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UK: Tesco and Game to sell Facebook Credits gift cards

Thursday 18 November 2010 11:46 CET | News

Facebook has inked an agreement with UK supermarket chain operator Tesco and UK computer and video games retailer Game under the terms of which the retailers will sell the virtual currency of Facebook in gift card form, online news outlet uk.news.yahoo.com reports.

Under the new partnership, online game players will be able to purchase Facebook Credits gift cards from the Tesco or Game UK-based outlets in order to be able to buy virtual goods and add-ons for titles such as Zynga (FarmVille, FrontierVille), CrowdStar (Happy Aquarium, HelloCity) and PopCap Games (Bejeweled Blitz) as well as Playdom (City of Wonder) and EAs FIFA Superstars, from Playfish.

Facebook’s more than 200 million social game players will be able to purchase the new gift cards for amounts ranging from GBP 10 to GBP 20 at Tesco and for GBP 5, GBP 10 and GBP 25 at Game’s stores.
 


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