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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Social City Updates: Sumo Wrestling, Junkyard, Free Items & More
Playdom hasn’t let yesterday’s acquisition announcement with Disney stop them from updating their Facebook games, as Social City has received two noteworthy upgrades already this week. The first comes in the form of new limited edition items available to purchase from the game’s Newspaper, while the other is found on both the game’s free gifts [...]
Continue reading...Playdom Gaming Updates: New Social City Buildings, Tiki Farm Mother Goose Items, and Tiki Resort Wonders
26. July 2010
Playdom has been hard at work updating their games over the last few days, and we’re here to share all of that news with you! In Social City, we see the release of new limited edition buildings in the game’s newspaper, while Tiki Farm contains a new Charm that will help you rescue you crops [...]
Continue reading...Social City Updates: Voting Now Open in Design Contest, New Limited Edition & Permanent Buildings
23. July 2010
Social City has updated quite a bit this week, as we see not only new limited edition buildings being available in the game’s newspaper, but we also see new permanent buildings being added to the Build Menu, and the launch of fan voting in the game’s first ever Design Contest. New Limited Edition Buildings: Griffon [...]
Continue reading...Social City Weekend Wrap-Up: New Limited Edition Buildings, Build Menu Items, & Bonus on Game Card Purchases
19. July 2010
Once again, Playdom was busy over the weekend, updating Social City with loads of new goodies. The game’s newspaper now offers new limited edition buildings, and the Build Menu now offers some new permanent editions that will give everyone something to look forward to. Finally, Playdom is offering some great incentive to users who pick [...]
Continue reading...Social City Updates: Get A Taste of the Wild West, or Go Green With New Solar Homes
14. July 2010
Playdom has added a few new items to Social City via two game updates. The first update sees a new addition being added to the game’s lineup of five limited edition buildings, while the second update is to the game’s free gifts page. Add A Pink Western Mansion to Your Town There is but one [...]
Continue reading...Social City Weekend Wrap-Up: New Limited Edition Buildings, Free City Bucks, & New Contracts
12. July 2010
If you didn’t play Social City this weekend, you missed out on a few major game updates. We now have new limited edition buildings to choose from, along with a new cross-promotion that will see all participants walking away with 85 City Bucks, and even some new contracts for high level players. New Limited Edition [...]
Continue reading...Playdom Adds New Residential Item, Free Gifts to Social City
9. July 2010
To go along with the new limited edition buildings that are available in the Social City newspaper, Playdom has released not only a new, permanent residential building, but has also released four new free gifts, all fitting into the “Trailer Community” theme. First, though, the Residential item – the building is a Subsidized Housing apartment [...]
Continue reading...New Social City LE Buildings: Trailer Community and Olympic Swimming Pool
9. July 2010
There are two new limited edition buildings available to purchase in the Social City newspaper. The two items are quite different, being at totally opposite ends of the spectrum. First, we have the Olympic Swimming Pool, which is a large item, taking up a 3×3 square area of land. It can be purchased for 49 [...]
Continue reading...New Social City Building: Museum of SCIENCE!
8. July 2010
Playdom has released a new limited edition building in Social City, and it comes in the form of a Museum of SCIENCE! No, the caps haven’t been added by me – you really have to say the word “science” with feeling, as Playdom designed it that way. At any rate, the building takes up a [...]
Continue reading...Design A Building for Social City and Earn 100 City Bucks
8. July 2010
Have you always had a great idea for a new building in Playdom’s Social City? What about a terrain item or decoration? If you answered yes to either question, then Playdom’s new “Social City Building Design Contest” is for you! The contest asks you to come up with a building, terrain, road or decoration idea [...]
Continue reading...FrontierVille Still Gaining Fast on Facebook, Social City on the Rise Agaian
6. July 2010
The latest AppData statistics suggest that FrontierVille isn’t done gaining users, along with a few other surprises. FrontierVille is still the biggest gainer in its whopping lead of 3.4 million users this week. This brings its total to a whopping 15.2 million. Other gainers like newcomer Verdonia from Playdom is also gaining fast with the [...]
Continue reading...New Social City Buildings: Observatory, Wishing Fountain and… UFOs?
6. July 2010
There are five new items available in Social City, all of which can be found on the front page of the New City Gazette, the game’s newspaper that loads each time you enter the game. These buildings are limited edition buildings, meaning that they will only be available to a certain amount of people (in [...]
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