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We’ve already seen the success of FarmVille and CityVille – now Zynga has launched ForestVille on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The free-to-play building simulation game follows other iOS App Store titles from the casual games giant including Mafia Wars Shakedown, CityVille Holidaytown and Dream Zoo. Players of ForestVille can …

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

'Floating core players' becoming a key battleground across the social network

After nearly veering off the rails, the reinvented publisher may have finally found light at the end of the tunnel

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. …

Social games firm Zynga has inked a deal to promote Born This Way, the new album from Lady Gaga. The partnership involves a virtual ‘GagaVille’ farm in its FarmVille game, a contest in its mobile social game Words With Friends, and other elements. The GagaVille farm will let fans unlock …

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'

How the FarmVille team stole code, made guesses, sped through development and achieved the impossible

Farmville creator estimated to have made $400m profit last year