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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VidZone Exclusive: The Blackout
VidZonians are you ready?! Riot Squad are you ready!? No this isn’t a protest rally ( VidZone does not condone violence people), this is my call to anyone who’s a fan of rock...
Runes of Magic is Facebook-bound, decrypts the future of MMOs
Filed under: Other Games Frogster 's premiere free-to-play MMO, Runes of Magic , is headed to Facebook in the second quarter of 2011.
The Darkness II
The Darkness II è uno dei giochi per pc più attesi del momento: si tratta di un gioco di fantascienza sparatutto in prima persona sviluppato dalla Digital Extremes e prodotto dalla 2K Games....
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,...
Patapon 3: The Legend Returns
It’s been a little over a year since the Patapon forces engaged in an all out blitz offensive against the Karmen.
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...
‘Heads-Up’ Game Store Update 23rd February 2011
And so, the sun sets on February and we round off with another strong week of content with fun stuff to be had for PS3 and PSP . The Undergarden floats onto PSN...
FarmVille Rumor Mill: Posts about locked Dairy Barns / Stables are fake
Filed under: Farmville While this might not fall into the category of a FarmVille scam, it is something to take note of all the same. Over the past few days, a new nasty...
Gnome-centric Facebook game Odd Manor coming soon – register for advance access
Filed under: Other Games KingX Studios have announced that they will be bringing a new game to Facebook called Odd Manor.
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...
Alien Breed 3: Descent – What You Need To Know
Hi everyone! With Alien Breed 3: Descent launching on PlayStation Store on Tuesday, February 23rd, we’d like to introduce the game to you all with another handy list of things you may not...
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...
Marvel Vs Capcom 3 Top Fighting Tips
If Street Fighter is a game of chess, with carefully chosen strategies played out in a precise and careful manner, then Marvel Vs Capcom 3 is like backgammon.
PlayStation Official Magazine UK Issue 55
Hello all, The most interesting fact about this month’s issue is that there’s a preview of True Crime: Hong Kong. Yep, the one that just got whacked.
‘Heads-Up’ Game Store Update 16th February 2011
Hello all – I’m not around this week, I’m off learning all about the products coming to the PSN Store over the next calendar year, so I’m afraid you’ll be without my replies...
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...
FrontierVille Bess and Fanny Goals: Everything you need to know
Filed under: FrontierVille In the ongoing saga of the love triangle between Hank, Fanny, and Bess in FrontierVille , we've now been given a choice of which two of these characters we'd like...
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...
Hacker steals 12 million dollars from FarmVille-maker Zynga
Filed under: Other Games A UK-based hacker pled guilty to stealing 400 billion poker chips from the popular Zynga Poker game on Facebook, and then selling a portion of them on the black...
The Oregon Trail on Facebook survives dysentery, rethinks social
Filed under: Other Games Just about everyone who attended grade school in either the 80s or 90s remembers the infamous phrase, "You died of dysentery." In fact, this has become an Internet meme...
Zombie Pandemic on Facebook: Can you survive the outbreak?
Filed under: Other Games One of the newest Facebook games that's gaining a bit of speed (relative to its very young age of just a few days old) is Pixel Pandemic's appropriately titled...
FarmVille Sneak Peek: Chinese New Year Rabbit, Dragon and Pagoda
Filed under: Farmville Believe it or not, there is another holiday to consider other than Valentine's Day for nearly 20 percent of world's people: the Chinese New Year. And Zynga will be celebrating...
Killzone 3: The Right Tools For The Job
If you thought the multiplayer arsenal was deadly in Killzone 2 , wait till you see what we’ve included with Killzone 3 ‘s online multiplayer mode! Our philosophy when it comes to weapons...
Facebook games are kind of like pinball machines, game designer says
Filed under: Other Games Are social gamers more like pinball wizards? UK-based Simple Lifeforms CCO Tadhg Kelly makes exactly that in a recent editorial on Inside Social Games .