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To start, check out the new Socials in the Friendly and Mean categories. Two yes two! Be the Neighborhood Confidante if you want all the chisme, I mean, if your Sims aspire to be a helpful and positive presence in the lives of Neighbor Sims.

They will be able to earn a new Confidante reward trait, which increases the chance of conversations being pleasant and not at all awkward. But if your Sims are a bit more… deviant, your Sims can aspire to be a Villainous Valentine who wants to destroy the love lives of all Sims, including their own. What can I say, we love chaos over here.

Sims that walk this deviant path will earn the new Twisted Heart trait, which makes all Sad and Embarrassed moodlets decay faster and provides a little bonus social when performing Mean or Mischief socials. They will be heartbreakers, dream breakers, and love takers!

Read it here. We also took the opportunity to update the trait icon for Erratic to something more fitting to the trait. You can find it in the Window sort, in the Base Game window options. But you almost have to play it -- I've played, I'll admit it -- because everyone else is. One out of every ten people on Facebook have played the game, but it's unclear how many have played for extended periods of time.

Last year, Zynga made headlines when it was revealed that millions of FarmVille's users were growing tired of the game and had stopped playing. To alleviate that problem, Zynga didn't fundamentally alter the gaming experience, they just repeated their model with new games.

CityVille launched in December with , players on its launch day. The game, Zynga said, was their most social yet. Within a month its user base had exploded, surpassing that of FarmVille. But we haven't heard anything about the game since.

All that to say: Zynga should be concerned. Its model seems to work, but only in the short term. The company has been able to amass a large number of users for its newest releases because there are no alternatives in the space. In order for a social game to work, volume is critical.

If several of your Facebook friends weren't already on FarmVille, you'd have far less incentive to join. There are only a few existing franchises that could move into the same space with the audience necessary to topple Zynga's virtual cities. And one of them is gearing up for battle. While the game doesn't yet have a launch date, it does have a Facebook page that more than 65, people have already Liked at the time of this writing.

More than fans have left reviews of the unreleased game, giving it an average of 4. Another five-star review: "is it an online game or private? What these people are reviewing is unclear.