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Facebook Game ‘Brain Buddies’ Becomes the New Darling of Facebook Users

Posted on July 9, 2009

– 1.5 Million minutes of play time during the first week
– Launched in 8 languages
– Most international Facebook Game with user from 150 countries
– Dispute among Facebook users: Whose brain is heaviest?
The new online game “Brain Buddies” is the new darling of Facebook users: Within the first week of being online, Brain Buddies reached 1.5 million minutes of play time, or 25,000 hours.

The brain training game has been developed by Berlin-based start-up wooga and was simultaneously launched in 8 languages on July 1st. During its first week the causal games has attracted users from 150 countries, among them Iran, Turkmenistan, and Fiji.

Brain Buddies offers its users a playful way to determine their brain weight. The game is focusing on a contest among friends to find the one with the heaviest brain. A large set of mini games as well as entertaining graphics make the game fun to play for a long time.

“Launching Brain Buddies in eight languages is paying off nicely”, says a happy founder and managing director Jens Begemann. “We are proud to have what is probably the most international game of its kind on Facebook”.

Brain Buddies is available on Facebook at the following address: http://apps.facebook.com/brainbuddies.

wooga (www.wooga.net) – which stands for “world of gaming” – was founded in January 2009 in Berlin by experienced entrepreneurs. wooga develops and markets games for social networks like Facebook. These so-called “social games” combine the two biggest current online trends: online games and social networks.

CONTACT: Mylene Gongon, +49-17667574071, press@wooga.net

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