Those devious souls at PopCap have unleashed their latest and greatest upon the populace, and it’s every bit as compulsively addictive as you’d expect. Read more »
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Bungie Aerospace Is Not What You Were Hoping For
Remember “Bungie Aerospace,” that new trademark registered by the makers of Halo? Sadly, it’s not in any way related to Bungie’s mysterious new mega-franchise. It’s not related to air and space travel, either. So what is it? Not what you’re guessing. Read more »
Angry Birds Migrating to Facebook
There’s no escaping the Angry Birds, or their rivals the green pigs. Even if you don’t have access to one of the eight platforms the game is currently available for — which include iOS, Windows, and PlayStation 3 — anyone with an Internet connection will soon be able to join in the wildly popular puzzler, thanks to a version that’s in the works for Facebook. Angry Birds is no longer just a simple downloadable game. It’s an empire boasting more than 75 million downloads, allowing Rovio to achieve something few downloadable titles ever do: a prominent place in pop culture. More versions of the flagship game are in production, including Read more »
John Romero Goes Cutesy With Social Facebook Game
The man who once promised to “make you his b*tch” (with Daikatana, a game so bad it couldn’t even make you its meter maid), has released his latest game, and it’s one of those painfully cute Facebook social games in the same vein as Farmville. It’s called Ravenwood Fair, and Romero built it in just 2 months alongside eight employees of LOLapps, a company that exclusively makes Facebook games. (Other games in LOLapps portfolio include Garden Life and Critter Island. Combined, LOLapps boasts 150 million active users every month.) Romero is best remembered as being the co-creator of id Software’s first roster of first-person shooters like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Read more »
How I Fail at Facebook Gaming, or 'F*#$ It, I'm Screwed'
Hi, I’m Dina, and I’m a serial Facebook gamer. I’ll admit it. I’m not proud, but I’m willing to own up to the occasional unfortunate side effect of my cat-killing levels of curiosity. Facebook gaming is one such effect: I marvel at the phenomenon, get swept away in the crowd of my friends peer pressuring me daily to help them build a chicken coop or drain the blood from a small child, and jump into the deep end. I go full force for a couple days, and sometimes a couple weeks…heck, two games have had my attention for a couple months…which is saying a lot. But for the most part Read more »
Hotel City: Just Another Facebook Game App
I was so happy that I got myself cured from my Cafe World addiction, but alas, my freedom is short-lived! I am now currently addicted to Hotel City, another time management Facebook game app. Augh, when will this madness end! Hotel City is pretty similar to Restaurant City or Cafe World, except that you are taking care of a Hotel. You can hire friends as your staff and you can decorate every room of your hotel, from the furniture to the wallpaper. What I like about Hotel City: It needs less maintenance compared to other games like Farmville or Cafe World. While the other games require you to track multiple Read more »
Tokyo Timewarp: Toshiba's venture into social media marketing
From the surface, Tokyo Timewarp (@tokyotimewarp) looks like any well-funded, but aspiring casual game amidst the many titles playable on Facebook. Beneath the surface though, there’s an object of interest to see the key players behind this product. Tokyo Timewarp is a joint project between Toshiba Singapore, the regional hub for Toshiba in South East Asia, in partnerships with Intel. One of the regional marketing guys sent me a Facebook invite the other day explaining that this was regional’s first venture into social media, which is saying a lot since not too many technology companies — especially if they’re based in Japan — take the risk in this turf. Tokyo Read more »
