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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 …

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PopCap’s Zuma Blitz has now gone live on Facebook, reworking the games firm’s hit puzzle game for a social platform. The game condenses the familiar ball-blasting mechanic into a one-minute quickfire game and introduces social networking features to the acclaimed Zuma franchise, which has sold over 20 million units worldwide. …

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 …

GameStop and Jolt Online Gaming have launched Utopia Kingdoms, a new free-to-play Facebok game. The title is based on the popular browser-based Utopia series and allows Facebook users to build and manage their own fantasy kingdom. The launch is the latest move from US retail giant GameStop into the casual …

MCV has increased its print and web readership to highest-ever levels. A Google Analytics audit has shown that MCVuk.com attracted 374,038 unique visitors and 826,926 page views in November, both record figures for the site. Also, the weekly print edition is continuing to benefit from its digital distribution via Apple …

Aliens vs Predator studio releases social game Evil Genius

Playfish’s European Studio boss John Earner has told MCV that whilst the switch to Facebook Credits is proving painful, he believes it will eventually increase the number of players prepared to spend within the social gaming sphere. The company recently struck a five year deal with Facebook which will see …

Those without established brands are 'in a increasingly precarious position'

Free-to-play online game Playboy Party has launched today on popular social network Facebook. It’s Jolt Online’s first game published since the firm was acquired by GameStop, and allows players to throw the best party to set scores and unlock content. Playboy Party is currently in open beta and is free …