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Country Story Gives Treants the Axe

Wow. I have never seen Playfish backpedal from a feature so quickly, but at least it’s good to know they do listen to their players. In a post on the Country Story forums this morning, a Playfish representative confirmed that, due to overwhelmingly negative feedback, yesterday’s new “Treant” feature would be removed from the game. [...]

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Country Story Update Adds Treants, Rock Star Items

You know what’s missing from the authentic farming experience in Country Story? Disco balls and gyrating hippos named “Lady Haha.” Good thing Playfish has added these items, and more, to their Facebook farming game. Most of all, however, the new update has implemented quite a few changes in the way we’ll be farming for fruit [...]

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Country Story Update Brings Western Items, Charity, and a Contest, Pardner

Yee-haw! Now this here’s a real Country Story, what with this week’s update from Playfish lettin’ us turn our farms into Western-type ranches. That’s just for starters, though, so hang onto yer hats! First of all, seems Playfish wants to do the neighborly thing for victims of the Haiti earthquake. If all of us can [...]

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Country Story Update Adds New Crops and Items, Dozens of New Quests

Like my colleague, Ms. Hancock, I’m a Facebook farming fan; my agricultural diversion of choice is Country Story, a Playfish app. The farming game has all the earmarks of its rural contemporaries, including plowing, planting, animal management, and so on. I’ve been playing the game for several months now — my farm is a respectable [...]

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PlayMesh Sows Success with iFarm on iPhone

The latest release from iPhone game developer, PlayMesh is a familiarly rural game called iFarm.  iFarm just launched this week, and is already the number one free game on the iPhone App Store. It’s basically a dream come true for PlayMesh, who set out in 2008 to bring social gaming to the iPhone. Now the [...]

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