8 Reasons I Quit Playing Facebook Games
Two years ago, I ranted about the need for more challenge and chance in social games. Since then, the entire gaming industry has drastically changed. If I sound like a broken record on that note, it’s because in a fast-paced, high-tech market, it’s always true (and thus worth reiteration). It seems ...
How Not to Play Location-based Games like an Idiot
Welcome to the wonderful world of location-based games! I see you’ve just downloaded a copy of Traveler’s Quest, or Dokobots, or CodeRunner, or perhaps you’ve got yourself on foursquare for the first time. That’s great! You’re about to discover what geotagging and GPS-enabled mobile devices can add to gaming and ...
Abandoning Facebook: CrowdStar Joins OMGPOP, Kabam, Funzio in Mobile
CrowdStar, developer of popular Facebook games like Happy Aquarium and the "Girl" series (Modern Girl, Social Girl, Top Girl and It Girl), announced today that they will stop developing games for Facebook, according to an interview with All Things Digital. Peter Relan predicts that 90% of Crowdstar’s revenue will come ...
Don’t Be a Cheapskate: 4 Reasons Pay-What-You-Like Backfires
Pay-What-You-Like. You’ve sometimes seen it called Pay-What-You-Want. You’ve seen it while leaving your local museum or hippy café as a big box that says “Donations.” You’ve also seen it for Radiohead’s In Rainbows or with Humble Bundle, the collection of indie games offered for however much you’d like to pay ...
Cats Wearing GUNNARS: Zooey
Meet Zooey O'Leary. Zooey is sporting a pair of GUNNAR Optik's Attache Phenom glasses, and looking good doing it. If you've been following our Dogs Wearing GUNNARS series, you may notice something a bit off this week. Zooey is a frisky first - special edition feline! You can call her a "domestic ...
Hardcore and Back Again: Video Games in a Nutshell
The SNES was a young kid's dream (in the early 90's). Every game felt brand-spanking new, because it was. When video games first came along, "copycats" were neither a logical thing to consider, nor an option. Video games were casual. They were made for mainstream audiences. And back then, even the ...
5 Apps to Make You Smile
These are a few of my favorite digital things... This list is hardly comprehensive, nor is it in any particular order. Enjoy! 1. Timehop - This gets top billing because too few people know about it (and more should - it's neat). Basically, Timehop answers one question, every day, via email. "What did ...
The Time Has Come: Pokemon and Me 15 Years Later
Last year, when my mind was busy with summer vacation, I came home to an unsettling sight. Roxy's tumor had grown exponentially. Her arm was swelling up to a point where she couldn't even lift it. All attempts to remove the tumor would only make it grow back with a ...
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What Kind of Facebook Gamer Are You?
Facebook! It is everywhere and everything, and it consumes us all. I would bet ten dollars that, as you read this, you’ve got Facebook open right now in another tab or window. It is also home to several thousand games, with more arriving every day, appealing to audiences from every walk of life. So, how [...]
Continue reading...German Festival Items, Garden Mystery Game – FarmVille Updates!
30. September 2010
The German theme in FarmVille has taken on a bit of a different focus this week. While we still see the addition of some traditional German animals in the theme, the buildings and decorations are in a new “festival” sub-theme of sorts, that goes along with Oktoberfest. In addition, the Mystery Game has been updated [...]
Continue reading...BREAKING: Build A Super Combine in FarmVille – Harvest, Plow, and Plant in One Click!
29. September 2010
In the official FarmVille podcast from the second week of September, we were given a small teaser letting us know that something called a Super Combine would be coming to the game in the future. Very few details were known about the item then, but now the Super Combine has launched to the world, and [...]
Continue reading...FarmVille Podcast Explains Nursery Barn Glitch, Teases Avatar Customization
29. September 2010
The latest edition of the FarmVille podcast saw FarmVille Community Manager Lexilicious not only offering users a sneak peek of items that are coming soon to FarmVille, but also to explain a growing concern among users that chose to own more than one Nursery Barn. Recently, there has been numerous “technical” difficulties seen with users [...]
Continue reading...Complete FrontierVille Quests to Earn Items in FarmVille, Cafe World
29. September 2010
In an effort to grow the 30+ million user family that is known as FrontierVille, Zynga is offering users a chance to earn new items in other Zynga games, like Cafe World and FarmVille, for playing FrontierVille. For the Cafe World cross-promotion, we see a quest called “Homestead Cafe Part 1.” This quest asks you [...]
Continue reading...Send More School Supplies for Haiti, New German Decorations – FarmVille Updates!
27. September 2010
Last week, we brought you the news of Zynga’s latest fundraising attempt to help Haiti, this time asking users to send school supplies to one another in the hopes of crossing the 400 million sent mark, triggering a large donation on Zynga’s part of $100,000. That 400 million barrier has come and gone, but the [...]
Continue reading...Join Your Friends in New Crafting Co-Op Jobs in FarmVille
26. September 2010
We’ve known that Crafting Co-Op Farming Jobs would be coming to FarmVille for some time now, but we didn’t know when the feature would launch in full. Luckily, the wait is over, as Zynga has launched the feature, allowing you to join friends in Co-Op Farming jobs related to the three crafting buildings, growing crops [...]
Continue reading...Quacker’s Mystery Game, German Theme Continues – FarmVille Updates!
22. September 2010
The German theme in FarmVille has continued to expand this week with new limited edition items. In addition, the Mystery Game has been updated to the “Quacker’s Mystery Game,” which gives you an opportunity to win some fine feathered friends! Let’s take a look at these new updates in detail. German Theme Adds New Decorations, [...]
Continue reading...Germany Items, Sweet Seeds for Haiti Crop & Co-Op Job – FarmVille Updates!
20. September 2010
As we told you yesterday, FarmVille is one again holding a Sweet Seeds for Haiti event that will see users collecting School Supplies in order to fill their virtual Backpacks and receive free prizes. In addition to this, another Sweet Seeds for Haiti crop is once again available to grow in the marketplace for a [...]
Continue reading...Send School Supplies in FarmVille – Help Build A School in Haiti!
19. September 2010
With Zynga’s continued efforts to help the children of Haiti, they have launched their biggest promotion in FarmVille yet – one that will see the game’s community working to send hundreds of millions of virtual school supplies to one another, all in the hopes of reaching Zynga’s goal, triggering a large donation on the developer’s [...]
Continue reading...View Your Neighbors’ Stats, Re-Gift Your Free Gifts – FarmVille Updates!
17. September 2010
A few technical additions have been made to FarmVille this week, with Zynga now offering users a way to share their unwanted free gifts, and giving users the chance to more easily check out their own in-game stats, as well as those of their friends. Re-Gift Unwanted Gifts to Friends In the world of FarmVille, [...]
Continue reading...FarmVille Cheats: Nursery Barn Quick Links
17. September 2010
If you’re an active FarmVille player, it’s likely that you’re knee deep in Nursery Barn gift requests, as you work to expand your Nursery Barn to hold more baby animals, and work to help your friends do the same to theirs. With each FarmVille player only having access to two of the five items needed [...]
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