While sales numbers are the tried and true method of calculating the most successful video game console in a generation, on Facebook everything's a popularity contest, and the most popular console in the U.S. is the Xbox One. » 6/21/14 5:11pm 6/21/14 5:11pm

JackFrags plays a lot of Battlefield 4. As a result, he's got a lot of Battlepacks to open. So here are the results of what was contained within 100 Battlepacks. » 4/22/14 7:15pm 4/22/14 7:15pm

How much stuff goes into a video game? To celebrate Broken Age going on sale on Steam, Double Fine has released an infographic with a collection of stats from the number of textures in the game to the total coffee consumption of the team. » 3/08/14 9:00am 3/08/14 9:00am

The numbers may be shrinking a bit in recent years but, when you look at it, the sheer aggregate of people who've made a toon, joined a raid or bought a pet in World of Warcraft is still mind-boggling. » 1/28/14 4:00pm 1/28/14 4:00pm

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? » 4/26/13 5:30pm 4/26/13 5:30pm

Clinging tenaciously to its top spot on the Facebook daily active users list, King.com's Candy Crush Saga keeps itself a couple hundred thousand players beyond FarmVille 2 by getting everyone stuck on level 86 and then taunting them. » 1/28/13 10:55am 1/28/13 10:55am

Ready for some math? 1,378,143 Kickstarter users pledged $83,144,565 to game projects in 2012. There were 2,796 game Kickstarters launched. Of those, 911 were successful. » 1/08/13 4:26pm 1/08/13 4:26pm

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).… » 1/08/13 9:55am 1/08/13 9:55am

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… » 1/04/13 2:55pm 1/04/13 2:55pm

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. » 12/24/12 8:55am 12/24/12 8:55am

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. » 12/17/12 8:55am 12/17/12 8:55am

Despite recent efforts to revitalize the game with an element of progression, Ruby Blast Adventures digs itself a 2 million player hole in this week's Facebook winners and losers. » 12/10/12 8:55am 12/10/12 8:55am

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. » 12/03/12 9:55am 12/03/12 9:55am

Smell that? That's the fragrant odor of rotting vegtetation, courtesy of the nearly five million players that didn't bother tending their virtual crops in FarmVille 2 last week. » 11/26/12 9:55am 11/26/12 9:55am

Out with the relatively old and in with the new, that's the theme of this week's list of Facebook games losers and winners, as Zynga's latest 'Ville title grows and its next-to-latest shrinks. » 11/19/12 9:55am 11/19/12 9:55am

For the past couple of months I've been taking time every Monday morning to report on the top ten Facebook games by daily active users. That list has barely budged in four week. Here's a better pair of lists — the top fan gainers and losers of the week, featuring a chart that's almost entirely Zynga! » 11/12/12 8:55am 11/12/12 8:55am

While I busy myself playing games like The Grinns Tale and the newly-released CityVille 2, the rest of Facebook mills about the old familiar haunts, munching on candy and clicking up exotic cuisine. » 11/05/12 8:55am 11/05/12 8:55am

FarmVille 2's meteoric rise to fame slowly turns this week, as players realize they enjoy building restaurants, playing Scrabble and matching candy much more than they do farming. » 10/29/12 8:55am 10/29/12 8:55am

Last week Zynga's Bubble Safari was in fourth place in the app leaderboards with 4.9 million daily active users. This week it's in the eighth place with only 3.6 million. Has the world finally realized that monkeys are giant jerks? » 10/22/12 8:55am 10/22/12 8:55am