因为对Conduit Labs和汉化版“德克萨斯扑克牌”的收购，Zynga这周已经在新闻上出现了两次。尽管是一条非官方的新闻，现在它又一次出现在新闻里。根据通过Games.com上Zynga网站里的一个新论坛的讨论，Zynga的下一款游戏可能是一个叫CityVille的游戏。

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除了论坛上讨论得名字外，我们对其它的相关信息一无所知。光从名字上看，我们想象不出它会不会是一个像“社会城市”和“我的帝国”一样的建设城市游戏的名字。在今年的早些时候，Zynga就玩家是否希望看到一个城市建设者游戏进行了调查。

也许有人会把Zynga过去的历史也算上。尽管持有克隆游戏的观点和做法的时代已经成为历史，但Zynga仍然密切关注今年发布后的趋势。“宝岛”也许已经成为了早期“疯狂宝物”游戏的模范，而FrontierVille则将FarmVille和少许的城市（或者是农庄）建筑同在其他媒体上显的异常突出的西方主题一起进行结合。

我们所谓的新兴城市建设在2月份开始流行，并且“社会城市”在4、5月份每月活跃的用户达到1.26千万证明了它可以吸引玩家。Zynga今年已经经过了一个较长的发展周期，所以现在时机也刚好成熟。

Zynga拒绝对此发表任何评论，因此我们只能拭目以待。（译者：唐统权）

Zynga May Be Readying a City-Building Game

Zynga has been in the news twice already this week, between the acquisition of Conduit Labs and a Chinese-language version of Texas Hold’em Poker. There’s another, unofficial item, though:

the company’s next game may be called CityVille, according to a new forum spotted on Zynga’s website by Games.com.

There’s nothing except the name of the forum so far, but it doesn’t take a great imaginative leap to figure out that it could be the name of a city-building game like Social City or My Empire. Earlier this year, Zynga also ran player surveys asking if they’d like to see a city-builder.

One might also take Zynga’s past history into account. Although the days of cloning another game’s look or mechanics are long past, Zynga has still paid close attention to trends that work with its releases this year. Treasure Isle may have been modeled on an earlier game called Treasure Madness, while FrontierVille combines FarmVille with a dash of city (or homestead) building and a Western theme, which has been prominent in other media.

We called the nascent city building trend in February, and Social City proved it could draw the crowds when it hit its peak of 12.6 million monthly active users in April and May. Zynga has had longer development cycles this year, so the timing looks about right too.

Zynga declined to comment, so we’ll have to wait and see.(source:inside social games)