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Facebook-style games to be worth $5bn a year by 2015

"250 million people play games like Zynga's CityVille and Farmville on Facebook every month," says Pietro Macchiarella, analyst at Parks Associates, valuing 2010's social gaming revenue at $1 billion and predicting a five-fold increase by 2015.

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