Newsbrief: While just last week Zynga reported that its
Ville-style games are
losing steam, the company is far from giving up on the brand. Zynga launched a sequel to the popular
FarmVille just last month, and today the company revealed that it's also working on
CityVille 2.
Like the recently-released
FarmVille sequel,
CityVille 2 will feature a new, 3D visual style, and promises to offer a number of major improvements over its aging predecessor.
CityVille 2 is currently in closed beta, but Zynga did not provide a target launch window for the new game.
Despite overall weak performance for its third fiscal quarter, Zynga reported last week that
FarmVille 2 has been the company's most successful launch since
CastleVille in 2011. It's a bit too early to tell whether the game will be able to sustain that success, but Zynga seems very committed to giving its older franchises a new coat of paint.
