CityVille, after dethroning FarmVille from its high horse, leads the social gaming industry with 75 million monthly active users. Who else is on the top games list?
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Oldies But Goodies: If A Facebook Game Concept Works, Keep It
It’s not just a coincidence that newer games are based off of older gaming concepts. Gaming developers do this purposely, why? If it worked once, it will work again.
CityVille Dethrones FarmVille As Biggest Game on Facebook: What's Next For Zynga?
CityVille surpasses FarmVille!
Tomorrow, CityVille Should Dethrone FarmVille As Biggest Game on Facebook
Could tomorrow be the day that CityVille’s traffic surges past FarmVille?
5 Hilarious Gifts for Your FarmVille Family & Friends
Sometimes selecting gifts for this holiday season can be a pain, but if you’re a FarmVille addict, you may be in luck. How about a FarmVille thong for your significant other?
Where's Social Gaming's Big Wikipedia Entry?
Social gaming has some 250 million+ players on Facebook alone, its top companies have valuations in the billions, it attracts heavy investment from major corporations like EA, Disney, and Google, but here’s something social gaming doesn’t really have: Its own Wikipedia entry. As of this writing, Wikipedia’s Social Games entry is a placeholder, while the “Social casual games” entry is less than 100 words long, and even more shocking, comes with an editor’s note, “This article may not meet [Wikipedia's] general notability guideline.” Seriously! By contrast, even though they’re niche genres relative to social gaming, Wikipedia’s MMORPG entry is almost 4000 words, while the entry on first-person shooters is over 3000. So what’s the deal? I put the question to Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, for his take:
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FarmVille Adds First Branded Crop, Goes Organic
FarmVille players can now engage in organic farming both on and off their virtual fields. In the first move of its kind, FarmVille has partnered with Cascadian Farm to provide players with opportunities to enjoy Cascadian branded crops on their painstakingly plowed fields as well as in the grocery store. The many benefits that Cascadian Farm items will bring to FarmVille players will be available from July 19th to the 26th.
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5 People Whose Facebook Friendship You'd be Better Without
We’ve all added someone to Facebook, only to regret it a few days later. Whether because it made things awkward in real life or turned your news feed into a spam-filled mess, the Facebook friendship of certain people seems to just inevitably lead to their deletion. Here’s a list of five people who should remain firmly off your friends so you can avoid the embarrassing necessity of deleting them later.
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Social Developer Summit Preview: Luke Rajlich of FarmVille Discusses Scalability, Surprises
In preparation for next week’s Social Developer Summit, we had a chance to do a Q&A session with one of our featured speakers, Luke Rajlich, Architect Engineer with Zynga’s FarmVille team. He discusses how his previous company, MyMiniLife, was acquired and integrated into FarmVille, how to deal with the massive scaling necessary on a game like FarmVille, and the biggest surprise he encountered over the last year. Read the interview below.
Social Games Like Sorority Life and Farmville Begin Siege on Mobile
Just this week Sorority Life, one of the most popular Facebook games, was released on Android and with recent announcements from Zynga, we can expect to see more social games begin to appear on mobile devices. Zynga specifically announced that their most popular game, FarmVille, will soon be available on the iPhone, and just as with their expansions to other platforms, other games will soon follow. How well will these games fare on Mobile?
