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Diamond Dash players can now compete with each other across mobile devices and desktop machines. With Diamond Dash, it's not about beating the game it's about beating your friends, Begemann said. "You compete in a weekly tournament and challenge your friends. You can also send small gifts to them that will help them in the game." "A big focus for us in 2012 is to launch a number of social mobile games and to expand our business from Facebook where we have 35 million active users, but we are looking at bringing them mobile," Begemann added. Wooga is the third largest games developer on Facebook after Zynga and Electronic Arts, according to AppData. Other Wooga games include Brain Buddies, Bubble Island, Monster World, Happy Hospital and Magic Land. WOMEN GAMERS About 70 percent of people playing Wooga's Facebook games each month are women and the average player is around 40 years old and female, according to the Berlin-based company, which was founded in 2009. 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