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Posts Tagged ‘ social ’
Social games will monetize people in the future: Parody or inevitability?
Filed under: Other Games Wait, isn't this just gamification ? A clever Gamasutra blogger predicts in a scathing parody that the next step for social game developers like Zynga is to monetize non-players'...
Zynga’s Brian Reynolds trying deeper, more clever social game design
Filed under: FrontierVille , Other Games Hey, you asked for it. Zynga's chief game designer Brian Reynolds never rests, and even now he's working to bring deeper game mechanics to social games without...
Playfish hires ex-Planet Moon Studios CEO Aaron Loeb as GM
Filed under: Pet Society , Other Games Now that it's nabbing CEOs, EA must really want to catch up to and strangle Zynga .
Tetris Battle on Facebook: Just one more line…
Filed under: Other Games There's much to be said of that "in-the-zone" feeling that rushes over you as you obliterate line after neon line of digital blocks. Even if you don't remember it...
Watch Out, Zynga: EA, Playfish want bigger piece of the Facebook pie
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...
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?
GameStop goes social shopping with new Facebook retail store
Filed under: Other Games While they've yet to get into the social games biz, GameStop just took one massive baby step in that direction with its very own Facebook shop, VentureBeat reports ....
PlayStation Home: Take A New Look At The Sodium Hub
This week, Lockwood has updated the Sodium Hub and they sent over the following introduction to the changes: It’s time for a brand new look at the Sodium Hub. While the Test Pilots...
Zynga’s Brian Reynolds explains why console developers fail on Facebook
Filed under: FrontierVille , Other Games Brian Reynolds, Zynga's chief games designer, sure seems to have an opinion on everything, and Industry Gamers has been there to hear every bit of it. His...
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...
Quote of the Moment: ‘[Zynga won] the first innings of social games’
![Quote of the Moment: ‘[Zynga won] the first innings of social games’](http://www.mygames-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/f422bf22ballblooper-373x354.jpg)
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games First and foremost, we're not even playing the game in the first innings of the social games.
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...
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...
World of Warcraft-maker Blizzard: FarmVille is ‘not evil’ [Interview]
![World of Warcraft-maker Blizzard: FarmVille is ‘not evil’ [Interview]](http://www.mygames-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/96cf6855zzard-execs-490x289.jpg)
Blizzard, the company responsible for what some might call the most popular social games of all time (long before FarmVille was a twinkle in Mark Pincus' eye), is celebrating 20 years in existence....
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 .
FarmVille maker and Zynga CEO Mark Pincus is worth $1 billion
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games Surely, Sean Parker is somewhere responding to the news with, "Yes, $1 billion is cooler." Forbes reports that Mark Pincus, the CEO of Zynga , is officially...
Disney acquires Warimals maker Rocket Pack
Filed under: Other Games Disney is apparently hoping to conquer the social gaming space outside of their acquisition of Playdom last summer , as they have picked up another social gaming company in...
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...
Gardens of Time: Facebook’s first fully realized hidden object game arrives in late March
Filed under: Other Games If there's one casual gaming genre that's been missing from Facebook -- it's the hidden object game.
Wishful Features: True in-game gifting in CityVille
Filed under: CityVille As we seem to be receiving more and more CityVille quests that require you to have one or more of a particular collectible item, I've come to the conclusion that...
‘FarmVille for Dummies’ is ready for harvest, but is it ripe for the picking?
Filed under: Farmville Following up on last November's announcement , FarmVille for Dummies is now done with pre-orders and ready for the picking and perusal of the aspiring virtual farmer. The paperback and...
FarmVille Cheats & Tips: Leprechaun Cottage gifting links
Filed under: Farmville Hello Farm-folks, It's Mr. Cheats here with the down-low on the things you shouldn't know
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
Take on the T.O.O.L. with Gun Bros on Facebook
Filed under: Other Games Hit Point Studios and Glu Games' have officially launched Gun Bros on Facebook. For those that are unfamiliar, the Gun Bros are a pair of soliders with super powers...
Age of Conan creator to pretty up Facebook with fashion social game
Filed under: Other Games Funcom , the publisher and developer behind hardcore MMOs like Age of Conan and the upcoming Secret World, is working on yet another social game. Publisher 505 Games has...
