Zynga is a well-capitalized firm, having received over a hundred million of dollars in venture capital from various partners. Zynga has experienced tremendous success in online social gaming, having produced four of the top five most popular games on Facebook, including other titles such as Texas Holdem Poker, and FrontierVillie, where each have about 35-million, and 31-million monthly players, respectively. The second most popular social game on Facebook, FarmVille, which is also produced by Zynga, has about 16.4-million monthly active users, with about 56.8-million monthly users. Zynga earns revenue from CityVille as users purchase premium features to use in building their city, a business model that could earn the company up to $700-million in total revenue in this fiscal year, according to analyst expectations.Īccording to data published by AppData, the new Zynga game, CityVille, has about 16.8-million daily users playing the game, with about 61.7-million monthly active players. The objective of CityVille is to build and manage a virtual city from the ground up, with social features that allow users to interact with other user built cities, including the ability to buy land and open store franchises, all with a common virtual currency.

Zynga Corporation, the company behind several popular games on the world’s largest social network, Facebook, has now earned the number one spot for its new game CityVille, which launched about a month ago.

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