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Digital Chocolate passes 12 million monthly Facebook users

Two million daily active users for Trip Hawkins' social gaming company

Digital Chocolate, which publishes social games such as Millionaire City and MMA Pro Fighter on Facebook, has exceed 12 million active monthly users for its games on the social network, with two million users logging in and playing its games daily.

The company's most popular game, Millionaire City, pulls in the lion's share of the users, with nearly 8.5 million monthly players and 1.8 million daily, according to figures published by AppData, which actually give the monthly user figure as being in excess of 13 million.

"We are pleased so many people are enjoying our games on Facebook, and look forward to providing them with some exciting new titles this year," said Trip Hawkins, CEO.

"Digital Chocolate has both the gaming pedigree and technology infrastructure to successfully offer games across all the popular emerging platforms for casual social games. This is really a unique capability, and one which we are still in the early stages of exploiting," he added.