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Will Facebook games become faster and richer?
VentureBeat
It also depends on the speed of the internet and the servers of the developer hosting the game. While console games and PC games are installed on local machines or use disk-based subsystems, Facebook games are played across the web. ...
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5 Things To Watch With Google+ Games
Forbes
The Google platform also gives a first real social gaming alternative to Facbeook. After the Google+ launch, there are a number of areas worth watching, since Google+ is a key part of Google's overall strategy. Facebook games such as Zynga's FarmVille ...
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Wooga's newest Facebook game whisks players away to a Magic Land
Games.com News (blog)
Wooga, the Berlin, Germany-based creator of Diamond Dash and Monster World, has announced Magic Land, its brand new Facebook role-playing game (RPG). The game offers a mix of RPG-style adventuring and city (or kingdom) building a' la CityVille. ...
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New Facebook game helps save gorillas
The Independent
Despite being released by developer Good World Games in early June, the new Facebook game only began attracting media buzz in early August after blog post by the developers. The real world benefits of the game come in game purchases, 15 percent of ...
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Camelot: The Game leaves Facebook just as quickly as it arrived
Games.com News (blog)
by Brandy Shaul, Posted Aug 15th 2011 1:43AM Earlier this year (mid-May to be exact), we brought you a detailed look at Starz' new Facebook game based on the Camelot television show. This Facebook game tie-in was appropriately called Camelot: the Game, ...
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Mario pressured to jump to iPhone as Nintendo Wii, 3DS slump
Business Standard
Research firm Gartner Inc. said in January it expects global sales of mobile applications to almost triple to $15.1 billion this year. Revenue at San Francisco-based Zynga Inc., the biggest developer of Facebook games including FarmVille and CityVille, ...
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Russia's I-Jet Media launches new social game platform (exclusive)
VentureBeat
It has several dozen social games with an audience of 70 million users. Right now, I-Jet Media can publish titles across 30 social networks. In Europe, there are multiple social networks that are holding their own against Facebook, Kostarev said in a ...
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Buddy Media Raises $54 Million Fourth Round That Could Further Fuel Facebook ...
Inside Facebook
By Josh Constine In a move that could accelerate the consolidation of ecommerce, marketing games, and Facebook Ads API companies into Page management giants, Buddy Media has raised a $54 million Series D round of funding. ...
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Words With Friends Facebook App Now Syncs with iPad and iPhone
PadGadget
When the company that purchases you is responsible for successful games like FarmVille, it should come as no surprise that complete Facebook integration was eventual. For a while now you could initiate games with your Facebook friends, ...
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Google adds games to Plus in its latest move on Facebook
Salt Lake Tribune
The strategy has worked well at Facebook, where games requiring players to fill the roles of farmers, mob bosses and card sharks have attracted obsessive followings among its more than 750 million users. Facebook's top games are provided by Zynga Inc., ...
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Game changer
BBC News
This potential is summed up neatly by another Abertay graduate while brainstorming ideas at the festival "games jam" - a challenge to build a game from scratch in just three days. "My mum plays games on Facebook," he confides to the group. ...
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BBC News
Boot up: Hands on Google+ games, Apple 'hikes iPhone orders', and more
The Guardian (blog)
It can essentially duplicate Facebook's platform for games and bring over a lot of games that already exist elsewhere. The next test is to see how many games it can get and how the performance works when the games scale to millions of players. ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Gears of War 3 producer describes the end to an epic series (video)
VentureBeat
... most anticipated games of the year and it is Microsoft's opening gambit in the big war for the hearts and minds of gamers that will take place this holiday season as the company competes not only against games from Sony and Nintendo but Facebook, ...
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Google Plus & Video: Real-Time Collaboration, Video Games, & More Invites
ReelSEO Online Video News
Google Plus took another big step toward solidifying its future last week with the addition of games. As Facebook's Farmville (as well as countless others) proved, games can keep people glued to their accounts and get people talking and sharing more ...
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ReelSEO Online Video News
Galbatorix Released as Fourth Playable Character on "Inheritance Quest"!
Shurtugal.com
Inheritance Quest is a text-driven Inheritance Cycle Facebook game produced by Christopher Paolini's publisher, Random House. The game allows you to play as five popular Inheritance Cycle characters — Angela, Murtagh, Saphira and Galbatorix so far ...
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FrontierVille Pioneer Trail Tips: Some facts about friends
Games.com News (blog)
For instance, when you want to add friends to your new Trail team, the menu for adding friends doesn't just show those who have installed the Pioneer Trail, but all of your Facebook friends. Hopefully this issue is fixed soon, as this is what's looking ...
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Mobile Apps: Maybe it's the Business Model that Counts
TMC Net
It's social games create huge engagement. It's virtual goods create a revenue model for Zynga, which shares the revenue with Facebook. Zynga also advertises heavily on Facebook, which helps both Facebook and Zynga which gets more users. ...
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Words with Friends Now a Facebook Game
MacApper
Zynga with Friends, the company that has created the ever-popular games such as Words with Friends and Hanging with Friends, has created an online version of Words with Friends that is playable on Facebook. This version does not require flash and look ...
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Nintendo "Massively Single Player" Patent Means Something, Probably
GotGame News
Similar gameplay styles have been done before in Nintendo's very own Animal Crossing, and many Facebook and mobile games have interactions between players in a similar fashion. The fact that we haven't seen an Animal Crossing style game on Facebook is ...
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Are You Ready for Penn State Football? Not Me! Not Ever!
Centre Daily Times
By Carolyn M. Todd — State College - Centre Daily Tim Yesterday the Penn State Football Facebook page posted a video, 20 Days, which you can view by clicking here. Now it's 19 days and counting until the opening day on September 3, when Penn State ...
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'Tap Tap Glee': Music game hits high note
USA Today
As with past Tap Tap games, there's also a social-media element to help spread the word about the app. Tap Tap Glee users can connect to a "Gleeks vs. Jocks" Facebook wall (and choose to be a Gleek or Jock), post a "slushy" to a friend's wall or see ...
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USA Today
Facebook to Moderate Game Spam
games.on.net
By Toby McCasker - Mon Aug 15, 2011 12:10pm - Like it or loathe it, a lot of folk play their games on Facebook – often exclusively, too. I know I've got a fair few Farmville fanatics cluttering up my feed with their latest cow purchase, and obviously a ...
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Cardinals seek a quantity of quality, and fast
STLtoday.com
The furlough does not extend to Twitter (@dgoold) or the Bird Land@Facebook page, so I'll frequent those places and try to keep the links current. As for the game balls ... I turn the choices over to you, the readers. The game balls for the two coming ...
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Does Facebook Condone A "Culture Of Rape"?
Huffington Post (blog)
We can start by asking ourselves these questions: Is America so lacking in a moral compass that we can't control the explosion of sexual violence depicted in movies, television, advertising, video games, music, and social media, which depict women and ...
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Android App Video Review: A Monster Ate My Homework
Android Apps Appolicious
The game supports OpenFeint leaderboards and achievements. What I like about the achievements is that they actually give you tangible rewards. You receive monster tokens which can be used to skip difficult levels. There is Facebook and Twitter support ...
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Naval War: Arctic Circle Teaser trailer Gamescom2011
YouTube
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NavalWarArcticCircle Twitter: http://twitter.com/navalwar Forum: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/ Web page: http://www.paradoxplaza.com/games/naval-war-arctic-circle Strategic and tactical battles for world domination on ...
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Citizen Skywatch Website Leading to New Take-Two Game Announcement?
1UP.com
Another post on the site points out the website's different areas, including official Twitter and Facebook accounts. A post on the message boards has since been responded to by the Twitter account, with an added note of "details to follow," so we might ...
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Worms Crazy Golf Coming To PS3, iOS, PC
Cinema Blend
Crazy Golf will also support four-player social multiplayer. Presumably that applies to all versions of the game. The first screenshots of the game are below. Additional details will be released soon through the official Worms Facebook page.
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Sports and hip-hop share deep bonds
ESPN
Several interviews and websites, including Game's Facebook page, indicate that his game was good enough to get a basketball scholarship offer at Washington State in 1999. But Kevin Eastman, the Cougars coach through the '99 season, says he's "never ...
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'Grand Theft Auto 4' Mod Adds Photorealistic Vehicles and Environments
Game Rant
Or if you want to keep up on any of the updates being made to the mod, head on over to the official Facebook page for screenshots and quick looks at how awesome the mod makes the game look. But, for a brief tease check out the mod in action below: ...
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Game Rant
Team Alberta claims record number of medals at Western Canada Summer Games
Canada Views
Overall, Alberta's teams combined to win the most medals ever in their Western Canada Summer Games history. To see the full list of Alberta athletes and final results, visit www.teamalberta.org and follow them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TeamAB. ...
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Commission kicks off college football campaign
The Packer
The social media aspect of the campaign will include a Chilean Avocado Lovers Club mobile-phone-friendly site, Facebook and Twitter accounts, new recipes, videos, coupons, games, weekly contests and other promotional tools. Fort Worth, Texas-based ...
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Let The Games Begin
Canon City Daily Record
Last year's team finished 9-6-1 after losing its last four games, including one in the playoffs. "The kids, really on their own, have been getting together two nights a week," Callahan said. "… They're having fairly good numbers there, playing hard. ...
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Divide and conquer (literally) in Carcasonne for Android, BlackBerry
Games.com News (blog)
For the uninitiated, the game also features a tutorial and 12 new challenges to keep your mobile, fickle minds intrigued. Look, board gamers just aren't how they used to be, hence Scrabble Words with Friends for mobile and Facebook, Risk for Facebook ...
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SoCon, ESPN3.com Announce Broadcast Agreement
GoMocs.com
Fans will be treated to a maximum of 45 regular season games and conference championships contests per year will be aired on the digital network. SPARTANBURG, SC --- Chattanooga Mocs fans have another broadcast avenue to follow their favorite team. ...
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Latest in Small Business Social Media Trends
Business Insider
The announcement that the search engine giant is adding games to its new social network, spawned a response from arch rival Facebook which plans an upgrade to its own gaming features. The question for serious business users on both social media ...
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MDK2 HD Comes to Beamdog Exclusively in September
Gamasutra
said Trent Oster, President at Overhaul Games. "We still have a little bit of time until release, though, and we'd love for diehard fans of MDK2 to let us know what sort of improvements they'd like to see. We're taking suggestions on our Facebook Page, ...
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A Winning Road Trip is Never a Bad Thing
Motor City Bengals
In recent seasons, the Detroit Tigers sealed their fate away from Comerica Park, where they have played a combined 38 games under .500 (2008-2010) and are a total of 16 games under the break even mark since Jim Leyland took the helm. ...
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Fantasy Football Team Preview 2011: Pittsburgh Steelers
Bleacher Report
You can also follow TSC on Facebook and Twitter for up-to-the-minute fantasy football news and tips. The Steelers weren't expected to start the season as hot as they were. Without their franchise quarterback and shuffling starting QBs each week, ...
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Facing society
Bendigo Advertiser
... hundreds of people's lives flashing up before your eyes every minute of the day, being able to scan through every single photo uploaded from every single place they've been, and don't forget the gamesFacebook is not really all that appealing. ...
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Living LIVE News Report 08.15.11
411mania.com
The verdict is still out regarding whether or not Microsoft will go out of their way to promote it, but at the very least games shouldn't be late or completely unreleased. The full list is below, with the final two games being chosen in the Facebook ...
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411mania.com
'Fugitive' Game Comes to Waynesboro
NBC 29 News
But teens insist the game is safe and fun. 'Anonymous' said, "It's not as dangerous as people, like, say. Like, you would actually have to play it to understand." The teens we spoke to said Facebook is the primary tool they use to organize games. ...
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NPD: Behind the Numbers, July 2011
Gamasutra
... a month in which preliminary estimates by the US government appear to show growth in general retail sales (but not video games). Moreover, we are waiting for more publishers and platform holders (including players like Facebook and Google) to show ...
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Why do so many seem to want Tim Tebow to fail?
Tampabay.com
There are claws on the Internet, and there are teeth on the Twitter comments, and on Facebook, there is a bloodlust. It no longer seems as if onlookers expect Tebow to fail; it's that they seem to want it to happen. There is a frenzy here, a look-at-me ...
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