It’s a week of international imports and premieres for social startups. We have seen new levels of quality in synchronous games, automated fighting titles, and even some new lessons in tycoon zoology. Here are this week’s headlines from Inside Social Games:

Monday, March 8th, 2010

• CrowdStar Learns Facebook Zoology with Zoo Paradise
• Mochi Media Announces Social API, $10 Million Fund for Flash and Social Games
• Fast Typing, Cities and Growth from MindJolt on This Week’s List of Fast Facebook Growers by Monthly Active Users
• Gravity Bear Weights In to Social Gaming on Facebook with Battle Punks

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

• Sony Online Entertainment Launches PoxNora on Facebook
• SiXiTs: A New Cross-Platform Startup Founded by Gaming and Visual Effects Veterans
• Super Rewards Brigns Offer Wall Service to Flash Games for the Web

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

• CyberAgent’s Ameba Pigg Virtual World Comes to Facebook as Ameba Pico
• Slides from Presentation at GDC on the State of the Social Gaming Industry
• Facebook Credits Now the First Payment Option in Zynga’s FarmVille Game
• City Building Games Make a Strong Showing in This Week’s List of Top Facebook Gainers by Daily Active Users
• MySpace Looks for More Social Game Developers with Big Platform Upgrades

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

• Feline Frenzy: Robot Wars is a New Facebook Game from Pakistani Developer White Rabbit
• Hi5 Launches Game Developer Program, Offers Special Access to Users and Monetization
• More Speakers, Venue Set for Inside Social Apps 2010 – April 20th in San Francisco
• Israeli Brewer Uses Facebook Gender Battle Parking App to Promote Beer

Friday, March 12th, 2010

• MyTribe Wants to Be a Complex, Engaging Facebook Game – And Mostly Succeeds
• Playdom’s Social City is the Latest Facebook City Building Game to Get Millions of Users
• Social Gaming Roundup: iPad, Frosmo, Statistics, & More
• Independent Developers Show Strongly on This Week’s List of Emerging Facebook Games