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    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 ...

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  • Hardcore and Back Again: Video Games in a Nutshell

    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 ...

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    The Time Has Come: Pokemon and Me 15 Years Later

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Add A Touch of Baroque Opulence to Your Restaurant City With New Decorations, Free Gifts and Food

22. July 2010

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Add A Touch of Baroque Opulence to Your Restaurant City With New Decorations, Free Gifts and Food

This week’s newest item theme in Restaurant City is Baroque Opulence, and while not as large as some past themes we’ve seen released in the game, there are still enough items here to give your restaurant a makeover. The theme starts with a set of Ebony and Ivory Palatial Chairs, which can be placed under [...]

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Celebrate the Psychedelic 60′s With New Restaurant City Decorations, Free Gifts, and Recipes

15. July 2010

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Celebrate the Psychedelic 60′s With New Restaurant City Decorations, Free Gifts, and Recipes

It’s Thursday, which means that another update has hit the virtual store shelves of Restaurant City. This week, rather than moving on to a new theme, Playfish has decided to stay put, at least for one more week, right in the 1960′s. We were introduced to the theme last week, with the basic items like [...]

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Restaurant City Free Fan Ingredient: Apple

10. July 2010

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Restaurant City Free Fan Ingredient: Apple

Restaurant City has dived straight in to the 60s, offering you and your guests peace, love, and free ingredients. The newest free ingredient offering is in the form of Apple and is available to Restaurant City fans only. If you aren’t a fan, you can become one over at the official Facebook page. You can [...]

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Decorate the Outside of Your Restaurant City With 1960′s Items

9. July 2010

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Decorate the Outside of Your Restaurant City With 1960′s Items

If you’ve already decorated the inside of your Restaurant City in the spirit of the 1960′s (check out the full lineup of items in our guide), and still have some money to spare, why not decorate the outside of your restaurant to match? Head out to Street View and click on the stack of red [...]

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Spread Peace, Joy and Love With Restaurant City 1960′s Items

9. July 2010

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Spread Peace, Joy and Love With Restaurant City 1960′s Items

As we told you earlier in the week, this week’s theme in Restaurant City is 1960′s Pop Chic, and just like every week, the new recipes (in this case, singular – see the Bundt Cake) precede the release of the decorative items by at least a day. However, the wait for the full theme is [...]

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Restaurant City Free Fan Ingredient: Coffee

7. July 2010

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Restaurant City Free Fan Ingredient: Coffee

To get us ready for the full release of 1960′s Pop Chic items in Restaurant City (as a reminder, new items hit the game every Thursday, so be sure to look out for our guide containing those items tomorrow), Playfish has released yet another free ingredient in the game, this time in the form of [...]

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Restaurant City Free Fan Ingredient: Mint

7. July 2010

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Playfish has released another free ingredient in Restaurant City. If you’ve been playing the game with any regularity recently, you’ll recognize this free ingredient as one that was handed out just a short time ago – a free Mint ingredient. The Mint will be a great garnish to any drink you make in your new [...]

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Get a New Pop Magic Box in Restaurant City

6. July 2010

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Get a New Pop Magic Box in Restaurant City

This week’s theme in Restaurant City will take us back to the 1960′s, with a slew of orange, pink, and green items that are sure to make you cool cats want to go out and buy them all. First though, the game has seen the release of a new Magic, or Mystery Box. What better [...]

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New Restaurant City Recipe: Bundt Cake

6. July 2010

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New Restaurant City Recipe: Bundt Cake

There’s a new theme in Restaurant City this week – 1960′s Pop Chic, and to go along with that, we have a new Dessert Recipe in the game: the Bundt Cake. The Bundt Cake is a dish with limited availability, meaning that if you don’t learn it in the next 19 days, it will be [...]

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Restaurant City Free Fan Ingredient – Cream

5. July 2010

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Restaurant City Free Fan Ingredient – Cream

Need some Cream in Restaurant City? You’re in luck! Playfish has decided to make the Cream ingredient their newest free ingredient, in a giveaway taking place on the game’s official Facebook fan page. The Cream, which is only available for the next 24 hours, goes along with an ad for the Drinks Tower decor item. [...]

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Restaurant City Free Fan Ingredient: Mint

4. July 2010

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Restaurant City Free Fan Ingredient: Mint

Playfish is wishing Restaurant City fans happy Independence Day with a free mint ingredient. Mint is the latest ingredient to be added to the game and is in short supply, so players will be thrilled. Mint has not been available as a free gift yet, so fans trying the new drink recipes have limited sources [...]

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Attract the Paparazzi to Your Restaurant With New Outdoor Hollywood Decorations

2. July 2010

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Attract the Paparazzi to Your Restaurant With New Outdoor Hollywood Decorations

You can now let your friends and potential customers in Restaurant City know exactly what they’ll see when they walk inside your Hollywood-themed restaurants by decorating the outside in like items. You can see these items by heading out to Street View and then clicking on the stack of red bricks you see there. First, [...]

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