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The Older You Get, The Less You Care About Video Games?

This might seem obvious to some, but it’s still kind of sad. As people grow older, they tend to care about video games less according to Facebook data. Do you think this will happen to you?


What Facebook Is Playing This Week: Still Stuck On Candy Crush Saga

Clinging tenaciously to its top spot on the Facebook daily active users list, King.com’s Candy Crush Saga keeps itself hundreds of thousands players beyond FarmVille 2 by getting everyone stuck on level 86 and then taunting them.


Facebook Gainers: How Does Bubble Safari Ocean Score 23 Million Players?

I often pick on Zynga’s social games; that’s what comes of being the biggest fish clumsily flopping through the pond. I poke at the company’s financial troubles, bemoaning game closings. I’ve been known to revel mildly when their more popular games lose players to the underdogs (every other Facebook game developer).


Kickstarter Backers Pledged $83,144,565 To Games In 2012

Ready for some maths? 1,378,143 Kickstarter users pledged $US83,144,565 to game projects in 2012. There were 2,796 game Kickstarters launched. Of those, 911 were successful.


17 Vatican Virtual Farmers And Other Entertaining FarmVille 2 Stats

They might have lost Kirk Hamilton and Stephen Totilo, but every day eight million other people still hop online to water their virtual crops in Zynga’s social farming sequel, FarmVille 2. According to the first FarmVille 2 Almanac infographic, 17 of those players are playing from the Vatican. I suspect something more sinister afoot.


What Facebook Is Playing This Week: Farm For The Holidays

Twas the day before Christmas and all through the house, these are the games that are keeping parents from cooking and wrapping presents and the children from stumbling over internet porn.


This Week’s Facebook Stats: Candy Crush Saga Gets What It Deserves

I spent an inconveniently substantial portion of last night trying to clear away gels in one level of King.com’s Candy Crush Saga. Knowing that an additional million people are experiencing the same frustration this week makes me feel better.


This Week’s Facebook Winners And Losers: Ruby Blast Adventures Wins At Losing

Despite recent efforts to revitalise the game with an element of progression, Ruby Blast Adventures digs itself a two-million-player hole in this week’s Facebook winners and losers.


This Week’s Facebook Winners And Losers: The King.com Saga

Now don’t get too excited; Zynga is still on the tops of both the gainers and losers charts this week. CityVille 2 added nearly eight million users this week, but I want to talk about the two positions behind that, populated by a pair of games from King.com.


This Week’s Facebook Winners And Losers: The Great FarmVille 2 Exodus

Smell that? That’s the fragrant odour of rotting vegtetation, courtesy of the nearly five million players that didn’t bother tending their virtual crops in FarmVille 2 last week.


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