Filed under: Farmville , FrontierVille , CityVille Don't worry, it sounds weird to us too. Seasoned game designer and editor of The Game Prodigy Brice Morrison put Zynga and FarmVille under the scope...
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LOLapps’ Ravenwood Fair nears 11M monthly players, but how?
Filed under: Other Games LOLapps is not afraid to display its methods of success. In fact, it flaunts them in adorable infographics involving flagship game, Ravenwood Fair
Yakuza 4
Yakuza 4 sta per tornare con una nuova avventura in un mondo aperto ricco di nuovi personaggi e situazioni; questa volta i protagonisti di questo gioco sono ben 4. La data di uscita...
Elemental: Fallen Enchantress
In Elemental: Fallen Enchantress o giocatori avranno la possibilità di esplorare il mondo di Elemental, di scoprire una enorme vastità di ambienti motlo diversi fra loro e di terre selvagge molto pericolose. Si...
New CityVille Residences: Spring Bungalow, Bay Point Duplex, Parkside Villa & More
Filed under: CityVille If you're like me, you might have grown (really) tired with the current, relatively small selection of residential buildings available to build in your town in CityVille . After all,...
Zynga’s CityVille is flawed (and brilliant): The issue of roads
Filed under: CityVille Ever visited a friend's city in CityVille and notice something odd.
Zuma Blitz player scores 1.4 million points with no powers
Filed under: Bejeweled Blitz , Other Games Sure, even 2 million points in Zuma Blitz is totally possible-- when you have powers . YouTube user SLiangHsu posted a video today of his arduous...
CityVille promises new neighbors will be ‘friends with benefits’
Filed under: CityVille CityVille on Facebook wants you to find new friends. Ya know... friends with benefits.
Mafia Wars: Zynga, Digital Chocolate finally settle trademark lawsuit
Filed under: Mafia Wars After Millionaire City creator Digital Chocolate filed suit against Zynga in Aug. 2010 for trademark infringement involving the Mafia Wars brand, the dispute has at last been settled, Gamasutra...
Games.com launches new way to invite friends to play
Games.com , aka the most awesome online game site ever, has just released a special new "invite" feature. In every game on Games.com, you can now send an invite to a friend to...
LOLapps digs deep with Ravenwood Fair expansion: Ravenstone Mine
Filed under: Other Games Ravenwood Fair by LOLapps and Doom creator John Romero has overcome adversity and experienced explosive growth in the past few months since its release. The game now boasts 10...
Social game features will invade consoles, says Game Theory host
Filed under: Other Games According to Scott Steinberg, CEO of TechSavvy and host of web video series Game Theory , it's only inevitable. Social game elements are bound to find their way into...
Zynga Game Cards available in Latin America; no siestas for FarmVille
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games , CityVille After CityVille was stealthily made available in Portuguese by Zynga , the company decided it was time to make that transition complete. With the help...
Has Zynga given up on FarmVille for iPhone/iPad?
Filed under: Farmville Back in June , Zynga launched FarmVille on iPhone to much fan praise...
Age of Conan creator to pretty up Facebook with fashion social game
Filed under: Other Games Funcom , the publisher and developer behind hardcore MMOs like Age of Conan and the upcoming Secret World, is working on yet another social game. Publisher 505 Games has...
Earn 250 free FrontierVille Horseshoes through Netflix free trial
Filed under: FrontierVille Sure, FarmVille has its sponsored links down, but Zynga knows how to make it rain Horseshoes in FrontierVille too.
Angry Birds Vs. CityVille: The birds are soaring to social networks
Filed under: Other Games , CityVille And here we were, calling out to the heavens, "Who will stand up to the mighty CityVille ?" Unsurprisingly, Angry Birds creator Rovio mentioned at the Mobile...
AT&T social gaming platform coming to Android phones
Filed under: Other Games Ever since Apple opened up its iPhone to Verizon customers, AT&T has been pouting over its loss of exclusivity through scathing ad campaigns. The carrier hopes to restore some...
Are social games really ‘evil’?
Filed under: Other Games In a recent interview with PC Gamer , Braid creator Jonathan Blow was asked whether he though social games are "evil." Blow responded with an emphatic, "Yes. Absolutely." Currently...
Five reasons why social games are as hardcore as they come
Filed under: Other Games For probably longer than I've been writing about them, social games have been looked at by traditional gamers as "casual" or barely even games. And in some cases they...
Should FarmVille maker Zynga watch out for Richard Garriott?
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games The legendary creator of Ultima known to many fans as Lord British has founded a social game development company called Portalarium and is after Zynga 's runaway...
Monopoly on Facebook: More movers, traps and (maybe) competition coming soon
Filed under: Other Games Monopoly Millionaires landed on Facebook last week, and I got a chance to chat with game producer Adam Gutterman about the challenges of bringing a board game to Facebook...
CityVille for Dummies coming July 2011 to teach Mayor 101
Filed under: CityVille The farthest-reaching social game of all time with a peak of over 100 million players is getting its own "Dummies" book. Our friend Kyle Orland returns to co-author the 288-page...
Are mobile social games and Foursquare meant to be?
Filed under: Other Games We hate to sound like a broken record , but social games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars are becoming increasingly prevalent on mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. Developers...
FarmVille 28 x 28 Farm Estate expansion now available for coins
Filed under: Farmville Back in November , FarmVille released the 28 x 28 Farm Estate expansion. In a peculiar move, it was released at the price of 120 Farm Cash but stated "TBD"...
Killzone 3 Open Beta Update
It’s less than a week since the Killzone 3 Multiplayer Beta hit PlayStation Store , but already you’ve racked up some impressive numbers.
Play social, casual games for cash in YooMee Games Arcade
Filed under: Other Games Sure, you can play games like FrontierVille for Horseshoes, but how would you like to play for higher stakes? YooMee Games has launched its arcade platform of the same...
Are mobile social games in trouble as OnLive comes to HTC phones?
Filed under: Other Games And you thought the retailers were scared? The server-based games service OnLive just sealed a $40 million funding deal with smartphone manufacturer HTC, VentureBeat reports . The OnLive subscription...
Zuma Blitz Valentine’s Day Board filled with hearts and Gap Shots
Filed under: Other Games Not to mention it can be extremely confusing. PopCap has released a Valentine's Day-themed game board to Zuma Blitz this week. Of course, it's shaped like a heart, but...