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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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New York Times Surveys Location-Based Games

All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, This morning the New York Times did a profile of a number of cellphone-based games including ones from Giant Mechanic, Area/Code, PerBlue, and Groundspeak.  These are [...]

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Just Joined! in Mafia Wars

It is important for Zynga to initiate people into the gifting items culture of Mafia Wars.   The new addition of “Just Joined” designations in the gifting screen is an important step for that. Like much of the iterative software development culture, this will be A-B tested til its right.  Right now, Kate doesn’t particularly [...]

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The Taunts of Bejeweled Blitz

Sometimes my Bejewelled Blitz biorhythms just aren’t going to be there. I can’t bring my A game every game. Do I not want it badly enough? Bejewelled Blitz sure thinks so.  A holder of many a 250k+ medal but, human, all too human.  Whoops! This is a delicate nudge to give the causal game player, [...]

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Finally, an Untraceable Cell Phone Motherlode

Looking to accelerate your slog through the late New York jobs where cell phones are required?  Mafia Wars: Moscow’s “Arrange a Drug Shipment for the Mafiya” finally has given us a mother lode: a solid majority of the competed missions are generating Untraceable Cell Phones: I just had a 12 for 14 run for example.  The [...]

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