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Having been on the market for just over a month, Zynga’s latest Facebook title CityVille has already attracted an astonishing 84.2m players. Inside Social Games reports that this puts CityVille ahead of Facebook’s current record-holder, Zynga’s FarmVille. The latter title, however, took nine months to reach that landmark, suggesting CityVille …
Read More »CityVille pulls in 26m users
Zynga has seen early success with its latest venture CityVille as over 26m users have signed up to play it. The casual Facebook game – which allows users to create and run their own city – went live on December 2nd. It currently has 26,614,646 monthly active users on Facebook …
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Casual games giant spreads into Googleâ??s mobile operating system
Read More »BAFTA reveals social games category
British Academy to recognise growing development sector
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Social gaming giant buys game engine firm Dextrose to create Zynga Germany
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Casual gaming giants clash over Mafia Wars trademark
Read More »EEDAR: Cloud gaming could kill Farmville
Analysts EEDAR warn that the days of social gaming may be over, with Cloud Gaming set to take its place. EEDAR CEO Greg Short told the attendees at GDC Europe today, that "he doesn’t know why people are spending half a billion" on social gaming companies. "Cloud gaming could completely …
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FrontierVille rakes in the gold for the giant of Facebook gaming
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Farmville studio strikes huge financial backing from Japan-based venture capitalists SoftBank.
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Farmville studio scoops up Beijing-based social gaming company
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