville","tag-king-com","tag-wooga","tag-zynga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36061,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36033\/revisions\/36061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}