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• Social Gaming Roundup: Mainstream Virtual Goods, Star Fever Agency, FSU, and More

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 629
  Xbox Live Gets More Virtual Goods – Activision ’s Transformers 2 game has some new virtual goods on Xbox Live . For 240 Microsoft Points, users can purchase the Transformer heads of Megatron, Optimus Prime, or Bumblebee, and for 80 they can sport one of three Transformer t-shirts. Also available for Xbox ...
  11 hours ago

• Two Tips and Two Tricks for FarmVille

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 629
  Zynga’s FarmVille has over 67.8 million monthly active users . So we decided to look into what works for all the country tycoons out there. Keep in mind, however, that this is an online game and everything is subject to change, but thus far, the following tips and tricks have proven most useful. Tip #1 – ...
  17 hours ago

• A Wide Range of New Facebook Games Hit This Week’s Up-and-Comers List

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 629
  A promising range of applications has shown up in this week’s up-and-comers list, including what may be a popular new genre of game — health care. For those who haven’t been following recently, this list is derived by looking at the apps on AppData with between 100,000 and 1 million users, that grew by the most ...
  18 hours ago

• FarmVille Land Expansion List and Requirements

  
  Unigamesity — Authority: 144
  As you probably know, you can expand your FarmVille farm quite a few times, but there are some requirements you need to meet in order to do so (unless you wish to spend real money). Below you can check out all the requirements for the FarmVille land expansion. Happy farming!1. Homestead – Land Size 14×14. [...]
  1 day ago

• Here Are All FarmVille Ribbons and Requirements to Get Them

  
  Unigamesity — Authority: 144
  So, you’ve started playing FarmVille, you are finding it really fun, but now you want to get some rewards, too. These come in terms of Ribbons in FarmVille and it’s quite a bunch of them available. In this article you will find out everything about the FarmVille ribbons – requirements to earn them and rewards ...
  1 day ago

• Yes, Virtual Goods in Social Games Are Also Getting Black Friday Discounts

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 629
  Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, is a big day for retailers. And with the growth of social gaming this past year, the day might also be big for virtual goods retailers. Zynga , specifically, which is offering discounts for items in a couple of its bigger games. Roller Coaster Kingdom , ...
  1 day ago

• Vikings of Thule Brings More Play to Facebook Role-Playing

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 629
  Over the summer we had the chance to take a brief look at the preview of a new Facebook massive multiplayer online game called Vikings of Thule . Developed by Gogogic , a full review of this Viking-based role-playing game has been a long time coming. With the very good first impression we had, we went into this ...
  1 day ago

• New Cafe World Dishes: Buffalo Wings, Pancakes and More!

  
  Unigamesity — Authority: 144
  Hello there, virtual chefs! Zynga has decided to offer you even more chances to test your culinary skills by introducing to Cafe World, one of the top most played Facebook games, a bunch of new dishes. Unlike most of their updates of late, these new Cafe World dishes are specifically suitable for high level ...
  1 day ago

• More Fresh Fish Among This Week’s Facebook Games With The Most Daily Active Users

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 629
  Below is our weekly leaderboard of Facebook games with the most daily active users. This is a metric we’re looking at more closely, because it gives a better view than monthly active users of how engaging — and potentially lucrative — an application is. The more often users come back to play a game, the more ...
  2 days ago

• IF: Facebook Talking to Developers About New Plans for Its Virtual Currency

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 629
  Facebook first broached the idea of creating its own virtual currency for third-party developers back in December of 2007. The company has slowly rolled the “Credits” product out. First it introduced the currency for buying gifts in its own gift shop last November, then a tweak here and there , and ...
  2 days ago

• Football From the Sidelines: GridIron Live

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 629
  Social developer Challenge Games is known for producing relatively deep yet uncomplicated games. Ranging from medieval politics sto satirical corporations , it has been able to make something interesting out of genres one might otherwise see as oversaturated. The same is true for an older Facebook game of the ...
  2 days ago

• In Search of Benchmark Data for Facebook Game Application Bookmarks

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 629
  When I started looking at the recent push by developers to bookmark or become a fan of an application, I quickly realized there was no publicly available information about the number of bookmarks and what applications were being bookmarked the most. In recent discussions about platform changes, the Facebook ...
  2 days ago

• Neopets Creators See New Success on Facebook With Meteor Games

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 629
  About a week ago we were taking our usual look at the top 20 growing apps for Facebook and came across a company whose title, Island Paradise , had made it to #5 on those charts. Falling in behind some of the top growing games of the time, including FishVille, Happy Aquarium, FarmVille, and Diva Life, the company, ...
  3 days ago

• Seattle Game Developers and Startups Go Social and Mobile, As Industry Shifts

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 701
  Gaming , Mobile , trends Gregory T. Huang wrote: Heading into the holidays, it seems like a good time to look at what’s going on in the gaming space around Seattle. While the core gaming giants like Xbox, Nintendo, Valve, and Bungie are gearing up for a busy shopping season, the mid-size casual game ...
  3 days ago

• Playfish Preparing to Launch Poker Rivals, Its Newest Facebook Game

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 629
  Fresh off its up-to-$400-million purchase by Electronic Arts , Playfish is getting ready to roll out a Facebook poker game, called Poker Rivals . Lots of people love to play poker online, and Zynga ’s Texas Hold’Em Poker has shown they’re willing to do it on Facebook without actual cash involved. Just a ...
  3 days ago

• Russian Gaming Company Nival Network Raising $5 Million

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 629
  We haven’t covered the Russian online gaming market in much detail, so we’re interested to hear that Nival Network , a Moscow-based gaming company, is closing $5 million in funding for a new massive multiplayer online game called Prime World , to run on an online gaming portal called ZZima . The game is ...
  3 days ago

• Country Story

  
  Gamezebo: Casual Game Reviews, Previews, Cheats, Tips, Forums, Free Games, and More — Authority: 532
  Welcome to Country Story , another title in a long line of Facebook games that tasks you with running your own virtual farm, giving you the opportunity to try to raise a teeming homestead out of little more than a vegetable patch. read more
  3 days ago

• Russian Social Strategy Game Raises $5 Million

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 160
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  3 days ago

• Russian Social Strategy Game Raises $5 Million

  
  Technology Pundit — Authority: 169
  We all know social games are hot right now, and that’s as true in Russia – a large and growing market – as anywhere else. Now Russian online game developer Nival Network has closed a $5 million round from an undisclosed investor but will use the funds to develop Prime World, its online strategy game with social ...
  4 days ago

• Attentio Raises $786,000 For Advanced Social Media Monitoring Software Suite

  
  Technology Pundit — Authority: 169
  Brussels-based Attentio , a startup that markets a robust software suite for brand monitoring and analysis of conversations that are happening in social media, has raised €525,000 (or $786,000) in financing from the citys regional investment firm SRIB/GIMB . The financing consisted of an equity investment of ...
  4 days ago

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