Is there a shift from hardcore games to Facebook games happening?
TK: Facebook offers a way to interact with your brand. New social media can deepen the experience of traditional games. You can interact with a brand on Facebook and maybe that has an impact on the game you bought at the store. But this big, immersive game experience [you get from the consoles] is never going to go away. Never. It will come in different forms. But it is never going away because FarmVille is popular. I don’t think that one has to lose for the other one to win. VB: Will you have more on the Facebook side? TK: We are exploring the social gaming scene. We don’t have any big announcements to make there. We have things in development. We have massively multiplayer online games. We are not sitting still. We are trying to grow our business and are dedicating people to make a push into that area. I think we will learn a lot about that this year. VB: The learning part is pretty tough on Facebook, where traditional game companies have not dominated the top games lists. TK: You ha
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