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social gaming

American  

noun

Digital Technology.
  1. the playing of online games on social media websites.


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Etymology

Origin of social gaming

First recorded in 2005–10

Example Sentences

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Bringing Horizon to mobile would position it as even more of a competitor to Rec Room, a well-funded, social gaming app with 37 million monthly users across gaming consoles, mobile phones, and VR.

From The Verge • Feb. 17, 2022

Its entry into social gaming, via its $563.2 million purchase of Playdom in 2010, resulted in a write-down.

From Reuters • Nov. 11, 2021

Mr. Shachtman, who lives in Brooklyn, said he had kept tabs on the latest in youth culture through his two sons, noting the social gaming platform Roblox as an example.

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2021

By 2011, he’d helped Caesars acquire the Israeli start-up social gaming company Playtika for roughly $100 million, then saw it flipped in 2017 for $4.4 billion to a Chinese consortium.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2019

The event will feature a discussion with Chris DeWolfe, the Myspace co-founder who now runs Jam City, a Los Angeles-based social gaming network.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2017

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