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Team 4: Woman Scammed Hundreds Playing Popular Facebook Game
WTAE Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH -- FarmVille is one of the most popular games on Facebook, but a Greene County woman told Team 4 that she found out the hard way that it's become a hot spot for scams. Gale Hunnell told Team 4's Paul Van Osdol that she was playing the game ...
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Houghton division sues Zynga over 'Oregon Trail' video game
Bizjournals.com
The Learning Co., a division of Boston-based publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, is suing Zynga Inc., maker of the popular Facebook games "Mafia Wars" and "Farmville," over the use of the name "Oregon Trail" in an upcoming release. ...
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Digital Chocolate Launches Army Attack on Facebook
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Digital Chocolate, a leader in social games across growing platforms, today announced the launch of Army Attack™ on Facebook. Army Attack gives players the chance to create and command their own army on the leading social ...
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Kill3rCombo Whets Players' Appetites with Facebook Game that Carries Bonuses ...
MCV
May 19, 2011– Time to sharpen your fast and furious melee combat skills with the action-packed social network game Trials of Elsword – the Facebook companion app to massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) Elsword . ...
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Jamie Oliver brings the food revolution to Restaurant City on Facebook
Games.com News (blog)
Playfish's Restaurant City is one of the top 25 Facebook games with 5.7 million monthly active users. Players have the chance to tap into their inner restaurateur -- decorating and running their own establishment, including choosing which recipes to ...
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European start-ups shy away from IPO frenzy
Reuters
"I am sorry but when Zynga is worth $10 billion something is a bit strange" he said, referring to the online gaming company best known for Farmville, a popular Facebook game. "If this is not a bubble, I don't know what is." (Editing by Greg Mahlich)
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The Amazing Puzzle Factory Brings Traditional Pen and Paper Puzzles to Facebook
Inside Social Games
By Pete Davison The Amazing Puzzle Factory is a Facebook game from British company IdeasPad, loosely based on their Puzzler World titles for the Nintendo DS, which are in turn licensed from long-running British puzzle magazine, Puzzler. ...
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S'pore games aim for world stage
AsiaOne
The Singapore studio of Japanese firm Tecmo Koei – famed for its Romance Of The Three Kingdoms games – is launching an online social-networking game called JollyWood today. The first Facebook title for the Singapore studio, it was made almost entirely ...
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AsiaOne
Pretty Simple Raises $3.6 Million from IDInvest Partners
PR Newswire (press release)
Our games are based on many others on Facebook that we like, but we try to put our own stamp on it with humor, challenges and surprises!" Before founding Pretty Simple, Bastien Cazenave and Corentin Raux developed several games on Facebook, ...
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Lady Gaga, Zynga team up to Launch GagaVille
Wakey Wakey News
By Amber Allen Lady Gaga and Zynga, the company that has found success with Facebook games "FarmVille" and "CityVille", have joined forces. Fans of Lady Gaga or as she calls them "her little monsters" can now access the singer's music by playing ...
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Seth Priebatsch: Life is a game
CNN
The last decade of tech, he says, was all about social apps and websites, like Facebook and MySpace. Now, he says, we're in the decade of games -- a time in which technologists are working to build a "game layer" on top of the real world. ...
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CNN
Modern Warfare 3 reveal premiere set for May 23
Computerandvideogames.com
Activision has announced via the Modern Warfare 3 Facebook page that the game will premiere during the Western Conference Finals. In its own words: "Tune in for the Modern Warfare 3 World Premiere on May 23rd during game 4 of the Western Conference ...
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New Diablo III Artwork Unveiled
Inside Mac Games
Blizzard Entertainment recently revealed a new piece of concept art to celebrate the 925000 Likes milestone on its official Diablo III Facebook page. The game will allow players to revisit the world of Sanctuary where they must once again take up arms ...
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WinADay's New 'Fruitful 7s' Slot Machine Goes Back to Basics -- Name-the-Game ...
Einnews Portugal
It's a no download casino so there's nothing to install or set up, players can go straight to the games. Details of a contest to name the next new slot machine will be announced next week on WinADay's player community page on Facebook: ...
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Social Game Developer PopCap Games Prepares For IPO
Scribbal
PopCap recently acquired ZipZapPlay in order to expand its social gaming division (PopCap is the third biggest game developer on Facebook, with more than 5 million active daily users), and has launched a social version of "Plants vs Zombies" on Chinese ...
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Senators push mobile privacy improvements
Politico
John Kerry took aim at witnesses from Apple, Google and Facebook testifying on Thursday. | AP Photo Close By TONY ROMM | 5/19/11 11:55 AM EDT The Senate's top consumer protection panel Thursday opened its hearing on mobile phone privacy with a grand ...
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Politico
Fullmetal Battle Alchemizes Into A RPG For iPhone, Android, And Facebook
Siliconera
So, your custom character can dual with Edward Elric or his younger, but taller brother Alphonse. The battle system appears to be a mix of card games and traditional RPGs since you use items, but still develop character skills.
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Playtika Acquired By Caesars Entertainment Casino Group For $80M To $90M
Inside Social Games
According to our traffic tracking service, AppData, the developer enjoys 2.9 million monthly active users and 643000 daily active users across all its Facebook games. Playtika reports it has 9 million total users worldwide across multiple social ...
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Zynga Buy 14 Companies
Business Area
CALIFORNIA – Zynga recently bought social gaming DNA Games studio, making it the purchase of the 14 since last year. DNA Games is the studio behind the game Facebook, Casino City, Slots City and Barworld. Casino City which is the most popular games of ...
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Jennifer Lawrence Talks Playing "Katniss Everdeen" In 'The Hunger Games'
Clevver TV
... http://bit.ly/j0zYmy http://Facebook.com/ClevverTV - Become a Fan! http://Twitter.com/ClevverTV - Follow Us! How's it going, everyone? I'm Dana Ward and this is ClevverTV. We gotta thank Entertainment Weekly for the first look of Hunger Games star, ...
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E-commerce innovation fades as competitors rush to replicate ideas
Bellingham Herald
Zynga's games had gained popularity on Facebook. Dash, of Institutional Venture Partners, said the social Web has revitalized the online gaming sector because playing "against people you know in your social graph makes the game much more interesting. ...
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BioWare 2011: The Doctors Speak
Gamasutra
by Kris Graft [Business, Game Design, Interview] In this extensive interview, Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, founders of BioWare, speak to Gamasutra about the company's current efforts -- everything from launching Dragon Age II to its Facebook companion ...
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Gamasutra
These apps helpbusiness to boom
San Antonio Express
But services such as Foursquare, Gowalla, SCVNGR and Facebook Places are more than just quirky games that give away your location. They're becoming a way for merchants to drive up sales and encourage customer loyalty. ...
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Top quotes from the Global Technology Summit
Reuters
Asked if free games on sites such as Facebook would be a threat: "I don't see where the threat is, it's not even selling to the same people. We know perfectly that the people who download Modern Combat: Black Pegasus ... are not the people who are ...
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Now There's a Safer Way to Pay And Play Online
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Prepaid game cards are available for some of the world's most popular online games, including facebook's most popular games such as FarmVille, CafeWorld and FrontierVille; Riot's League of Legends; Xbox; RuneScape and of course, Sony PlayStation. ...
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Facebook's Future: F-Commerce - Unleashing the Power of Personal Recommendations
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
More than 10% of Facebook's revenues come from its "freemium" services (mostly games) developed by third party software partners, who have become key to Facebook's success in its transaction-based businesses. Facebook is currently passing through an ...
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Gary's Islander Review – #7 Trent Hunter – and some Canuck thoughts.
Eyes on Isles
He had a goal and three assists in 17 games with a -4 and 23 penalty minutes. However, I think that he is realizing that his offensive output is not part of his game. It is the mucking, grinding, getting dirty in the corners type of game that the ...
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Upfronts: CW Helps Advertisers Play Games With Viewers
Deadline.com
The first is a Bingo-like game called CWingo: Viewers will go to CW.com or Facebook to find a card with images from a show, and cross off squares when the image on the card matches what's on the screen. "Watching commercials earns viewers more squares ...
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LeBron James and the Miami Heat: The Up and Down Coverage of a Dangerous Team
Bleacher Report
Great, I won't be able to look up last night's box score till 4 pm, which, by that time, I will have completely forgotten about my original quest, log on to Facebook twice, tweet once then go back into Yahoo to start the cycle again. ...
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Bleacher Report
Open letter to Sony: Two free games? Thanks, but no thanks
ZDNet (blog)
I do hope nobody ever reads my Facebook page, or I'm in real trouble. They might have stolen my credit card details? Well, as it turns out, we put our details in a lot of places. It's pretty worrying how casually we do so. I know this probably sounds ...
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How Strong Are Network Effects Online, REALLY?
The Business Insider
In a now-paywalled PEHub interview, a parnter at Founders Fund, a big Facebook investor, said they had the opportunity to invest in Zynga but didn't because they thought social games were a hit-based business without strong network effects. ...
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The Business Insider
Tagged hires former EA, Pogo VP to run social games, compete with Facebook
Games.com News (blog)
The self-proclaimed social network for meeting new people, Tagged, has hired Andrew Pedersen (pictured) as VP and general manager of its brand new social games division. Formerly VP of EA's casual web games portal, Pogo, Pedersen will oversee the ...
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Beavers in good shape for posteason
Corvallis Gazette Times
Or is it on Facebook and Twitter nowadays? Projections come out all year and most of the times are worthless. However, with six games left for the Oregon State baseball team it is worth checking out what the national media predicts. ...
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A nun, WWII vet and fireman among 20 finalists in Giants fan contest
ESPN (blog)
And there's an 89-year-old woman who is a tailgate master host and hasn't missed a home game since 1976. These are five of the 20 finalists who entered the Giants contest on Facebook.com/NewYorkGiants to potentially have their photo appear on a game ...
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Answering for my rankings
ESPN
Frank Cas Florez (via Facebook): What's your favorite non-sports video game? TMR: Sad to admit, I'm among the millions addicted to "Angry Birds." It's awesome on a tablet. Have gotten through all of the original and halfway through the Holiday one. ...
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ESPN
Google Takes Social Search Global, 19 More Languages
Scribbal
... an obscure blog covering their games, his blog will most likely appear high up in your search results. What's interesting about this announcement is that it comes soon after a huge social media scandal involving Google and Facebook just last week. ...
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Scribbal
GameStop Reports Record First Quarter 2011 Results
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
The top five selling games during the quarter were Nintendo's Pokémon Black and White, Mortal Kombat from Warner Home Video Games, Capcom's Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, Call of Duty: Black Ops from Activision and THQ's Homefront. ...
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Matt Elrod: I felt like God was literally carrying me through 'Survivor'
Reality TV World
That's really what the strength that I was trying to convey was where I was getting it from. It wasn't necessarily progressing in the game, but yes. Get more Reality TV World! Follow us on Twitter, friend us on Facebook or subscribe to our RSS feed.
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Reality TV World
Final Fantasy Tactics Finally Hits iOS in June/July
Escapist Magazine
We'd known about an iOS port of Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions for some time now - last year at the very least - and Square-Enix finally posted an update on its Downloadable Games Facebook page regarding its release date. As it turns out, ...
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Tech companies measure online sentiment
San Francisco Chronicle
The company was one of Silicon Valley's most-loved businesses in a report by NetBase Solutions Inc., a social-media analysis firm in Mountain View that looked at 18 billion postings on sites such as blogs, forums, Facebook and Twitter over the past 12 ...
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Checkmate: Bingo Books Their Ticket To The Calder Cup Finals
SenShot
After almost breezing through the first three games of their semi-final series with the Charlotte Checkers, the home team had to fight through everything the Checkers could throw at them in Game #4 last night. Charlotte, refusing to fade quietly into ...
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Live 5 News
Facebook offers tools and services for everyone. You can share photos and videos, stay in touch with friends, browse pictures, read news stories, plan events, network, play games, chat and just have fun. If you are ready to sign up, go to facebook.com ...
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Press Release on New Mobile TNA Video Game
TNAStars.com
"It's extremely important that we make our games accessible on as many devices as possible," stated Carlson Choi, vice president of Marketing, NAMCO BANDAI Games America. "The joy of a slam-takedown is universal for wrestling fans and casual gamers ...
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