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.
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 a couple hundred thousand players beyond FarmVille 2 by getting everyone stuck on level 86 and then taunting them.
Kickstarter Backers Pledged $83,144,565 To Games In 2012
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.
Facebook Gainers: How the Heck Does Bubble Safari Ocean Score 23…
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).…
17 Vatican Virtual Farmers and Other Entertaining FarmVille 2 Stats
They might have lost Kirk Hamilton
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 Winners and Losers: Candy Crush Saga Gets What It…
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 …
Despite recent efforts to revitalize the game with an element of progression
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 odor of rotting vegtetation, courtesy of the nearly five million players that didn't bother tending their virtual crops in FarmVille 2 last week.
This Week's Facebook Winners and Losers: Moving to the Big City
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.
This Week's Facebook Losers and Winners: Zynga Only Dominates One of…
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!
What Facebook is Playing This Week: No Sign of CityVille 2 Yet
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.
What Facebook is Playing This Week: The Same Things It Was Playing…
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.
What Facebook is Playing This Week: Less Bubble Safari, That's for Sure
Last week
What Facebook is Playing This Week: In a World Without Zynga, Candy…
Two straight weeks of FarmVille 2 being at the top of the daily active users Facebook game charts is plenty. This week I'm bending the laws of time and space to imagine a chart without Zynga—a chart in which Candy Crush Saga reigns supreme.
What Facebook is Playing This Week: I'm Going to Run Out of FarmVille 2 …
When last we left
What Facebook is Playing This Week: FarmVille 2 Rising
FarmVille 2 didn't place on last week
What Facebook is Playing This Week
With six of ten of the most-played games this week from one development studio, perhaps I should call this new weekly feature "What Zynga Games Facebook is Playing This Week".
Only 1 Out of 5 Mass Effect Gamers Plays As A Woman
Dear 82% of Mass Effect gamers,
What Difference Did Going Free-to-Play Make for DC Universe Online?
We know that DC Universe Online's recent switch from subscription-based MMO to free-to-play added one million subscribers
Just How Popular is League of Legends?
As the first season of competition comes to a close, League of Legends developer Riot Games celebrates by dropping some incredibly impressive player statistics for the free-to-play online action strategy title enjoyed by more than 1.4 million players a day.
Uncharted 3 Beta: 1.5 Million Played, Over 1.9 Billion Got Served
1.9 billion kills, 48 billion shots fired, and more than 362 years worth of matches later, the Uncharted 3 multiplayer beta was the largest ever held on PlayStation Network. More fun facts can be found on the PlayStation Blog, or check out McWhertor's detailed impressions
The State (and Stats) of the Portal 2 Gamer
If you ask us, Portal 2 is a great game
Wii U Discs Will Be 25GB In Size
In a wide-ranging interview with Kotaku regarding the new Wii U console, one of Nintendo's chief game designers, Katsuya Eguchi, confirmed that the system's proprietary disc format will hold 25 Gigabytes of data. That squares with our own reporting
E3 Will Have 35,000 Screens For 45,000 People
According to Entertainment Software Association president Mike Gallagher, E3 2011 will have almost as many video monitors as it does attendees. [Venturebeat]
1,000 Gears of War 3 Beta Bullets Fired For Every Chainsaw Kill
Microsoft is crowing this morning about Gears of War 3 becoming the fastest pre-ordered video game in history, which is one of the silliest-sounding records any marketing team has ever claimed for a game, up there with whenever some suit decides to wrap a game in tin foil and declare it the shiniest game ever.
Everyone Loves a Winner, Especially in Madden Online Play
The New York Times examined the popularity of today's Super Bowl participants - the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers - in Madden NFL 11 online play. By years' end they were, unsurprisingly, among the most popular.
Red Dead Redemption, By The Bloody Numbers
Red Dead Redemption players, you've done some very bad things. Just pretending, of course! GameSpy has been collecting data from players of Rockstar Games' hit Western and the results are amazing.
A Number That Is Too Large
An estimated 350,000 people played last year's Madden NFL 10 once online and never played it online again, series creative director Ian Cummings recently told Kotaku.