While playing Farmville might not qualify as work or labor, it is certainly a productive activity, as playing Farmville serves to enlarge and strengthen social capital.

In FarmVille 2, almost every element in the game is carefully designed to either keep players addicted, encourage them to spend real-world money or get them to invite their Facebook friends to ...

As people moved to playing games on mobile phones, “FarmVille” fell to 84th place in game rankings this year before rebounding lately to 73rd, according to AppData.

More than 30 million people play Facebook’s Farmville game every day. That’s a lot of crops to water. The business of watering crops, though, is good. PayPal - used to purchase coins and other ...

Few people want to start a farm in real life, but since June more than 60 million have planted virtual acreage on a Facebook site called FarmVille. Meet soybean specialist Manisha Pandit from ...

Zynga's hit Facebook game "FarmVille" is arguably the most widely played video game in existence. What is especially impressive about that is that "FarmVille" isn't any fun.

Farmville is a popular online game, usually played through Facebook, but now available on platforms including the iPhone. I've played several similar games (like We Rule) and found it a baffling ...

"FarmVille" was the game that put social-game maker Zynga on the map. Can "FarmVille 2" keep Zynga from falling off? That was the big question as the San Francisco social-game maker released the ...

To be honest, I can’t stand games like Farmville, but I’m an outlier: According to an Inside Networks survey, over half of 1,800 FarmVille fans polled play the game every day. Follow me on ...

FarmVille is the online social networking game that being played by a whopping 80 million people each month on Facebook. What's more, the majority of the game's players are 40-something women.

But your protests would be in vain: FarmVille, the world's biggest social game, has almost 80 million players – that's around 20 per cent of all Facebook users; more people than use Twitter or ...