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 .
Ratchet & Clank maker Insomniac Games reveals social games division
Filed under: Other Games With the way things are going, you'd think the next big E3 console reveal will be Facebook 2.
Yoostar Playground on Facebook: Viral videos in your control
Filed under: Other Games Just about anyone who watched The Oscars this year would agree the funniest part of the evening was as Anne Hathaway and James Franco frolicked through scenes of Oscar-nominated...
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.
Boxhead the Nightmare on Facebook: An infuriatingly bloody good time
Filed under: Other Games There's been a niche in Flash and casual gaming that has endured a litany of adaptations and interpretations on the legion of Flash gaming websites. It's called Boxhead and...
Bomberman creator Hudson Soft shifts focus to social games
Filed under: Other Games In a classic tale of "If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them," Hudson Soft announced that while it closes it North American offices on March 31 and becomes assimilated...
Zynga releases FarmVille-like FrontierVille Supply Wagon Game Bar
Filed under: Farmville , FrontierVille It looks like the " Reunite Them " promotion in FarmVille was a success, because the company is at it again for FrontierVille . A forum contributor named...
Serf Wars on Facebook: Tyranny has never been this adorable (or fun)
Filed under: Other Games We all like to think of the Middle Ages as a time when kings oversaw their loyal subjects out of respect for the crown, but fear of persecution, imprisonment...
Lunchtime Poll: Does Facebook game elitism exist?
Filed under: FrontierVille Once upon a time, there was a wee little, Level 21 pioneer in FrontierVille named Pillowzillow who wanted to be friends with a much hardier Level 70 frontiersman. But with...
One in five seniors is a potential Facebook gamer, study shows
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games Is old pappy sending you new Mystery Gifts every day in FarmVille ?
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 .
Harrison Ford is making a Facebook game, and it’s eco-friendly
Filed under: Other Games No, that is not a typo--Indiana Jones is making a Facebook game with Los-Angeles-based developer Talkie and Conservation International to promote the health of the environment.
Today is Defriend Day: Do Facebook game friends count too?
Filed under: Other Games If you were to ask author and political activist Mark Dice, yes, your fellow FarmVille friends probably count. In promotion of his new book, "Big Brother: The Orwellian Nightmare...
Angry Birds lands on Facebook in one month, Rovio gives more details
Filed under: Other Games Angry Birds is coming to Facebook , and no, Rovio was not joking. In fact, All Facebook reports that the Finnish company has revealed a few more details as...
Maple Story is coming to Facebook, free-to-play goes social once again
Filed under: Other Games MapleStory , one of the most successful free-to-play MMOs out there from Nexon , will launch a Facebook edition this summer. The 2D, side-scrolling multiplayer game has had 102.4...
An Hour Without FarmVille: What would you do?
Filed under: Farmville Facebook has been shut down for one hour. All access to the website has been blocked off and no apps calling to it like Facebook Mobile or-- gasp --games can...
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...
EA offers indie Facebook game creators helping hand with EA Partners
Filed under: Other Games Indie game developers always have great ideas, right? So, why not throw a bunch of them at Zynga the market and see what happens
Facebook games will access your address and number (again)
Filed under: Other Games That wasn't long, was it? Facebook games will once again have access to more of your personal information, Mashable reports .
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...
LOLapps’ Ravenwood Fair nears 11M monthly players, but how?
Filed under: Other Games LOLapps is not afraid to display its methods of success. In fact, it flaunts them in adorable infographics involving flagship game, Ravenwood Fair