BOSTON, According to published reports, Boston startup Nanigans Inc., has been chosen by Electronic Arts Inc. to be the exclusive advertising platform for all EA social games on Facebook. In addition, Nanigans has raised $3 million in its first funding round, company officials said.

According to the website VentureBeat, Nanigans took in funding from lead investor Avalon Ventures, with other investors including unnamed Boston-based angels as well as Rich Levandov, managing director at Avalon Ventures. Levandov, one of the initial backers of Facebook game studio Zynga, will join the Nanigans board in conjunction with the funding,