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Vodafone Announced As Preferred Partner For PS Vita 3G Connectivity
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) and Vodafone have today announced a partnership that will see Vodafone as the preferred provider of 3G connectivity for PlayStation Vita initially in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Germany,...
Ruin for PS Vita: Lairs, Relics, and the Social Web
Ruin is still early in development, but it’s being eagerly anticipated for its PS Vita-to-PS3 cross-compatibility, addictive action-RPG gameplay, and expansive social features.
PlayStation Home Reboot Coming Soon…
Hi there, I’m Darren and I’ve got some exciting new PlayStation Home news to talk to you about. If you haven’t been in Home for a while then it’s time to hit the...
Social games will monetize people in the future: Parody or inevitability?
Filed under: Other Games Wait, isn't this just gamification ? A clever Gamasutra blogger predicts in a scathing parody that the next step for social game developers like Zynga is to monetize non-players'...
Zynga drops the Flock: Social browser dies; developers join new team
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games Zynga --well, social gaming in general, but mostly Zynga--has had an incredibly disruptive effect on not just the gaming industry, but now on the information technology industry....
Mr. Fante’s Game of Judgement: A homophobic ‘Hot or Not’-style game on Facebook
Mr. Fante's Game of Judgement, which launched today on Facebook, takes a note from the classic website Hot or Not -- letting you exercise your powers of judgment on random people's FB profile...
Zynga wants to be the Amazon of social games, says CEO Mark Pincus
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games The zealous chief of the social gaming giant made the ambitious claims at the Zynga Seattle opening ceremony last night. In the midst of the recruiting rush...
Wooga surpasses Playdom, PopCap to become number four studio
Filed under: Other Games Who saw this one coming? No one, that's who. Wooga announced on its company blog that it is officially the fourth most popular social game studio in the world,...
PopCap co-founder says he’s ‘jealous’ of Zynga
Filed under: Bejeweled Blitz , Other Games In case you haven't heard the news before now, Bejeweled creator PopCap is planning to go public sometime this year.
Royal Navy dives into iPhone, social gaming to find new recruits
Filed under: Other Games Alright, now this whole social gaming fad is serious stuff. The Royal Navy has enlisted iPhone app developer Marvellous to create a new version of Royal Navy: Engineer Officer...
Social gaming will be $5 billion industry by 2015, Parks Associates says
Filed under: Other Games OK guys, we get it, social games are going to make lots of money in the next five years. I'm sorry, did you say $5 billion by 2015? Alright,...
RockYou’s Julie Shumaker: ‘We’ve got to blow sh*t up’
Filed under: Other Games According to RockYou SVP and GM Julie Shumaker, social games need more explosions to reel in the hardcore crowd. While she was probably kidding, Shumaker spoke on this very...
Watch Out, Zynga: EA, Playfish want bigger piece of the Facebook pie
Filed under: Farmville , Pet Society , Other Games EA Sports president Peter Moore (pictured) drew the lines clearly in his MI6 (no, not British secret service--a games marketing conference) keynote speech: Zynga...
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire now on Facebook: Compete with others for virtual riches
Filed under: Other Games While the Who Wants to be a Millionaire TV Show may have fallen out of the primetime limelight years ago, that hasn't stopped Ludia and Disney-ABC Domestic Television from...
Universal Pictures & Cie Games take Fast Five promotion to a new level in Car Town
Filed under: Other Games In one of the biggest and most in-depth cross-promotional activities I've ever seen in a Facebook game to date, Universal Pictures and Regal Entertainment have partnered with Cie Games'...
Social games publisher RockYou chooses CEO from within, Lisa Marino
Filed under: Other Games Isn't it always nice to hear of companies finding talent right at home? RockYou , the social games publisher who just signed a deal with John Romero's Loot Drop...
Zynga cashes in on online poker stats site PokerTableRatings
Filed under: Other Games "And we wonder why..." the Games.com writer typed with liberal snark as he stroked his long, Pai Mei-style beard.
EA fields MLB Facebook game, World Series Superstars
Filed under: Other Games Admittedly, you could have seen this one coming from a mile away. EA has launched its fourth sports game on Facebook, World Series Superstars , a pro baseball social...
Zynga’s Brian Reynolds: Open Feint and Game Center are ‘awkward’
Filed under: Farmville , FrontierVille Zynga' Chief Game Designer Brian Reynolds recently met with Games.com - The Blog! to talk about FarmVille , Zynga and the state of the social gaming world.
Zynga gets sheepish with FarmVille English Countryside in Times Square
Filed under: Farmville Zynga has taken its new Sheep Breeding feature in FarmVille English Countryside to the streets--literally. Folks roaming downtown New York City today noticed something odd : Sheep herders holding "Sheep...
FarmVille English Countryside: The Pause feature saved FarmVille
Filed under: Farmville Unless Zynga decides to change its mind and somehow makes the Pause feature in FarmVille an option, which would be a technological feat in itself, let's hope this will be...
Lady Gaga donates big bucks to Zynga’s Japan relief efforts
Filed under: Farmville , Cafe World , Mafia Wars , FrontierVille , CityVille There's no word on whether Lady Gaga actually likes and/or plays FarmVille, CityVille or the 20-some-odd other Facebook games by...
Quote of the Moment: ‘[Zynga won] the first innings of social games’
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Filed under: Farmville , Other Games First and foremost, we're not even playing the game in the first innings of the social games.
Zynga raises $2.2 million for Japan relief effort (with a li’l help from Ashton and Britney)
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games Twitter and social gaming yet again prove their worth (so, you can stop defending them now) as Zynga told the Hollywood Reporter that it has $2.2 million...
ngmoco’s We Rule boasts 12 million downloads, 3 billion minutes of playtime
Filed under: Other Games In America, social gaming on the iPhone, iPad and other mobile devices has not reached its potential -- though this new We Rule infographic shows that, that might be...
IGN social games channel possibly in development, News Corp says
Filed under: Other Games The videogame news site, IGN, could be News Corp 's target for its social gaming efforts rather than the obvious choice, MySpace, Reuters reports .
World of Warcraft-maker Blizzard: FarmVille is ‘not evil’ [Interview]
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Blizzard, the company responsible for what some might call the most popular social games of all time (long before FarmVille was a twinkle in Mark Pincus' eye), is celebrating 20 years in existence....
FrontierVille’s same-sex marriages originally a ‘bug’
Zynga's FrontierVille is the first Facebook game to include same sex marriages. In the Wild West themed game, you create an avatar and, soon after you start settling your piece of frontier property,...
Aliens vs. Predator developer Rebellion opens social games division
Filed under: Other Games Unfortunately, this does not necessarily mean that AvP is coming to Facebook.