Press for Vostu
In the last IAB Now held in Argentina, Daniel Kafie, CEO and co-founder of Vostu, predicted the social gaming market will turnover $1.6 billion in 2012. According to consulting concern Newzoo, the social gaming industry grew 66% last year (as of early December 2011)and eMarketer has forecast earnings of $1 billion for 2012, just slightly under Vostu’s forecast.
World Mysteries from Brazilian developer Vostu is a new hidden object game for Facebook. It came in second place on our emerging Facebook games chart late last week, and has been showing healthy growth since its launch in late December, with numbers really starting to pick up in early January.
Vostu’s hidden object game, World Mysteries, tops this week’s list of emerging Facebook games with Bingo Bash and Miscrits of Volcano Island rounding out the top three.
Incorporating real-time multiplayer interactions in social games makes it three times more likely a player will send invitations to friends who aren’t already playing the game, according to Vostu.