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 ...

After 11 years, one of Facebook's most popular games, FarmVille, is shutting down. The game which launched back in 2009 will be playable till December 31, 2020, after which the game will no longer be ...

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 ...

[SUNY Buffalo graduate student A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz originally titled this essay "Cultivated Play: Farmville." It was first given as a talk on January 28, 2010 in honor of the late historian ...

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.

For a long time, many FarmVille farmers have been asking for easier harvesting. Your hands and mouse can now rejoice, as tonight's update brought us 1-click harvesting for ready animals and trees.

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 ...