Zynga to Shutter CityVille this Spring
The once dominant city-builder will close this April.
Social games company Zynga has announced it will be closing CityVille on Facebook, marking the end of an era for the once-mega city-building game. As first spotted by CEGamers, CityVille will close its doors on April 30.
CityVille launched on Facebook in late 2010, and was, for a time, not only the top game in Zynga’s portfolio, but was also behind some staggering user numbers, with over 100 million monthly active users.
Appropriately, CityVille was once a top franchise for Zynga, spawning the development of an, albeit short-lived, Facebook sequel in CityVille 2, a mobile spin-off (CityVille Hometown) and even the creation of a real-world CityVille Monopoly board game and other toys.
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