Now, Zynga accomplishes a similar goal with Words With Friends, another actually social game.
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Now if I could just beat my personal Millennial High Potential at Words with Friends!
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In Scrabble or Words with Friends, the scarcity are the few letters you are dolled out.
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Words with Friends has been downloaded 12 million times on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
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Less popular games include Frontier-ville (11 million), Mafia wars (8 million), and Words with Friends.
"Words with Friends" is now a household name, and is currently the No. 3 game on online.
Get yourself a smart coder and Internet access, and you could cook up the next Words With Friends.
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Casual is another category where they want to lead, like Words with Friends.
For Zynga, which also owns CityVille, Zynga Poker, Mafia Wars and Words With Friends, virtual tractor sales are big business.
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"Words With Friends" is a digital word-building game popular on several platforms.
It was also the No. 1 word game, apparently beating out Words with Friends, Scramble with Friends and Shared Needles with Friends.
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Farmville, Cityville, and Words With Friends all had that extra something.
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There is no doubt the social media games offered by Zynga among them Words with Friends, Mafia Wars and the Facebook newsfeed-clogging Farmville are addictive.
Taylor said the industry, comprising "everything from Words with Friends to Call of Duty, " is looking for U.S.-educated talent, and he called NYU's Magnet center an exciting development.
Phenomena like Angry Birds and Words with Friends may not have the spectacular graphics of a PS4 game, but they have sometimes hundreds of millions of players worldwide.
Beach points out the future of turn-based strategy gaming is already playing out in other casual games like "Words With Friends, " where players take turns playing a "Scrabble"-like game with opponents.
Zynga is almost six years old but Facebook is still its primary distribution, marketing, promotion and payment platform for online games like Farmville, Zynga Poker, Mafia Wars and Words with Friends.
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To some degree, the time people were using to play first-person shooters on consoles has been sucked up by people playing Words With Friends or Temple Run 2 on their mobile phones.
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For Ludacris fans, this move into the tech world shouldn't be surprising: He's a gadget-head, a fan of the iPad and an addict of the "Words with Friends" app on the iPhone 4.
Zynga had five of the top 10 games on Facebook, based on DAUs, including Words With Friends, Zynga Poker, Bubble Safari, ChefVille and FarmVille 2 as of Dec. 31, according to AppData.
The new Zynga platform is focused exclusively on social games, and Zynga will make most of its popular titles such as Words with Friends, CastleVille, Zynga Poker, Hidden Chronicles and CityVille available on it soon.
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He was playing Words With Friends.
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However, MSFT has clearly learned from experience, and was keen to assert that 46 of the 50 most popular apps on other platforms would be available on Windows Phone 8, including Words With Friends, Twitter, Audible, Paypal and various birds (genus: angry).
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Notables we're still waiting for include: Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Dropbox, Mint, PageOnce, TripIt, NPR, NYTimes, Angry Birds, Draw Something, Words with Friends, Temple Run, Spotify, Springpad, Remember the Milk, Amazon, Instapaper, Pocket (formerly Read it Later), Flipboard, Steam, Instagram, Nook, Zinio and Rdio.
Not when now-injured receiver Michael Clayton has spent the season living at corner Corey Webster's home, not when kicker Lawrence Tynes and his wife regularly socialize with running back Brandon Jacobs and his wife, and not when the whole lot of them plays Words with Friends together.
There are investment professionals with multiple Ivy League degrees, people who wrote PhD theses on nuclear fusion or fractal patterns in nature, who have been lured to Wall Street to estimate whether or not a knock off version of Scrabble called Words with Friends will grow to 65 or 65.2 million users by September.
For now, there are no first-party apps for Facebook and Twitter, which remains true on Windows 7 as well. (Twitter, at least, says it will have an app in the coming months.) Other missing biggies include: Foursquare, Mint, PageOnce, TripIt, NPR, Draw Something, Words with Friends, Temple Run, Spotify, Springpad, Remember the Milk, Instapaper, Pocket (formerly Read it Later), Flipboard, Steam, Instagram, Nook and Rdio.
In truth, user reviews might be far more damaging because they contain the words that everyday game players are sharing with their friends.
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