Filed under: Cafe World To ring in Halloween in the most delicious way possible, Zynga has introduced Cafe World's ninth Catering Order: the Ghoulish Feast. This is a pretty large order, calling for...
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Four things that drive me crazy about Facebook games
Filed under: Farmville , Mafia Wars , Zoo World , Treasure Isle , FrontierVille , Other Games For the record, I love social games. I love that they're free to play and accessible...
Wheel of Fortune for Facebook could lead to even more GSN social games
Filed under: Other Games Wheel of Fortune , the crazy popular game show hosted by Pat Sajak and Vanna White, was digitized (and socialized) as a Facebook game in September. It was revealed...
Sister’s best friend: Sorority Life Dalmatian makes a charming companion
Filed under: Sorority Life Who said you couldn't have dogs in your sorority house? Sorority Life has released a limited edition Dalmatian dog that gives you the maximum charm you can get.
Hustle Kings Interview
Roland Fauster , manager of the German PlayStation.Blog , recently spoke to VooFoo Studios ‘ Technology Director, Mark Williams, about his work on the excellent PS3 pool game, Hustle Kings . Programming is...
Three Facebook games you should try out this week
If you're looking for some new games to play, here are three interesting games that made AppData's Top Twenty Gainers this week. For those looking for a more traditional property management game with...
Survey: Two out of every three Americans plays games
PlayFirst , publisher of ubiquitous time-management game Diner Dash , has teamed up with Frank Magid Associates, a research-based consulting firm, to find out more on the state of causal gaming. Casual gaming...
Capcom to launch three Facebook-connected iPhone games as soon as October
Capcom, famed developer of the Street Fighter and Mega Man series, is currently developing three iPhone games with Facebook connection that could launch as early as October, according to Capcom President Haruhiro Tsujimoto....
Restaurant City: Paris items complete your Parisian bistro
Filed under: Restaurant City After adding the Coffee Bar to Restaurant City , Playfish decided to help finish out the Parisian theme with these new decorations. The first thing that comes to mind...
Microsoft Bing’s Farmville ad campaign up for award
Filed under: Farmville As if attracting over 400,000 new Facebook fans for their client wasn't reward enough, the minds behind this Spring's inventive Farvmville-based ad campaign for Microsoft's Bing search engine are up...
Facebook users: 55% play social games, 19% say they’re addicted
Lightspeed Research has released a new survey on Facebook users, and -- to no surprise -- 53% of the respondents say they play social games, and -- a little more surprising -- 19%...
ABC’s Good Morning America Asks, Why are women obsessed with FarmVille?
Filed under: Farmville ABC's Good Morning America news talk show seems a little late in the game as they just now have realized that over 80 million people are playing FarmVille and decided...
Mortal Kiss lets tweens get their vamp on this fall
Considering Zynga's Vampire Wars is home to 2.3 million users and the success of the "Twilight" series, we can safely say this vampire craze has surpassed "fad" status. Publisher Random House has teamed...
Seniors flocking to social networks: Are they playing games?
The image of social networks as a place just for teens and college kids continues to fall away thanks to a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project showing older...
Happy Pets: New ‘My Little Pony’ inspired horses are here to stay
Filed under: Happy Pets Thirteen new permanent horses trotted into the Happy Pets store last week, and I'm happy to say that none of them are Limited Editions, though they're all going to...
Happy Pets: New vote and shoot camera feature has players saying ‘Cheese!’
Filed under: Happy Pets Want to get that cool camera view of your Happy Pets at home that you see below? Click the " Photo Show-off " icon on the top right corner...
Facebook stats glitch highlights need for independent stat reporting
Filed under: Cafe World Cafe World had been sitting comfortably at around 20 million monthly users for the entire month of July.
Nielsen: Online games now more popular than e-mail
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Top 10 fastest growing Facebook games this week
Need to take a break from tending those virtual crops or slaving over at hot stove at your virtual cafe? Look no further than this week's list of the top 10 fastest growing...