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- New PetVille mini-game: Find the four-leaf clovers for good luck (i.e. coins, free loot)
- FarmVille gifts now expire after two weeks (worst idea ever?)
- FarmVille Unreleased Zinfandel, Chardonnay & Chardonnay Mastery Signs
- FarmVille Official 03.12.10 Podcast - listen now!
- PetVille introduces limited edition Backyard gifts
- Cafe World Wedding Cake: Build a big cake for a big reward
- Poker Blitz from Zynga: The 'poker game for the masses'
- Playfish's Hotel City: More info leaked on new hotel sim game
- FarmVille Pot of Gold redeemable prize list *Spoiler* [Updated]
- Mafia Wars skill points just got much easier to spend
- Mafia Wars Urban Crates: Find out what's inside
- Playfish's Hotel City launching Monday, March 15?
| New PetVille mini-game: Find the four-leaf clovers for good luck (i.e. coins, free loot) Posted: 13 Mar 2010 04:30 AM PST  PetVille's getting into the St. Patrick's Day spirit by tasking players with finding four-leaf clovers in a brand new mini-game. If you see a big green clover hanging around your pet's house, click on it and that will launch a game, and the goal of this game is to pick which patch contains the lucky four-leaf clover. You have three tries, and if you choose correctly, you will be rewarded with special St. Patty's Day loot. We scored a hilarious SPD Bonus Irish Hat -- a drinking hat that holds two green beers (straws included). Others have found the following: a Clover Cake, Kiss Me I'm Irish balloon, SPD Bonus Mini Spats, Beverage barrel, green balloon with white shamrocks. a gold coin, and a pint-sized mug.    What items did you get when you found the four-leaf clover?
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| FarmVille gifts now expire after two weeks (worst idea ever?) Posted: 13 Mar 2010 04:00 AM PST If you're one of those players who let your gifts sitting dormant on your Facebook page for weeks before accepting them -- you might have to change your ways. Gifts now have a built-in time limit and after two weeks, you'll no longer be able to accept them. If you ask us, gifting in FarmVile and other Facebook games need a complete overhaul. Bouncing from a Facebook page, to a game and then back again to receive gifts is -- at its best -- slow and cumbersome. We're not thrilled with the idea of our gifts expiring, but if this means that bigger gifting changes are on their way, guess we can deal with this in the meantime. Source: Official FarmVille Forums
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| FarmVille Unreleased Zinfandel, Chardonnay & Chardonnay Mastery Signs Posted: 13 Mar 2010 03:39 AM PST  Props to FarmViller.com for finding these unreleased items: Sources:
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| FarmVille Official 03.12.10 Podcast - listen now! Posted: 13 Mar 2010 03:30 AM PST This week's Official FarmVille Podcast was on time as scheduled! You can listen to the video below or read the Official Transcript after the break. FarmVille St. Patrick's Day Limited Edition items: St. Patrick's Day celebrations continue with this week's release of: * Crops: Shamrock, Green Hellebore, Green Roses * St. Patrick's Day Mystery Box * Shamrock Cow (animal) * Shamrock Buildings (Cottage, Inn, Barn, Tool Shed) * Lucky Vehicles (Tractor, Seeder, Harvester) Comment Box * New way of communication between FarmVille neighbors. * Comment Box wall feature will allow you to view neighbor's comments and post your own. * Can still place a Sign Post via Comment Box. * Can leave a comment on neighbor's Facebook wall via Comments Box. La Maison Building * May purchase directly with farm cash or build for free with neighbor's help and 5,000 coins. * Need 10 of each item to complete building. * Sendable building supplies are randomized per farmer. * When you've reached 25 supplies, you can share a supply with your neighbors via newsfeed sharing. COMING SOON to FarmVille * New "four legged friends" will be making their way to FarmVille and "stopping by Horse Stables". This seems to hint at the FarmVille Colts. Meaning that the Horse Stable and Horses inside may yield Colts! We've all seen pics of them "unreleased". * More limited edition French Chateau themed decorations will be coming soon. Where is the FarmVille DOG?! After two weeks of the loading screen, there is still no mention of the release date. Can we hope for next week? What are your thoughts on this week's Official FarmVille Podcast? Additionally, you may read the entire FarmVille Official March 12th Transcript provided by Zynga's FarmVille Community Manager Lexilicious: This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.
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| PetVille introduces limited edition Backyard gifts Posted: 13 Mar 2010 02:00 AM PST  PetVille's promises that a new yard will be coming soon, and while we wait for our little patch of green for our virtual pets, the game has also rolled out a new limited edition gift set -- Backyard gifts. Much like the FarmVille gift set from a few weeks ago, each of the items will be available for one day only, so you should send as many as you can to your friends and then ask, beg, or do whatever it takes for them to send one in return. The backyard item for Saturday, March 13 is this adorable pink Garden Flamingo, and it will be available for one day only.
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| Cafe World Wedding Cake: Build a big cake for a big reward Posted: 13 Mar 2010 02:00 AM PST  Log into Cafe World today, and you may be greeted with a teary-eyed bride and her Ruined Wedding. It's your choice whether you want to help the distraught bride by making her a cake, and if you choose to help, you'll have 14 days to wrangle your friends to put her cake together and ... save the day. Of course, you're also promised a 'BIG' reward if you complete this mission...  Once you agree to help, you'll be directed to build the cake. A wedding cake rack will appear in your cafe, and you'll also post a notification on your Facebook wall asking friends to send you the ingredients required to construct this giant confection. The ingredients include batter, icing and decorations, which can be gifted from friends -- or you can just buy them using Cafe Cash. We think buying the items ruins the spirit of the game, but it's also understandable if you're tired of asking friends for help building things in Cafe World, FarmVille and Zynga's other games.  If you want to help out your friends with a cake, look for the notification below on your news feed. A special thinks to Cafe World fan Darlin6983 for the images.  Then once you click 'Help out' on the news item, you'll be taken to a screen that will confirm your help and let you vote what kind of cake it will be -- chocolate or red velvet. Yum, red velvet is the best!  If you want extra help getting all of the ingredients, let others know by asking for help (and a list of what items you need) below.
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| Poker Blitz from Zynga: The 'poker game for the masses' Posted: 13 Mar 2010 01:00 AM PST  Zynga's Texas HoldEm poker game is one of the most popular on Facebook, with a loyal following of about 30 million monthly active users, according to AppData. For those who aren't poker pros but still want to try their hand at a less intimidating version of this classic card game, Zynga Casino General Manager Har 'Sim" Mimran says his team is launching Poker Blitz, a new "poker game for the masses." While Sim was tight-lipped on the exact details of the game, he tells us that "Poker is a hard genre for a small niche of people ... we thought, 'How can we bring poker to the masses and get people addicted?" Sim says Poker Blitz will be much easier to play than the TexasHoldEm game and will allow anyone to start playing within 30 seconds. If you're new to poker, the game will hold your hand while you learn how to play. Much like PopCap's Bejeweled Blitz, which Sim says was a big inspiration for the game, the poker rounds will be timed and players will be able to use power-ups that will, for instance, let players swap cards with their opponents. There will also be some kind of team aspect to the game, though the details on that are still a little fuzzy. Zynga Poker Blitz was initially set to arrive this past week, but Social Game Central says that the date has been moved 'til next week. Casino game have also been proving very popular lately, with both Poker Madness and Roulette Madness climbing the charts. We expect Poker Blitz will just be one of many casino games Zynga will be releasing this year.
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| Playfish's Hotel City: More info leaked on new hotel sim game Posted: 13 Mar 2010 12:23 AM PST This week, we spotted Hotel City during the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco, and since then we've seen Hotel City from Playfish popping up everywhere! Looks like the hotel-themed game might be arriving on Monday, and the Hotel City Facebook fan page is live, with a few pieces of art and a little more information on the game. Looks like this will be a full-fledged hotel simulation game where you will start out with a 'small-time' hotel and then turn it into a five-star luxury palace ready to serve well-heeled customers. See the complete description below:  Playfish's Hotel City Facebook fan page is now live if you want to check it out (and bookmark the game, so you'll have easy access once it goes live). Stay tuned for more info as we have it!
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| FarmVille Pot of Gold redeemable prize list *Spoiler* [Updated] Posted: 13 Mar 2010 12:20 AM PST  FarmVille introduced a new Pot of Gold mini-game in honor of St. Patrick's Day. After collecting gold pieces from generous FarmVille friends, they can then be redeemed for limited edition items, similar to the Valentine's Day mini-game in February. So far, dedicated farmers have discovered the following items: Shamrock Sheep (10 gold), Spring Flower Cart (20 Gold) and the Leprechaun Gnome (30 gold). Check out FarmVille-ian Cordelia's image (above) of what these items look like on the farm, and how the pot of gold transforms once it starts to get full. Nice to see such a bright splash of color on the farm, especially after the long winter!  Here's what the items look like when you open the pot of gold (courtesy of Light Chan). UPDATE: All redeemable prizes have been released and the three last items include the following: A Spring Pond: 50 Gold, a Lucky Fountain: 75 Gold and a Shamrock Castle: 100 Gold.  Which items do you plan to trade for gold?
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| Mafia Wars skill points just got much easier to spend Posted: 13 Mar 2010 12:00 AM PST  There's nothing more rewarding than growing stronger via leveling up in Mafia Wars -- but for those who are devoted energy players or fighters -- adding all of those skill points can be an exercise in excessive clicking. Now Mafia Wars makes it easier to level up by allowing virtual mobsters to add five points at once to a certain category. I am, for instance, more of an energy player than a fighter, so this makes it much easier to just assign points quickly and then move onto the next thing. If you like to spread your skill points around, you can still do that too by adding +1 at a time to any category -- but just be aware that if you want to spend it all in once place, this skill point tweak will make it that much easier. What kind of Mafia Wars player are you? Fighter or energy player?
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| Mafia Wars Urban Crates: Find out what's inside Posted: 12 Mar 2010 10:00 PM PST  Another week, another Mafia Wars crate arrives, bringing with it a series of impressive (and a few not-so-impressive items) with it. Which item you end up with -- well, that all depends how much lady luck is on your side. Mafia Wars Urban crates can be purchased for 12 Reward Points or three for 35 Reward points. Inside, you'll find a selection of 'city' themed items, some of the more valuable include the hijacked crane (with 54 defensive points) and the one we're angling for -- the Demolition Kit (with 53 attack points). The Urban Crate arrived on March 12, and will only be around for a limited time, so now's the time to get your city on.  See the complete list of Urban Crate items, plus their attack and defensive skills, after the break: Railroad Tie (Common) Attack: 15 Defense: 29 Rusted Rebar (Common) A: 28 D: 17 Rigged Traffic Cone (Common) A: 28 D: 19 City Inspector's Uniform (Uncommon) A: 30 D: 37 Road Block Crew (Uncommon) A: 26 D: 38 Taxi Cab (Uncommon) A: 37 D: 24 Demolition Kit (Rare) A: 53 D: 38 Hijacked Crane (Rare) A: 33 D: 54 [Via Mafia Wars Wiki] Are we missing any Urban Crate items? If so, drop a line in the comments below.
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| Playfish's Hotel City launching Monday, March 15? Posted: 12 Mar 2010 09:00 AM PST This week, we happened to catch a glance of a new Playfish game -- Hotel City -- during CEO Kristian Segerstrale's speech about the benefits of free games. A rep for the company reluctantly confirmed that the company responsible for Pet Society and Restaurant City, are hard at work on a hotel-themed game.  Today, we discovered a Playfish forum post that indicates that Hotel City will be launching on Monday, March 15. It looks like the forum post has since been deleted, which leads us to believe that this post was either totally made up or totally legit. There's already at least one other hotel themed game on Facebook, including Happy Hotel from 6waves, which has attracted about a million monthly active users, so there's plenty of room for another one. What do you think about Playfish launching a hotel-themed game?
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