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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Dublin Challenge Mission Chapter 2 Now Open in Mafia Wars
Last week, Zynga launched a new challenge mission in Mafia Wars entitled Challenge Mission: Dublin – Rob the National Bank. This week, Chapter 2 of the mission has been released, but in order to access it, you will first have to complete Chapter 1 (check out our coverage of Chapter 1 by clicking on this [...]
Continue reading...Mafia Wars Dublin Challenge Mission Now Open!
20. September 2010
It’s time for yet another Challenge Mission to open in Mafia Wars, with this newest challenge offering users a chance to travel to a familiar (yet new) city in the game: Dublin. We say “familiar” because if you’ll remember back to the St. Patrick’s Day holiday, we were treated to a smaller, Dublin Derby themed [...]
Continue reading...Build an Armory in Mafia Wars
18. September 2010
In addition to the Chop Shop and Weapons Depot, there is now a new building available for you to outfit and utilize in Mafia Wars. The building comes in the form of the Armory, which will allow you to build, you guessed it, pieces of armor for your mafia. The Armory is available to collect [...]
Continue reading...Zynga 8 Game Challenge – $24,000 Giveaway in 24 Hours!
13. September 2010
Do you want to win $1,000? Of course you do! And wouldn’t you know it – Zynga wants you to as well! For today, and today only, Zynga is holding the 8 Game Challenge, rewarding $24,000 over today’s 24 hour period. While the promotion officially began at 12:01 AM this morning, you have until 11:59 [...]
Continue reading...Free Property Upgrade, Free Item With Game Card Purchase – Mafia Wars Updates
10. September 2010
“Free” is the operative word in Mafia Wars this week, as users are being given free items at every turn. There are two particular areas of interest where users can score some free loot. One is triggered by purchasing a Mafia Wars Game Card, while the other is achieved for simply clicking on a few [...]
Continue reading...Challenge the Bosses in Mafia Wars’ San Juan Event
9. September 2010
After the massive popularity of the “Beat the Feds” mission that was available in Mafia Wars in August, Zynga has added another Challenge Mission to the game, this time in the form a mission called “In’s On in San Juan.” This mission was released earlier, but due to some technical difficulties, was removed. These bugs [...]
Continue reading...Chapter 3 of Mafia Wars Mumbai Now Available
7. September 2010
Attention Mafia Wars players! Chapter 3 of the limited time Mumbai Challenge Mission is now available. This mission is called “Box Office Bombay,” which is in keeping with Mumbai’s overall theme of “Make a Killing at the Box Office.” Chapter 3 offers four more jobs for you to master: Arrange the Murder of the Star, [...]
Continue reading...Mumbai Challenge Mission 2 Now Available in Mafia Wars
31. August 2010
As we told you last week, the newest challenge mission in Mafia Wars takes us to Mumbai, with a mission tree called “Make a Killing at the Box Office.” Chapter 2 is now available in said mission, and is called “Fights, Cameras, Factions,” after the popular hollywood film phrase “Lights, Camera, Action!” The chapter contains [...]
Continue reading...zLotto – Win Prizes in FarmVille, FrontierVille, PetVille, YoVille and Mafia Wars
28. August 2010
Zynga has launched an entirely new website and giveaway system outside of Facebook proper, that uses a Zynga-based account, along with your Facebook account, to offer you free prizes in five of their games: FarmVille, YoVille, PetVille and Mafia Wars – FrontierVille prizes are coming soon. The website and promotion are called zLotto, and they [...]
Continue reading...Mafia Wars Mumbai Challenge Mission Now Open
24. August 2010
Much like Mafia Wars London before it, a new Challenge Mission has opened up in Mafia Wars, this time in the city of Mumbai. The Challenge’s tagline is “Make a Killing at the Box Office,” and as such, contains a theatrical theme. For those unfamiliar with the way Challenge Missions run in Mafia Wars, the [...]
Continue reading...Mafia Wars Cheats, Tips, Tricks and Strategies to Be Top Don
19. August 2010
Mafia Wars is one of Zynga’s oldest games, and it’s also one of the most complex – so complex in fact, that it can be easy to become overwhelmed when you’re first starting in the game, or even if you just take a break of a week or two! We’re here to help, though, as [...]
Continue reading...Mafia Wars Taps Snoop Dogg for Explosive Publicity Stunt
19. August 2010
It’s official — there’s nothing rapper Snoop Dogg won’t do. But seriously, August 19 (tonight) at 9 p.m. EST, the D-O-Double G will be on hand to light up the armored truck in honor of Mafia Wars Vegas reaching 10 million players. You will be able to watch the big bang streamed live from inside [...]
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