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...
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Sony Online Entertainment closes three studios; social games suffer?
Filed under: Other Games Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) has made an upsetting move today, closing its Denver, Seattle and Tuscon studios while laying off a total of 205 employees, Joystiq reports. While SOE...
Quote of the Moment: ‘Metrics … help us make [social] games better’
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Filed under: Farmville , FrontierVille , Other Games he numbers give us an idea of roughly what kind of feature to do because there are some kinds of features that are more likely...
Sunk cost fallacy: Economics claims FarmVille isn’t fun
Filed under: Farmville According to a blogger at YouAreNotSoSmart.com , FarmVille's mindblowing success has absolutely nothing to do with the game actually being fun. Zynga's farming titan owes all of its success to...
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.
Is rejection in FarmVille, Facebook games like getting dumped?
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games Well, it's close enough. According to a recent study by Edward Smith, a cognitive neuroscientist at Columbia University in New York, being rejected in an online computer...
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...
The Novus Prime Universe Expands With Novus Prime: Escalation For PlayStation Home On March 31st
We’re excited to announce Novus Prime: Escalation, our biggest expansion yet for Novus Prime in PlayStation Home , is going live on March 31 with tons of new content. The Hellfire Games team...
Why core gamers hate social gamers: Is it all about the money?
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games Isn't it always about the Benji's? GamesBrief seems to think so in its short and sweet estimation of why exactly core gamers--i.e
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...
Deep Realms on Facebook: Depth that’s both delightful and detrimental
Filed under: Other Games Deep Realms, for all intents and purposes, is an attempt to get the lot of social gamers into a genre that has largely been dominated by fans of the...
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.
Macross Triangle Frontier: modalità Academy
Lo scorso 3 Febbraio , edito da Namco Bandai e sviluppato da Artdink, è uscito per le PSP giapponesi un action di quelli che ai nostri amici nipponici piacciono molto: grafica da manga...
Nightclub Story for iOS busts a move in the App Store today
Filed under: Other Games Fans of mobile social games can finally go clubbing in their phone with Nightclub Story . Well, it might not compare to the real thing, but at least you...
Ravenwood Fair digs in with upcoming Ravenstone Mine expansion
Filed under: Other Games , ESPNU College Town Ravenwood Fair, the cutesy Facebook game where you (as an animal dressed in medieval garb) play proprietor to a woodsy fair will soon be exploring...
FarmVille, game-related Facebook scams are second-most popular
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games When you consider the number of Facebook gamers--some say it's over 250 million--that's quite a lot of scamming.
FarmVille for iOS reaches second on Top Grossing App Store list
Filed under: Farmville FarmVille for iOS has had a rough history since its launch last year. Connectivity issues abound coupled with severe load times made it look as if Zynga just didn't get...
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...
Syfy Channel beaming up to social games business
Filed under: Other Games Soon, the omni-nerds--you know, the folks who watched Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in its entirety and enjoyed it --will flock to Facebook to see what SyFy is up...
EA, Playfish sip on Florida Orange Juice in Pet Society, Restaurant City
Filed under: Pet Society , Restaurant City We can see it now: Executives from EA , Playfish and Florida's Natural Orange Juice rocking on a creaky porch in the Everglades on a Sunday...
Quote of the Moment: ‘[Xbox Live's] too small a demographic’ for Zynga
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Filed under: FrontierVille , Other Games " too small a demographic. Think about, of my friends, how many of them own an Xbox 360? Well, I'm a game developer and I even...
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...
Quote of the Moment: ‘Facebook gaming is a completely valid market’
Filed under: Other Games But it's a completely valid market. People in the industry are seeing Facebook as a platform like we see the PlayStation 3 or the PC as a platform. They...
Ireland Town on Facebook: Score a trip to the Emerald Isle
Filed under: Other Games In honor of the best holiday this side of June (even in the Irish in me can't trump Christmas), Tourism Ireland has launched its very own social game, Ireland...
Diamond Dash on Facebook: It smells like Bejeweled Blitz in here
Filed under: Other Games Diamond Dash , Wooga's fifth Facebook game, is nearly a flawless puzzle game on the platform. It's too bad that it's already been done before, has millions of daily...
Addicted to Angry Birds? Mike Tyson has a cure for that
Filed under: Other Games To the millions of hapless Angry Birds addicts, suffer no longer. Mike Tyson, infamous boxer and master of the cameo, can cure your Angry Birds addiction in three easy...
Heavy Rain And God Of War III Celebrated By BAFTA
Heavy Rain and God of War III are just two of the PlayStation 3 exclusives that have been lauded by critics and loved by you, the PlayStation fans, in the last year. Both...