FrontierVille, Hello City Lead Off This Week's List of Fastest-Gaining Facebook Games by MAU

The first few entries on this week's list of fastest-growing Facebook games by monthly active users looks like a lineup of major developers: Zynga, CrowdStar, MindJolt and Electronic Arts have all added significant numbers of new users. But the really big news this morning, especially over at our sister blog Inside Facebook, is that Facebook appears to have made a significant update to app statististics reporting that has caused several older apps to suddenly report millions more MAU (which they likely had all along). Luckily, relatively few games have been affected, although there are a couple for us to point out below. Here's the AppData top 20 list: Top Gainers This Week - Games Name MAU Gain Gain, % 1. FrontierVille 6,284,067 +5,452,890 +656.04 2. Gift Creator 4,591,694 +4,485,404 +4,219.97 3. Hello City 4,402,158 +1,624,120 +58.46 4. MindJolt Games 19,706,872 +978,801 +5.23 5. JibJab 784,581 +738,076 +1,587.09 6. EA SPORTS FIFA Superstars 1,854,728 +688,355 +59.02 7. School of Wizardry 1,669,564 +543,734 +48.30 8. Birthday Cards 23,275,752 +532,292 +2.34 9. Baking Life 1,509,909 +484,907 +47.31 10. Evony 797,525 +469,694 +143.27 11. My Empire 4,547,241 +466,275 +11.43 12. Name Analyzer 2,927,640 +432,065 +17.31 13. Bejeweled Blitz 10,238,112 +366,292 +3.71 14. Bola 4,058,453 +325,520 +8.72 15. Family Feud 7,054,016 +324,201 +4.82 16. Fashion World 752,423 +320,665 +74.27 17. Crazy Cow Music Quiz 1,029,648 +297,463 +40.63 18. Millionaire City 690,282 +290,381 +72.61 19. Nightclub City 4,002,642 +248,566 +6.62 20. Phrases 898,177 +237,055 +35.86 FrontierVille, the latest by Zynga, leads off the list. Some might call this game truly original, while others deem it FarmVille plus, even sharing the same initials; but regardless of the various opinions (including ours) floating about the blogosphere, players are streaming in. We'll have a bit more on that later. Gift Creator is one of the apps affected by Facebook's reporting changes; however, we can mostly ignore it here, along with JibJab, since neither is a full-fledged game. But Evony, at number 10, has definitely been affected, turning out to be about twice as large as Facebook previously reported with near 800,000 MAU. School of Wizardry also shows a significant jump on June 15th, the day of the change; the independently developed game, it turns out, has almost 1.7 million MAU. Moving back up the list, Crowdstar's Hello City is plugging along quite nicely, and has almost caught up with its city-building rival from EA, My Empire, which you can find at number 11 with only a quarter as many new MAU. Both have done spectacularly well for new entrants into a fairly well-worn genre, although each puts its own creative spin on the concept. MindJolt Games continues to climb, and is currently threatening to break 20 million MAU. Finally, we'll point out EA SPORTS FIFA Superstars, which continues to take advantage of soccer World Cup traffic. However, the team management game isn't doing as well as other major, similarly-hyped releases have, which may show that sports games are still a tough sell on Facebook -- or simply that this one is a bit too complex.

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FrontierVille, Hello City Lead Off This Week's List of Fastest-Gaining Facebook Games by MAU

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