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Social games will monetize people in the future: Parody or inevitability?
Filed under: Other Games Wait, isn't this just gamification ? A clever Gamasutra blogger predicts in a scathing parody that the next step for social game developers like Zynga is to monetize non-players'...
Playdom escapes Facebook; games available through new portal
Filed under: Other Games , ESPNU College Town Despite releasing two impressive Facebook games in the past month, Deep Realms and Gardens of Time , Playdom seems to want to escape Facebook. The...
Zynga’s Brian Reynolds trying deeper, more clever social game design
Filed under: FrontierVille , Other Games Hey, you asked for it. Zynga's chief game designer Brian Reynolds never rests, and even now he's working to bring deeper game mechanics to social games without...
Social games will help Facebook become Facebank by 2015
Filed under: Other Games According to Metal International founder and president Ken Rutkowski, social games will boost Facebook Credit sales and account holdings more than anything else on the platform, TechWorld reports ....
BattleBall on Facebook: Explosive graphics, but where’s the game?
Filed under: Other Games "Boy, that sure is a nice tech demo," I thought to myself as I watched lithe street ballers destroy backboards with shattering force in BattleBall's preliminary matches. Standing as...
Tetris Battle on Facebook: Just one more line…
Filed under: Other Games There's much to be said of that "in-the-zone" feeling that rushes over you as you obliterate line after neon line of digital blocks. Even if you don't remember it...
Zynga wants to be the Amazon of social games, says CEO Mark Pincus
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games The zealous chief of the social gaming giant made the ambitious claims at the Zynga Seattle opening ceremony last night. In the midst of the recruiting rush...
Tiny Speck puts Facebook MMO Glitch into closed beta next week
Filed under: Other Games Things are going without a ... hitch for Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield's newest project, Glitch , after his company, Tiny Speck , closed its second round of funding with...
March Madness Facebook Game Showdown: And the winner is…
Filed under: Pet Society , Bejeweled Blitz , Game of the Day , Other Games ... PET SOCIETY! In a battle that went down to the wire, the venerable 'granddaddy' of Facebook games,...
Toyota joins EA, Playfish in Monopoly Millionaires with in-game Prius
Filed under: Other Games Your next free gift in Monopoly Millionaires could be ... a new car! More specifically, a digital Toyota Prius thanks a 12-month partnership between Toyota, EA and the game's...
Fighting games are Facebook-bound, says Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono
Filed under: Other Games The man behind Street Fighter 4 3D Edition for the Nintendo 3DS sees Facebook as the future home of fighting games, Siliconera reports . Finally, Facebook users can duke...
Hardcore Facebook games could grow fivefold by 2013
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games While I would consider FarmVille as hardcore an experience as they come for dedication's sake, that's not what this study by Social Times Pro has in mind....
iWin and Endemol to bring Deal or No Deal and 1 vs 100 to Facebook
Filed under: Other Games After Microsoft removed 1 vs 100 from their Xbox Live service, I was more than a bit upset. I spent countless hours playing with friends and strangers alike from...
CityZen on Facebook: A CityVille clone joins the march
Filed under: Other Games Look, Metamoki , we know you felt burned when Zynga took Mob Wars and spun it into Mafia Wars , one of the most successful social games to date....
Anna Hazare inspires social gamers for social good in India
Filed under: Other Games If you thought the Facebook-fueled revolutions in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere were impressive, then check this out. Several games on Indian social networks like Ibibo have seen record boosts...
Facebook game profits are big, but MMO gold farming is huge
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games In fact, a report (PDF link) by the Word Bank's infoDev finance program suggests that 75 percent of all virtual goods sales globally are from gold farmers....
Rumor: Xbox Live learns from Facebook, free-to-play games incoming
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games Microsoft may have taken another cue from Facebook. IGN reports that, according to a trusted source, free-to-play games could be coming to Xbox Live as soon as...
One in nine Facebook users play music games; Guitar Hero finds a new home?
Filed under: Other Games Has Guitar Hero found a new home on Facebook? According to data presented by MXP4 , a social game developer based in Paris, it very well could be in...
NBA Legend on Facebook dunks over 1 million monthly players
Filed under: Other Games No, thank you , March Madness . NBA Legend , which NBA Digital claims is "the first original professional sports league game for Facebook," has quickly surpassed 1 million...
Social gaming will be $5 billion industry by 2015, Parks Associates says
Filed under: Other Games OK guys, we get it, social games are going to make lots of money in the next five years. I'm sorry, did you say $5 billion by 2015? Alright,...
RockYou’s Julie Shumaker: ‘We’ve got to blow sh*t up’
Filed under: Other Games According to RockYou SVP and GM Julie Shumaker, social games need more explosions to reel in the hardcore crowd. While she was probably kidding, Shumaker spoke on this very...
Watch Out, Zynga: EA, Playfish want bigger piece of the Facebook pie
Filed under: Farmville , Pet Society , Other Games EA Sports president Peter Moore (pictured) drew the lines clearly in his MI6 (no, not British secret service--a games marketing conference) keynote speech: Zynga...
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire now on Facebook: Compete with others for virtual riches
Filed under: Other Games While the Who Wants to be a Millionaire TV Show may have fallen out of the primetime limelight years ago, that hasn't stopped Ludia and Disney-ABC Domestic Television from...
Top 25 Facebook games – April 2011
Filed under: Other Games , CityVille "Will nothing end the indomitable tyranny that is CityVille ?" cried the legions of social game developers as they watched Zynga's behemoth top the Facebook game charts...
Nintendo 3DS gets FarmVille this summer (with Harvest Moon 3D)
Filed under: Farmville The ultimate mobile gaming cage match is about to begin: FarmVille for iOS versus Harvest Moon 3D: A Tale of Two Towns for 3DS . According to G4TV , the...
Facebook games could make money thanks to social, not just addiction
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games It's a common belief that Facebook games are so successful thanks to an incredible small, dedicated, addicted minority that is willing to spend on things like Farm...
Social games publisher RockYou chooses CEO from within, Lisa Marino
Filed under: Other Games Isn't it always nice to hear of companies finding talent right at home? RockYou , the social games publisher who just signed a deal with John Romero's Loot Drop...
Former EA, LucasArts folks form social game studio, November Software
Filed under: Other Games The above trailer for November Software's first game, Inemeri: A Familiar World , is a pretty accurate display of what this brand new social game studio is all about....
Former Factor 5 founder opens social game studio, TouchFactor
Filed under: Other Games As the flock circles onward, another joins its fluffy if dangerous ranks.