This is the very first year for the Game Developer Choice Online Awards , and the organizers of this event want your vote to determine which lucky online game will win the Audience...
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When does FarmVille finally get in the way?
Filed under: Farmville Is it when your grades start slipping? That's exactly what Harrisburg University of Science and Technology wants to find out this Monday when it will block its college network from...
Wall Street Journal looks at Vostu, the Brazillian Zyngavostu
Filed under: Farmville , Cafe World Here at Games.com -- The Blog, we've extensively covered the rise of social gaming in Europe and Japan (and America, obviously).
Quote of the Moment: End of the Golden Era
Filed under: Bejeweled Blitz "There's going to be a lot of . The truth is that there's that in every industry
DateBid brings creepy social gaming twist to online dating
And here we thought date auctions were just a fiction created by hack writers for third-rate sitcoms and romantic comedies . No, apparently they are a real thing, or a virtually real thing,...
OMGpop feeds the sweet tooth with Cupcake Corner, its first Facebook game
Notable casual game developer OMGpop has just launched its first Facebook game, Cupcake Corner . While the company has created several games with Facebook functionality using Facebook Connect, this is OMGpop's first full...
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...
CrowdStar’s entire catalog set to hit Japan
Remember when almost every video game sold in the United States was an import from some Japanese company? These days, games played in Japan are just as likely to be imports from some...
Quote of the Moment: Leave the Farmville, join the farm
"FarmVille boosters like to say that one of the game's most important virtues is how it encourages cooperation among users. But I think that the game's social networking aspect is where FarmVille's limitations...
NPD: 20% of Americans play games on social networks
Are you an American?
The Social Network movie trailer pops up in Social City
Filed under: Social City The Social Network: You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies. A trailer of The Social Network has landed on the front page of Social...
Zynga Texas Poker: Zynga doubles down in China with new poker game
Filed under: Zynga Poker Zynga launched a localized version of its popular Zynga Poker in Hong Kong and Taiwan this week. This new version of the game, called Zynga Texas Poker, is available...
City Story brings Facebook-style city builder to iPhone
Filed under: Social City TeamLava, the minds behind the FarmVille-style iPhone game Farm Story , is now taking the action to the city, with the release of a new Facebook style town-building game...
FarmVille parody app FarmVillian lands on iPhone
Filed under: Farmville FarmVille's evil twin, FarmVillian has had a troubled start from the beginning.
FarmVille parody app FarmVillain lands on iPhone
Filed under: Farmville FarmVille's evil twin, FarmVillain has had a troubled start from the beginning. The parody app designed to give frustrated Facebookers a way to strike back at FarmVille spam was almost...
Social Gaming News Digest for the week ending Aug. 13, 2010
Things happen so fast in the social gaming space these days, it can be hard to keep up.
Title Town Football: It ain’t Madden but it’s still football on Facebook
While we're still wondering when Madden football will be rushing onto Facebook , video game developer Gasworks Games (Matrix Online, Tron 2.0) beats EA Sports to the punch, announcing that its football game,...
Quote of the Moment: The race to take over Europe
"I think is going be even better for us than it is in North America, because there is less competition.
Social games help drive growth for China’s Tencent network
The largest social network in the world's largest country just keep getting, um, larger. And social games are a big part of that ever-increasing largeness, according to the latest financial results from China's...
Social game maker OMGPOP signs on with myYearbook
Just because social game maker OMGPOP isn't ready to sell out doesn't mean it isn't ready to expand via partnerships with other companies. Indeed, OMGPOP has announced a deal with myYearbook to integrate...
Madden NFL 11 is everywhere…except on Facebook
Like clockwork, EA Sports' Madden NFL football yearly update has arrived, signaling not only the start of the football season, but also the kick-off of the video game holiday season. This year, Madden...
Quote of the Moment: Social gaming ‘tailor-made’ for Disney
"It became pretty clear to us that game-playing on social networks is real, here to stay.
Square Enix brings freemium RPG to Japanese social network
RPG-maker Square Enix's "exploration" of the social game space seems to be continuing apace -- in Japan, at least. SiliconEra reports that the company has released classical RPG Knights of the Crystal on...
Is FarmVille changing everything? Games biz bigwigs speak out
To say the game industry is undergoing a transformation would be an understatement. The entire playing-games-on-one-system paradigm is rapidly shifting, as more people play games on multiple devices -- consoles, PCs, and increasingly...
Google snaps up virtual currency platform Social Gold for $75 million [Rumor]
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Google is still staying mum on the rumors that it's planning to launch a game-driven social network called 'Google Me' in the near future. However, it's undeniable that the search giant is making...
Is Bebo planning a social gaming comeback?
Do you know that bittersweet feeling you get when you realize an ex-romantic partner looks like they could finally be getting their life together without you? That's how we here at AOL's Games.com...
Square Enix engaged in "exploration" of social games business
Japanese mega-publisher Square Enix is best known for sprawling, story-filled single-player RPGs like those in the Final Fantasy series. So it's a bit surprising that the company is reportedly looking into the relatively...
Players protest Zynga’s abrupt Street Racing shutdown
Filed under: Mafia Wars Apparently Zynga wasn't done shutting down games after bringing down the hammer on Roller Coaster Kingdom and Ponzi, Inc. last month. Today, Zynga's Street Racing leaves Facebook for that...
Nielsen: Online games now more popular than e-mail
Look out e-mail...