| Happy Pets gives cat and dog toys away for free ... forever Posted: 27 Feb 2010 10:00 AM PST  In a move to encourage players to interact more with their virtual furballs, the Happy Pets crew has decided to give away cat and dog toys for free. No longer will you have to spend valuable coins to buy more doggie biscuits, new fake mice or a new laser pen because the battery runs out. While this certainly a lovely gesture -- but we're still crossing our fingers for a larger variety of toys to keep our four-legged friends -- as the game name implies -- happy. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments  |
| Cafe World cranks up the heat, expands to level 80 Posted: 27 Feb 2010 01:30 AM PST  Cafe World has extended its levels from 60 to 80, which means hard-working chefs will now be able to unlock more stoves and counter space. No word yet if those upper levels will reap any more benefits, so stay tuned.
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| Cafe World gift boxes: Big changes coming soon Posted: 27 Feb 2010 01:00 AM PST  Look like Cafe World gifting will soon undergo an overhaul that will make it easier to put your gifts to work -- mostly filling the bellies of your virtual customers. Big changes, which will significantly reduce time spent clicking on numerous gifts, include the following: duplicate gifts will be combined, all food will be served together, and you'll be able to sell items you don't want for coins. Sounds good to us! Cafe World Community Manager Pinky Chefcadero explains these changes in more detail: "Our proposed new gift box would "stack" multiple servings for easier storage, loading and serving. For example: Let's say you had an empty gift box. If you accepted only 10 gift pancakes (all the same dish), with 200 servings each, from your friends, the number on the outside of the gift box icon would now say "1"; but total number of servings in that batch of pancakes, inside the gift box, would be 2000. (10 accepted gifts x 200 servings in each pancake gift). So, your servings would be combined. You may also be able to sell your gifts for coins." What do you think of these major changes? Yay or nay? Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments  |
| PetVille Pet Wing Mystery Crates: Hot or not? Posted: 27 Feb 2010 01:00 AM PST  What's one thing every virtual pet needs? Animated wings, of course. Now that's a possibility in PetVille, which has added a limited edition series pet wing mystery crates to the premium in-game store. Each mystery crate costs 25 PetVille cash, and the first purchase comes with a special closet where you can hang your wings. There are six sets of wings in all and they're animated, so even if your pet can't fly, they'll have a new accessory flapping gently behind them. So far, we know that the collection includes a pair of white angel wings and grey bat-like wings (see pic to the right), if you know what the other wings are like, please leave us a comment below. Animated wings have proven popular in other virtual pet games, namely Pet Society, but it seems like players would just rather spend the 25 PV cash to just buy wings, without having to deal with the whole 'mystery' of which random pair will be inside these boxes. We can already anticipate the uproar if owners spends the money to buy more than one of these boxes and get multiple sets of the same wings.    PetVille wings: Are they worth buying? Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments  |
| PetVille FarmVille limited edition collectible #4: FarmVille Mini-Horsey Posted: 27 Feb 2010 12:00 AM PST  Hey, you got your PetVille in my FarmVille! No, you got your FarmVille in my Petville! Whichever way you want to phrase it, the PetVille FarmVille collectibles keep coming, as part of a 10-day limited edition series. The big item for Day #4 is -- drum roll please -- the FarmVille Mini-Horsey! This item will be around today only, and the only way to acquire one of these li'l ponies is to get one as a gift from your PV friends. (Hint: if you send your friends one, they'll be more likely to send you one back).  Items for the previous three days have included the FarmVille Farmer Dude, the FarmVille Farmer Gal and the FarmVille Barn. Based on the picture above, it looks like upcoming gifts will include a silo, a white fence and the rest -- well, your guess is as good as ours. How many PetVille FarmVille items have you collected so far? Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments  |
