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Brandy is a Contributing Editor at Frisky Mongoose focusing on the social side of the gaming world.
Thursday Throwdown: foursquare, Gowalla or MyTown? You Decide!
Welcome to another edition of the Thursday Throwdown! This week, we take a break from Facebook games to offer a Throwdown of epic check-in proportions. We’ll be taking a look at the three most popular mobile check-in services – foursquare, Gowalla, and Booyah’s MyTown. To start the comparison most simply, there are two main kinds [...]
Travel to Las Vegas in Mafia Wars!
Thursday, July 29, 2010
That’s right – after weeks of teasing us with the news that Las Vegas would be coming as a playable location in the game, Zynga has finally launched the city in Mafia Wars. You may or may not be happy to know, however, that the gameplay here has been changed a bit, so things won’t [...]
Zynga Gaming Updates: Free FarmVille Fuel Via Mafia Wars, FishVille Bayou Items
Thursday, July 29, 2010
A couple of updates have hit the world of Zynga’s Facebook games this week, with a new addition to FarmVille allowing users to receive free fuel thanks to a cross-promotion with Mafia Wars, and the addition of new Cajun Bayou items in FishVille. Level Up in Mafia Wars – Receive Free Fuel in FarmVille After [...]
FreeAppADay for 07/29/10: Tappi Adventures
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Today’s free iPhone app at FreeAppADay.com is Tappi Adventures, from Grabarchuk Puzzles. The game is a tile sorting puzzle game that sees a brightly colored picture broken into an assortment of rectangular tiles. These tiles have been “jumbled,” and you’ll need to tap on them to put the original picture back together. This is achieved [...]
Frisky Hands-On: Zoo Paradise for iPhone
Thursday, July 29, 2010
While Zynga’s FarmVille and Playdom’s Social City may receive most of the attention when it comes to Facebook games that have made the transition to iPhone titles, CrowdStar’s Zoo Paradise has also made the leap, thanks to YouWeb. Unlike another of CrowdStar’s iPhone games, Happy Island, Zoo Paradise instantly connects to your Facebook account, letting [...]
O-Games Announces Summer Lineup of Titles for Wii, DS, and PC
Thursday, July 29, 2010
O-Games has announced a whopping nine new games, all of which will launch throughout September and October. The games will be available for either the Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii or PC (and various combinations thereof for most games), and they encompass many genres, ranging from time management to makeup and fashion design. Here are the [...]
Nvinium Launches Space Empires: Battle for Supremacy on Facebook
Thursday, July 29, 2010
As we told you at the beginning of the month, Nvinium Games has been hard at work putting the finishing touches on their new Facebook game Space Empires: Battle for Supremacy. The game is the latest installment in the Space Empires franchise, which got its start in 1993, and has amassed a cult-like following in [...]
Frisky Hands-On: Big Blue Bubble Launches Home Sweet Home Online on Facebook
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Big Blue Bubble has created an online version of their hit game series Home Sweet Home on Facebook – appropriately enough, the game is called Home Sweet Home Online. The game can be most easily compared to something like Zynga’s YoVille, in that you’ll spend a large portion of time decorating your home, visiting your [...]
FarmVille Updates: New England Items, New Mystery Game, Free Fuel, One-Click Animal Buildings
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
FarmVille has been hit with quite a few updates already this week, including the launch of a new Mystery Game, complete with new prizes, new limited edition items from the New England theme, 0ne-click animal buildings, and a tweak concerning the Daily Fuel Boost email promotion. New Mystery Game Offers New Prizes First things first, [...]
FreeAppADay for 07/28/10: Blackout!
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Today’s free iPhone app at FreeAppADay.com is Blackout!, from Disney. The game sees you in charge of returning light to portions of the city that have been without power for too long. In the game’s Power Mode, you’ll be shown a grid that looks very much like Bejeweled or another match-three puzzler, but the gameplay [...]
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