Even during the worst economic downturn of my lifetime, there’s money to be made. Evidence, Playfish, casual gaming site for the masses. They, and competitors, Zynga and SGN, took in a collective $75MM in funding over the past couple of months.

A social games company that develops and publishes video games on social networks like Facebook, Playfish is barely a year old, and already boasts over 10MM monthly active users.

You can read more about this in Techcrunch.

KidWithMatches is the personal blog of Pete Eberbach, VP Director of Online Marketing & Technology with St. John + Partners.

Tags: Facebook, funding, gaming, playfish, sgn, TechCrunch, zynga

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