FarmVille has taken over the world. Everyone, or at least 82 million people, are playing. How easy it is to forget that most of us have real jobs outside of virtual farming! It's kind of nice to play ...

But millions remain players, saying game has forged real relationships It started out as a simple concept. Let people virtually grow gardens, raise farm animals and become farmers. It soon became a ...

The online world's biggest time-waster isn’t so pointless after all. The World Food Program (WFP) has publicly thanked the virtual farmers on the wildly popular Facebook game FarmVille after they ...

Kyra Wilson, an artist living in rural Vermont, had just joined Facebook in summer 2009 when she began seeing posts from friends about their activities in some farming game. Harvesting crops. Asking ...

If you need proof that social gaming is seeping into every corner of the world's daily life, look no further than Zynga's FarmVille, which passed the 80 million monthly user mark as of today.

The launch of FarmVille 2 was one of the big highlights of Zynga’s past year, but CEO Mark Pincus said its predecessor FarmVille crossed major milestone too, having reached $1 billion in total player ...