FarmVille: Tropic Escape is the latest in a game series that has had 700 million installs.
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Zynga takes virtual farmers into new territory with FarmVille: Tropic Escape

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Zynga is taking its prized FarmVille casual game brand into a new territory today with the launch of FarmVille: Tropic Escape, where you do a lot less farming and run a getaway inn on a tropical island.

The game is a new twist on the FarmVille brand, which debuted in 2009 and has been installed by more than 700 million people. FarmVille is a big reason why more than a billion people have played Zynga games. This FarmVille spin-off experience targets older women, the main players of FarmVille, and appeals to the busy person’s fantasy of getting away to a beautiful resort.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.