Zynga, the Faceboook app maker currently being sued for a privacy breach, has brought its popular FarmVille game to the Apple iPad. Users can now sync their virtual farms across their computer, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
"We want to reach people wherever they want to play the games they love, and deliver the most fun and social experience on every platform," Steven Chiang, president of studios at Zynga, said in a statement. "The iPad is a spectacular gaming device, and the new FarmVille app leverages its larger touch screen interface and enhanced graphics. FarmVille on the iPhone was an instant hit and now we are giving people another Apple device to play on."
The app is free to download and available at the iTunes App Store. According to the company, FarmVille apps have spent more than 50 days in iTunes' list of top 25 games, and is played by over 60 million people worldwide.
Like the iPhone, iPad users can tend to their farms by touch screen, and receive alerts on the status of their crops through push notifications.
Zynga's timing is fortuitous. Earlier this week, a class-action lawsuit was brought against the games maker for allegedly sharing personal data of its Facebook users. Zynga games like Mafia Wars and FarmVille were also part of Facebook's security flap.
Meanwhile, competing developer Rovio watched an Android version of its popular Angry Birds game hit the two million download mark, three days after its release.