Zynga used Texas HoldEm Poker to introduce players to future hits Mafia Wars and Farmville.
Less popular games include Frontier-ville (11 million), Mafia wars (8 million), and Words with Friends.
Street Wars is a Mafia Wars-like title where players rise the mob ranks through missions and fights.
The post notes that Zynga claims to have 250 million active users for games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars.
When Zynga upgraded Mafia Wars to Mafia Wars 2, it lost droves of players and revenue in the transition.
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If you're more into applications, then you might go to Facebook because you're addicted to Mafia Wars or whatever.
In Palermo much has changed since the worst days of the Mafia wars.
As with games such as Mafia Wars, the more our characters level up, the more tasks we have to juggle.
So there is a chance that your grandmother is actually irritating others with her Farmville and Mafia Wars-related Facebook updates.
For Zynga, which also owns CityVille, Zynga Poker, Mafia Wars and Words With Friends, virtual tractor sales are big business.
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Texas HoldEm Poker and Mafia Wars were its initial successful games, but FarmVille later became the game that dominated headlines.
Zynga makes most of its revenue selling virtual items for its games such as tractors for Farmville or weapons in Mafia Wars.
The constant flow of Mafia Wars and Farmville requests on Facebook was starting to annoy those of us who are not social gamers.
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It was derided since release by longtime Mafia Wars veterans, and currently attracts only 20, 000 daily active users with 280, 000 monthly ones.
Now, Digital Chocolate wants the California Northern District Court of Santa Clara to issue an injunction ordering Zynga to stop using the Mafia Wars name.
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The comments on the Mafia Wars 2 Facebook page reflect players dissatisfaction with the announcement, many swearing off the company for good it seems.
The maker of popular games Zynga Poker, FarmVille, Mafia Wars and CityVille will be offering 100 million shares in the biggest stake sale of the year.
Games like Farmville or Mafia Wars literally tell you, if you give us money, we will make you richer and more powerful than anyone else playing.
There is no doubt the social media games offered by Zynga among them Words with Friends, Mafia Wars and the Facebook newsfeed-clogging Farmville are addictive.
Last year, Zynga worked with Dr. Dre to release a track through their Mafia Wars game, but this is the first time the company has received exclusive material.
And as the maker of popular titles like FarmVille and Mafia Wars, San Francisco, California-based Zynga has ridden the games' skyrocketing popularity to the top of that emerging market.
You're not alone if you can't stand the regular requests from Facebook friends to hide a cache of weapons or to hold hot merchandise for them in Mafia Wars.
The social-game company Zynga the maker of FarmVille and Mafia Wars is expected to earn more than five hundred million dollars this year, most of it generated from people playing on Facebook.
Zynga is almost six years old but Facebook is still its primary distribution, marketing, promotion and payment platform for online games like Farmville, Zynga Poker, Mafia Wars and Words with Friends.
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Some people spend all their time on Mafia Wars.
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Farmville and Mafia Wars were the products of early social media gamification efforts, but companies are seeing broader benefits by looking to more targeted gaming for a pop in their core business.
Bloomberg reported earlier this month that Zynga, which also makes Farmville and Mafia Wars, will begin promoting games from other developers within its own titles, taking a cut of any sales deriving from this promotion.
Playing Mafia Wars is another.
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One reason Mail.ru has been so attractive is not only its 75% share of the growing market for internet users in Russia, according to Comscore, but its 2.38% stake in Facebook, 1.47% stake in Zynga Game Network (the company behind the social networking games Farmville and Mafia Wars) and 5.13% of Groupon, the online voucher company that Forbes recent featured on its cover as the fastest growing company ever.
Its primary objective has moved beyond conducting turf wars inside jails or propagating racist ideology, however, into running a ruthless Mafia-style organised crime network.
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