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The Godfather Returns in this Surprisingly Hardcore Facebook Game
GamePro.com
The studio announced a partnership with Paramount today to bring The Godfather to the free-to-play gaming space with The Godfather: Five Families. Unlike Farmville, Mafia Wars, or other casual Facebook games, you're not just tending to buildings, ...
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Kabam will launch The Godfather Five Families social game on Facebook
VentureBeat
The hardcore Facebook game publisher is announcing today that it has a deal with Paramount to make an empire-building social game based on the Godfather mafia films. The new game is called The Godfather: Five Families and it will debut later this fall. ...
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Over 55 percent of gamers play to socialize, meet people, study finds
Games.com News (blog)
by Joe Osborne, Posted Aug 25th 2011 1:00PM Facebook games grew into worldwide phenomenon for something, right (and not just the dollars)? "The Future of Gaming," a study by media research consultancy Latitude, says that 56 percent of gamers today play ...
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Did the HP TouchPad miss the boat on gaming?
ZDNet (blog)
GameCenter, the mini-social network built into many of the most popular iOS games collects points and achievements and links you to your friends. Other iOS games connect with Facebook, Twitter, and other social sharing products — as a rule of thumb ...
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ZDNet (blog)
Wooga CEO: 'I don't think the 30 percent Facebook share is an issue'
Games.com News (blog)
The chief of the fourth largest social games company on Facebook outright said that he doesn't think the 30 percent is an issue. (The company just released yet another Facebook game, Magic Land, with plans for mobile expansion. ...
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Ticketmaster deal lets you to sit with Facebook friends at concerts, games
Toronto Star
Ticketmaster is hoping concert or game fans will also recommend an upcoming event on Facebook so their friends might know about it and then buy tickets, Levin said. With this new feature, ticket buyers can tag their seat purchase through their Facebook ...
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It's Time to Give Your Final Thoughts on CivWorld!
Kotaku
The result, aside from the frustration from not being able to do much by yourself, is that CivWorld is first Facebook game I've ever seen that fosters a real community. Farmville is played with the friends you've already got. A good game of CivWorld ...
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PS3 Home Boss: Free-to-Play is The Future
Business Insider
IndustryGamers asked Buser if PlayStation Home should be considered Sony's answer to Facebook, to which he answered "Yes." "One of the cool things about PlayStation Home is that the games on the platform very much, by and large, use the latest and ...
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Join Our Team to Cover Your Team
Patch.com
On game night, email Assistant Regional Sports Editor Knox Bardeen with a highlight or observation from the game, and we'll make sure your account is part of our coverage (and perhaps even give you a byline). You can also tell us via Facebook or ...
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Games Still Dominate Mobile App Ad Impressions
ClickZ News
Games drew more ad impressions than Facebook and other mobile social apps on Millennial Media's network in July. Gaming apps grabbed around a third of application ad impressions on the firm's network overall, followed by Music and Entertainment, ...
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Right at home
FOXSports.com
Supporters have set up a Facebook page, which has more than 25000 fans. "A post the other night before the game said, 'The last one out of Clinton County turn off the lights,' " Jeirles laughed. So does the team's manager worry about all the attention ...
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Apps rush: Spy Mouse, Peggle HD, Restaurant City, Hector Ep2 and more
The Guardian (blog)
Social games developer Playfish – an EA subsidiary these days – has brought its popular Facebook game Restaurant City to iPhone and iPad. As with rival Zynga's CityVille hometown, this is a new version for iOS, but the original game's mixture of ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Games Inbox: Mass Effect dialogue, Virtua Fighter 5 Showdown, and WW2 shooters
Metro
Apparently their working practices leave a lot to be desired and their move to Facebook games is a little disconcerting. However I find that their current business model is more constructive to the industry as whole compared to certain other publishers ...
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Metro
Get Ready for Super Monday Night Combat, a Very DoTA Shooter That is Free to Play
Kotaku
The game is free-to-play, as they say. Many hit games in 2011 are. See: the DoTA-inspired League of Legends or so man Facebook games and a rising crop of PC shooters. The free-to-play games cost nothing for gamers to start playing but make their money ...
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Making Fun Showcases Work of Up-and-Coming Comic Book Illustrators
PR Newswire (press release)
CLASH: Rise of Heroes is free and available on Facebook at www.facebook.com/PlayClash. Making Fun, Inc., a division of News Corporation Digital Media Group, is the first full-service social games publishing company. Making Fun blends the financial, ...
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'The Godfather' Game Coming To Facebook
Ology
Competitive games give me nervous diarrhea and I don't want to play. Anyway, this is kind of interesting: just one day after The Godfather was posted on, and disappeared from, YouTube, the Francis Ford Coppola Mafia masterpiece will hit the social ...
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Ology
Nextpeer Lets Mobile Developers Turn Single-Player Games Into Multi-Player Games
TechCrunch
With Nextpeer, however, any game can become a multi-player game. For users, Nextpeer is easy to use, too. Gamers launch the app, tap the "online tournaments/multi-player" button and sign in using Facebook Connect. This takes them to a screen displaying ...
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This week in social media video - Google + video hangouts, Foursquare adds ...
Shiny Shiny
In a new creative push coffee giant Starbucks US is launching a Facebook game - a first for Starbucks - that asks its 24 million plus fans to compete to bring the holiday themed Pumpkin Spice Latte to their cities one week ahead of the official release ...
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Facebook: Threatened by Google+? Our trillion page views say no
VentureBeat
Between clicking through photo albums, playing games and sifting through profiles, Facebook gets nearly 1150 page views per unique visitor, according to the data obtained by DoubleClick. The data also indicates that Facebook has a 46.9 percent reach ...
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Faithful won't bow to prayer law
Memphis Commercial Appeal
By Toni Lepeska Christians who want to maintain public prayer at DeSoto County Schools sports events are unifying via social media in a grass-roots effort to say the Lord's Prayer at games Friday night. Organizers who started a Facebook page called ...
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When Football Fans Attack: How to Fix the NFL's Violence Problem
The Atlantic
Anyone who has seen a Facebook debate turn vicious knows how nasty confrontations can get online. In the same way, fights on YouTube, in the movies or video games don't matter, because the punches don't really hurt, and the blood isn't real. ...
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Sony Ericsson boosts 2011 Xperia(TM) family with new experiences and new software
Reuters (press release)
The new functionality aims to make entertainment more social by giving users the ability to share and discover apps and games with friends through Facebook. The latest camera enhancements from Sony introduce 3D sweep panorama technology so that images ...
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Journey of Moses for Facebook Is a Social Take on the Old Testament
Inside Social Games
By Randy Nelson The first Facebook title from Hexify Inc., Journey of Moses, is aa treasure-hunting adventure game based on the life of the prominent figure from the Bible's Old Testament. With relatively few games sporting religious themes, ...
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Zynga gets handy, fixes Pioneer Trail gifting issues, boosts limit to 50
Games.com News (blog)
However, FrontierVille Info guesses that this boost might be temporary, as other Facebook games have had higher gifting limits in the past only for them to drop. Perhaps as the game garners more players--it currently stands at over 12 million monthly ...
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Facebook Will Kill Photo Filters for Everyone
Gizmodo
Facebook won't kill Instagram, but it could still spoil the fun. Who wants to see your Nashville-tinted shots of beer pong once your uncool cousin in, well, Nashville starts posting them of her beer pong games? Instagram will survive because of its ...
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Canned Laughter Drowns Out What Pigs In Trees Does Different
Kotaku
I'm not talking about the direct ripoffs, which you see on Facebook, flash sites and popup ads congratulating you for winning an iPad 3. I'm talking about games whose wink-and-nod visual style, method of scoring, and "story" don't give themselves ...
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Giveaway: Win a nVidia Power Pack - 10.1 Galaxy Tab, Jambox Speakers, Keyboard ...
DroidGamers
Of course we should point out that once the winner is picked, you should definitely check out the updated Terga Zone app and the new TegraZone.com site and the games listed there. All the games there are optimized to run on your Tegra 2 devices. ...
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The Hunger Games Official Trailer
CisionWire (press release)
Visit www.HungerGamesCapitol.com for book reviews movie news and The Capitol Store to purchase books, t-shirts and other Hunger Games merchandise. You can also find the Hunger Games Capitol on Facebook at www.facebook.com/HungerGamesCapitol.
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Interview: Hi-Rez discusses leveling, matchmaking and favorite weapons
Examiner.com
We've also got another about the studios MOBA game, SMITE, and a talk about what's it like being an independent game developer in the Metro-Atlanta area. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter for the latest news or you can subscribe to our RSS feed or email ...
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OnLive Adds New Features
411mania.com
The service now features parental controls for parents to monitor what games kids can play, along with offering group chat with people across various games. Finally, the company added the ability for achievements to automatically post on Facebook walls ...
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Hass Avocado Board launches integrated marketing program for 2011 fall sports ...
FreshPlaza
AvocadoCentral.com micro site and Facebook® page. All efforts will be aimed at encouraging consumers to incorporate the fruit into game day meals. "The fall sports time period is always a key one for HAB and its member organizations," said Jose Luis ...
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New Social Network Connects Cancer Survivors, Patients And Supporters
Forbes
"I Had Cancer" is the Facebook for cancer survivors, patients, and their family and friends. I Had Cancer, which launched its beta version last month, was started by 36-year-old Mailet Lopez, a breast cancer survivor. She and her co-founders at digital ...
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Tigers Get Taste of Life without Miguel Cabrera Today
Motor City Bengals
The hulking slugger has played in every one of the Tigers 129 games so far this year, a streak that will be broken this afternoon. Cabrera will miss the game while on paternity leave, his wife was induced last night. Cabrera is often overlooked by the ...
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Team bonding suffers in tech age
SI.com
But that hasn't stopped several players from saying things on Twitter and Facebook that have gotten them in trouble, like in 2009 when running back Larry Johnson essentially got himself kicked off the Kansas City Chiefs for tweeting criticism of coach ...
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Batman: Arkham City themed Xbox 360 looks awesome
Ubergizmo
By George Wong - 08/25/2011 05:51 PDT If you're attending the Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) this weekend – you stand a chance to win a very awesome looking Xbox 360 from the folks at WB Games. The official Xbox Facebook page recently uploaded photographs of ...
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Ubergizmo
Tigers Fear Brennan Boesch's Thumb Injury Significant
Motor City Bengals
Boesch originally hurt the thumb a few weeks ago and missed a handful of games. The pain has remained, but has been confined to his thumb. Last night, however, the pain surged into his arm as well, prompting his removal from the game. ...
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RINE: It's Time to Play the Games
Wheeling Intelligencer
In the age of social media your actions - good or bad - will be on YouTube, Facebook or Twitter for the world to see, before the final seconds of the game tick off the clock. Don't be a showoff. Remember that if you score a touchdown there are 10 other ...
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Getting Ready for the Rebels
KSL-TV
Email: gwrubell@ksl.com; Twitter: @gregwrubell; Facebook: CougarTracks The football Cougars started game prep for the season opener with Ole Miss Thursday morning, conducting a 90-minute practice within the Indoor Practice Facility. ...
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Watch A Sneak Peek Of 'The Hunger Games' Trailer That Will Premiere At The MTV ...
Hollywood Life
HollywoodLifers, are you excited for the release of The Hunger Games trailer? Don't miss out on our VMA party on Facebook – RSVP to attend here http://on.fb.me/r7v5eL – for a chance to win prizes, make new friends & chat directly with the Hollywood ...
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Facebook to Allow Online Gambling Ads
Casino Advisor
... including games of skill, lotteries, online casinos, sports books, bingo or poker will be allowed only in specific countries. Lottery commissions that are licensed or sponsored by government entities will be allowed to advertise on Facebook. ...
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Insanely Addictive Action Puzzle Game With a DJ Spin, Radballs(R), Hits the ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
With full support for Apple's Game Center and Facebook Connect, players can easily share their achievements and challenge their friends to see who can claim the most Radness! "The way music both complements and becomes part of the fabric of the game is ...
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Houston TX Storage Company ProguardStorage.com Uses Facebook Giveaway To ...
PR Urgent
I go to most of the games anyway, but it's awesome to get a pair of tickets for free! It's a really cool giveaway — I hope they do it again," said Higgs. Higgs, a longtime Astros fan, was happy to find that much of Proguard's Facebook activity focused ...
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