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Microsoft to buy Crowdstar?

Social gaming keeps on growing
Petter Mårtensson 16 February 2010

If I see another smiling fish I might smash my monitor into tiny, tiny little pieces and throw them in the ocean - to the real fishes.

You know those casual games on Facebook that you don't play but all your friends do so that your front page always is spammed silly by updates like "Andy bought a new fish!" or "Megan has got a new paint job on her farm!"? Well, everybody wants a piece of that pie these days and now rumors are that Microsoft are not only looking to hire popular Facebook developers Zynga, but they are also looking to buy Crowdstar.

Crowdstar is one of the biggest development studios of these kinds of social casual annoying Facebook games, and their Happy Aquarium is the sixth most popular (and, with that, probably the sixth most hated) game available on Facebook right now. No comments from Microsoft yet.

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