Filed under: Other Games The number one thing that makes or breaks a sports-based Facebook game is its faithfulness to the sport. And the recently released UFC Undisputed Fight Nation by THQ teeters...
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Zynga Beijing manager says social games are a craft, not an art
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games , CityVille Social games are not an art, according to Zynga Beijing general manager Andy Tian. And there it is straight from the omnipotent horse's mouth, folks....
StoneDale combines tropical adventures with animal husbandry
Filed under: Other Games StoneDale is a new adventure game by PlayNow Studio, and its bright and lively art style could make the developer's first Facebook game a hit. StoneDale combines some fun...
Words with Friends headed to an Android device near you (Thanks, Zynga!)
Filed under: Other Games When FarmVille-maker Zynga bought NewToy , the creator of the Scrabble-like game Words with Friends last year -- it seemed like quite a coup. Not only had one of...
DeNa beats Zynga and EA, mobile social games get serious
Filed under: Other Games While in late 2010 it was just speculation , Japanese social game publisher DeNa has officially ousted both Zynga and EA in annual revenue. The company expects an earning...
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...
Top 25 Facebook games – Feb. 2011
Filed under: Other Games The numbers are in from Inside Social Game's Top 25 Facebook games for Feb. 2011 and-- gasp -- Zynga is on top with CityVille (but likely not for much...
Zynga, LOLapps, TrialPay to make earning Facebook Credits simple
Filed under: Other Games , CityVille TrialPay has been around for some time. You may have noticed it before when buying Farm Cash from Zynga 's FarmVIlle or currency from another game as...
Hospitopia on Facebook will give players a cause to ‘Share’ [Interview]
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Filed under: Other Games While social game developers like Zynga have been leveraging their millions of fans to contribute to noble causes, it's only recently that games devoted entirely to a cause have...
Dynasty Warriors social game to get feudal for free in Japan
Filed under: Other Games Soon, social gamers will once again be called to slay limitless hordes of Chinese soldiers in Dynasty Warriors, but this time it will be for free . Oh, and...
Zombie Mosh on Facebook: A quickly corroding concert
Filed under: Other Games Taking a cue from the recent resurgence in America's love for everything undead, Atlanta, Ga.-based Menue has created a never-ending, rotting mosh pit in Zombie Mosh for Facebook. As...
Nintendo president says, ‘social elements are nothing new at all’
Filed under: Other Games In a recent call with investors, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata assured them that "Nintendo has been developing social entertainment in the field of video games for a long time,"...
Gossip Girl on Facebook: Social games and high society don’t mix
Filed under: Other Games Just to save all of you some time, let's just get right to. Arkadium 's Gossip Girl: Social Climb for Facebook is downright confusing. Based on the hit TV...
Chime Super Deluxe – The Definitive Music Puzzle Game
Hello PlayStation Community, I am Brynley Gibson from Zoe Mode , a UK based development studio that has created lots of music and social games and I am proud to share some exciting...
Facebook wants social game developers to ditch Flash, go HTML5
Filed under: Other Games Here's your proverbial nail in coffin for the Flash versus HTML5 debate. All Things Digital reports that Facebook plans to spread the good news of HTML5 to all of...
Scam Alert: 50 free FarmVille Cash from Groupon Wall post is phony
Filed under: Farmville It should already be known as rule of thumb not to click on offers from any social game that don't come from the game itself. But just in case you...
Angry Birds on Facebook ‘wouldn’t make a lot of sense’
Filed under: Other Games Well, at least it wouldn't according to Facebook's brand new director of gaming partnerships Sean Ryan.
Is PopCap’s Bejeweled Blitz beating FarmVille where it counts?
Filed under: Farmville , Bejeweled Blitz According to PopCap VP of social operations Michael Carpenter, Bejeweled Blitz is the number one game on Facebook--just look at the numbers differently. In an editorial on...
Diner Dash on Facebook: Flo and friends take on FarmVille
Filed under: Other Games If you've been keeping an eye on Facebook games for the past few years, it's likely you've noticed one major thing missing in the lineup -- time management games....
Spartacus on Facebook: Tis but a flesh wound on the competition
Filed under: Other Games When we first heard word that Starz would be releasing a social game to promote the release of its miniseries titled "Spartacus: Gods of the Arena," I was admittedly...
Draw My Thing on Facebook: More awesome than Pictionary
Filed under: Other Games Open any game on Facebook and you're sure to see energy bars, neighbors, and free gifts. Whether set in a city , farm , restaurant, or the wild west...
Dragons of Atlantis for Facebook unleashes the Dragons’ Attack
Filed under: Other Games Alright, so it's not a Kraken , but no one can deny the cool factor of dragons.
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 .
First-ever Facebook game soundtrack released
Filed under: Other Games Movie soundtracks have been popular, like, forever, and in the past decade or so -- video game soundtracks have also come into their own --- so much that they've...
Lunchtime Poll: Are you a lucky social gamer?
Filed under: Farmville , FrontierVille , Other Games Have you ever had that day in FarmVille when everything just went... right? How about any social game, for that mater?
There can only be one ‘Ville’; FarmVille maker Zynga sends cease and desist to Blingville
Filed under: Farmville And Zynga came down to its people and said, "You shall worship no other 'Villes' beside me." Or something like that. Zynga has issued a cease and desist letter to...
Chess Attack on Facebook: Refreshing, but rushed approach to a classic
Filed under: Other Games Classic board games are so easy to create on Facebook. I can't imagine how many renditions of tic-tac-toe, checkers and Mahjong there are on the website much less chess
FarmVille maker Zynga opens New York studio, East Coast: Acquired
Filed under: Other Games If Zynga were a sentient robot bent on global domination, the news of the company's ninth acquisition in just eight months would probably sound more like, "East Coast of...
Hardcore social games developer Kabam raises $30M to combat Zynga
Filed under: Other Games With social gamers predicted to grow to 30 percent of total Internet users by 2012 , stories of funding and acquisitions aren't going anywhere. Next in line for some...
FarmVille is an example of not-so-social social games, professor says
Filed under: Farmville Another qualified professional, another dismal critical opinion of social games. In what seems to be a dime-a-dozen these days, Coastal Carolina University professor D.E.