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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Playfish Releases New “Basic” Hotel City Items
As Playfish says on the Hotel City fan page, “sometimes in a hotel, it’s the little things that count.” Taking that message seriously, the developer has released a series of small functional items in Hotel City, perfect for any bathroom spaces you may be decorating, or for the entire hotel room in general. Some of [...]
Continue reading...Get Patriotic With Flags in Hotel City
30. May 2010
We’ve seen flags appear in a number of Facebook games recently. Some of them are tied directly to the Memorial Day holiday tomorrow (like Restaurant City’s new free gift), while others appear a little more outward facing. Playfish has now added flags to Hotel City, representing a total of 16 different locales. Each flag costs [...]
Continue reading...New Hotel City Outside Items Are Here!
29. May 2010
Playfish has made good on their promise and delivered the first helping of outside decorations for your hotel in Hotel City. The new decorations can be found in the Build section, all the way at the bottom, in the Ground Decorations tab. There are currently only nine items available, five of which are purchasable by [...]
Continue reading...Hotel City Outside Items Coming Soon
22. May 2010
Have you been wishing you could personalize the outside of your hotel? Soon you will be able to! Playfish has been listening closely to fan requests and will be adding new outdoor decorations to Hotel City starting on Monday, May 24th. There are no details yet on how many items they will be adding, but [...]
Continue reading...Playfish Adds Bathroom Fixtures to Hotel City
19. May 2010
Think for a moment about all of the available rooms in Hotel City – the bar, restaurant, movie theater, arcade, and even the guest rooms themselves. Now think of the one important room type that’s missing. I’ll give you a hint – every building has at least one, and you use it everyday. Give up? [...]
Continue reading...Ahh! There’s a Ghost in My Hotel City!
19. May 2010
Quick! Someone call the Ghostbusters, my hotel in Hotel City is haunted! Ok, so that may be a bit of an over-dramatic take on the situation, but Playfish has added a new game mechanic to Hotel City that sees hotels becoming haunted, starting on fire, having air conditioning problems and more. While these instances occur [...]
Continue reading...New Executive Suites In Hotel City
15. May 2010
There are new items available in the guestroom section: suites! Suites are like little apartments for your poshest guests; complete with bathroom and living area in addition to bedroom, they have got all the comforts of home. Good news for you, because your guests will pay out the nose for those comforts. There are two [...]
Continue reading...Help, My Gifts are Expired!
15. May 2010
It’s been a frustrating few weeks for players of some Facebook games. You log in, see that you have a list of gift requests, start accepting gifts, and then you get a message telling you that the gift that was sent 15 minutes ago is expired! Earlier this week we were told about a work [...]
Continue reading...Discover a Hotel Reviewer, Receive a Decoration in Hotel City
8. May 2010
By now you have probably discovered and thoroughly enjoyed the ability to poke sleeping guests. Sometimes they reward you with money, and sometimes they don’t, but it’s always funny to watch them pop up in their beds and wave at you. Now there is another reason to click on your guests: some of them are [...]
Continue reading...Playfish Celebrates Mother’s Day in Hotel City with New Items
6. May 2010
Playfish has added a few items to Hotel City in celebration of the upcoming Mother’s Day holiday. However, these aren’t decorative items that you can buy from the store, no sir (or ma’am, if you prefer) – these are two new items that are available to send to friends via the game’s free gifts menu. [...]
Continue reading...Hotel City – 3 Easy Ways to Earn Coins
1. May 2010
Wages, rooms, and decorations are expensive! Luckily there are 3 easy ways to earn coins in Hotel City, in addition to starting a shift and letting your staff take care of the rest. #1. Make friends! When you visit a friend’s restaurant for the first time you’ll earn an even 1,000 coins. Convince your friends [...]
Continue reading...Playfish Celebrates Itself in Hotel City
29. April 2010
The item theme in Hotel City this week is Playfish. No, that’s not a typo – Playfish has decided to celebrate themselves with the release of a few new items in the game that contain the company’s fish logo as part of their design. However, I suppose in an effort to not seem entirely conceited, [...]
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