Filed under: Other Games Things are going without a ... hitch for Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield's newest project, Glitch , after his company, Tiny Speck , closed its second round of funding with...
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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...
Zynga hires former Cisco SVP Debra Chrapaty as new CIO
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games Zynga , we think it's time for an intervention. You just bought hired Taylor Barada yesterday and now Debra Chrapaty as your new chief information officer?
Top 25 Facebook games – April 2011
Filed under: Other Games , CityVille "Will nothing end the indomitable tyranny that is CityVille ?" cried the legions of social game developers as they watched Zynga's behemoth top the Facebook game charts...
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...
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,...
Quote of the Moment: ‘Zynga can’t just throw FarmVille onto mobile’
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games You can't take an experience that works in one environment and one ecosystem and force-feed it onto another. It's like Zynga .
Nexon races KartRider onto Facebook later this year
Filed under: Other Games Yeah, yeah, so you've already heard that Nexon is bringing its KartRider franchise to iOS and Android devices later this month .
Social games are over 5 thousand years old, infographic says
Filed under: Other Games No, social games didn't begin with FarmVille and Maifa Wars . At least according to author Jon Radoff , who takes a more abstract look at social games in...
Zynga faces lawsuit for blocking Abu Dhabi firm from investing
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games Could you imagine what the inbox looks like at Zynga 's legal department at this point? Zynga has been sued by Alpha Investments, and Abu Dhabi-based investment...
Zynga avoided a FarmVille disaster by … making more games?
Filed under: Farmville , FrontierVille , CityVille Don't worry, it sounds weird to us too. Seasoned game designer and editor of The Game Prodigy Brice Morrison put Zynga and FarmVille under the scope...
Women play more mobile social games than men – Surprise!
Filed under: Other Games A recent study published by Flurry , a San Francisco-based smartphone analytics firm, made a shocking discovery: Women between 26 and 65-years-old play more mobile social games than men....
How Facebook games can be deeper by design
Filed under: Bejeweled Blitz , FrontierVille , Other Games , CityVille We've all heard the claims leveraged against social games that they are barely games . And let's face it, those accusations ring...
Social games aren’t social enough, but do we really want more?
Filed under: Other Games Many followers of the social games industry likely feel inundated with the claims that social games are not social enough or they're downright evil . While I can't help...
Are social games really ‘evil’?
Filed under: Other Games In a recent interview with PC Gamer , Braid creator Jonathan Blow was asked whether he though social games are "evil." Blow responded with an emphatic, "Yes. Absolutely." Currently...
Are mobile social games and Foursquare meant to be?
Filed under: Other Games We hate to sound like a broken record , but social games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars are becoming increasingly prevalent on mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. Developers...
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...
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 .
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...
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 "...
Civilization on Facebook renamed Civ World: Alpha test starts Jan. 12
Filed under: Other Games Since we last heard word of Civilization's imminent Facebook conquest , it's been a long and anxious 11 months. Civilization Network was originally slated for a June 2010 release,...
Zynga releases Chinese FarmVille with surprisingly few changes
Filed under: Farmville It was only a matter of time before Zynga introduced China to the farm. It was reported recently that a Chinese FarmVille has appeared on Facebook, already roping in over...
It’s Official: CityVille dethrones FarmVille as Zynga’s top Facebook game
Filed under: Farmville , CityVille Alright, so it didn't exactly happen yesterday , but CityVille has soared high above FarmVille 's 56.8 million players with a massive (for these days) 61.7 million monthly...
CityVille on Facebook reaches 22 million, rivals real world’s largest cities
Filed under: CityVille When Zynga recently mentioned that CityVille is the company's fastest growing social game it was no joke.
Top 25 Facebook games of Dec. 2010: Digital Chocolate takes distant second place
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games The results are in from Inside Social's list of the top 25 Facebook game s for Dec.
Top 25 MySpace games of Dec. 2010: The land beyond Zynga’s rule
Filed under: Other Games Thanks to Inside Social , the results are in for this month's top MySpace games and the results would be shocking for anyone who doesn't normally game on the...
Lunchtime poll: Does art really matter in social games?
Filed under: Farmville , Mafia Wars Well, does it? We all fully expect that the level of art and overall production value for games will slowly go up as more games are vying...
Microsoft and CrowdStar attempt to revive MSN Games
Filed under: Other Games CrowdStar is not messing around. And neither is Microsoft considering it announced today that it has revamped its casual gaming website, MSN Games , and will include more social...