In a trend that started this spring, many of the 25 largest Facebook social games continued to lose users through the end of May and on through last month. But there was some growth. Our weekly top 20 lists have consistently shown gains for any number of new and smaller developers as well as the big names. And as our Best of 2010 list highlighted, there are any number of newer titles, from developers of all sizes, that players...

This year’s World Wide Developer’s Conference, taking place right now in San Francisco, seems poised to focus on the gaming capabilities of the iPhone and iPad. One of the first speakers after Steve Jobs was Zynga founder Mark Pincus, who came on stage to talk about FarmVille for the iPhone. FarmVille isn’t far off for Apple device users. Pincus says that it will be released by the end of the month, and he’s aiming for the one...

Fresh off a deal that will keep FarmVille,Mafia Wars and other popular Zynga titles on Facebook for at least the next five years, the company has inked a partnership with Yahoo to bring its social games to the Internet giant’s massive userbase. Yahoo users will be able to access Zynga’s games from the Yahoo Homepage, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger and Yahoo Games, among other properties. The deal makes a lot of sense for both...

There are two “free toolbars” circulating around the web that pretend to enable users to cheat at Zynga games on Facebook, but actually attempt to steal Facebook login credentials.  The false toolbars were spotted by Sunbelt researchers and should be avoided at all cost.  See below for more details. The images below were provided courtesy of Help Net Security and detail the method of operation of the deceitful toolbars. At first...