The whole web is talking about the success of the #saveyoville campaign. Major tech and gaming sites wrote about the transfer of YoVille to Big Viking Games and how players saved their game.
Check out many of the reports posted below.
#SaveYoVille Succeeds: Zynga Sells Game Back to Creators for Relaunch
NBCNews.com
The denizens of a digital town have saved their community: Zynga is no longer shutting down the online game YoVille. Instead, the game's creators will buy it back and relaunch it as YoWorld next month. The deal comes after protests and pleas from the ...
YoVille Renamed YoWorld And Officially Acquired From Zynga By Big Viking ...
TechCrunch
YoVillians rejoice; your kingdom is saved. Players of the social virtual world game will be excited to hear that their play can continue as YoVille, which was acquired by Zynga a few years ago, will not be shuttered as planned. Instead, it is now the wholly ...
Zynga announces transfer of YoVille to Big Viking Games
Inside Social Games
After weeks of anticipation, Zynga has announced it has come to a definitive agreement with Big Viking Games (BVG), which will see the YoVille Facebook game transferred wholesale to BVG for operation going forward. This news comes after Zynga's original ...
YoVille lives: Zynga agrees to let developer Big Viking Games take over operations
VentureBeat
Social-publisher Zynga revealed today that is letting developer Big Viking Games take over operations on the social-city simulator YoVille. The transfer will port all of the game's history and account details over to Big Viking's servers by May 12. This transition ...
Big Viking Games acquires YoVille, renames it to YoWorld
GameZone
YoVille has been saved! Big Viking Games and Zynga have officially reached an agreement to transfer ownership of YoVille back to the original developer. "We are very pleased to announce that Big Viking Games has successfully negotiated the acquisition ...
Big Viking buys YoVille back from Zynga in a bid to keep it alive
Gamasutra
Long-running browser-based social game YoVille has been granted a stay of execution by Zynga, who announced an agreement today to transfer the game to Big Viking Games despite promising to shutter the project earlier this year. The game will be ...