New York Times ponders the question: Is Zynga the next Google?

Filed under: Farmville The New York Times seems to have caught onto something that we’ve known for a long time — Zynga is kind of a big deal. In the past month, The Grey Lady saw fit to review FrontierVille and write up the FarmVille advertising-based promotion with Cascadian Farms , which allows farmers to plant and harvest organic blueberries.

New Mafia Wars intro movie adds slight storyline to Facebook game

Filed under: Mafia Wars There’s an overhauled Mafia Wars (a.k.a.

Pet Society: New Diary feature reveals depth of addiction

This past weekend, a “diary” was introduced in Pet Society. This isn’t exactly a book about your pet’s innermost thoughts and desires. It’s more of a scoreboard of certain accomplishments.

Pet Society: New Diary feature reveals depth of addiction

This past weekend, a “diary” was introduced in Pet Society. This isn’t exactly a book about your pet’s innermost thoughts and desires. It’s more of a scoreboard of certain accomplishments

FarmVille dogs still coming soon, says FV community manager

In this week’s podcast, we were once again told that the FarmVille dogs are ‘coming soon,’ though there’s still no actual release date for the little pup’s arrivals.

Restaurant City offers 9k coins to fans after 90k fans vote!

So after giving out 500 coins for free yesterday , and then promising to deliver “a coin to fans for every ten ‘likes’ the post gets”, over 90,000 Restaurant City fans voted on the post within the past 24 hours.

Roller Coaster Kingdom riders decline

Zynga’s theme park inspired social networking game, Roller Coaster Kingdom seems to be on a steady decline this month. In part, the game’s lack of a real fun factor, no fast option to add visitors to one’s park, a firm reliance on players recruiting friends and too many choices in the Facebook gaming world may all play roles in the decrease in players.

PetVille nears 1 million players in four days

PetVille, the new Facebook game from Zynga, quietly launched on December 3.