Independent.ie interviewed Facebook's Head of Game Partnerships for EMEA -
Facebook's Game of the Year
The award goes to Cookie Jam, a colourful matching game. The game launched last May, but has managed to grow to over 5million players. Cookie Jam's win goes to show that the masses still haven't tired of matching colours and shapes. Bejewelled must be so proud
Facebook's 2014 Best New Games
Bubble Witch 2 Saga (Bubble shooter game by King)
Candy Crush Soda Saga (match 3 adventure sequel)
Klondike (Story driven city builder)
Kim Kardashian: Hollywood (Life style Sims style)
Old Vegas Slots (slots)
League of Angels (Stylish role-playing game)
Hero Defense (Tower defense)
SuperCity (City building)
Sparta: War of Empires (Strategy game)
Facebook's 2014 Best Mobile Games
Star Wars: Commander (Strategy in the Star Wars universe)
Boom Beach (Strategy in the jungle)
Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff (Recreate Quahog)
Crazy Taxi: City Rush (driving)
Disco Bees (Match 3 puzzler)
Facebook's 2014 Staff Favourite Games
Solitaire 3 Arena (Tournament solitaire. Solitaire on social feels like a contradiction, right?)
Cower Defense (Pun-driven tower defense)
Dino Hunter: Deadly Shores (First-person shooter with dinos)
Throne Rush (Strategy)
OMG! Fortune FREE Slots (OMG! I don't get the attraction to virtual slots.)
Facebook's 2014 Hall of Fame Games
Top Eleven Be a Football Manager (One of the first football manager sims and one of the longers running games)
Words with Friends (Scrabble with friend requests)
Zynga Poker (Formerly called Texas Hold 'Em Poker. Great for procrastination during thesis time.)
Caesars Casino (Casino game.)
Bingo Blitz (More bingo.)
Facebook have also announced the addition of two new features to help users find games.
Hot Games will show titles quickly growing in popularity.
Tags will help users filter games based on a number of different characteristics.
