Inside Social Games

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:

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.