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Success with online gaming Farmville, Zynga launch CityVille. Game will be available to Internet users around the world in the near future.

If Farmville takes place in rural agricultural areas, as its name CityVille using urban background. CityVille is a mix of Monopoly and Main Street. In the game, each player is challenged to build a dream city from scratch and working with surrounding towns. He must manage to avoid overpopulation, create jobs, and run a franchise business for the continuance. Farmville and presents a model similar to the successful FrontierVille first.
Zynga becoming known since Farmville popular on Facebook. Another game, Mafia Wars, also popular on Facebook. Now there are many artificial Zynga games, such as FishVille, Petville, and ZyngaPoker. Zynga claims-made games have been used 320 million people around the world since 2007.

One of the most popular games on smartphones and tablets, Angry Bird, a moment can be enjoyed by the User Wii, PlayStation 3 and XBox 360. Rovio, game maker, claimed to have been preparing for all three console versions of the game.

No further details when the game is ready to be played on the Wii, PS3, and XBox 360. However, the game has to offer may not be much different from the version for smartphone users.

Not only that, Angry Bird will also be available in versions of social media at up starting next year. Rovio CEO Mikael Hed even say that this game is likely to be adapted in the form of film. It also will sell toys related characters in Angry Bird.

Since its launch in December last year, the game made by the Finnish company that has proven successful. Angry Bird is one of the most applications sold by more than 7 million downloads for version berbayarnya and 13 million times to download the free version. This game can be played and accessed from the smartphone made by Nokia, Apple, and based on Android.

The game is basically an angry bird attacks to the pigs who steal their eggs. Players must guide the birds with slingshots until the pigs were destroyed.

It turns out the Internet access of mobile in the United States (U.S.) is very fond of games take advantage of applications than using a browser, e-Marketer reported. Marketing research institute founded in 1996 was noted, Adobe Systems Incorporated showed that 61 percent of Mobile Internet users in the U.S. during August 2010 is more like the games they download the application.

The rest (31%) among them, in the final report e-Marketer, still use the facilities of surfing (browser) in its mobile Internet devices. Mobile Internet devices they use most are the type of smart phone and a communication tool to connect the Internet the size of a pocket (gadgets).

e-Marketer is headquartered in New York (USA) was recorded also, Mobile Internet applications are also used to listen to music (55%), social networking (54%), access to local info like weather and maps (46%), and watch video (42%). The number of access of news (infotainment, national and international issues) using Mobile Internet applications reached 37 percent, then monitor the results of sporting events (33%), access to blogs (25%), and read reviews of products (22%).

Such tendencies, according to e-Marketer, along with the rapidly growing business of making products from a variety of mobile Internet applications. Mobile Internet users are also increasingly have little choice applications sales sites, some of whom also serve it free of charge.