New Playdom Title Tops This Week's List of Fastest-Gaining Facebook Games

Several of the latest games to grow large on Facebook appear on this week's list of fastest gainers by monthly active users from AppData. These games flew under the radar during the last few weeks but are now getting quite big. First, one note - there appears to still be some remnant effects from Facebook’s recent stats bug. A couple of developers have told us that Facebook is still reporting numbers that are too high for a few apps, and we’re flagging those apps which we believe to be potentially inaccurate in AppData. Facebook says it believes the recent reporting issues have been resolved but is investigating. For now, we’re not aware of any broader problem, but we’ll let you know as soon as we know more. Here's the full AppData list for this week: Top Gainers This Week - Games Name MAU Gain Gain,% 1. Market Street 8,350,109 +1,621,294 +24% 2. Mafia Wars Game 27,589,774 +1,590,825 +6% 3. Texas HoldEm Poker 37,257,850 +1,513,638 +4% 4. Zoo World 13,110,007 +1,124,695 +9% 5. FarmVille 62,800,726 +897,178 +1% 6. Car Town 3,064,396 +815,244 +36% 7. Tattoo City 1,848,265 +797,922 +76% 8. Zapapa games 3,799,088 +754,745 +25% 9. Nightclub City 7,088,331 +606,986 +9% 10. Café World 29,064,009 +573,957 +2% 11. Millionaire City 5,298,590 +569,693 +12% 12. Baking Life 6,493,032 +549,717 +9% 13. Birthday Cards 9,909,191 +517,831 +6% 14. snsplus 826,774 +512,588 +163% 15. Toilet Paper Roll 2,034,675 +502,846 +33% 16. Zoo Paradise 4,889,055 +486,846 +11% 17. Fashion World 4,897,637 +443,125 +10% 18. Games 6,055,569 +428,475 +8% 19. Cafe Life 2,062,734 +417,727 +25% 20. Armies 2,089,070 +415,403 +25% Market Street is at the top of the list this week. A July release, the credit here goes to Playdom, for which it's now the single largest game (although that's mainly due to the rapid decline of Social City). Market Street has grown quickly, picking up eight million of its MAU in about three weeks. Players seem to be getting into the retail management aspects of our game, having left a couple dozen comments on strategy on our review. Moving down, Car Town is big news for developer Cie Games, which is not a prominent developer on Facebook; the press around the real-world auto manufacturer endorsements for the game may have helped its growth. We'll leave off there, but there's plenty more of interest, especially regarding fairly new developers: Tattoo City, Zapapa games and Baking Life are all from independents, and are doing quite well for themselves.

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New Playdom Title Tops This Week's List of Fastest-Gaining Facebook Games

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