Filed under: FrontierVille October has arrived, and if you're like us, you've already started brainstorming Halloween costume ideas. But time is running out, the big day is this Sunday and if you don't...
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Quick Halloween Costume Ideas: FarmVille farmer
Filed under: Farmville October has arrived, and if you're like us, you've already started brainstorming Halloween costume ideas. Instead of taking the cliched route and dressing like a witch, pirate wench or sexy...
FarmVille addict kills baby, 25 most ‘liked’ Facebook pages [AM Linkage]
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Filed under: Farmville , Other Games FarmVille-addicted mom shakes baby to death The 25 Most Liked Pages on Facebook, Fall 2010 MySpace steps out of Facebook's shadow with "social entertainment"...
Instant Jam is an Instant Success with Ambitious Playlist Options
In many ways, Instant Jam is one of the more ambitious games on Facebook. On the surface, it appears to be nothing more than a knock off of Rock Band or Guitar Hero,...
Publisher’s Clearing House Facebook game promises real-life rewards
Publisher's Clearing House -- that omnipresent direct marketing company that occasionally shows up at people's houses with oversized checks -- has launched a new game on Facebook called Bingo Charms. The game, created...
AM Linkage: Facebook gamers log 927 million hours, Blizzcon 2010 begins
Filed under: Other Games The sights of Blizzcon 2010, day one Kabam Acquires WonderHill, Wants To Become The Blizzard Of Social Games Facebook Gamers Play 927 Million Hours of Games Per...
Digital Comics Store Update (6th October 2010)
Hello everyone, and welcome to this week’s comic store update. This is one hell of an update actually, and we’ve got it all this week – brand new publishers, brand new comics, and...
Is Playfish’s latest ‘player research session’ a play-phishing scam?
Filed under: Pet Society , Restaurant City , Hotel City , Pirates Ahoy It might be too good to be true, but today, it seems that Playfish, the maker of popular games such...
For ‘Zynga to become the Google of games,’ it will take more than good timing
Earlier this summer, The New York Times spoke with Zynga CEO Mark Pincus about his rise to social gaming domination and came to the conclusion that the Facebook gaming mogul, who is expected...
Restaurant City holds a Boo-Licious Cook-Off Contest
Filed under: Restaurant City Want to win 500 Playfish Cash and show your Halloween spooky spirit at the same time?
FarmVille deletes extra Nursery Barns, replaces with 100 free Farm Cash
Filed under: Farmville FarmVille has taken the, ahem , liberty of deleting any extra Nursery Barns from player's farms. Only one Nursery Barn is allowed per farm, but a recent glitch let farmers...
Throw a bangin’ dance party at your house with Home Fest
We're always looking for new Facebook games, and our elite team of new game spies have spotted a fresh choice for everyone to try. Home Fest is a brand new game released a...
Wall Street Journal looks at Vostu, the Brazillian Zyngavostu
Filed under: Farmville , Cafe World Here at Games.com -- The Blog, we've extensively covered the rise of social gaming in Europe and Japan (and America, obviously).
InstantJam taps into Rock Band and Guitar Hero lovers on Facebook
Yesterday, our sister site Joystiq reported that InstantAction has just debuted a "Rock Band-style music game" called InstantJam onto Facebook. We last heard of InstantAction in March , where the company hoped to...
InstantJam taps into Rock Band and Guiter Hero lovers on Facebook
We last heard from InstantAction during PAX East in March , where it hoped to revolutionize online gaming using high quality games with the portability and delivery of embeddable YouTube videos. Its passenger...
Pet Society Mayor gets his official real world debut at the Amazon store
Filed under: Pet Society Fans of our Games.com Facebook page may remember the figurine shown above from our Fan Appreciation Giveaway back in April. Our Editor-In-Chief had just gotten her hands on two,...
Digital Comics Store Update (11th August 2010)
Hello everybody! It’s time to have a look at this week’s new digital comics . DC Comics release the first two issues of one of my favourite comics series Y: The Last Man....
PetVille Midnight Crypt items give a wink, nod to The Shining, Poltergeist
Filed under: PetVille While I wile away the hours, cleaning up my pet's leftover tacos, I find myself hoping (praying even) that PetVille will release a suite of Mad Men related items. It...
Amazon an unlikely winner in social gaming’s growth
When you think of the companies that have benefited the most from the explosive growth of social games, a few names probably spring to mind.
