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How FarmVille and Facebook helped to cultivate a new audience for gaming John Naughton © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: hotoEdit/Alamy Two deaths you may have missed last week – for the simple reason that you have better things to do with your time than monitoring the tech industry. One was the end of FarmVille, a simplistic, time-wasting online game that consumed the attention of millions of Facebook users over the years; the other was the much-delayed execution of ...