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It was up against PopCap's Bejeweled Blitz, EA/Playfish's Restaurant City and Codebell's Farm Town. With nearly 81 million monthly active players (which Zynga is quick to note has already made it bigger than Twitter), FarmVille is far and away the largest of the bunch and in some ways a shoo-in for the award.
Still, it's yet another feather in the cap for Zynga, who recently raised $180 million in a funding round from Digital Sky Technologies, the Russian venture capital firm that also invested $200 million in Facebook.