Tweet It’s been a while since we’ve seen new districts being made available in Social City, but now that drought has been crushed in a big way. In addition, we see the release of a Mickey Mouse statue that will look great as the centerpiece of your Disney theme park in the game. Unlock New [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 20, 2010
Tweet At the end of July, we brought you the news that Disney had acquired social game developer Playdom for a sum of over $560 million. Since then, we’ve learned that Playdom will be developing a Marvel themed game (Marvel also being purchased by Disney last year), but little else has been heard from the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 3, 2010
Tweet 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 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 3, 2010
Tweet Playdom has released quite a few new items in Social City since we last spoke. While some of these updates are the usual Limited Edition or Build Menu items, there is now a new Neighbors tab that will allow you to customize and deal with all of your Social City neighbors (or potential neighbors) [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 2, 2010
Tweet It’s been a while since we talked about Market Street here on Frisky Mongoose. The last we time saw the game, it was during a new promotion with another Playdom title, Social City, that sees players of the latter receiving a free building for playing Market Street. Now, though, new features abound in the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 2, 2010
Tweet When City of Wonder launched on Facebook last month, we brought you a detailed hands-on of what to expect in Playdom’s newest game. Now that we’ve had a chance to get acquainted with the game, Playdom has started adding new content to the ancient city-builder, with this latest release seeing the release of a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Tweet Just yesterday, we brought you the news that Playdom has brought Social City to the Android, and today we can add another Facebook title to that list. In other Facebook news, we see that Playdom has now passed CrowdStar in terms of overall user numbers. Happy Island Now Available on Android Back in early [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Tweet Are core and casual games at a crossroads? Gen Katz, industry veteran and editor of Games4Girls/Games4Women, seems to think so. She’s graciously given the ‘Goose permission to share her latest gaming newsletter, which discusses some new and old revelations from Casual Connect 2010. Bopping from E3 (in LA) to Casual Connect, July 20-24 in [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Tweet Playdom is having a big week this week, as they have not only updated the Factory system in Social City with the release of the Super Factories, but they have also released a Social City app on the Android platform. Download Social City on Android If you don’t have an iPhone, but want to [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 26, 2010
Tweet Welcome to another edition of the Thursday Throwdown! After taking a break from Facebook games in our last installment, we return to that world once again this week. Before we do that though, let’s take a look at the results from our last Throwdown, which pitted the top two digital distribution services, Steam and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Tweet While no grand-scale updates have hit Playdom’s games so far this week, a few minor updates have been released, in the form of new limited edition buildings in both Social City and Tiki Resort. As limited edition, these items will only be available in both games for a short amount of time, in both [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 22, 2010
Tweet It’s been a while since we first took a look at Playdom‘s new game Fanglies, so we figured we’d give a quick update on some of the recent changes and features that have been released in the game. If you haven’t tried Fanglies yet, it might be the best time now – as the [...]
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
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