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Orbitz 50 Faves 'game' offers luxury vacation giveaway on Facebook
Games.com News (blog)
I know what you're thinking -- that does sound suspiciously like a Facebook game, doesn't it? But Orbitz 50 Faves isn't so much a game as it is a glorious raffle board. Social games are so huge right now that even banks and TV broadcasters are adding ...
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1 vs 100 on Facebook: Can the next Episode air, like, now?
Games.com News (blog)
But those (possibly exaggerated) clouds have finally parted, as the game has found new life on Facebook. Brought to you by iWin, known for Facebook renditions of popular game shows like Family Feud and Deal or No Deal, 1 vs 100 follows the formula of ...
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Google+ Games: The good, the great and the glaring flaw
Games.com News (blog)
Facebook gamers are a fervent audience that like to have their voices heard (just check out our Facebook page and see). This is normally done through Facebook games' official fan pages, those which Google+ doesn't have yet. For instance, PopCap always ...
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The Sims Social officially launches on Facebook
Digitaltrends.com
Not wasting enough time on Facebook? The Sims Social lets Facebook users create characters, build homes and careers...and wreak mischievous havoc. Just in case you didn't think you were putting enough time into Facebook, gaming giant Electronic Arts ...
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OnLive rolls out parental controls and group voice chat
VentureBeat
OnLive has rolled out parental controls, group voice chat, and Facebook achievement sharing in the latest features for the games-on-demand service. The company has steadily rolled out new features since its debut in mid-2010 in its quest to offer just ...
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Exploring Facebook's redesigned game pages
Gamezebo
One of the big changes is that, while playing a game, Facebook now makes better use of your screen real estate so that games are no longer confined to a tiny little box. You can check out this feature in action while playing the new Pioneer Trail ...
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Gamestop Confirms Removing OnLive Coupons from 'Deus Ex'
PC Magazine
Achievements can also now be shared automatically via Facebook. Finally, OnLive launched a persistent group voice chat feature that always exists, across games, lobbies, and other features. "Instead of trying to track them down individually, ...
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Take to the sky and fly as far as you can in Rocketbird on Facebook
Games.com News (blog)
With such a simple premise, one wouldn't think that the game could find a following on Facebook, but the port of the game has done just that and currently sits at over 500000 monthly active players. As we said before, Rocketbird has an incredibly ...
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Bunchball Brings Gamification To Salesforce.com
InformationWeek
"We were actually the very first gaming company on Facebook," Paharia said. Originally set up as a company that would provide a platform that game developers could build their applications on, Bunchball changed its business model in 2007, ...
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FrontierVille, Ravenwood Fair score multiple GDC Online Awards nominations
Games.com News (blog)
This year's GDC Online Awards nominations include a litany of hot online games, but are largely dominated by two Facebook games: Zynga's FrontierVille and Ravenwood Fair by Lolapps. Each of the two games came away with three nominations, bested only by ...
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Ticketmaster Teams With Facebook So You Can Sit Next To Your Friends
Fast Company
Sharing your seat tag generates a "Check out my seats" post on your Facebook wall. Along with the "like" and "comment" buttons is "buy tickets," the critical and convenient commerce part of social commerce. Earlier this month, Facebook games director ...
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Fast Company
DoubleDown Casino Is A Virtual Vegas, Says WildTangent Executive
PR Newswire (press release)
The new pact gives players of WildTangent's games service a chance to win millions of dollars in virtual currency at the DoubleDown Casino™. DoubleDown Casino, developed by Double Down Interactive, is one of the fastest-growing applications on ...
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Make A Play Date: Can You Turn Your Business Into A Game?
Forbes
Farmville: Farmville is a socially viral Facebook game that allows users to cultivate their virtual farms. By developing the platform as a game first, Zynga showed that it creates predictable behaviors that brands can align with (eg giving incentives ...
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China's PapayaMobile reveals strong growth stats for mobile games
VentureBeat
It helps them make money by letting users buy virtual currency to spend on virtual items in games. Virtual goods have fueled huge companies on two fronts to date — in Asian social networks and on Facebook. Now the question is, can they fuel big mobile ...
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Facebook's Sean Ryan: Mobile Future Of HTML5 Still Murky, But Coming
Gamasutra
It's a move that could profoundly affect developers and their plans to support Facebook with games, opening up avenues to address mobile users directly through the browser. "It's not a native or an HTML5 discussion. We view HTML5 as a technology, ...
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Gamasutra
Create Facebook Photo Albums With LifePix
AllFacebook
Why just post photos on Facebook, when you can access friends' photos, or create photo albums and scrapbooks? That's the thinking behind LifePix, a Facebook application released in beta today by gaming studio Digital Madhouse. ...
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AllFacebook
The Sims Social Already Has 1.5 Million Facebook Friends
AllFacebook
About 1.5 million active users are already creating mischief and mayhem with the Facebook debut of Electronic Arts' award-winning, life simulating game "The Sims Social" on Facebook. EA has a deep history in Facebook gaming, and "The Sims Social" joins ...
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AllFacebook
Dude, This Video Game Promotion Is Sweet
New York Times (blog)
Another example is a recent partnership between Dunkin' Donuts, sold by Dunkin' Brands, and the new Sims Social Facebook game. Agencies that are working on the promotion include three that are part of the Omnicom Group: BBDO New York, TracyLocke and ...
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Explore Ancient Egypt On Facebook With BrainJewel
AllFacebook
BrainJewel is filled with various brain games where you can see how smart you are, and compare your scores with those of your friends. Clearly, there are a few other brain games already available on Facebook. However, BrainJewel takes a slightly ...
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AllFacebook
What to expect from Nintendo's conference?
Wall Street Journal
Less than two weeks after the move, Nintendo announced a 3DS trade show for September, fueling expectations about what kinds of games and gadgets are in the offing.I don't know about anyone else, but I generally have steered clear of handhelds my ...
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Infographic: How Gaming Has Gone Social
PC Magazine
Meanwhile, new developments are making video games attractive to demographics previously thought to be a dead zone for gaming. Easily accessible, friendly social games on sites like Facebook are attracting older players and more women. ...
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Ways To Win are widespread on MLB.com
MLB.com
World Series Superstars, the MLB-licensed, free-to-play Facebook game from MLB.com and EA Sports, has announced its Race to the Pennant Sweepstakes. Starting on Aug. 31, players who enter the game will be instructed to select their favorite MLB club. ...
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MLB.com
5 Ways Merchants Can Start Utilizing Facebook Credits
Mashable
The GAP UK also provided Facebook Credits to customers who signed up for its email newsletter. As your business looks to get into the Facebook Credits game, here are some things to consider. Facebook Credits can be used to purchase virtual goods, ...
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Euronet Worldwide unit helps spread FarmVille in Europe
Bizjournals.com
Games can be played on social platforms such as Facebook. "Zynga recognizes epay's leadership for prepaid solutions within the European marketplace, as well as the speed in which they are rolling out to emerging markets," Ryan Linton, senior director ...
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UK riots: the questions social media giants need to answer
The Guardian
Should Facebook, Twitter and BlackBerry messenger be restricted during riots? Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images David Cameron, speaking in the aftermath of this month's riots, said that he wanted to know "whether it would be right" to ban people ...
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The Guardian
Best in Blogs: What Do Facebook's New Privacy Settings Mean For You?
Wall Street Journal (blog)
[Wealth] Tennessee's Summitt Stares Down Biggest Challenge: The dog days of summer are usually reserved for stories on preseason football games and baseball pennant races. But Pat Summitt's announcement on Tuesday that she was battling early onset ...
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Facebook, FA Cup Making Sports and Social Media History
TMC Net
The fact millions more might well be watching on Facebook is astonishing. The whole place has gone bananas." A spokesman for FA said that there could be more games broadcast on Facebook as no one owns the broadcast rights to the games until the first ...
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Video game developer changes its name
phillyBurbs.com
The company said the name change, approved by its board of directors, reflects its move toward developing social game platforms for Facebook, Google+, tablets and mobile devices. It also reflects the company's recent acquisition of developer Heyday ...
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GameStop throwing away 'Deus Ex: Human Revolution' OnLive vouchers
Examiner.com
The acquisition of Impulse came after Portal 2 was releaed but the retailer is still selling the game with the code packed inside. How will it act when the next Valve console game is released with a Steam code? Follow us on Facebook or Twitter for the ...
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Win the CoD: Black Ops Rezurrection map pack!
EL33TONLINE
... in the world of videogames, consistently breaking sales records year after year, and accumulating a rabid fanbase that is now over 30 million players strong - numbers usually reserved for Facebook games and massively multiplayer online titles! ...
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EL33TONLINE
Joe Montana Discusses Patience And The 49ers Offensive Revival
Niners Nation
While promoting the cause (click Like on the Kraft Fight Hunger Facebook page to help donate meals) Montana discussed the return of the West Coast offense under Coach Jim Harbaugh. Apparently, when one of Montana's sons was being recruited, ...
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So I asked: Why no buzz for the Falcons? Here's what you said
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
The only major acquisition that was made [outside of draft picks] is Ray Edwards and we haven't seen him play yet." From Mark Teems on Facebook: "Falcons starters are great. The rest of the team keeps losing preseason games." From Big Ray on AJC.com: ...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
[A]LIST GAMES' EXPO WITHIN AN EXPO AT PAX PRIME
Gamasutra
Turtle Beach will be hosting a live stream at PAX that will feature [a]list games in addition to other exhibitors. For more information on Turtle Beach and the live stream, please visit www.turtlebeach.com or find them on Facebook at ...
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Frank: 25 random points about the Eagles
Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia
The ridiculous rumors that people inexplicably perpetuated on message boards, Facebook and Twitter were needless and hurtful. I got more than 50 emails asking me what was really going on with Maclin. Did you really think the entire Philly media was ...
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Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia
Opinions abound concerning decision to pull pre-game prayer
WYMT
Our first story has more than 500 Facebook recommendations and more than 60 comments both for and against the issue. Those we talked with Tuesday said that is not surprising. "I just think it'll be the talk no matter what," said Ervin. ...
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The Wednesday Morning Rush for Aug. 24, 2011
WCPO
... for three matches because they posed nearly nude for a picture that was posted on Facebook. The team members posed naked with their clubs placed strategically in front of their private parts. NAME GAME: The captain of the golf name is Jim Hiscock. ...
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WCPO
Wrigley Building Buzz for Its 5 Brand
Popsop.com
The 'recruitment' began in May with ads on Facebook, says the WSJ. The buzz among gamers was growing in June, as the 'secret information' was distributed to participants at the E3 Expo, a trade show for computer and video games. ...
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Popsop.com
WKU athletics survey concludes no basketball blackouts
College Heights Herald
Developing a social media strategy to enable fans easier access to WKU Facebook and Twitter accounts, with information on a specific launch date to be released later. • Athletic marketing retaining more time in games this season to include additional ...
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The Hunger Games Teaser Trailer Will Premiere at the MTV VMAs
Crushable
The Hunger Games' official Facebook page has announced in more than one status update that what we'll see on Sunday is the first teaser trailer! Bonus: Even if you don't have a TV/cable, you won't miss out. MTV News just reported that the trailer will ...
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Firemint hosts contest, win a chance to play Spy Mouse first
tuaw.com
For every 100 likes the company gets on its Facebook page, another winner will get picked for the current clue. In addition to playing the game early, Firemint's also giving away copies of EA games like Dead Space and The Sims 3. ...
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Profitably Distribute Digital Media Through Facebook Using AllDigital's ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Other advantages of using Facebook as a digital media distribution channel include a.) Facebook is platform neutral, b.) Facebook Credits allows for simple and secure payment processing, c.) Support for applications (such as games, distance learning, ...
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Exclusive: Privacy lawsuit targets comScore
Reuters
It sells that information to more than 1800 businesses around the world, including Best Buy Co, Facebook, Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc, according to comScore's website. Concerns have surfaced about comScore's data collection practices in the past, ...
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