Inside Social Games’ Top 25 Social Games for August 3, 2008

As the social gaming space continues to gain steam both within the social network development and game development communities, Inside Social Games will be keeping track of the top Facebook games. Here’s a look at the Top 25 Social Games on Facebook as of today, August 3, 2008:

Rank	Title	Developer	DAU	Change	6/24 DAU
1.	Owned	MyYearbook	689,321	-4.2%	719,375
2.	(Lil) Green Patch	Ashish Dixit and David King	643,046	10.2%	583,400
3.	Texas HoldEm Poker	Zynga	615,728	3.9%	592,577
4.	Friends For Sale	Serious Business	594,950	-14.6%	696,507
5.	Mob Wars	Mob Wars	459,621	25.8%	365,330
6.	Who Has the Biggest Brain?	Playfish	328,589	12.1%	293,112
7.	Bowling Buddies	Playfish	300,192	-4.5%	314,291
8.	Word Challenge	Playfish	260,580	2.2%	255,019
9.	Pokey	Bonehead Labs	215,019	-12.5%	245,624
10.	Bubble Town	I-play	207,803	61.3%	128,833
11.	Speed Racing	Zynga	189,855	-11.1%	213,552
12.	MindJolt Games	MindJolt	184,514	0.5%	183,560
13.	Scramble	Zynga	181,405	13.7%	159,550
14.	YoVille	Zynga	170,675	61.6%	105,593
15.	Nicknames	SGN	154,490	N/A
16	Parking Wars	area/code	153,974	10.0%	139,990
17.	Tower Bloxx	Digital Chocolate	127,826	25.1%	102,144
18.	Pet Pupz	Hidden Pixel	118,367	-6.9%	127,158
19.	Knighthood	Hive7	104,342	6.8%	97,727
20.	Word Twist	Zynga	103,530	-8.8%	113,547
21.	Premier Football	PageFad	93,293	-25.1%	124,563
22.	Scrabble	EA	90,745	N/A
23.	(fluff)Friends	Krystal Seidel and Mike Sego	89,949	-14.5%	105,158
24.	Vampires	Blake Commagere	89,101	-19.4%	110,577
25.	Super Slot Machines	Davy Campano et al	88,172	-3.8%	91,683

Notes on August 3, 2008 Rankings:

Scrabulous, previously the 5th biggest game on Facebook, has been taken offline by its developers, the Agarwalla Brothers, after receiving a cease and desist from Hasbro. The Agarwalla Brothers have another title, Wordscraper, that has since been performing quite well.
The removal of Scrabulous has also thrust EA’s official version of Scrabble into the ISG Top 25. Scrabble debuts this month at #21, with virtually all of its traffic coming since the Scrabulous disappearance.
MyYearbook’s Owned, originally a clone of Serious Business’s Friends For Sale, continues to hold the top spot this month with nearly 700,000 daily active users.
With 5 games in the list, Zynga takes the prize again the month for most games in the top 25.
Playfish continues its dominance of the top 10, with Who Has the Biggest Brain coming it at #6, Bowling Buddies at #7, and Word Challenge at #8.
SGN‘s Nicknames is this month’s highest breakout performer, shooting all the way to #15.
Bubble Town, YoVille, and Mob Wars were the biggest percentage gainers this month. YoVille was rewarded for its success with an acquision by Zynga two weeks ago.