Since 1981, IGT has been developing and manufacturing slot and video poker machines for casinos. “Facebook has real estate and customers, just like the casinos.” “Facebook is almost the same business ,” said Chris Satchell, CTO and EVP of research and development at International Game Technology, which makes both traditional casino games and social games.
Increasingly, that phrase can be applied not only to Las Vegas casinos, but also to Facebook, which takes a 30 percent cut of game developers’ revenues for the right to be on the social network.
