Kobojo, the largest French social game publisher, announced the opening of a new office in Berlin, Germany. After also establishing a Spanish office in Madrid, Kobojo hopes to keep growing and further develop its hyperlocalization strategy.

According to media reports, EA plans to acquire Sacramento-based social game developer KlickNation, founded in 2008 by Ken Walton and Mark Otero. KlickNation has 350,000 monthly active users across several apps on Facebook. Update: EA has confirmed the acquisition.

If a report by eGaming Review is correct, Facebook is in talks with potential partners to open its platform to real-money online gambling in the UK. So far, casino games on Facebook were ‘just for fun’, meaning players are not enabled to win real cash. Recently, Facebook’s Julien Codorniou encouraged developers to start building casino games. However, lately UK-based Yazino has pulled its casino apps from Facebook.

CrowdStar announced the launch of its mobile social game, Top Girl, for Android. Top Girl will be sold exclusively through the Amazon App Store for two weeks after launching.

A new charity social game named WeTopia aims to help underprivileged kids. As players grow their WeTopia villages, they earn Joy currency which they can apply toward real-world projects such as building a school in Haiti. The game was developed by Sojo Studios, and is supported by TV host Ellen DeGeneres, among others.