This year’s Game Developers Conference has two new tracks for the new kids in town: the Social & Online Games Summit and the iPhone Games Summit. Facebook’s Gareth Davis delivered the keynote for the former this morning, titled “How Friends Change Everything.” With 400 million users, 200 million of whom are playing games on the service, it’s pretty hard to argue with Facebook’s bona fides as a seriously huge gaming platform. With components like Facebook Connect, we’re even seeing Facebook functionality penetrate the historically isolated game consoles, like Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and even DSi.
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GDC 2010: Facebook hasn’t found its Mario
