Top 25 Facebook Games - January 2011

Smaller developers have seen more growth over much of 2010, while many of the top titles from leading developers have lost users — in December, though, the losses weren’t so bad.

And, it was also a big month for newcomers to the list with the appearance of Zuma Blitz, It Girl, and, of course, CityVille. Moreover, in case anyone has been on hiatus for a month, Zynga’s new city-builder has found itself at the top with nearly 85 million monthly actives as of today; a plateau breached by FarmVille back in February 2010. CityVille’s growth, however, took less than two months to acquire.

Here are the highlights for the Top 25 Facebook Games for January 2011:

• For the first time in over a year, a new #1 appears in the form of Zynga’sCityVille with over 80 million MAU. The long running FarmVille still holds onto #2, however, having gained 4.1 million MAU for a total of approximately 58.9 million.
• In fact, most Zynga games have grown this past month, with only one of its oldest applications losing users. At #5 remains Mafia Wars, but the role-playing title loses over roughly 1.7 million MAU.
• Digital Chocolate sees its first loss in a while for Millionaire City. Still boasting over 12.7 million MAU, the title only drops by about 17,000.
• Bejeweled Blitz, from PopCap Games stays relative to its middle-of-the-pack position, but also lost around 83,000 MAU. That said, PopCap’s new Facebook app, Zuma Blitz made its debut to the top 25, coming in at #20 with a growth of about 6.6 million MAU.
• Our top pick for the best Facebook games for the second half of 2010, City of Wonder, from Playdom, is growing too. Sitting at #13, the title has grown by 2.1 million MAU.
• CrowdStar is seeing some love too this month with it’s game, It Girl. Appearing at #18, the girls-oriented title gains around 1.3 million MAU for a total of 6,851,306.
• GSN and Funzio see gains too, as Games (#19) and Crime City (#21) also both grow, earning around 6.8 and 6.6 million MAU respectively.
• At #24, Kabam’s strategy game, Kingdoms of Camelot makes a return, earning just under 6 million MAU.

source:  insidesocialgames.com

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Cafe World Catering Order: Graduation Party

Here's what you need:


 - Serve Spicy Devil Eggs 5 Times (an 18 hour dish)
 - Serve Veggie Sushi 20 Times (a 7 hour dish)
 - Serve  Artichoke Dip 64 Times (a 5 minute dish)


And here's the reward for your hard work:


3 stars:  3 catering points, 480 Cafe Points, 7450 coins and Graduation Cake recipe
2 stars: 2 catering points, 350 Cafe Points, and 3500 coins
1 star: 1 catering point, 190 Cafe Points and 3100 coins

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FrontierVille Mission: A Day in The Life of Hank

Here comes two new goals on FrontierVille, A Day in the Life of Hank, and basically to get to know him a little beter.

Part I:  Managing the General Store


 - Harvest 10 Tomatoes
 - Clear 5 Debris
 - Listen to One Bad Joke from Hank


Part II:  Hank's Self Improvement

 - Harvest or tend 10 Apple Trees
 - Buy One Dinner
 - Collect 5 Self-Improvement Books


Complete this Goal for 250 XP and 50 Food. 

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FrontierVille Mission: The Barber Shop

Here comes another series of mission in FrontierVille, The Barber Shop.  The purpose of which is to give Hank a makeover, and ofcourse, introducing bunch of new stuffs and a new functional building. 

Part I:  From Hank to Hunk


 - Visit 5 Neighbors
 - Purchase the Barber Shop from the Market
 - Plant 10 Cottons

Part II:  Furnishin' The Place


 - Purchase One Blonde Buggy from the Market
 - Tend Neighbor Horses 6 times
 - Collect a Bonus from the Barber Shop


Finishing The Barber Shop:

In order to finish building your Barbershop, you need to have the following new building materials:


- 5 Razors
- 5 Dye
- 5 Smocks
- 5 Sinks
- 5 Tilers
- 5 Plaster

Once you finish the Barbershop, you can now start hiring friends to fill in the positions.  


Here's how to do it:


After completing the building, you will see menu that will show you the Staff Area. That is, 5 positions that need to be filled: a barber and a barber shop quartet (lead, tenor, bass, baritone). Next, you need to ask your friends to fill in the positions and each time you accept a friend, a Barber Shop collectible will be rewarded. 


Once the barbershop is completed, you can start using it by buying hairstyles and beards for your avatars. Like other buildings, you can also get a bonus daily.


Part III:


 - Tend 20 Pigs
 - Asking for 10 Shaving Lather
 - Harvest 10 Cotton

Be ready with your 10 Cottons, and while waiting for harvest time, start collecting the shaving lather. 

It can be obtained by clicking the Ask Friends button and posting a feed to your wall.


Part IV:


 - Purchase a Bucket from the Market
 - Collect 10  Shampoo
 - Ask for a Joke from Hank

Completing the mission will give you another 25 cloth and 50  XP.

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FrontierVille Mission: Trading Post - Complete Guide

A new letter had landed again on FrontierVille, this time comes from Frontier Jack's cousin, Jacques. He's interest is building a Trading Post in your town, specifically on everyone's homestead.

You will be able to help jacques by completing this four part mission seriesin the game.  After finishing the Trading Post mission, you will eventually be able to trade items to the Trading Post for extra rewards in your homestead.

Part I: "Brewin' Up Some Rubaboo Stew"

Harvest 15 Peas

Collect Three Bacon (Pig Collection)

Purchase the Trading Post from the Market

Peas are available at the market's Crop section, and they take two days to harvest. If you don't want to wait this long, take advantage of your friend's help to come and visit your homestead and tend your peas.  3 friend helps with do the job!

Reward: 300 XP and 1 Dinner

Part II:  "Breakin' Ground," 

Have 10,000 coins

Collect 10 Trade Permits

Harvest 25 Flax

10,000 coins will likely be on-hand already to most of us.  What is tme consuming is the collection of 10 Trade Permits.  Collect the Trade Permits by posting a general wall post to your facebook wall asking for this item. You can start planting Flax while waiting it to fully grow in 8 hours.

Reward:  400 XP and 10 Cloth

Part III:  "Securing Tradin' Routes" 


Visit 12 Neighbors
Chop 5 Neighbor Trees
Finish Building the Trading Post


Visiting 12 Neighbors and at the same time chopping 5 neighbor trees is quite simple.  What is difficult in this mission is finishing the Trading Post.  Click on your Trading Post and you'll see the requirements for building it.  You'll need to collect 20 Hand Drills, along with 10 each of these new items: Tiles, Awls, Beams, Blankets, and Sarsaparilla. 

Reward:  500 XP and 1,000 coins

Part IV:  "Time to Open Shop"

Collect 10 Beaver Pelts

Collect 1 Clerk's Hat (part of the new Trading Post Collection)

Trade in 5 items at the Trading Post

Reward:  750 XP and 1 additional point to your maximum energy

Part IV:  "Time to Open Shop"

Collect 10 Beaver Pelts

Collect 1 Clerk's Hat (part of the new Trading Post Collection)

Trade in 5 items at the Trading Post

Reward:  750 XP and 1 additional point to your maximum energy

Finish these four quests, and see Jacques on your homestead and have a your functional building to call your own!

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New Facebook Game: Numulus

Your goal is to gain enlightenment by answering questions created by the numulus cloud. Stretch your cognitive skills with this visual and mathematical puzzler. Unlock the quadrants of the numulus, each more challenging than the last. The faster you answer, the greater enlightenment the numulus offers you. Are you ready to take the universal challenge?


 - Numulus Facebook Wall Info


Are you ready for the challenge?!

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CityVille Reaches 100 Million Monthly Active Users

CityVille, the latest game from the largest Facebook game maker Zynga, has reached 100 million monthly active users, according to the stats on CityVille’s Facebook page.

AppData, a site that specializes in Facebook app metrics, hasCityVille at 99.9 million monthly active users, but since (by AppData’s count) CityVille has been adding nearly 400,000 new monthly active users every day, the 100 million MAU milestone will surely be reached in the next update.

The success of CityVille has been meteoric and has totally eclipsed FarmVille, an earlier Zynga title that reigned supreme over the world of Facebook games for more than a year. It took CityVille less than a month to surpass FarmVille in terms of both daily and monthly active users, and it took less than 40 days for it to reach 100 million users.

Zynga’s apps still rule AppData’s leaderboard, holding four of the top five spots, but CityVille‘s success is unmatched. It seems that Zynga has another huge winner on its hands. The only question now is: how big canCityVille get?

source:  mashable.com

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Mafia Wars : Bury The Mole

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We hope you're ready to earn more mastery items and rewards, because we're bringing you the Bury The Mole gifting event! For a limited time, you'll be hitting up your mafia for 3 different gifts as they become available on your free gifts page. This time around, you'll be working to get a Grave Spade, Corpse Mulch, and Pushing Daisies. Each gift will require you to complete 3 levels of mastery, and each level will become increasingly challenging. Just make sure your mafia has your back and sends you plenty of gifts so you can earn the grand prize, the Johnny D. Speedster!

Each of the gifts will be unlocking one at a time on the free gifts page. Remember to keep a lookout and send them to your mafia as soon as they become available so they can master the event as well. If you're really good and complete the event ahead of time, you'll be able to reset it so you can try to re-earn all the reward items!


via blog.mafiawars.com

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FrontierVille Mission: Here Comes Bess!

Here's another series of mission from FrontierVille: Here Comes Bess!

Part I:


 - Have 1,000 Coins
 - Have of Craft 20 Planks
 - Move 10 Cows

Part II:


 - Hire One Neighbor
 - Buy a Lunch
 - Customize the Barn

Part III:  


 - Give Bess One Chore
 - Sell One Cow
 - Collect 10 Milking Stools

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Mafia Wars : Trader Goh's Pawnshop

 

Time to clean out your closet and pay a visit to the new Mafia Wars Pawnshop! Want to trade in some of your old items for awesome new LE loot? Just head over to Trader Goh's and get the best deals in town!
 
If you're at least at level 20 in Mafia Wars, you'll be able to unlock the Pawnshop feature. Each loot item Trader Goh has will be color-coded with the items quality type and will show you exactly what's needed to complete the trade. Simply choose the new item you want and you'll have the option to either purchase it using only Reward Points, or trade in some of your old loot along with a small transaction fee.
 
If you don't have the Pawnshop feature yet, hang tight - we're slowly rolling it out to all of our users so everyone can take advantage of the great deals and steals. Come visit Trader Goh's and see what he can offer you!
 
Click here and head to Mafia Wars: http://zyn.ga/2MI

 

 

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FrontierVille Mission: New Year's Resolution

Whether or not you've started on your real-life New Year's resolutions, you will also get the chance to try your hand at a series of new virtual resolutions in FrontierVille. The FrontierVille resolutions mission consists of six different 'resolutions' that you need to complete before January 31 if you want the big payoff. 

What is the big payoff -- aside from being virtually healthy, weathy and wise? You will be the proud new owner a new badge, a book of experience, which can be used to level up faster and 50 Horseshoes, which is roughly the equivalent of $6. Maybe you can use the extra currency to buy a few boosts or maybe even that awesome Double Rainbow decoration you've had your eye on for months (OK, fine -- I'm talking about myself -- I can't wait to get that friggin' rainbow!).

The six resolutions can each be purchased for coins (either on this resolutions screen or in the store) and each has a suggested level you should be to complete each one. The first ones start off easy and then get more progressively difficult as you go on. 

Below are the six missions, how much they cost and just what you need to do in each to get the job done. Here's a few things you should start on right now to make sure you finish your resolutions in time: 1. Plant 30 Cabbages and 50 Flax. 2. If you don't have 'em already, make sure you have 50 of the following: cows, oxen goats (you'll need to sell 50 adults of each animal for the last mission, so the sooner you get started the better). 3. Buy all six missions at once, so you'll can get credit for all of your daily activities like tending animals and clearing rocks. It'll cost 32,000 coins, and it'll be worth it.

Eat Healthy
1,000 Coins

Mission: Fruits and Veggies



Part I:
Harvest 30 cabbages
Harvest 40 apricot trees
Harvest 50 flax

Part II:
Collect 5 chicken breasts
Collect 5 cottage cheese
Collect 5 sunflower seeds

Exercise More
1,000 Coins

Mission: Hale and Hearty



Part I:
Chop down 10 trees
Tend 30 cows
Clear 10 rocks

Part II:
Click on 100 bonus objects
Clobber 10 varmints
Collect 1 bee

Friends & Family
5,000 Coins

Mission: Family Fun



Part I:
Have five friends babysit (post to your wall)
Harvest 50 fruit trees with your spouse
Collect 20 daily bonuses with your child

Part II:
Tend 50 neighbor crops
Clear 50 neighbor debris
Collect 1 Baby New Year

Get Organized
5,000 Coins

Mission: Tidying Up


Part I:
Place 10 decorations into the storage shed (I just took 10 out and then put them back in)
Clear 50 debris
Tend 50 animals

Part II:
Get 10 paint chips
Customize 5 buildings
Collect 1 Toast Glass

New Hobbies
10,000 Coins



MIssion: Fun and Games



Part I:
Get 10 board games (post to your wall for friends to click)
Play a game of horseshoes
Collect five Spanish coins (clearing collection)

Part II:
Craft 5 powder kegs
Craft 5 sextants
Collect 5 tolls

Play FronterVille
10,000 Coins

Mission: Frontier Workaholic:


Part I:
Play 5 days in a row
Hire 10 friends
Collect 1 calendar (part of the New Year's collection, which can be found randomly from all game activities)

Part II:
Sell 50 adult oxen
Sell 50 adult pigs
Sell 50 adult goats

Seems like this series of timed missions could be a nice way to start the New Year in the game -- provided we don't have to go around begging our FrontierVille friends to send us umpteen items to get them done. We had more than enough of that over the holidays.


Goodluck!


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Mafia Wars : The Green Hornet

The Green Hornet

The Green Hornet Movie hit theaters this Friday in 3D and it's all the "buzz". Check out the Official Green Hornet Fan Page on Facebook.  Be your own masked vigilante by participating in the Mafia Wars Green Hornet Loot Drop Event going on now.  You need to hurry because the event ends Friday.  Seth Rogen who wrote and stars in The Green Hornet will tell you all about it in this video. 

 

For more information on The Green Hornet Loot Drop Event check out the Zynga Customer Support Green Hornet Loot Drop Event 411 Page.

 

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