Chinese Tower Defense Tops This Week's List of Emerging Facebook Games

Earlier this week we noted the rapid growth of 守衛家園, a Chinese-language variation on tower defense games. Since then the game has really taken off, landing atop this week's list of emerging Facebook games, defined as those still under a million monthly active users. It's rare for a Chinese-language game to beat its English peers, but 守衛家園 actually appears to be a pretty good game. Here's the rest of the AppData top 20 list: Top Gainers This Week - Games Name MAU Gain Gain,% 1. 守衛家園 725,370 +708,996 +4,330% 2. Market Street 547,474 +547,416 +943,821% 3. Jewel Box 433,987 +423,273 +3,951% 4. Office Wars 932,738 +415,127 +80% 5. Cafe Life 676,692 +376,976 +126% 6. Crazy Taxi 635,996 +244,710 +63% 7. Knighthood 373,002 +234,580 +169% 8. Four in a Row 301,561 +232,625 +337% 9. Bingo Island 2 449,900 +226,752 +102% 10. Tellywood 219,609 +218,679 +23,514% 11. Platinum Life: Web Edition BETA 719,711 +215,754 +43% 12. Ask Paul the Octopus ! 201,077 +197,016 +4,851% 13. על כל הקופה 194,200 +194,115 +228,371% 14. WestWars 208,938 +186,656 +838% 15. Maya Pyramid 716,237 +183,344 +34% 16. Country Life (lite) 376,207 +157,169 +72% 17. Bouncing Balls 458,654 +152,714 +50% 18. Fantasy Football 2010 182,840 +137,951 +307% 19. Bloom Town 161,556 +137,808 +580% 20. Retail Therapy 132,439 +131,731 +18,606% Coming in at second we see Market Street, the newest title from Playdom -- or should we call it Disney? It's unusual for a new Playdom game to grow so quickly, but the company's new owner may be pumping in more advertising dollars in the future. Knighthood, which Playdom also has through its own acquisition of Hive7, has suddenly taken off as well. Jewel Box, a fairly simple collection game by Mob Science, is also showing a spike in growth following a long plateau; the growth suggests that, like Knighthood, the game is either getting new advertising, or that Facebook has corrected a bug in the reporting of some older apps, making them appear to have huge single-day gains. Next up is Office Wars, the new office-based team combat game from Broken Bulb Studios, which is also the only game on this week's list that's about to cross the million MAU threshold. A couple of even simpler games have also emerged this week. Crazy Taxi is an old casual game that involves just dodging other cars on a straight road; here, it appears to be growing as part of a new game portal of some kind that also includes number 17, Bouncing Balls. At number eight, Four in a Row is just the popular decades-old game Connect Four, but that appears to be enough for a few hundred thousand new players. Finally, down at number 18 you can see the first fantasy football app of the season, titled, simply enough, Fantasy Football 2010. Expect to see more as the college football season gets underway.

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Chinese Tower Defense Tops This Week's List of Emerging Facebook Games

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