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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Pocket God on Facebook spooks pygmies in ‘Clash of the Frightened’
Filed under: Other Games Well, not any more spooked than they are on a daily basis, really. We're not terribly sure why the first major update to Pocket God is titled "Episode 2:...
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....
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 .
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.
Facebook games parody spreads with Cow Clicker Blitz
Filed under: Other Games Famed game scholar and designer (and satirist) Ian Bogost has taken the next logical step with the Cow Clicker franchise and released the Cow Clicker API. According to Bogost,...
Rumor Alert: Will Zynga’s Mafia Wars sequel be called ‘Mafia Nation?’
Filed under: Mafia Wars Remember when that strange survey surfaced revealing what looked like the sequel to Mafia Wars . It appears that Zynga has released another set of surveys, but has only...
Social gamers to be nearly one third of US Internet users by 2012
Filed under: Other Games At least that's what the most recent study published by eMarketer author Paul Verna shows. According to his findings, the social gaming industry will see a 29.5 percent increase...
Mini Kings on Facebook: Play in ‘mini’ bursts unless you got cash
Filed under: Other Games Sure creating an entire kingdom took decades back in the Dark Ages, but should really translate (very loosely) to a Facebook game? Gameloft recently launched Mini Kings on Facebook...
Doom creator John Romero commited to social games, signs RockYou deal
Filed under: Other Games The co-creator of Doom, one of the most violent video game franchises ever, is officially hooked on social games. John Romero and Tom Hall have signed a deal with...
The Dating Game on Facebook to spark social gamers’ flames soon
Filed under: Other Games If only this game could emulate the look of sheer depression on those mystery daters' faces way back when. Developer 3G Studios has acquired the rights to the classic...
Zynga launches RewardVille website; says goodbye to cross promos?
Filed under: Farmville , FrontierVille , CityVille While RewardVille , an upcoming brand new Zynga property, has already been discovered (and we were right on the nose with our predictions), the website "...
Pirates Saga on Facebook: Cutthroat PvP piracy is not for the weak
Filed under: Other Games There seems to be an interesting fascination with pirates on Facebook and in Facebook games.
Facebook temporarily stops games from accessing phone numbers and addresses
Filed under: Other Games Well, it looks like you're safe... for now. All Facebook reports that due to (expectantly) unsavory feedback over the weekend as a result of the recent privacy changes to...
Dungeon Overlord on Facebook: Villainy and tedium go hand-in-hand
Filed under: Other Games Being the band of stalwart adventurers does become a bit stale after awhile, doesn't it?