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The Top 10 Facebook Games of 2011
The ubiquitous social media network has revealed the most popular games on its site for 2011. Interestingly, none of them contain the word "Farm."
It appears that this list is not strictly based on number of users. According to Facebook: "This list was compiled by looking at the top games on Facebook with more than 100,000 monthly active users and giving priority to those games with the highest user satisfaction scores. The result is a list of the games that received the most user recommendations in 2011."
Here are the results:
1. Gardens of Time (Playdom)
2. The Sims Social (EA)
3. Cityville (Zynga)
4. DoubleDown Casino (DoubleDown Interactive)
5. Indiana Jone's Adventure World (Zynga)
6. Words With Friends (Zynga)
7. Bingo Blitz (Buffalo Studios)
8. Empires & Allies (Zynga)
9. Slotomania Slot Machines (Playtika)
10. Diamond Dash (Wooga)
As you can see, the once dominant Zynga title Farmville didn't make the list, though the company was represented with an impressive four titles in the top 10. Also, EA's The Sims Social seems to be proving that big franchises from traditional gaming do have a home on Facebook.
According to Facebook, the average social gamer plays three or more games a month.
Source: Facebook
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