Tag Archive | "FarmVille"
What Zynga’s Game Closures Say about the Social Gaming Market
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...Top 25 Facebook Games: July 2010
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Over at Inside Social Games, they’ve posted a list of the top 25 Facebook games for this month. First, here’s the chart: As the site notes, older games with a larger installed base have slowly, but steadily been bleeding players. In particular, FarmVille is the title that is seeing a monthly outflow of players. As [...]
Continue reading...Farmville at your Fingertips
Friday, June 25, 2010
After a year solely on the computer, Farmville-obsessed iPhone/iPad users can rejoice for the newly released Farmville app. That’s right! You don’t have to settle for other farming apps anymore (however, I will keep Zombie Farm)! No more desperate calls to any friend near a computer to harvest your pumpkins while you’re at work (I’m [...]
Continue reading...Contest Reminder! Zynga + 7-Eleven = Free Stuff for FarmVille, Mafia Wars & YoVille
Friday, June 25, 2010
Frisky Friday reminder – if you haven’t entered our contest yet, head over to the forum now to win free gift cards from 7-Eleven and Zynga! All commenters will be entered in a random drawing and 10 will win a free $10 gift card. Contest winners will be announced next Monday, so don’t delay. To [...]
Continue reading...Thursday Throwdown – FarmVille or Farm Town? You Decide
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Welcome to another installment of the Thursday Throwdown – we’ve taken a bit of a break from the feature for the last two weeks, in order to bring you coverage of the E3 gaming convention in Los Angeles, but we’re back and better than ever, with the biggest Throwdown we’ve ever had, pitting the biggest [...]
Continue reading...Social Game Currency Crowdsources Payments: Real Work, Fake Money
Monday, June 21, 2010
Social game players are used to doing virtual work (i.e. harvesting fake crops) for virtual money (i.e. Farmville cash). But that concept has taken a strange twist recently: players exchanging real work for virtual cash. The fake-money-for-real-work idea is becoming increasingly popular, according to a recent San Francisco Chronicle profile on crowdsourcing company Crowdflower. The [...]
Continue reading...Enter to Win! Zynga + 7-Eleven + Contest = Free Stuff for FarmVille, Mafia Wars & YoVille
Monday, June 21, 2010
Now that you can snag special-edition virtual items for FarmVille, Mafia Wars and YoVille by stocking up on snacks at 7-Eleven – Who doesn’t want to win a free 7-Eleven gift card? (Rhetorical question.) To celebrate the new Zynga cross-promotion at BuyEarnPlay.com, 7-Eleven (the Integer Group, a FreshWorks agency) has kindly provided Frisky Mongoose with [...]
Continue reading...Steve Kirk Talks Farmville Tune
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Neil Vidyarthi of Social Times recently had the pleasure of meeting the man who wrote the Farmville song: Steve Kirk. If you are (or were) an avid farmer, you’re most likely very familiar with the Farmville tune. I can hear the lazy, relaxing guitar in my head right now. When asked about the inspiration for the song, [...]
Continue reading...“The Facebook Effect” on Farmville in Taiwan
Thursday, June 10, 2010
You think you like Farmville? Your neighbors? Your neighbors’ neighbors? How about 26% of the country? In Taiwan that’s was the case. As reported by The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick: In Taiwan, Facebook usage –mostly on PCs–soared in 2009 for one reason: the Farmville game from Zynga. Playing it became almost a national obsession, [...]
Continue reading...Zombie Farm: Carrots and Corpses
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Farmville’s unexpected popularity in 2009 spawned a slew of other farm-based games on Facebook. Since you can’t take Farmville on the go, a variety of farm-themed apps were developed to satisfy your green thumb: Tap Farm, Farm Frenzy, Pocket Farm, and the list goes on and on. It’s undeniable that farming is all the rage right now, but [...]
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