Yahoo brings Facebook poker chips to its users
Yahoo announced this week that it will be bringing games like Facebook Texas Holdem Poker to it’s suite of gaming sites through a partnership with Zynga Game Network, giving it’s users a broader selection of games to choose from and access to new ways to interact with friends and family while tending to their farms in Farmville or playing with their facebook poker chips.
Benefits of the new partnership will include:
• Ability for people to play Zynga games and access their personal Zynga game updates across Yahoo!’s properties including the Homepage, Yahoo! Games, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger and others.
• Sharing of updates across multiple social experiences simultaneously while playing their favorite Zynga games on Yahoo!
• Product integration of Zynga games with the Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP), Yahoo!’s OpenSocial container through which third-party developers can develop applications on Yahoo!
“With over 35 million unique users playing our games every single day, social games are fast becoming a leading source of entertainment worldwide surpassing most television shows,” said Mark Pincus, founder and CEO of Zynga. “Our partnership with Yahoo! gives millions of new users the ability to connect with friends and families through games.”
