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I Play SimCity Social for the Writing
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User-Generated Content and Generating Contented Users
We at Frisky Mongoose like to play a lot of location-based games; it’s kind of our thing. There have been a lot of them over the years, as designers and developers have tried to gamify ...
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Goodbye, LucasArts, and Thank You
This is my Corley Motors keychain. Corley Motors is a fictional motorcycle manufacturer that the player, as gang leader Ben, must save from a hostile takeover in the classic LucasArts adventure Full Throttle. Together with Grim Fandango and ...
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, ...
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! ...Archive | Mafia Wars RSS feed for this section
Dublin Challenge Mission Chapter 2 Now Open in Mafia Wars
Tweet 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 [...]
Continue reading...Mafia Wars Dublin Challenge Mission Now Open!
20. September 2010
Tweet 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 [...]
Continue reading...Build an Armory in Mafia Wars
18. September 2010
Tweet 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 [...]
Continue reading...Zynga 8 Game Challenge – $24,000 Giveaway in 24 Hours!
13. September 2010
Tweet 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 [...]
Continue reading...Free Property Upgrade, Free Item With Game Card Purchase – Mafia Wars Updates
10. September 2010
Tweet “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 [...]
Continue reading...Challenge the Bosses in Mafia Wars’ San Juan Event
9. September 2010
Tweet 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 [...]
Continue reading...Chapter 3 of Mafia Wars Mumbai Now Available
7. September 2010
Tweet 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 [...]
Continue reading...Mumbai Challenge Mission 2 Now Available in Mafia Wars
31. August 2010
Tweet 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 [...]
Continue reading...zLotto – Win Prizes in FarmVille, FrontierVille, PetVille, YoVille and Mafia Wars
28. August 2010
Tweet 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 [...]
Continue reading...Mafia Wars Mumbai Challenge Mission Now Open
24. August 2010
Tweet 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, [...]
Continue reading...Mafia Wars Cheats, Tips, Tricks and Strategies to Be Top Don
19. August 2010
Tweet 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, [...]
Continue reading...Mafia Wars Taps Snoop Dogg for Explosive Publicity Stunt
19. August 2010
Tweet 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 [...]
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