Games.com Blog: “BarnVille Massacre parody game: It's like FarmVille .... with guns” plus 19 more

Games.com Blog: “BarnVille Massacre parody game: It's like FarmVille .... with guns” plus 19 more

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BarnVille Massacre parody game: It's like FarmVille .... with guns

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 12:00 PM PDT

barnville massacreEver wondered what would happen if FarmVille introduced guns into the game? Well, since that's likely to happen half-past never, parody game BarnVille Massacre lets you live out your fantasies of tending to your farm with bullets instead of a backhoe.

In this simple shooter, you play a farmer whose mission it to keep livestock off the farm using any means necessary -- in this case, an assortment of weapons, including everything from a simple handgun to an AK-47. There are other upgrades as well, other projectiles and a harvester that can be used to kill every animal in the playing field.

Playing pretty much involves using the mouse to aim and shoot, and despite the lack of polish, BarnVille Massacre is strangely addictive; we recommend squeezing off a few rounds while waiting for your FarmVille crops to grow. Go ahead -- put those farming shooting skills to the test below.



[Via Addicting Games]

 

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Mafia Wars properties overhauled in every city

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 11:00 AM PDT

mafia wars new properties

In February, Mafia Wars upgraded properties in New York, giving them a graphical polish and the ability to collect cash from all of them at once. Today, all properties across the game get the same treatment -- a more attractive presentation, the ability to collect from all at once and -- as you make more money -- additional properties will be available for purchase.

Check out the before and after for Mafia Wars Cuba after the jump >

Before:



After:

mafia wars cuba after

See? The new properties look a billion times better and requires fewer clicks to collect all of our cash. These same changes have been applied to the businesses in Bangkok and Moscow, and the one change we noticed with the New York properties is that the map marked 'Coming Soon' at the bottom of the page is no where to be found.

 

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Happy Aquarium: Limited Edition Pearl Idol is back and going fast!

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 09:30 AM PDT

Happy Aquarium Limited Edition Pearl Idol
Happy Aquarium's offer of the Limited Edition Pearl Idol had ended in March, but due to its popularity, the game is offering it again, but it's no cheaper than before. The original price was 138 Facebook Credits, but this time, it's 198 FB Credits, which is nearly $20 USD!

Buying the statue, however, will allow you to earn 1 Pearl every 24 hours. It's also possible to buy the statue with Pearls -- 237 Pearls to be exact, which means you've got eight months (going with 30 days per month) before the Pearl Idol lets you break even.

But the price doesn't seen to be a deterrent for most players. So far, over 500 statues were purchased within the past hour from the game!

 

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Happy Aquarium: NEW! Free Adopt-a-Frog

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT

Happy Aquarium Adopt-a-Frog
Just as Happy Pets is offering free Avatar movie inspired "Pandora Pets", Happy Aquarium is offering a free Frog for players who manage to log into the game for 14 days straight. If you miss one day, you'll have to start over!
Happy Aquaruim Frog toolbar
To check your progress, just click on the little frog head icon on the far right of your toolbar.

 

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Pet Society: Volcano Mask commemorates Icelandic eruption

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 08:05 AM PDT

Pet Society Volcano Mask
Woo-hoo! We're having loads of fun with our new Volcano Mask in Pet Society. Made in honor of the Icelandic volcano, this outfit makes a bold fashion statement. Wear it and you'll be erupting lava everywhere you go. It works even when you're sleeping (see below). To get your own volcano, go to the Clothes Shop and click "Accessories."
Volcano Mask eruption in Pet Society

Volcano Mask This Week's Special in Pet Society
Pet Society When Two Volcano Masks Meet
Here's what happens when two volcanos meet:


This article originally appeared on Pet Society Anonymous.

 

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Happy Island: Sad, lost and adoptable dolphins spotted

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 08:00 AM PDT

Happy Island DolphinWhat could make Happy Island even happier? Why, dolphins of course! Happy Island has just announced on their fan page that it is now possible to rescue adoptable dolphins! Just like the other wandering animals that will occasionally find themselves, lost, hungry, and needing a home, the new dolphins have a random chance to appear on your island. Share them to your Facebook wall to allow your friends to claim them for their islands.

Are you looking for a dolphin? Ask your friends to share dolphins when they come across them! Unfortunately, there is no way to buy these intelligent creatures so they can only be attained if you happen to see one of your Facebook friends post a link on their wall to one. Watch your newsfeed closely!

Have you managed to adopt a dolphin in Happy Island yet?

 

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Happy Pets: Ferrets make their debut

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 07:00 AM PDT

Ferrets are now available in Happy Pets for players Level 40 and above. As usual, level-access does vary, as does price. The ones available for coins, costing 20,000 Coins and up, are: Cream, Snowy, Sable, S'more, and Lemon. The premium ones requiring 64 Facebook Credits are: Pink, Firehouse, and Blueberry.
Happy Pets Ferrets
But the Caramel Ferret is free, cause you can only get it through other players' orphaned animal Wall posts on your Live Feed. (Note: Unfortunately, along with this announcement comes the news that the White Rabbit, Baby Blue Bunny, and Lavender Bunny are no longer available via Live Feed.)

 

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Social City iPhone app: Try it to score an exclusive Cell Tower for your city

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 07:00 AM PDT

Playdom released Social City last week as an application available in the Apple App Store, and it appears they're heavily promoting it to players who already enjoy Social City on Facebook. Currently, anyone who downloads the Social City application will get a free Cell Tower for their city! The only trick to remember is that you have to make sure to log in on the app with the Facebook account that you use to play Social City so that you get the gift on the correct account., Downloading the Social City application is free, so this is an entirely free gift!

It's unclear if this will be a limited time or permanent promotion, so download Social City to your iPhone or iPad today to claim your free Cell Tower!

 

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PetVille: NEW! Post-It art with Pets-It

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 06:30 AM PDT

Pets-It at the Home Office in PetVille
PetVille Pets-It Bunny HeadHead over to the Home Office in the Furniture store of PetVille and you'll find Pets-It, which is essentially PetVille's version of Post-It notes. Each Pets-It note is 50 Coins, (corkboard sold separately for 1,000 Coins) and comes in four colors: Red, Blue, Pink, and Green. Or you can buy the Heart Pets-It Art Pack for 6,000 Coins, which gives you 50 Red Pets-It and 74 Pink Pets-It, saving you 200 Coins.

While 50 Coins per Pets-It seems a tad pricey, the ability to create one's own wall art is awesome, and the Pets-It Art Packs has a lot of potential. Just look at the image of the blue bunny head on the right from Zynga.

 

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Restaurant City: Free Rice and Sugar to fans

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 06:00 AM PDT

Restaurant City free sugar and rice
To promote a second wave of Japan for their Japanese Cafe theme, Restaurant City is offering free sugar and rice to fans of their Facebook fanpage.

The sugar is for promoting the new Dance Arcade, an homage to the popular Japanese dancing simulation "Dance Dance Revolution" created by Konami. And the rice is for advertising the Monster Robot, which is essentially a mechanized version of Gozilla. Both items are animated. Dance Arcade costs 15 PlayFish Cash, and Monster Robot costs 20 PFC.

Note: All links below will launch the game. You only need to keep the game window open for a few seconds to accept your free item.

FREE Sugar, available 24 hours only: http://bit.ly/bik1BA
FREE Rice, available 24 hours only: http://bit.ly/bLiTkX

 

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Pet Society: Peter Pan "Limited Edition" Statue

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 05:15 AM PDT

Pet Society Limited Edition Peter Pan statue
Playfish seems to have a slightly skewed idea of the term "limited edition." Things that are in limited edition, such as a Leroy Neiman print, or a Bentley Brooklands, are pretty rare with under 500 copies. But there are 250,000 Peter Pan Statues in Pet Society.

More surprising than this high quantity is that so many people have already snapped these up. The picture above was taken less than two hours after the statue's release. Let's do the math:

250,000 - 241,407 = 8593 statues sold

Given the astronomical price tag of this statue (16,000 coins), we can assume that most of these statues were bought with the help of the Bank, where you can get 18,000 coins instantly for $20 U.S.
Pet Society bank
Let's do the math again. Let's assume that out of the 8593 statues sold, half of these were bought with the cash coins. (A very conservative estimate; I suspect that the actual number is closer to 8000.)

8593 / 2 = 4296 bought the $20 bag of coins
4296 x $20 = $85,920

$85,920 in less than two hours! And this is a low estimate. If 8000 people went to the bank to purchase this "limited edition" statue, Playfish made $160,000 in that same time frame.

If every statue is bought through the bank, Playfish will make $5 million off this item. The theme this week may be "never grow up," complete with Tinkerbell outfits and Neverland scenes, but some of us have clearly grown up and grown shrewd.

This article originally appeared on Pet Society Anonymous.

 

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FarmVille: Co-Op Farmers, Beware of this Glitch

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 05:05 AM PDT

From: FarmVille Freak Paul
To: Farmville Freak

"I have discovered a huge, horrendous bug in Farmville's co-operative farming. It will destroy days of effort and seriously piss off your friends. Here's what happens.

"Let's say you and a friend take on a job to plant 1000 Whateverberries. You plant 500 and the meter shows "50% planted", then your neighbour plants 500 and the meter shows "100% planted".

"Fine, but lets say you decide to replant some of the Whateverberries elsewhere. Here's the flaw - when you delete crops you've planted for a job, the meter does not go down!!!

"You delete 50 Whateverberries, the meter should say 95% planted, but it still says 100%. You don't notice it and replant anyway and all seems fine.

"Sadly the game hasn't registered the re-plants and only notices the missing crops when it comes to harvesting.

"When all the crops have been harvested, it says 100% planted, 95% harvested, but you can NEVER harvest the last 5% because you deleted them and the game doesn't realise you replaced them.

"You don't know this and - because you've done all your harvesting, you think your friend or others involved haven't quite finished their harvesting.

"It stays on 95% and time ebbs away. You lose the gold award. You lose the silver. It stays on 95% right up to the last second of the bronze award while you frantically email your friend saying "for heavens sake do you bleeding harvesting!!". But like you, they finished harvesting a long time ago and it's Farmville who screwed up.

"This has happened to me twice so far. Please let everyone else know NEVER DELETE CROPS - because it puts a strain on friendship and you pull your hair out."

This article was reprinted with permission from FarmVille Freak.

 

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Island Paradise Tiki Wheel rewards players for return visits

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 05:00 AM PDT

Do you log in to Island Paradise every day to tend to your crops, visit your neighbors, and harvest your trees and animals? You're in luck, because there is a brand new Tiki Wheel that will give you rewards simply for logging and spinning the wheel!

This is a feature that many social games have in some form or another. A daily lottery is the perfect way to keep players logging back in and building a connection with the game. The key part of the Island Paradise lottery is that the more consecutive days that you log in, the more the maximum reward will increase.

This is nice because it rewards the truly dedicated players who make it a point to log in every day to visit the game. With all of the choices for Facebook games out there, it's easy for one to be lost in the shuffle. I generally pick the games that reward me for logging in often, that way I know I'm getting the most for my time.

What about you? Do you enjoy the daily lotteries in games?

 

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FarmVille Unreleased Adobe House, Adobe Tool Shed, & Adobe Barn

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 04:50 AM PDT

Thank you to FarmVille Freak FVF1988 for finding these Unreleased FarmVille Adobe House, Adobe Tool Shed, and Adobe Barn.
FarmVille Adobe House, Tool Shed, and Adobe Barn
You may remember the Adobe House as an unreleased item we featured all the way back in December along with some other buildings like the Dog House

Now there is also an Adobe Tool Shed and Adobe Barn to join the Adobe theme. Do you like the Adobe theme?

Note: Unreleased items have no official release date or guarantee that they will make it to the FarmVille Market. Zynga is the sole copyright owner of all their images.

1. FarmVille Unreleased Adobe House - Zynga FarmVille
2. FarmVille Unreleased Adobe Tool Shed - Zynga FarmVille
3. FarmVille Unreleased Adobe Barn - Zynga FarmVille

This article was reprinted with permission from FarmVille Freak.

 

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FarmVille Unreleased Bodhi Tree

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 04:45 AM PDT

FarmVille Unreleased Bodhi TreeA new unreleased tree, the Bodhi Tree, is suspected to be part of the FarmVille "Far East" collection. This sacred fig tree is best known for its importance in Buddhism. Buddhist founder Siddhartha Guatama was said to have achieved enlightenment or "Bodhi" while meditating under this type of tree which also inspired the tree's namesake. The Bodhi Tree is recognizable by its heart-shaped leaves and the fact that it takes hundreds to thousands of years (from 100 to 3,000 years) for it to be fully grown!

Note: Unreleased items have no official release date or guarantee that they will actually make it to the FarmVille Market. Zynga owns all copyrights of their images.

Source:

1. FarmVille Unreleased Bodhi Tree - Zynga FarmVille

This article was reprinted with permission from FarmVille Freak.

 

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FarmVille Unreleased Police Station, Coffee Cart, Sandwich Cart, Giant Oak Tree, & Mustard Crop

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 04:30 AM PDT

Thank you to FarmVille Freak Ma2tt for finding these unreleased FarmVille Police Station, Coffee Cart, Sandwich Cart, Giant Oak Tree, and Mustard Crop.

Note: FarmVille unreleased items have no official released date or guarantee they will make it to the FarmVille Market. Zynga is the sole owner of all their copyrighted images.
FarmVille Unreleased Police Station, Coffee Cart, Sandwich Cart, Giant Oak Tree, and Mustard Crop
Sources:
1. FarmVille Unreleased Police Station - Zynga FarmVille
2. FarmVille Unreleased Coffee Cart - Zynga FarmVille
3. FarmVille Unreleased Sandwich Cart - Zynga FarmVille
4. FarmVille Unreleased Giant Oak Tree - Zynga FarmVille
5. FarmVille Unreleased Mustard Crop - Zynga FarmVille

This article was reprinted with permission from FarmVille Freak.

 

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Zynga and 7-Eleven plan FarmVille, Mafia Wars, YoVille promo?

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 04:00 AM PDT

We've already been hearing rumors that the makers of FarmVille, Zynga, is planning roll out items in game sponsored by advertisers. We haven't seen any of these just yet, but that will change in the next few months if the rumor that 7-Eleven items will start appearing in FarmVille, Mafia Wars and YoVille and that the convenience store chain will be releasing a series of branded (and collectible) items in tandem.

FarmVille Freak says the promotion wil start between June 1 and July 15 and will have FarmVille-branded Big Gulp cups and three collectible Slurpee cups. "The pics are tiny and you would need a magnifying glass to see them, but there are 3 slurpee collector cups and a a Big Gulp cup with the sheep on the tractor image from the FV bumper sticker," says the anonymous 7-11 employee who spilled the beans.

Other promo items include the following:

- Seven Select (7-11 store brand) candy ( gummi's ) & Bakery will be focused on Yoville

- Seven Select Chips/snacks/hot foods will be focused around Mafia Wars

- Slurpees/Big Gulps will be centered around Farmville
Slurpee cups:
32oz Plastic - all games - starting 5/17
22oz Paper - all games - starting 5/10

Big Gulp cups:
44oz Super BG - all games - starting 5/17
32oz Big Gulp - all games - starting 5/10

Other collectible items will include:

24oz Seven Select 24oz Orange Yoville bottle - starting 5/17
1 liter Farmville Purified water - starting 5/17
1 pint of Farmville Vanilla ice cream - starting 5/17

What do you think about FarmVille launching advertising sponsored products in-game?

 

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YoVille 5 million fans reward -- a Black Velvet Robe

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 04:00 AM PDT

YoVille has started a campaign to grow their fan membership by encouraging players to tell their friends to "like" the YoVille fan page. When YoVille reaches 5 million fans, they will offer all fans a free Black Velvet Robe! Currently, YoVille is at 4.5 million fans, so they are still a little bit from reaching the threshold.

Having 5 million fans is a pretty huge deal. It means that every time the YoVille team releases an update or want to alert their fans about something, 5 MILLION people will get the message. That's one heck of a broadcasting mechanism. It's also a huge accomplishment, because many games do not ever get 5 million players, much less 5 million fans!

So what are you waiting for? If you're not already a fan, head over to the official YoVille page and hit the "like" button so that all players earn a free black robe!

 

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Mafia Wars Paris challenge mission officially opens

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 03:00 AM PDT

mafia wars paris

If you've been wanting a change of scenery, Mafia Wars Paris challenge missions have officially started, and you've been tasked with stealing the Mona Lisa.

Mafia Wars Paris Chapter 1 is now unlocked, and consists of three jobs: Enter Paris, Track Down Your Fixer and Gather the Materials. These jobs don't work like the average job, however. Each requires you to have a certain number of Paris maps to complete, and you can only do each job a certain number of times before you attract the attention of the Paris authorities. The more aware the police are of your activities, the more the job will cost (in energy and number of maps) to complete. Once your heat meter is completely filled, it takes 8 hours for it to reset again.



If you complete all of these three Chapter 1 jobs, you'll be rewarded with The Fixer (30 A, 56 D). Chapters 2 and 3 will open next week and the week after that, respectively.

mafia wars paris chapter 1 reward -- the fixer

We haven't finished Chapter 1 yet, but some have reported that -- in addition to the Fixer -- the game is giving Reward Points instead of Skill Points on completion.

Have you started the Mafia Wars Paris Challenge Missions yet? What do you think?

mafia wars paris chapter 1 arrives

 

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Happy Aquarium zens out with new Japanese-themed decor

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 02:00 AM PDT

It seems like many different Facebook games are jumping on the Japanese zen theme right now, and now Happy Aquarium is on the bandwagon! A new set of Japanese zen-inspired props are now available for a limited time in the Happy Aquarium store. We think these are really high quality pieces of art with that unique Happy Aquarium style that gives them a character of their own. Check out the list of brand new items available in the store!

Zen Garden Wallpaper
- 30 Facebook Credits or 36 Pearls
Mountain Pagoda - 450 coins
Zen Stones - 250 coins
Japanese Maple - 15 Facebook Credits or 18 Pearls
Cherry Blossom Tree - 15 Facebook Credits or 18 Pearls
Lotus Flower - 100 coins

There isn't much, and it is hard to tell what is new because they're not labeled as such nor are they organized well. Did we miss a few? Let us know in the comments!

 

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