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...
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FarmVille: The Spring Garden has sprung; here’s how to build it
Filed under: Farmville It's officially spring in FarmVille , thanks to Zynga's most recent release: The Spring Garden. This new building project will act similarly to the Pot of Gold or Leprechaun Cottage...
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...
FrontierVille wants you to find friends to help ‘dig your ass out’
Filed under: FrontierVille One of my favorite things about Zynga's Wild West game FrontierVille is its suggestive, sometimes eyebrow-raising writing . No other Facebook game -- not even its siblings at Zynga --...
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...
CityVille Warehouse upgrades ‘coming soon’
Filed under: CityVille The CityVille Warehouse will soon be getting an upgrade, according to this unreleased image spotted on fan site CityVille Chat .
Former Factor 5 founder opens social game studio, TouchFactor
Filed under: Other Games As the flock circles onward, another joins its fluffy if dangerous ranks.
FarmVille: Pile of Snow gifts either hilarious prank or potential glitch
Filed under: Farmville While it's a little late for April Fools, Zynga has played a potential prank on unsuspecting farmers in FarmVille . Players have reported to FarmVille Freak that they're receiving Piles...
Crowdstar Cares campaign aids Japan relief through AmeriCares
Filed under: Happy Aquarium It seems like every year, there's at least one disaster somewhere in the world that gets all the major social games companies in the giving mood.
March Madness Facebook Game Showdown: FINALS
Filed under: Pet Society , Bejeweled Blitz , Treasure Isle , Game of the Day , CityVille In the finale of our March Madness Facebook Game Showdown, we have what can only be...
Dragon Age Legends got me hooked on Facebook companion games
Filed under: Other Games Before we begin, I must make a confession: I haven't touched my English Countryside farm extensively for almost a week. In fact, I haven't been playing any Facebook games...
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...
Poll: Would you ever remove a FarmVille, Facebook game friend?
Filed under: Farmville , FrontierVille FrontierVille forum contributor Purselamplady (how do folks come up with these names?) suffers a dilemma. One of her high-level friends, for all intents and purposes, is a load....
VidZone Update: Get Right Down The Front Of Your Favourite Bands
It’s not as dirty as I made it sound… I’ll explain… You have loved our gig series, but we thought why do you want to see a gig as if you are in...
FarmVille LE English Countryside Decorations: Tea Shop, Garden Bench, Tea Cup Ride & More
Filed under: Farmville As part of tonight's FarmVille update, we've seen a whole set of new decorative items (two new buildings and seven new decorations, to be exact) in the English Countryside theme...
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...
FrontierVille: Clear debris to find Spring Bear Cub injured critter
Filed under: FrontierVille In addition to the White Buffalo and Black Deer that have previously been available as injured critters in FrontierVille , a new randomly-appearing animal has been added to the list...
Charlie Sheen makes a winning! cameo in Zynga’s FrontierVille
Filed under: FrontierVille Yes, the Charlie Sheen -- the one who has brought the phrase 'Winning!" into our lexicon and has been boggling everyone's minds with his 'goddesses' and other bizarre behavior --...
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.
Brand New Deus Ex: Human Revolution Trailer
Multi-path, multi-solution; chances are if you’ve read, heard, or watched an interview with a member of the dev team these words appeared.
FarmVille English Countryside works on Apple iPhone, iPad too
Filed under: Farmville It's not April Fools Day just yet, so we're 100 percent sincere with this one, folks. FarmVille English Countryside works with FarmVille for iOS devices just like it does the...
March Madness Facebook Game Showdown: Round 2
Filed under: Farmville , Mafia Wars , Pet Society , Bejeweled Blitz , Treasure Isle , Game of the Day , FrontierVille , Other Games , CityVille Games.com The Blog is having it's...
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...
Zynga Poker hacker faces two years in prison for stealing $12M in chips
Filed under: Other Games Remember that guy who stole (and somehow expected to get away with) $12 million from Zynga Poker ? That hacker, Ashley Mitchell, faces a two-year prison sentence after pleading...
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...
March Madness Facebook Game Showdown: Round 1
Filed under: Farmville , Cafe World , Mafia Wars , Pet Society , Restaurant City , Bejeweled Blitz , Treasure Isle , FrontierVille , Other Games , CityVille Every March the college basketball...
Gamesville puzzler ‘Super Chef Full Boil’ offers cash and prizes
One look at that name, "Gamesville", and it's hard not to ask yourself if it's got something to do with Zynga. After all, Zynga has so many 'villes on Facebook -- FarmVille, FrontierVille,...
Facebook Discover New Games Sidebar: Viral games discovery returns
Filed under: Other Games The Facebook teams have been hard at work developing a way to bring games discovery back to Facebook since November , if not farther back than that.