RockYou, a maker of popular Facebook widgets, looks like it’s coming out with a game called Galactic Allies, probably an outer-space version of Zynga’s strategy game Empires and Allies.
A domain name registration by RockYou was spotted by the eagle eyes over at Fusible.com.
With Zynga’s IPO, there’s no question that social gaming is really hot these days. When Zynga came out with Empires Allies, there was some question as to whether a strategy game would work on Facebook. By one measure at least–imitation–it seems to be.
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