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Aquarium Games Fishing for Traffic in International Waters
Inside Social Games
By AJ Glasser Aquarium simulation games are another old hat genre for the Facebook game platform, much like the restaurant simulation genre we examined earlier this week. Even with its "been there, done that" status, however, developers seem to be ...
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Valve's Team Fortress 2 Goes 'Free to Play'
Wired News (blog)
By Mark Brown Team Fortress 2 is following in the footsteps of agricultural Facebook games, time-sink iPhone apps, failed MMOs and Korean kart racers. Valve's comedic class-based shooter has gone free-to-play on PC and Mac. Steam users can now download ...
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Military strategy games storm their way onto Facebook
Gamezebo
Well, when it comes to Facebook games, a whole lot of strategy fun. War-themed strategy games have been popping up all over the social network lately, and surprisingly many of them are great. So great that we had to pile them into a list. ...
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Tiny Tower offers freemium fun on iOS devices
Macworld
Following the model of many successful Facebook games, Tiny Tower features two currencies. The basic in-game currency of Coins is used for purchasing new floors in the tower as well as stocking the units with products, while the premium currency of ...
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A Sneak Peek At Zynga's IPO: How To Turn Virtual Goods Into Real Money
All Things Digital
When it goes public, the Facebook game developer will be the first major US company supported primarily by the sale of virtual goods to do so. To get an idea of what such an animal might look like, I talked to a handful of accountants, lawyers and game ...
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Facebook Game Faceoff: Gardens of Time vs Mystery Manor
Games.com News (blog)
As Mystery Manor keeps bringing the challenge over time, we declare it the victor in this second Facebook Game Faceoff! The margin here was slim - almost too close to call - which leaves us to ask which game you prefer.
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FarmVille Meets the Hollywood Tie-In
BusinessWeek
This summer, two movies—Disney's (DIS) Cars 2 and Fox's (NWS) Mr. Popper's Penguins —and a popular Showtime (CBS) series will attempt to build buzz and some extra revenue by featuring their characters in Facebook games. For help, studios are turning ...
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BusinessWeek
Xbox Live Getting Free-to-Play Games - Report
1UP.com
Many of the big F2P games out there are MMOs, a genre that has in the past not enjoyed a tremendous amount of success on consoles. There are other styles of games that rely on microtransactions, as Facebook games demonstrate. ...
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Lionsgate Launches 'The Hunger Games' Contest on Facebook
Just So You Know
To enter, all you have to do is "like" 'The Hunger Games' Facebook page. You'll have the option for two additional entries, if you share the page with your friends. The contest runs through July 24, and a winner will be announced online the week of ...
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Pocket Gems focuses on quality engagement as Zynga and others attack
GigaOm
The company has also homed in on how mobile users play, breaking down sessions into smaller units so people can get in and out quickly, more so than in traditional social games on Facebook. It's that combination that has helped Pocket Gems onboard new ...
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Facebook bolsters bank with virtual currency
Financial Times
These were the beginnings of Facebook's unique virtual currency, Credits. Many of the social games operating on Facebook also developed their own virtual currencies. So in Zynga's FarmVille, players used real money to buy FarmCash, which could then be ...
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The Best Free Mobile Games
PC Magazine
Consumers want them, businesses want to be on them, and mobile advertisers can read the writing on the Facebook wall. And while there are plenty of ways to get things done on the run, games have provided some of the greatest sources of mobile ...
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First F1 2011 Developer Diary & Facebook App Revealed
Electronic Theatre
The video is now showing at www.facebook.com/formula1game. F1 2011, the follow up to the BAFTA award-winning F1 2010, is in development at Codemasters Birmingham for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC Games For Windows - LIVE and is available for ...
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Tracking Facebook and the Facebook Platform for Developers and Marketers
Inside Facebook
... way is Facebook policy compliant. Headliner.FM's model represents a new fan acquisition opportunity for all types of Pages, and the company is now planning to expand to serve more Page types, including those of social games and bloggers. Headliner. ...
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MocoSpace Reaches 20 Million User Milestone, Launches New Games
MocoNews
These days the words "social network" are all but synonymous with Facebook, but there are a number of other players, especially on mobile, that have established themselves, albeit on a significantly smaller scale. One of these, MocoSpace, ...
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Social Gaming Goes to Pot (and Hollywood)
brandchannel.com
As social games proliferate, a turf dominated by Facebook, branded virtual goods are the new currency for film and television tie-ins that keep on delivering the dough. Disney's Cars 2 and Fox's Mr. Popper's Penguins are both creating Facebook game ...
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Windows Phone "Mango" ROM revealed more juicy details
LiveSide
Other than the so-called "new" features (ie Xbox LIVE Extras being integrated into the Games Hub), WPSauce also discovered UI references indicating that you will be able to share your Xbox LIVE profile to Facebook from Windows Phone. ...
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Protecting your online image
AirForceTimes.com
Facebook games and apps can access your information, but you can block certain items. Select "Account," then "Privacy Settings." Click "Edit" under "Apps and Websites." Click "Edit Settings" under "Apps you use." Select an app to specify what it can ...
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Have we lost our moral compass?
Vancouver Sun
... 2011 10:14 Robert Snelgrove was captured on camera looting a Sears in Vancouver during the riot after Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final. As the evidence, apologies, threats and counter threats are now playing out on Facebook and Twitter can we put to ...
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Lenny Kravitz Talks Reading The Hunger Games; Fans Can Win a Trip to the Set
ReelzChannel.com
Filming of the Hunger Games is currently underway in North Carolina and according the the movie's Facebook page, fans can soon enter a contest to visit the cast in an "Ultimate Hunger Games Fan Sweeps" contest. Lionsgate will launch the contest today ...
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Google is advertising for a Games Product Manager
Geek.com
... social strategy so that it can truly compete with Facebook, but the pieces are starting to come together. We've already seen the +1 social rating system rolled out, and now it looks as though Google is set to take a serious interest in games too. ...
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Geek.com
UNEARTHED: TRAIL OF IBN BATTUTA MARKS SAUDI ARABIA'S FIRST MULTIPLATFORM VIDEO ...
Gamasutra
... media networks starting with Facebook. Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta is a third person action adventure video game set in modern day Middle East that is presented in a TV-Style episodic format and it will be available in both Arabic and English. ...
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Journey beta announced by Flower dev
Computerandvideogames.com
It said: "Rumors of a very limited, private Online Beta for Journey are... true! Check our Facebook page & the PlayStation Blog for details on Monday!" Like Flower, Journey is just as much about an experience as it is completing a game. ...
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Starbucks rewarded with nma Awards Grand Prix
Marketing Week
The game generated a peak of 189000 players in one night - 8.6% of the TV audience - a figure the judges said was "outstanding". Players of the online game, which integrated with Facebook, shared their scores via the social network 83000 times during ...
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Marketing Week
Copycat Social networking sites fail to create buzz
Economic Times
Post 2008, users abandoned Orkut and logged on to Facebook. Minglebox abandoned the Orkut model and changed strategy in sync with Facebook. It even tried applications development, particularly games like teen pati. Even that having failed to enthuse ...
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Sir 'Baby Got Back' Mix-A-Lot launches Facebook trivia game
Games.com News (blog)
The hip-hop artist, with Seattle-based start-up Giant Thinkwell, released a new Facebook game this week called Mix -N- Match with Sir Mix-A-Lot. It's a trivia game, and you have to answer a series of questions the way you think Mix would. ...
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New tools aim to plug Facebook leaks
CNN
People who sign up to send greeting cards on Jibjab by using the Facebook Connect button, for example, give that site's owner access to information they've posted on their Facebook profiles. Ditto for apps, those little utilities and games that show up ...
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HTC ChaCha
Pocket Gamer
But one could easily argue that gaming wasn't the first thing on the minds of the ChaCha's designers. With its extensive Facebook integration and that lovely keyboard, this is clearly a device aimed squarely at text-happy users.
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Pocket Gamer
EA losing ground in casual sector
MCV
"Over the next couple of weeks we expect the company to be overtaken by the rapidly growing European gaming company Wooga, and fall to number three in total Facebook gaming MAUs." It remains to be seen if the arrival of The Sims on Facebook – which has ...
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MCV
50% of Facebook Log-ins are Purely to Play Games
MMORPG News
It is noteworthy that females account for 55 percent of the overall social gaming market. One out of every five people in the US plays FarmVille. American spends more time on facebook than on those big websites all together. 50% of Facebook log-ins are ...
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Juniper Powers OnLive's Lag-Free Cloud
Data Center Knowledge
At E3OnLive announced its 100th game, gained support from Disney Interactive Studios, added OnLive to Inte-based consumer TVs, launched UK OnLive, and added Facebook integration to post brag clip videos or game play notifications to your wall. ...
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HTML5 still lagging behind Flash
Train 2 Game
Earlier this week reports emerged that Facebook was at work on Project Spartan, an HTML5 platform that will see the social network's apps and games playable through the iOS Safari browser. "It stands to reason that companies that got their start on the ...
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@therealcliffyb: How we fixed Gears Of War 3 multiplayer, and why you'll be ...
Computerandvideogames.com
Instead, we went with a mode that actually allowed you to respawn, because we knew that these days, more than ever, people are always connected to various feeds - Facebook, Twitter, everything that's out there. Even with the 15-second respawns in the ...
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Sid Meier's Civilization World Trailers/Screens
Gamers Hell
Each game has a beginning and an end, so each game will end with a winning player and a winning civilization. CivWorld is also a highly collaborative game where players join up with others on Facebook to form a nation and battle competing civilizations ...
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South Africans arrive in Panama for ISA World Games
Global Surf News
Team captain Llewellyn Whittaker posted a Facebook message saying that the team was working together well and that there was a great vibe among the group who will spend the next couple of days free surfing and training until the event gets under way ...
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UCSB Ultimate on CBS Sports Network
Santa Barbara Independent
For photos, videos and more exclusive content from The Alt Games, visit www.facebook.com/altgames. Double-clicking on any word or phrase in this story will open a reference window with definitions and links to other reference material.
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WinInfo Short Takes: June 24, 2011
Windows IT Pro
Winklevoss Twins Attack Facebook Again Just days (hours?) after the Winklevoss twins announced via their attorneys that they would not appeal a recent court decision in their Facebook suit with the US Supreme Court, they revealed it was all just a ...
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Biz Break: In new cars, too much technology? Plus: Oracle's $10.8B quarter
San Jose Mercury News
However, Yahoo's revenue growth has stalled even as such rivals as Google (GOOG) and Facebook are pulling in more money from online ads. Yahoo stock, by the way, fell 14 cents, or 0.9 percent, to $15.08. EA: The giant Redwood City video game publisher ...
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FarmVille: One click sharing slowly rolling out for faster news posts
Games.com News (blog)
... launched a quick sharing option in FrontierVille that allowed users to simply click on an in-game window to requests for items, share bonuses, etc. without having to wait for the blue and white Facebook pop-up to appear on top of the gameplay area. ...
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'Black Swan' Writer Has Facebook Thriller Called 'XOXO'
Ology
... to stop Facebook creeping. No distribution company has picked this up yet, but it judging from Black Swan's success, it will probably not be long until someone snatches it up. Who would be good to cast? I could see Hunger Games' Josh Hutcherson as ...
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Ology
Wakefield Back To Where It All Began
BoSox Injection
His best memories as a Pirate would be in during the 1992 NLCS against the Atlanta Braves, where Wakefield would win both his games, (games 3 and 6) including a complete game during game 6; a game he pitched on just three days of rest. ...
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BoSox Injection
Contest: Killzone 3 'From The Ashes' Map Pack Giveaway
Examiner.com
For a bonus entry, simply like us on Facebook – via this link – and share your comment there. That's right; you can have two entries to increase your chances of winning! Entries will be taken until 8 pm EST Friday, June 24th, 2011. ...
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Electronic Arts to buy PopCap
IT News Africa
... the publisher bought in a deal worth up to $400 million," Gamasutra wrote. But EA wasn't the only company interested in buying PopCap. Social gaming publisher Zynga, famous for their Farmville Facebook game, has reportedly also been interested. ...
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IT News Africa
Internet boom may have local spillover
The Australian
The IPO of these companies is seen as a curtain-raiser for the expected listing in the next 12 months of Facebook. Zynga, which supplies online games to Facebook, is also expected to list, as are Twitter and group-buying site Groupon. ...
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Music Blist Available On Apple's App Store For Only $1.99 (USD)
AddPR.com (press release)
Music Blist integration with Facebook will allow gamers to share live scores and stats to millions of gamers using Facebook around the world. With the request from millions of gamers, Music Blist will be also available to the Android Market, ...
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