Industry luminary Ian Bogost demonstrates why I put the words "industry luminary" in front of his name, with this beautiful answer to a nagging Facebook survey question.

More than 5 million people log into Facebook to play Stick Run every month. Now that it's also available on iOS and Android, they never have to stop.

Continuing the streamlining of its web-based social game business, Zynga has announced that it will be closing Empires & Allies, Dream Zoo and Zynga City, the Chinese version of CityVille on Tencent. That's in addition to The Ville, confirmed for closure earlier this week.

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