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EA shutting down SimCity Social, The Sims Social, and Pet Society
By Nadia Oxford
Flick off the lights. The party's over. According to an announcement from EA this morning, SimCity Social, The Sims Social, and Pet Society are all going offline on June 14. Once those three titles go dark, Playfish's social Facebook presence will fade into blackness, too.Dog days are over: EA sues Zynga, calling The Ville ‘blatant mimicry’
Hearing someone call Zynga a copycat is old news. Whether or not Zynga "draws inspiration" or "flat-out rips off" from other popular titles has been a debate for years. For the first time, however, Zynga appears to have an opponent with the financial capital to challenge the social games giant in a court of law. That opponent goes by the name of EA, and they've officially sued Zynga and The Ville for copyright infringement.Facebook’s games ticker drove 93% of The Sims Social’s early traffic
By Nadia Oxford
Recently at GDC, EA Playfish's Creative Director, Ray Mazza, talked a little about what drives Facebook users to try out the games that their friends are playing. To be more specific, Mazza pointed out that the now-defunct games ticker on Facebook was responsible for 93% of the early referral traffic that reached their popular Facebook game, Sims Social.The Sims Social players like to woohoo
Playfish has revealed a number of interesting statistics about players of The Sims Social, and and one thing is clear: the only thing players like more than telling dirty jokes is making woohoo.Best Social Spin on a Familiar Favorite in 2011
If 2011 is remembered for one thing, it might just be the deluge of popular game franchises that made their way to Facebook. Plenty of familiar faces were given the social treatment with new free-to-play Facebook games, and the results varied quite a bit. Some games failed to live up the hype while others, despite being fun, were unceremoniously shut down. But for the first time there was also a great line-up of games from popular gaming franchises that managed to make their mark on Facebook. These are the five best.The Sims Social the most played social game amongst Raptr users
It may be sitting behind CityVille and FarmVille on the active user charts, but amongst users of the gaming social network Raptr The Sims Social is the most played social game of the year.The Sims Social stealing players from Zynga, other Sims games
The Sims Social has been one of the few games on Facebook to compete with Zynga's dominance on the platform. Currrently, it sits just behind CityVillewith the second largest playerbase on Facebook, with a current player base of more than 65 million monthly active users. And according to a new report from gaming social network Raptr, many of those players came at the expense of Zynga games and other titles in The Sims series.Vampires and werewolves invade The Sims Social
One of the things that The Sims Social didn't have, unlike its downloadable predecessors, was crazy characters like vampires or aliens. But thanks to "Werewolves vs Vampires" week, that's finally changed.