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Zynga Moves to Facebook Credit Exclusivity
Earlier this year, Facebook and Zynga signed a five-year partnership that would see the developer’s games remaining on the social networking site throughout that period, and has now seen the developer transition to using Facebook Credits exclusively in the vast majority of their titles. As reported by our friends at Gamezebo, both Facebook and Zynga [...]
Continue reading...Target Stores First to Sell Facebook Credits Gift Cards
Friday, September 3, 2010
Beginning this Sunday, Target (a TriplePoint client) will be the first retailer to carry Facebook Credits gift cards in stores nationwide. This is great news for social gamers who can’t (or prefer not to) use a credit card to make online purchases, but still want to use premium virtual currency in Facebook games and apps. [...]
Continue reading...Free Facebook Credits from PayNearMe: Buy Virtual Goods with Cash
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
PayNearMe is the newest kid on the block in virtual payments, and making friends fast by offering free Facebook credits for a limited time. From the makers of Kwedit (another alternate virtual payment provider), PayNearMe lets you buy things online and pay with cash (at your neighborhood 7-Eleven store). To celebrate the new service (and [...]
Continue reading...Fiscal Friday: Online Gambling Bill Gaining Ground, Playdom Adopts Facebook Credits, Amazon and Facebook Partner
Friday, July 30, 2010
The social and online worlds saw a few financially-focused news story make it big this week, and we’re here to recap it all for you in this edition of Fiscal Friday. Here, we see the news of an online shopping partnership between Facebook and Amazon, the passing of an online gambling bill through the House [...]
Continue reading...Facebook News Wrap-Up: Free Facebook Credits for Playing Games, Bit.ly Links Now Working Again
Monday, July 19, 2010
A couple of interesting developments have presented themselves in the world of Facebook over the past few days – the first of which revolves around what appears to be a random giveaway of Facebook Credits to users, while the other addresses the recent “glitch” seen when users tried to post Bit.ly links to the social [...]
Continue reading...Facebook Closing Virtual Gift Shop August 1st
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Facebook has made the tough call to shut down its virtual goods store so that it can focus on expanding the Facebook Credits payments system. Jared Morgenstern, product manager for Facebook’s new games and credits team, says, “Closing the Gift Shop may disappoint many of the people who have given millions of gifts, but we [...]
Continue reading...Rixty Adding Facebook Credits to CoinStar
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Rixty, a service known for converting real money into virtual currency of all kinds for online games is moving into the Facebook space for the coin changing service CoinStar. This means you could take your pile of change to a CoinStar and instead of receiving cold hard cash, you would receive a number of Facebook [...]
Continue reading...What Zynga’s Game Closures Say about the Social Gaming Market
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
The recent hard times for the social gaming market have been harder on some games than others, as reported by Games.com. Last week, social-gaming mega-publisher Zynga decided to shut down two well-established parts of its catalog. First, the servers for Roller Coaster Kingdom (RCK) were shut off, then Ponzi Inc., a promising game Zynga got [...]
Continue reading...CrowdStar Adopts Facebook Credits as Sole Currency in Five-Year Agreement
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
As reported by Venture Beat, CrowdStar has confirmed a five-year agreement with Facebook that will see the game developer removing its own in-game currencies in order to allow Facebook Credits to be the exclusive premium currency offered. While CrowdStar has been offering Facebook Credits as a purchase option in its games, like Happy Island, Hello [...]
Continue reading...Child Spends $1400 on FarmVille Items
Sunday, April 11, 2010
The Guardian has released a story (as reported by Mashable) of a 12 year old boy in the United Kingdom that, between his own savings and his mother’s credit card, amassed £905 in debt by buying items in FarmVille. Around £288 of that total came from the boy’s own savings, while the rest, around £625 [...]
Continue reading...Pick Up a Premium Pearl Idol in Happy Aquarium
Monday, March 29, 2010
If you want to buy premium items in Happy Aquarium, but you don’t want to shell out real money to do so, you’ll most likely have to rely on the Pearls you earn with gaining levels (that is, instead of something like relying on potentially generous friends). However, with Pearls being so hard to come [...]
Continue reading...Playdom Adopts Facebook Credits as Currency in Tiki Resort
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Playdom’s Tiki Resort adopted the Facebook Credit system of virtual currency yesterday. The Facebook Credit system will take the place of Gems in the game, and will be used for future premium item purchases. If you are one of the many players who still have gems to your name, however, don’t fear, as Playdom has [...]
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