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VIDEO: CEO Mark Pincus draws new roadmap for the social game company

Electronic Arts is now within touching distance of becoming the first games company to topple Cityville, the Zynga sensation that holds the record as the most popular Facebook game of all time. According to Appdata, The Sims Social now drawn in 65 million monthly active users (MAUs) – the closest …

EA close to Facebook games breakthrough

But Cityville firm strikes back in new Facebook 'brand wars'

EA title The Sims Social has seen its MAUs surpass that of Facebook giant Farmville on the social network. In total it now has an MAU base of 36m users. VentureBeat reports that EA’s title picked up 1.7m new users yesterday alone, taking its weekly MAU gain over 8m users. …

Zynga has taken legal action on Vostu for allegedly copying the design and content of a number of its games. The former claims its mega successful Facebook game CityVille has been replicated unashamedly by Brazilian firm Vostu in the form of MegaCity, reports TechCrunch. Let’s be clear – it is …

Develop's monthly dissection of a recent hit game

The global market for social games is expected to create revenues of over $5 billion by the end of 2015. That’s according to research firm Parks Associates’ latest report, Social Gaming: Market Updates, in which the company claims the market is on course for a five-fold increase between 2010 and …

Casual gaming giant unlikely to make the move to consoles; XBLA too 'small'

Facebook game draws record numbers in just over a month, eclipsing FarmVille