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Tecmo Koei launches new Facebook game
Channel News Asia
Revenues from the game are expected to come from in-game item purchases. JollyWood is Tecmo Koei's first Facebook platform game, developed in 2010, and the first original intellectual property developed in Singapore. Tecmo Koei's parent company in ...
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Reuters Summit-Competition gets ugly in hot mobile games market
Reuters
O) and privately held Zynga, maker of Facebook games including FarmVille, have gone on the acquisition trail. Screen Digest tracked 26 mobile gaming-related acquisitions last year, up from 12 in 2009, and 11 in the first quarter of this year. ...
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Pocket God on Facebook Awarded 'Best Social/Casual Game' at the Canadian ...
Gamasutra
Yesterday at the 2nd annual Canadian Videogame Awards in Vancouver, Frima Studios received the award for Best Social/Casual game for Pocket God on Facebook. Since its release in December 2010, the playful "Good God, Bad God" simulator has quickly made ...
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'Army Attack' Game Lets You Wage War On Facebook
Scribbal
Get ready to assemble your own army and take down the bad guys with social game developer Digital Chocolate's latest Facebook game, "Army Attack." The game gives you the opportunity to create and command your own army on the world's biggest social ...
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Scribbal
3 Ways Apps, Games, And Facebook Pages Are Combating Corruption
Fast Company
BY Gregory Ferenstein Today A Foursquare game for bribes, a Facebook page for traffic violators, and an app where police officers help reveal speed traps are powered by transparency--and shame. Mark Zuckerberg might serve as a better model than James ...
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Fast Company
Facebook Adds UK Dev Mediatonic To Preferred Consultant Program
Gamasutra
"We're thrilled to have been selected for the PDC program and are very excited to be launching several original games for Facebook over the next few months," Mediatronic director of games Paul Croft said in a statement. Mediatonic has worked on dozens ...
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Gamasutra
BUZZ: Lady Gaga on top; video games for cats; "geosocial" universe visuals
KXLH Helena News
Lady Gaga tops the Forbes' list of most powerful entertainers; feline friends finally get their own video games; more alcohol means more Facebook friends for college guys?; and a look at the "geosocial" universe. Read on... >>> Move over, Oprah - make ...
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Lawsuit targets 'Oregon Trail' game
Bizjournals.com (blog)
The Learning Co. is suing Zynga over the use of the name "Oregon Trail" in the May 30 release of its newest Facebook game "Frontierville's Oregon Trail," as reported earlier by our sister publication the Boston Business Journal. ...
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Jamie Oliver is the latest celebrity to jump into social games
Los Angeles Times
More than 250 million people play games every month on Facebook, the dominant social networking platform with 600 million users. EA's Playfish studio, which develops the company's social games, operates about 40 games on Facebook. ...
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Gambling Giant Harrah's Buys Controlling Stake In Social Game Company Playtika
Gamasutra
Founded in 2010 with a reported $1 million in funding, Playtika has attracted nearly 3 million monthly players to its Facebook games, including slot machine title Slotmania and dice game Farkle Pro, according to AppData. The company has 15 or so full ...
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Gamasutra
Zynga Announces CityVille Integration With 'Kung Fu Panda 2'
AdAge.com
CityVille is not only Zynga's biggest game -- it's also Facebook's, with 88 million monthly players, according to AppData. The movie opens May 26 and the "Kung Fu Panda 2" quest runs from today until May 31. "Zynga and CityVille have a massive reach ...
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AdAge.com
"America 2049": The Struggle for Human Rights Hits Facebook
The Atlantic
Facebook, which connects nearly 600 million users around the globe and hosts massive social networking games like FarmVille (boasting more than 62 million users) and monopolizes nearly 68 hours per user per month, seems like the perfect platform to ...
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Disney's bet on games not yet paying off
Los Angeles Times
Much of the pain stems from Disney's acquisition in August of Playdom, a Bay Area company that makes games such as "Sorority Life" and "Social City" for Facebook and other online networks. Since the transaction closed, however, Playdom's audience has ...
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Los Angeles Times
'Trials of Elsword' brings popular Korean MMO magic to Facebook
Games.com News (blog)
But it's still of a ridiculous high quality for a Facebook game (woo-hoo, 3D!) and able to deliver a few hours of fun. To start, you pick one of three characters -- Elsword, Rena, and Aisha -- who are respectively, a swordsman, an archer, ...
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Bing's Facebook Integration, PSN's Reboot, and Huggy Robots
PCWorld
Angry Birds Robots Under Wi-Fi Control Robots modeled after the characters in the popular mobile game Angry Birds were controlled over Wi-Fi at the Beijing International High Tech Expo this week. Bing's Facebook Integration, PSN's Reboot, ...
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Dragon Age Legends delivers again on Facebook with special remix edition
Games.com News (blog)
Miller's game isn't on Facebook, but the items that you earn in DAL: Remix 01 can be used in the Facebook game. And in turn, we know that playing the Facebook game gets you free goodies for Dragon Age II on the PC and console. ...
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Trade Nations Replicates Character-Driven Mechanics and Dynamic Economy of iOS ...
Inside Social Games
While the iOS game can be compared to other town-building games on the platform like Smurfs' Village, the Facebook game faces a different lineup of competing games within the city building genre, like CityVille. Trade Nations can differentiate itself ...
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This Poor Dog Is Forced To Sit Outside Mets Games With A Pipe In Its Mouth
Deadspin
Jason Long, who works in marketing and social media and founded the Facebook page, tells me that he and his wife have attended 50 or 60 Mets games over the last four years, and that, regardless of the weather, Coffee's been there. ...
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Facebook Page Building Tools Keep Growing The Fastest
AllFacebook
Zynga lands two games on our countdown this week. CityVille reappears with a tremendous week coming in sixth welcoming 1006530 new players. Also making a first appearance in weeks is FarmVille; the game had 838747 Facebook growing their own crops as it ...
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Winter Classic, running of goalies comes to NHL 12
Yahoo! Sports (blog)
By Sean Leahy When EA Sports makes the first screenshot of an upcoming sports game public, there's usually clues revealed in the still photo. Yesterday, via their Facebook page, EA unveiled the first screenshot for the upcoming NHL 12 set to be ...
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Will Oddworld creator make another game?
Eurogamer.net
"They way I'm looking now is, how do I turn YouTube and Facebook into one game? That's the game-ified thing I'm focused on right now. If we figure that out, and I think we have, then it's a game changer. "If we're successful with that, ...
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Cool For Cats: Friskies Crafts Feline-Friendly Tablet Games
ClickZ News
Accessible at Gameforcats.com, the games involve the player tapping moving objects as they maneuver about the screen, including fish and other animals, as well as Friskies products. Cats that use Facebook are also prompted to join discussion around the ...
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What LinkedIn means for Facebook IPO
CNN
Zynga has been a huge success thanks to FarmVille, FishVille and many other -Ville games on Facebook. But founder Mark Pincus has said he fears that going public and veering off his plan will bring "death by a thousand compromises. ...
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'Hunger Games' Gussies Up With Portia And Octavia
MTV.com
Like this one, for instance: the news, announced on the film's Facebook page, that characters Portia (Peeta's stylist) and Octavia (a member of Cinna's prep team) will be played by Latarsha Rose and Brooke Bundy. Seriously! ...
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MTV.com
Anatomy of a Blockbuster: CityVille
Develop
The Facebook games phenomenon is far from over. Indeed, it may well represent the shape of things to come. Considering that, there is no way that someone seeking to grab their own slice of cake can do so without putting in a good deal of hard work. ...
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Q & A With Justin Gary of Gary Games
Wired News
I think platforms like the smartphone, iPad, and Facebook are good for more than just games like Farmville and Angry Birds. The joys of traditional and hobby gaming are going to have to adapt to the new world of instant social connection and mobile ...
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Wired News
Evolving on Facebook From Then to Now
Sustainable Business Forum
People connect with each other on Facebook in one of three ways (games and applications aside): profiles, groups, and pages. The profile is where you can be a friend of someone else. It takes two to tango, as friendships require mutuality. ...
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NC Adult Soccer has a Facebook page
Greensboro News & Record (blog)
I received an email saying that the state adult soccer assn has a Facebook page. So that's a good spot to visit if you're one of the thousand-or-so people who play adult soccer around here, or want to see a few photos from Dynamos games. ...
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Caesars Entertainment Acquires 51% Playtika Online Games
Online-Casinos.com
Playtika never was billed as an online gambling company but as an online games developer specifically designed to accommodate social networking websites. The huge growth curve of social networking sites such as Facebook and the Russian version ...
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There's enough room in this business for everybody: Why social and hardcore ...
Gamezebo
We're undergoing a revolution in game distribution unlike anything we've seen in the history of the industry. The social games we see today are everywhere. If you have a smartphone, Facebook account, PC, Mac, tablet, or netbook, then you have quick and ...
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Modern Warfare 3, Gears of War 3 trailers to premiere during NBA playoffs
Warp Zoned
The Facebook page promises that will end soon, advising us to tune in for the "World Premiere" during game four of the Western Conference Finals on May 23 on ESPN. This is fairly late in the year for a CoD game to debut, but hopefully the wait will be ...
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Meet the world's newest billionaire: 10 things you never knew about LinkedIn ...
SmartCompany.com.au
Hoffman's love for games doesn't stop there. LinkedIn has an entire room at its San Francisco headquarters dedicated to the popular music video game, Guitar Hero. It's well-known that Hoffman invested half a million in Facebook, but did you know that ...
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I'm Not Real, but Neither Are You
New York Times
It would have created fake Facebook accounts of ideal girlfriends or boyfriends (say, a model who saves endangered species) to post messages to one's Facebook wall. Users would receive the emotional benefit of sweet talk without actually being in a ...
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Sony Ericsson Facebook competition outs two upcoming feature phones
Engadget
2) Operational times are affected by network preferences, type of SIM card, connected accessories and various activities eg playing games. Kit contents and colour options may differ from market to market. The full range of accessories may not be ...
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FarmVille GagaVille: First 102.7 KIIS FM prize now available
Games.com News (blog)
You'll need to use Facebook Connect to login if you aren't connected already, so that Zynga knows which game to load the Gem into. From there, the prize will be in your Gift Box waiting for you. For the next four days, you'll be able to unlock other ...
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Smethurst Shuts Out Miami Dade as Tallahassee Advances in St. George
WCTV
Scott was 1-for-3 and drove in two runs. The Tallahassee-Yavapai game can be heard online at www.PSBlive.com. Fans can also follow the game with live, in-game updates on the TCC Eagles' Facebook and Twitter pages.
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Why Bill Keller Is Wrong About Twitter
AdAge.com
Basically, Google and Facebook now determine what news and entertainment we see based on what their algorithms know to be our preferences. That means our feeds might be dominated by Justin Bieber, or left-wing politics or, in my case, news about social ...
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AdAge.com
Fairley has talent to give Lions second straight Rookie of Year
NFL News
More importantly, he was the best player on the field in his team's biggest games. From the BCS National Championship game to the SEC title game, Fairley stood out as a disruptive force. In Detroit, Fairley joins one of the league's top interior ...
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Pocket God FREE Update: Challenge of the Gods Descend
The APPera
Bolt Creative has since expanded their empire to iPad and Facebook games. Thankfully, the latest update Challenge of the Gods arrived last night! "Pocket God now offers Challenge of the Gods, where you go back through the past 39 episodes and find all ...
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The APPera
Best 5 Retro Games for iOS Devices
Phones Review
Pac-Man Champion Edition for the iPhone, iPod Touch and Apple iPad features 4 modes, Mission mode, Championship mode and Challenge mode, and you can even compete with friends on Facebook in the Online Tournament mode. Pac-Man Champion Edition can be ...
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Phones Review
Katniss Speaks! Jennifer Lawrence Talks 'Hunger Games'
Access Hollywood
Follow us on Facebook and Twitter now! Sarah Palin holds her son Trig Palin as Track Palin, Bristol Palin and Willow Palin look on during day three of the Republican National Convention (RNC) at the Xcel Energy Center on September 3, 2008 in St. Paul, ...
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What the Market Taught Me This Week
Motley Fool
Facebook, you're next. I admit LA Noire looks like a very cool game, but I thought the ~$100 million boost in market cap Take-Two Interactive (Nasdaq: TTWO ) got on Tuesday based on reviews was a bit premature. In the past, I've questioned the power ...
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Dallas Mavericks Need to Stop Playing OKC's Style of Basketball
SportDFW
However, if they go back to the defensive state that worked so well for them in the first two rounds, the Mavs will definitely will find their way back to the NBA Finals. You can follow JD Moore on Twitter and be sure to like SportDFW on Facebook.
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