This Week's Facebook Winners and Losers_ Candy Crush Saga Gets What It Deserves

I spent an inconveniently substantial portion of last night trying to clear away gels in one level of King.com’s Candy Crush Saga. Knowing that an additional million people are experiencing the same frustration this week makes me feel better. The King.com / Zynga competition is really starting to heat up, thanks in no small part to the former’s excellent mobile implementation of Candy Crush and Bubble Witch Saga. Zynga recently released Y1 Games a mobile version of its Bubble Witch clone, Bubble Safari, which is hopefully much better than its iOS version of Ruby Blast, which has done absolutely nothing to stem the loss of Facebook players.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"5968992","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"uncategorized","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"uncategorized","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); Of course I am not here to pick sides. I remain completely impartial Y1 com as King.com prepares to kick Zynga’s butt all over Facebook. Top Facebook Fan Gainers — 12/17/2012 Rank Application MAU Change 1. Candy Crush Saga King.com 22,200,000 +1,116,993 2. CityVille 2 30,700,000 +974,920 3. Pet Rescue Saga King.com 9,300,000 +652,786 4. Megapolis Social Quantum 1,100,000 +516,461 5. Dragon City Social Point 16,500,000 +322,363 6. Top Eleven Be a Football Manager Nordeus 7,300,000 +265,568 7. Subway Surfers Kiloo Games 5,200,000 +230,230 8. Pool Live Tour Geewa 10,600,000 +222,440 9. Ruzzle MAG Interactive 830,000 +148,272 10. Bike Race 3,200,000 +135,434 Top Facebook Fan Losers — 12/17/2012 Rank Application MAU Change 1. Ruby Blast Adventures Zynga 10,800,000 -3,502,688 2. FarmVille 2 Zynga Inc. 45,700,000 -1,241,651 3. Bubble Safari Zynga 21,200,000 -1,136,467 4. Zynga Slingo Zynga 14,900,000 -791,887 5. The Ville Zynga 7,600,000 -739,525 6. ChefVille Zynga 22,600,000 -655,122 7. CityVille Zynga 11,400,000 -653,570 8. FarmVille Zynga 16,500,000 -557,526 9. SongPop Freshplanet 12,500,000 -431,850 10. Hidden Chronicles Zynga 6,200,000 -423,933 Want to keep track of these on your own? Visit AppStats, where they obsessively stare at Facebook statistics all Y1 apk day long.