EA stares at social games known sports games will land on Facebook

Tencent Science and Technology (compiled/Mowgli) Beijing time February 6 news, according to foreign media reports, EA Sports Game Department president Peter Moore, said in Friday, the company will be the famous sports game "crazy Football" (Madden NFL) into social networking site Facebook.　　Facebook announced in Thursday that the total number of global users has exceeded 400 million. "We have to make crazy football more acceptable to users, and you will soon see it on Facebook," Moore said in an interview in Friday. "EA is currently looking to get the benefits of the game developed for the Facebook platform." EA, the world's second-largest video game distributor, bought Playfish, a social-game developer, at 400 million dollars last year.　　John Riccitiello, EA chief executive, has said the company plans to John Richtillo more revenue from online and mobile gaming. "The Facebook version of" Crazy Rugby "will provide users with a simple experience compared to the video game version, Moore said. The EA Sports spokesman said the release time for the Facebook version of "Crazy Rugby" is still uncertain.　　According to market research firm NPD Group, sports games sold 63 million units in the United States last year. Social networking sites Facebook or MySpace are games for free. Game developers gain by selling virtual goods.　　ThinkEquity, an investment firm, expects social gaming revenues to exceed 2 billion dollars by 2012. EA shares rose 28 cents in the Nasdaq market in Friday and closed at $17.26. Over the past year, EA shares have fallen 7.7%.