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Top 25 Facebook Games For August 2010

Here is the list of this month’s ‘Top 25 Facebook Games’, as released by insidesocialgames :

top25aug2010 Top 25 Facebook Games For August 2010

Lost in users have lessened a bit compare to last moth. This month, 15 out of the 25 applications have seen a drop in the monthly active users, while 18 out of 25 applications had seen drop in users last month.

Note from insidesocialgames.com: given that this list looks at the top 25 applications by MAU, it is not taking into account any significant growth by smaller apps, or stellar daily active user gains by any app.

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Top 25 Facebook Games for July 2010

trophy Top 25 Facebook Games for July 2010Over 50% of all Facebook users play social games on Facebook, but which games are the most popular? The numbers are in. We’ve got a list of the top 25 Facebook games for the month of July 2010. If you’re a fan of playing social games on Facebook, you’re sure to find some great ones on this list!

  1. FarmVille
  2. Texas HoldEm Poker
  3. Treasure Isle
  4. Cafe World
  5. MindJolt Games
  6. Birthday  Cards
  7. Mafia Wars
  8. PetVille
  9. Pet Society
  10. FrontierVille
  11. Happy Aquarium
  12. FishVille
  13. Restaurant City
  14. Bejeweled Blitz
  15. YoVille
  16. Social City
  17. Zoo World
  18. Hotel City
  19. Happy Island
  20. Happy Pets
  21. Family Feud
  22. Country Life
  23. Farm Town
  24. Ninja Saga
  25. Bubble Island

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50% Of Facebook Users Play Social Games

Facebook GamingSocial gameing on Facebook is growing in popularity. 2010 looks to be the year of the social game.

Half of all users on Facebook now play social games. More impressively, 40% of total usage time on the service is spent on these types of games. That’s significant, obviously, because a large amount of the Internet is on Facebook.

The social games industry is expanding as well, and it’s not all about Zynga. Social games maker Playdom was acquired by Disney a couple of days ago for a deal possibly worth more than $750 million.

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Disney Buys Playdom: Social Network In Disneyland

Walt Disney Company have reportedly bought Playdom for a deal worth as much as $763.2 million.

Sweet Jesus, that’s a lot of money for a start-up!!! :)

Playdom, a tech start-up company operating for around two-and-half years, is the No. 3 game developer on Facebook with about 42 million monthly users. Sorority Life, Social City (oh i loved this game! for its exceptionally good graphics compared with other city-building game on Facebook), Tiki Resort, Tiki Farm, and Mobsters 2: Vendatta are some of the popular Facebook games created by Playdom.

The deal involves an initial payment of $563.2 million and an additional $200 million performance-based payment.

This will certainly bring a whole new level of entertainment to many Disney fans around the world. Can we expect a live streaming of Disney cartoons or re-runs of classic fairy tales on Facebook, or yet another chance to play Mickey or Donald on Facebook?

Wait and watch… you might even get a hit with ‘Sleeping Beauty Pillow’ from me very soon.. really!! Anything can happen when you are social networking in the magical kingdom of Disneyland :) .

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Zynga’s Poker Blitz Launches

Zynga, Facebook’s leading game developer, has just launched a brand new game called Poker Blitz.

Yes!! As the title suggests, it’s a Poker game. You might be surprise, why Zynga is coming up with another Poker game when it’s own Texas Hold’Em Up Poker is doing quite well. Right?

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Poker Blitz is, as described by Zynga’s Casino General Manager Har ‘Sim’ Mimran, a “poker game for the masses.”

The game is easy to learn and play, but for most die-hard poker players, this game will be a disappointment as the game does not exactly follow all the rules of Poker. The game also has and in-game features that shows you your winning probability. This game is for the casual, fun loving gamers.

It has all the vibes of a social game – level ups, sending gifts, earning trophies, sharing bonuses through posting game achievements etc. The game also features ‘power-up’, which the player can use to trade their cards in for a luckier hand, or revealing one of the opponent’s cards.

One thing that makes the game really special and different from other Poker games on Facebook is that the game is played solely against the dealer. Players can form teams and their scores are accumulated.

The game uses the same avatars as in FarmVille. The game also has nice graphics. Some features are yet to be launched.

There are leaderboards, and teams that get over a million dollars are eligible to win a special prize (An iPod Touch..wow!!). As of now, players can only play 5 game per hour, and each game lasts for 60 second. Player can also extend each round by doing well in the round. Losing a straight two hands also finishes the game even if there is still some time remaining.

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Arkadium Scores A Million With Mahjongg Dimensions

Arkadium, casual social game developer, hit a million jackpot with their first Facebook game while many other gaming industries are having a hard time to adapt to the popularity of social games.

The game, Mahjong Dimensions, which was launched on January 15 have generated more than 1 million monthly active users in just two months.

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According to Kenny Rosenblatt, CEO of Arkadium, “We are extremely excited to have exceeded the one million user mark in such a short time frame. Now that we have proven we can successfully build an audience on Facebook, our primary focus will be to further monetize it.”

“Many of the 300 games in our library have the DNA to become great social games. We plan to follow the same recipe we did with Mahjongg Dimensions and replicate this success over and over again,” he adds.

With the success of their first game, Arkadium has a lot of chance to creat more hits through cross-platform promotion like Zynga, the leading Facebook game developer.

Mahjongg Dimensions was launched as a 3-D web game in 2009 and is available on many sites that host Arkadium’s games. The company plans to launch five more Facebook games in the second quarter.

So, watch out for their games.

[Source: Venture Beat]

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Facebook PoxNora: Sony’s First-Ever Facebook Game

PoxNora 300x153 Facebook PoxNora: Sonys First Ever Facebook GameSony Online Entertainment LLC launched its popular turn-based strategy game PoxNora on Facebook.

PoxNora, a combination turn-based strategy game and collectible card game set in a fantasy world of creatures, relics and spells, was acquired by Sony Online Entertainment  in January 2009. Ever since, the game has expanded in reach and popularity with over 2.5 million registered accounts to date.

“The Facebook platform offers gamers a new and powerful way to interact with a tap into their social communities” said John Smedley, president of Sony Online Entertainment.

“With the launch of PoxNora for Facebook, we are leveraging the expertise SOE has gained bringing entertainment to the online game community for over 10 years,” he adds.

SOE has customized and optimized the Facebook version of PoxNora to appeal to a wider social networking audience in a fun and engaging way. PoxNora for Facebook will harness the platform’s social channels by allowing users to invite friends and post updates of accomplishments.

Online social gaming has seen a tremendous growth in parallel to Facebook’s growing popularity and with the launch of this game, the time cannot be more appropriate for SOE. We hope to see more games on Facebook from Sony.

We will bring to you more details on the game shortly.

[source: PR Newswire]
[Image source: Facebook PoxNora]

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27 Feb – 05 Mar, 2010: Fastest Growing Facebook Games

Last week Facebook games statistics, February 27 to March 5,  showed MindJolt Games as the fastest growing Facebook game.

Mindjolt have always been in and around the top five fastest growing games. It is unusual, but the application hasn’t been doing much in order to get itself noticed apart from letting its users spread the word.

Another uniqueness of Mindjolt is that it doesn’t develop the games available through its service. Instead, it gives budding game creators the chance to present their ideas and creations to the masses. They provide more than 300 games to choose from; action, puzzles, strategy, shooter, sports, card games and more.

MindJolt as we know, provides enormous amount of simple, yet addictive and interesting games to play along with friends. It has around 20 million regular users at present.

The firm was bought out by Platform G, with former MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe at the top, last week. DeWolfe brought together some of his former colleagues from MySpace and is trying to give a shot to capitalize on social gaming, with a fair chunk of financial backing to start out with – rumored to be around $20 million – from private equity firm Austin Ventures.

List of Fastest growing Facebook games on Friday March 5 at 18:00 GMT

01. MindJolt Games (19,782,786 = +900,131 / +4.6%)
02. Bubble Island (1,101,968 = +594,265 / +54.0%)
03. FarmVille (83,105,118 = +591,152 / +0.7%)
04. Tiki Resort (1,218,159 = +575,310 / +47.2%)
05. My City Life (3,908,234 = +537,319 / +13.8%)
06. PetVille (19,567,573 = +472,022 / +2.4%)
07. Texas HoldEm Poker (27,211,570 = +465,874 / +1.7%)
08. Ninja Saga (3,874,566 = +453,790 / +11.7%)
09. SPP Ranch! (2,542,250 = +411,466 / +16.2%)
10. Happy Island (12,275,447 = +301,470 / +2.5%)

Numbers in brackets relate to total monthly users, increase in monthly users, and the weekly growth percentage.

[Source: appdata.com]

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