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Buy and Sell Virtual Marijuana With New 'Weeds' Facebook Game
The Atlantic
"This summer, two movies -- Disney's Cars 2 and Fox's Mr. Popper's Penguins -- and a popular Showtime series will attempt build buzz and some extra revenue by featuring their characters in Facebook games." Without Jim Carrey's comic stylings or Pixar's ...
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Social media rules issued for athletes at Olympics
USA Today
Athletes can't use Twitter, Facebook or personal blogs for commercial or advertising purposes or share videos filmed at Olympic venues. At the 2010 Vancouver Games, United States alpine skier Julia Mancuso was asked to stop online merchandise sales ...
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Super Crayon on Facebook: Drawing you to distraction
Games.com News (blog)
The final, probably most important example is the fact that you only have a few lives per run, as if this were an old arcade game. It's not a coincidence that some folks in the industry have alluded Facebook games to arcade machines. ...
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Biz Break: Buy in on Facebook, other tech upstarts? Plus: A right to video ...
San Jose Mercury News
Plus: A right to video game violence By Frank Michael Russell Today: A public Woodside investment company has bought a tiny stake in privately held Facebook. Plus: The Supreme Court says California's ban on sales of violent video games to children ...
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Games boost productivty, GSN Digital study says (of course)
Games.com News (blog)
GSN Digital, creators of Facebook games like Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!, have released a study that surveyed 800 GSN Digital gamers on how games have affected their productivity. And the responses will surprise you. Nearly 80 percent of folks ...
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Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2012 Coming In September
Cinema Blend
You can look for Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2012 to hit store shelves for the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii beginning September 27th. You can learn more about the game by heading on over to the Official Facebook Page.
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Cinema Blend
Hacking Spree Part 5: EA games hacked, LulzSec finishes its run, GeoHotz is ...
Metrowny.com
In related news, the guy who was part of the trigger for the whole hacking spree that started with the Sony Playstation 3 and the Playstation Network outage, George Hotz (uses the tag "GeoHotz") is now working for Facebook. Hackers close to GeoHotz ...
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Face to Facebook
Develop
Probably two of the most important factors in the success of a Facebook game involve the uniqueness of the game type and having an acute community focus. Niche games that have a well built model for community support, stimulation and engagement of the ...
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Facebook employs hacker who cracked iPhone and PlayStation 3 security codes
Daily Mail
By Daily Mail Reporter Facebook has employed a hacker who published a way of running any software, including pirated games, on the PlayStation 3 and cracked into the iPhone. George Hotz, 21, has been a software engineer at the social network since May ...
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Daily Mail
Zynga starting a FamilyVille to keep up with The Sims Social?
Games.com News (blog)
The veteran games publisher showed a trailer of the new Facebook game at E3 (a creepy one at that). Here is the news straight from the source: "Some Whois history and recent name server changes on the domain name Familyville.com are what lead me to ...
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'Operation Rainfall' campaign seeks localization of Wii RPGs
Joystiq
Fans have taken to spamming Nintendo's Facebook and Twitter pages and email with requests for those three games. "Operation Rainfall" also involves coordinated physical mailings of letters to NOA headquarters, aimed at one game at a time. ...
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Analysis: Tencent in steep climb to be China's Facebook, Twitter
Reuters
Tencent, which runs China's largest instant-messaging service QQ and online gaming community with 674 million QQ accounts in total, has been relying on its games business for about 60 percent of its revenues, which totaled 19.6 billion yuan ($3 ...
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CREATE YOUR VERY OWN ORIGINAL SHIELD DESIGN TO FEND OFF DEATH IN DARK SOULS™
Gamasutra
... you've got when it comes to heraldic flair, as NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe announce the Dark Souls TM shield design contest, open to everyone from June 27 rd to July 28 th 2011 on the game's official Facebook page at www . facebook . com / darksouls. ...
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Microsoft revamps Windows Phone Games Hub
Fiercemobilecontent
With its Windows Phone 7.1 update (aka "Mango") coming this fall, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is revamping the platform's Games Hub to improve and streamline the overall user experience. The changes include a cleaner, lighter design emphasizing the user's ...
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3 Start-Ups Google Should Buy
TheStreet.com
The company could make use of Google's big data centers and be integrated within its Chrome browser, allowing users to play games straight from their PCs. OnLive, which this month announced a new partnership with Facebook that allows users to share ...
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Zombie Lane teases new adventure areas, starting with circus
Gamezebo
How these areas will work and what you can do in them remains to be seen, but expansions like this are becoming increasingly popular for Facebook games. Recently FarmVille added new areas in the form of the English Countryside and GagaVille, ...
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TAT Launches Games on Social Networking Media
Focus on Travel News
The latest to be launched are the "Smile Land" games through Facebook, which has more than 700 million users. In addition, mini-games will be available on iPad, iPhone and other smartphones. Users will get to accumulate points and win gifts. ...
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Mobile Trends: In the Asian Smartphone Market, It's All About Social Gaming
TMC Net
It's the most popular game on Facebook and is noted for its addictive nature. The company also offers other games including "CityVille," "FrontierVille," "Cafe World," "YoVille" and "Vampire Wars" All total, about 250 million people play games created ...
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Facebook overtakes MSN as the second most popular web site in UK
Inquirer
... then it won't be long before Twitter reaches up to steal its crown. This seems unlikely, however, as Twitter has a much narrower appeal than Facebook since it lacks the features and games that make Facebook the dominant player for now. µ.
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Facebook Disables Numerous Apps With Negative User Feedback, May Need to ...
Inside Facebook
Reports in the Facebook Developer forums indicate the disabled were mostly small to mid-sized, with some in the 10000 to 20000 daily active user range including one called Game of Truth, which you can see above has dropped to zero DAU. ...
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Facebook now encompasses 10% of global population
TG Daily
Current initiatives for Facebook include creating a more accessible mobile platform, increasing the number of social games, and creating new ways to keep users informed on what their friends are up to. In addition to becoming one of the most powerful ...
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Stocks up...Hopes for Greece...Facebook investment
NECN
In so doing, it upheld a lower court decision to throw out California's ban on the sale or rental of violent video games to minors. NEW YORK (AP) — Investment fund GSV Capital says it has invested $6.6 million to buy 225000 shares in Facebook. ...
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Content, dethroned
Business Insider
At the e-G8 conference in Paris in May 2011, Zuckerberg bragged that Zynga, built atop Facebook's open platform, had just past game champion Electronic Arts in market capitalization. He said Zynga succeeded because it understood not only games but also ...
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Free Online Games Targeted by Cybercriminals
MyBroadband
Surprisingly RuneScape is way ahead of the most popular online game in the world – World of Warcraft – and even beats Facebook. But PayPal remains the overall leader and even saw a light rise in the number of phishing emails (23.28 percentage points up ...
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MyBroadband
Buzz Out Loud 1498: Violent video games ok, "Cars 2" NOT (Podcast)
CNET (blog)
Twice now, while going through my feed, I have found entries by companies in which I did not 'like' their pages on Facebook. I know for a fact that I didn't. When pressing the ""x"" at the right, my options are to hide or 'unlike' the page. ...
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Game Developers Choice Online Awards Remind On Call For Nominations
Gamasutra
For this award, members of the public vote on their favorite game from the Game Developers Choice Online finalists. The Best Social Network Game Award recognizes the best game that launched on a social network, such as Facebook or MySpace, honoring the ...
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Gamasutra
Philadelphia Phillies: The 20 Most Beloved Players in Team History
Bleacher Report
Before the start of the 2011 season, Jonathan Chang, a Facebook data scientist led a study of all the baseball fan bases in the country. In his findings, he found that Philadelphia Phillies fans were the most loyal. Philadelphia is a tough town; ...
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Bleacher Report
Wink Bingo â€" Celebrate Your Second Favourite Ball Game
bingobase.com (blog)
It is time for Wimbledon again so Wink Bingo has also lined up two fun-filled weeks of special fun such as special prizes in chat rooms, Wimbledon pattern games and Facebook specials too. Keep your eyes on the prize because to celebrate the 125th ...
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Supreme Court right to nix videogame restrictions in Brown v. EMA decision
Isthmus
Have fun in the basement for the next two hours while I update my Facebook page, kids! In this case, penalizing retailers would have been just another name for censorship. To avoid the possibility of expensive fines and lawsuits, many retailers would ...
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`Angry Birds' Staying Power Under Test With CEO Hatching Movie Before IPO
Bloomberg
It's already on Nokia's just- announced N9 smartphone. A Facebook version is in the works. The 99-cent game is again the top paid app in Apple Inc.'s US app store after being toppled by new entrant Heist in March. Angry Birds Rio, a version with a ...
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Empires & Allies conquers FarmVille with over 40 million monthly users
Gamezebo
The game has helped Zynga maintain its stranglehold on the top 10 MAU charts, as it currently has the four most popular games on Facebook, with CityVille taking top spot and Zynga Poker coming in fourth. However, Empires & Allies' rapid rise appears to ...
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The morning after the night before
Canadian Lawyer Magazine
The game wasn't great, but as soon as it was over, I started getting tweets and Facebook posts about burning cars (this still during the Cup presentation). Then scenes were shown of chaos on TV: the torching of police cars; the escalating riot on ...
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Answer Man: Orel Hershiser talks Dodgers, 'Baseball Boogie' and juggling
Yahoo! Sports (blog)
Some of those kids will look me up on Facebook — and that's one of the places you can go to check these DeSigns balls out, on Subway's official page — so kids will look me up on Facebook and say things like: "We didn't win many games, Mr. Hershiser, ...
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Yahoo! Sports (blog)
iPhone 5 Due In Three Months, LulzSec Hackers Retire, Anonymous Hacks The FBI ...
Fast Company
The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the video game industry in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, a case involving banning sales of violent games to minors. "The act forbidding sale or rental of violent games to minors does not comport ...
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Fast Company
Cable One to add CBS Sports, which will air three Boise State football games ...
IdahoStatesman.com
CBS Sports will air three Boise State football games in 2011: Tulsa at Boise State on September 24, Boise State at UNLV on November 5 and Boise State at San Diego State on November 19. Cable One also carries Versus (326) and the Mtn. (329) on its ...
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Dreamkind Announces Office Riot: New iPhone and iPad Game Available June 30
PR.com (press release)
... rice grown in the game, to the UN World Food Program. Office Riot will be available in the App Store on June 30. For updates, follow Office Riot on Twitter at http://twitter.com/officeriot and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/officeriot. ...
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Smartphones spur social game boom
The Korea Herald
"Farmville," which enables players and their friends to turn themselves into rural folk ploughing fields and trading pigs and cows, is the most popular game on Facebook and has made its developer Zynga a fortune. With Zynga preparing to offer its ...
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Novak Djokovic :: L'Uomo Vogue
SI.com
... Jimmy Traina on Twitter | Subscribe to the Hot Clicks Podcast | Join the Hot Clicks Facebook Group | E-mail a comment, question or link. Novak Djokovic, the No. 2 seed at Wimbledon and in action Monday against Michael Llodra, could be off his game. ...
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INTERVIEW: Steve Perlman
MCV
"The important point is that we're talking about games that are far too high performance to be actually powered by any tablet on Earth, so the only reason they have touch is to run through OnLive on tablets." A similar argument applies to Facebook. ...
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Hussein Fazal and Kristaps Ronka, Founders of AdParlor
Inc.com
By Tiffany Black | @minnie6998 | When Facebook launched its API in 2007, allowing developers to build games and applications for the social medium, Kristaps Ronka and Hussein Fazal "just started building things for fun." For instance, they built a ...
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Inc.com
Giants' Sandoval leaves game with quad tightness
Yahoo! Sports
I don't want to be on the (disabled list) again -- I just want to be ready for Tuesday." In 36 games so far this season, Sandoval is batting .290 with five homers and 16 RBIs. What are you waiting for? Follow Scoop du Jour on Twitter or Facebook.
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Part 3: Mrs. Hawkstrana
ESPN
I didn't expect it to happen that quickly. facebook.com/LYNZSKATE The future Mr. and Mrs. Travis Pastrana, at the Big Buck Hunter World Champs in October. He said it's a lot easier to think about the future together when we're engaged and going to be ...
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MocoSpace CEO Justin Siegel on why HTML5 will drive ubiquitous mobile gaming
Pocket Gamer.Biz
Monetisation on mobile compares favourably with what is happening on Facebook. On MocoSpace, we have seen ARPU of over $1. With successful Japanese social platforms such as Mobage and GREE coming to western markets, how do you think the competitive ...
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Evan Longoria powers Tampa Bay to sweep over Astros in back-and-forth slugfest
Examiner.com
Tampa Bay continues to dominate in interleague play this season with a 9-3 record and remains in the thick of the AL East race -- just two games behind the division-leading New York Yankees. Joe Maddon rolled the dice and made a decision to send Joyce ...
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Padres rally late to beat Braves
SignOnSanDiego.com
Photo Sean M. Haffey/San Diego Union-Tribune Have a Facebook account? Follow the UT's Padres page for links to video, stories and other content, and to interact with other fans. Go to: facebook.com/sdutpadres Like a man on the mound with his go-to ...
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Third of college students use mobile apps behind the wheel, UAB student survey ...
al.com (blog)
Lauren McCartney, a psychology student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, surveyed 93 students there who own smart phones and use Web-based applications on them -- such as Google, Facebook, Twitter or others -- at least four times a week. ...
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Former Cal track and field star Alysia Montano wins the 800 at the USA Outdoor ...
San Jose Mercury News
Tom Brady's quarterback mentor, Tom Martinez, is a candidate for kidney and heart transplants two weeks after his family used Facebook to announce the San Mateo County coaching icon had just weeks to live. "I'm feeling better and I'm optimistic after ...
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