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Mafia Wars: Bangkok Fighting Now Open

Mafia Wars has woven slightly different iterations of the game in each of the locations, save for fighting.  Mafia Wars: Bangkok changes that by adding another variable in the list of who people can attack: whether they are aligned with Triad or Yakuza.  Little icons to the left of the attack button will clue you [...]

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PopCap Reviews Time in China So Far

PopCap’s vice president of Asia/Pacific James Gwertzman, posted a sixty slide presentation on the experience to date of leading casual game developer PopCap in China. A great deal of emphasis is placed on local development for the local market (in order to truly attain the company’s goal of global leadership.)  Let’s get it started [...]

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Prepare for Mafia Wars: Bangkok — Choose Yakuza

As we mentioned in the previous post, Mafia Wars: Bangkok is likely to force a permanent choice of factions.  Will you stand with the Triad or Yakuza?  Perhaps you’ve bought too many counterfeit DVDs from the Triads on your visits to Hong Kong and you’re ready to stand with Yakuza.  Hopefully they have forgotten about [...]

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Prepare for Mafia Wars: Bangkok — Choose Triad

Mafia Wars Bangkok has been listed as coming soon, with three items to find in preparation for its arrival: The Triad Coin, Yakuza Sake, and Thai Note.  The page intimates the faction choice you’ll make will be more determinative (and irreversible) than the choices in Mafia Wars: Moscow which are made with each episode.  You [...]

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Mafia Wars 10% Off Sale

My loyalty as an A/B test subject is being rewarded:

I’m not sure 10% off is a compelling discount…but that I’m even judging whether something is a compelling discount or not is a reflection of how seriously one begins to take the Federal Reserve of Zynga’s pricing in the first place!   This comes after a [...]

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Farmville Ad Parody

Remember when you were little if someone was mean to you because they actually were jealous of you, or actually liked you but couldn’t express their feelings? Click through for a great Youtube video…

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Atari Arcade launches with Five Classics

Emulators have made most classic videogames widely available on the net, including Atari’s.  Atari has now made available five of their classics available for free online at Atari Arcade.   Asteroids, Battlezone, Crystal Castles, Lunar Lander, and Yar’s Revenge.  It’s notable they are not re-launching them as social games.  For those who had a pang [...]

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Black Friday at Mafia Wars: Three New Items and a Sale

The Deals on Mafia Wars items are mostly in the 25% range.  Sales go up to 70% off for particular objects in a given hour.  Buying 20 items will get you a separate reward.

Will people buy 20 separate items to get an unknown reward?  All of the consumables are available (do people really pay for [...]

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20% off Special Offer in Farmville

Farms wait for no holiday.  In the midst of harvesting my peas, Zynga made an offer:

This is for 20% off.  Despite cancelling here, it is in fact available for ten more minutes if you return to the store within that window.  One doesn’t need to interrupt the harvesting to take the offer of this ten [...]

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Little Green Guys With Guns

A very cool looking new turn-based strategy game; enjoy!
http://lggwg.com/main/tour1

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