YoVille lives: Zynga agrees to let developer Big Viking Games take over operations

One developer’s underperforming social game is another developer’s treasure.

Social-publisher Zynga revealed today that is letting developer Big Viking Games take over operations on the social-city simulator YoVille. The transfer will port all of the game’s history and account details over to Big Viking’s servers by May 12. This transition will also see it drop its “Ville” branding, as that belongs to Zynga. Big Viking Games will now call the sim YoWorld.