For the last long while now, Facebook has been flooded with dumb, useful, stupid and fun widgets and apps. Many of you out there have no doubt been bitten by vampires, told who your true love is, played poker, gotten yourself a fun wall, become a slayer, seen daily babes, cheat in scrabble, or gained heroes abilities in your time using Facebook. Perhaps some of you have played the game Mob Wars.

Apparently, the Facebook game Mob Wars is one of the most lucrative Facebook apps. The game has about 500,000 players a day, and through the use of micro-payments, quite possibly rakes in more than one million clams a month (source). Yes, $1,000,000. The advertising revenue for the game provides an additional small bonus of about $22,000 a month for the game's maker, David Maestri.

This is fairly impressive -- a great deal of console and PC game makers would love to make a million a month off of their game. But what is more impressive, of course, is that Mob Wars was a relatively simple game to make, featuring a lot of text, simple game mechanics, and simple graphics -- in many ways, it reminiscent of simple games of the pre-World Wide Web, electronic BBS days.

However, Mr. Maestri is now being sued by the Social Gaming Network for "breach of contract and stealing trade secrets".  Maestri previously worked for Freewebs, leaving the company before it spun off the SGN as a separate entity and after releasing Mob Wars.  Now the SGN believes Maestri is cashing in on intellectual property which should be theirs, given that Mob Wars was not released when he struck out on his own.

Correction:  The source article suggested Mr. Maestri was previously employed by the Social Gaming Network itself.  This was proven to be incorrect, and we have updated our article to reflect this.