{"id":1595,"date":"2009-06-30T10:14:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T15:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2009-06-30T10:14:07","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T15:14:07","slug":"why-facebook-games-may-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/30\/why-facebook-games-may-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Facebook Games May Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/portal\/site\/home\/permalink\/?ndmViewId=news_view&#038;newsId=20090630005379&#038;newsLang=en\">When Brian Reynolds gets hired by the biggest social gaming company in America<\/a>, either he&#8217;s selling out to the one part of the game business that is rapidly expanding or Social Games are about to get a lot more interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping it&#8217;s the latter.<\/p>\n<p>What the press release doesn&#8217;t say is that the new Zynga studio is made up almost entirely of Big Huge Games refugees.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m laying the groundwork for a feature story on where social gaming fits into the gaming world as we understand it, so drop me a line if you play a lot of these things. Do not invite me to play <em>Mafia Wars<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Brian Reynolds gets hired by the biggest social gaming company in America, either he&#8217;s selling out to the one part of the game business that is rapidly expanding or Social Games are about to get a lot more interesting. Here&#8217;s hoping it&#8217;s the latter. What the press release doesn&#8217;t say is that the new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-pJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}