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- PetVille introduces Cafe World collectibles: 10 items in 20 days
- Can you dig it? Treasure Isle blows past 7 million players in 10 days
- Restaurant City gives away free Katana decor
- EA's 'Human Tetris Project' is all up in your face
- "ClickThirty" proves that inanity can succeed on Facebook
- Happy Pets: NEW! Guinea Pigs
- Cafe World Wedding Cake glitch: Zynga says 'sorry' with free Cafe Cash
- Quote of the Moment: "It's already been done"
- Rockstar promotes Red Dead Redemption with Facebook 'Gunslingers' game
- Cafe World: NEW! Daily Cooking Bonus
- Games.com Giveaway Week! Day 1: Official Mafia Wars T-Shirt
- Popcap planning new 'Blitz' game, more adaptations for Facebook
- Restaurant City: Free Sushi Ingredients Links Round-Up
- Free Playfish Cash Offer Extended until April 15th!
- FarmVille: New Vehicle for Gold Reward
- FarmVille: Complete Set of FarmVille Foals
- FarmVille Unreleased Items: Hanging Flowers & Ornate Sundial
- YoVille: Build Your Own Cave
- YoVille: More Enchanted Stuffed Animals for YoVille Plush Collectors
- Cafe World: Wall Postable "Mystery Gift Box"
| PetVille introduces Cafe World collectibles: 10 items in 20 days Posted: 12 Apr 2010 09:00 PM PDT  Following on the heels of PetVille's FarmVille collectibles, the game has rolled out a new series of collectibles for another Zynga game -- Cafe World. Ten limited edition cafe-themed items will be released over the next 20 days, and will be available as a free gift for 48 hours only. From the looks in the picture above, the collection will include a chef, a mini-stove, a mini-table, mini-chair and a mini-sign as well.  The first item on the list is the pink pony-tail wearing Cafe World mascot -- Chef Amelia, and she'll be available for two days only. Of course, the only way to add her to your collection is to receive her as a free gift. We recommend sending them to all your friends as a *wink* and *nudge* for them them to send one back What will be better: the PetVille FarmVille collectibles or the PetVille Cafe World collectibles?
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| Can you dig it? Treasure Isle blows past 7 million players in 10 days Posted: 12 Apr 2010 12:00 PM PDT  Treasure Isle seems to have struck gold for Zynga, with over 7 million players digging in to the treasure hunting game in just over a week. To play Treasure Isle, create an avatar and then start digging for gold and other items on a series of islands until your daily allotment of energy runs out. Your tiny treasure seeker also has a customizable island of his/her own, complete with FarmVille style crop-planting and harvesting, and there is the requisite social elements, e.g. sending gifts and visiting friends' islands. Whether people just love looking for buried treasure or the fact that this game is advertised across the biggest games on Facebook -- these numbers insidcate that Zynga may have yet another big hit on its hands. Treasure Isle blew past Playdom's Social City, which seems to have hit a (still impressive) plateau at 13M players and Playfish's Hotel City, which has gained 4 million players since its launch on March 17. In the meantime, Zynga's Poker Blitz, aka 'poker for the masses' has seen molasses-like growth, with 1.2 million players after four weeks. Guess serious poker fans aren't digging it and non-poker players are apathetic. In the meantime, you'll be able to find us yielding our shovels in an attempt to unearth some rare Puka shell jewelry. [Via Inside Social Games]
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| Restaurant City gives away free Katana decor Posted: 12 Apr 2010 11:15 AM PDT  Restaurant City is giving away a free Katana, a part of their new Japanese theme set, which costs 12,000 Coins and sells for 4,000 Coins! This free gift is in response to a dare they setup on their Facebook fanpage yesterday, which promised the free Katana to fans if the fanpage's status post got 150,000 'Like' votes. It ended up getting more than 220,000 votes instead. Here's the link to your FREE Katana: http://bit.ly/cyzxfN
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| EA's 'Human Tetris Project' is all up in your face Posted: 12 Apr 2010 11:00 AM PDT  Late last Friday, Electronic Arts unveiled The Human Tetris Project as part of the classic game's 25th anniversary celebration. As the name implies, the "project" lets you turn any of your Facebook profile pictures into a single Tetris block, to be grouped with three random strangers into a full-fledged Tetrimino. You can personalize your block with a short message and then share the news with your friends as you wait for the team at EA to approve your submission. And then you get to play a wacky new version of Tetris with your and your friends making up the pieces, right? Well, no... actually you just get to watch a computer-controlled version of Tetris with blocks containing some of the random strangers that have similarly signed up for the project (nearly 2,400 as of this writing). Some would argue that this totally misses the point of everything that makes social gaming special and interesting, but... well, those people would be right, actually, and should probably apply for a job at Electronic Arts as soon as possible.
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| "ClickThirty" proves that inanity can succeed on Facebook Posted: 12 Apr 2010 10:00 AM PDT  Here at Games.com -- The Blog!, we're willing to accept that Facebook games tend not to be the most complex things in the world. Frankly we think that's part of their appeal -- you don't need a PhD in gaming to figure out how to plant crops in Farmville or match gems in Bejeweled Blitz. That said, we're beginning to fear that the trend towards simplicity in Facebook gaming is beginning to reach a ridiculous zenith.Exhibit A in our argument: A new Facebook game simply called "how fast can u click in 30 seconds?!?!" Like the title promises, the game asks you to click a button as many times as you can in 30 seconds, changing the window's background color every time you do. Once thirty seconds are up, you can share your score with your Facebook wall, enticing your friends to beat it. That's it. That's the whole game. The mere existence of this game isn't that surprising. What is surprising is the game's relatively healthy growth. As the Facebook Indie Games blog pointed out, the game has grown to an impressive 250,000 monthly active users in just a week. Considering it took a major developer like Digital Chocolate nearly three months to reach a million users, that initial rate of growth is pretty impressive. ClickThirty's 44 reviews give it a 4.3/5 average and it has somehow managed to attract 11,000 fans, over twice as many as the long-suffering Sega Dreamcast fanpage. Of course, it's only been a week, and those 250,000 users could end up being the ceiling for the game, rather than the floor. That said, we're not sure we like what the early success of this game says about Facebook gamers -- namely, that they're just looking for the simplest possible way to waste time and show up their friends with some sort of quantifiable number (*cough* their Mafia Wars level *cough*). At this rate, pretty soon, we'll be seeing "hit the space bar as many times as u can" and "scream as loud as you can into your microphone" as top-growing Facebook apps. And that will be the beginning of the end, my friends. The beginning of the end.
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| Posted: 12 Apr 2010 09:45 AM PDT  The Pink Guinea Pig, shown in the in-game window prompt above, is open to all levels. The other colors -- Heather, S'more (an awesome name for a pet color), Brick Red, and Charcoal are purchasable starting at Level 31. They each take two days to mature and share a feeding time of six hours, but they sell for different prices.
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| Cafe World Wedding Cake glitch: Zynga says 'sorry' with free Cafe Cash Posted: 12 Apr 2010 09:30 AM PDT  A few weeks ago, every Cafe World player encountered a teary-eyed bride who needed help baking a wedding cake. Then, after we bugged friends to send us the require ingredients for this mega cake, nothing happened. The cake just sat around, and the bride never picked it up. Or, we'd add ingredients to the wedding cake and come back the next day to find that they had mysteriously disappeared again.Well, looks the complaints were heard, and Zynga's offering a consolation prize for PO'd bakers -- free Cafe Cash. When you login to Cafe World over the next 10 days, click the envelope at the top of the screen to earn 1 Cafe Cash at a time. We're not sure if a little Cafe Cash will quell the angry masses, but it's at least a move in the right direction.
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| Quote of the Moment: "It's already been done" Posted: 12 Apr 2010 09:30 AM PDT  "I wish I could say I paid more attention to [recent game sales trends] . . . I worry more about the macro trends - what kinds of games people are playing and what they want to play. I'm not a guy who ever says, 'Oh my God, social games are hot right now. We have to go make a social game,' or 'Kids games are hot,' or 'The [Nintendo] Wii is hot; we have to go make Wii games.' I tend to look at what's the underlying notions of those. Like, why are social games popular and how does that apply to what we do? . . . If you just try to do exactly what somebody else has done, it's too late. It's already been done."-Irrational Games General Manager Ken Levine explains why his company isn't eager to jump on the social gaming bandwagon
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| Rockstar promotes Red Dead Redemption with Facebook 'Gunslingers' game Posted: 12 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT  The game lets you choose between three classes -- powerful Outlaws, accurate Sharpshooter and quick "Fast Hands" -- for your character, which you can customize with a unique name and baskstory. From there, it's all about challenging friends or strangers to duels, which play out as relatively graphic canned gunfight animations featuring the 3D characters from Rockstar's upcoming PS3 and Xbox 360 game, Red Dead Redemption. Winning gains you more experience, which goes towards higher levels and improved statistics in attacking, dodging, health and stamina. The more duels you fight (and the more new friends you attract into the game), the higher you move up a global leaderboard, and the more meaningless achievements you earn. Overall, the game's Mafia-Wars-minus-the-missions gameplay seems unlikely to set the social gaming space on fire. Still, it's interesting to see a major developer using a Facebook game as a tool to promote an upcoming major console release. It remains to be seen how successful the promotion will be, or whether it will inspire other publishers to follow suit, but we're going to go ahead and lean towards "no" on both counts.
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| Cafe World: NEW! Daily Cooking Bonus Posted: 12 Apr 2010 08:45 AM PDT  This new feature is very similar to Restaurant City's Free Daily Ingredient(s), which awards players with one free ingredient for checking in the first day, and then up to 3 ingredients per day, once they've logged in at least 3 days in a row. The difference, however, is that Cafe World lets you know what you'll be earning for each day of logging into the game. Day 1, which is today, earned me 705 Coins. Tomorrow, another batch of free coins is expected. Days 3 and 4 are Mystery Dishes. Days 5 and 6 are Spice Rack parts. And Day 7 seems guaranteed to net me 3 Cafe Cash! And here's the best part -- after you click on "Claim Bonus", you'll get the chance to post the good news onto your Facebook Wall to share your bonus with your friends!
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| Games.com Giveaway Week! Day 1: Official Mafia Wars T-Shirt Posted: 12 Apr 2010 08:30 AM PDT  Today's Giveaway: Official Mafia Wars T-shirt from Zynga, Size Small. (We recommend checking out the American Apparel size chart.) How do you enter? Step 1: Join our Facebook fan page! If you haven't joined our Facebook fan page yet, now's your chance! Go to facebook.com/gamescom, and hit the "Become a Fan" button at the top. Step 2: Leave us a Wall Post telling us how many hours a week you spend playing Mafia Wars. We will randomly select a winner, and if you're the lucky one -- we'll get in touch with you via Facebook messaging. Then we'll request a mailing address so we can mail you your sweet new T-shirt. Any questions or comments? Post them in the comments area here and we'll do our best to answer them! Good luck! Giveaway Week Details: We're giving away 1 item per day, starting Monday, April 12th, and ending on Friday, April 16th. We will pick winners at random and will contact you via Facebook message (please make sure you give us permission to contact you via your Facebook page) to let you know if you won.
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| Popcap planning new 'Blitz' game, more adaptations for Facebook Posted: 12 Apr 2010 08:15 AM PDT  According to the report, the Blitz game will not be a sequel to Bejeweled Blitz, but an adaptation of one of their existing franchises. In addition to the new Blitz game (which Vechey said would be coming "sooner rather than later"), Popcap reportedly has plans to adapt one or two more of their franchises for Facebook before the end of the year. While Popcap mega-franchises like Plants vs. Zombies, Peggle and Bookworm seem most likely to get the Facebook treatment, part of us hopes Popcap will consider dipping a bit deeper into their catalog to revive the Feeding Frenzy or Chuzzle franchises for Facebook. OK, not really (those games aren't nearly as good), but, hye, it could happen.
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| Restaurant City: Free Sushi Ingredients Links Round-Up Posted: 12 Apr 2010 07:30 AM PDT  Restaurant City has been posting links to free sushi ingredients to fans on their official Facebook page over the weekend and today as well. To make it easier for everyone, we've rounded up all the links here (in order of oldest to newest since the offers are time-sensitive): 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 Tuna: http://bit.ly/aAO2zz (weekend ingredient) FREE Salmon: http://bit.ly/c5i7D4 (weekend ingredient) FREE Prawn: http://bit.ly/aVF3jh (weekend ingredient) FREE Beef: http://bit.ly/9Qg4Fu (only available for 24 hrs!)
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| Free Playfish Cash Offer Extended until April 15th! Posted: 12 Apr 2010 05:30 AM PDT  PFC is a type of premium virtual currency used to buy exclusive items, and normally costs real world money to obtain. So Playfish is giving away the equivalent of $2 USD to players. Here's what you need to do to earn your free 10 PFC: 1) Install Hotel City and complete the tutorial to earn 2 Playfish Cash! 2) Play Hotel City and reach level 10 to earn another 4 Playfish Cash! 3) Play Hotel City and reach level 25 to earn yet another 4 Playfish Cash! On top of that, PFC earned in Hotel City can be used in other Playfish games! Click here to see all the official rules of this offer.
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| FarmVille: New Vehicle for Gold Reward Posted: 12 Apr 2010 05:05 AM PDT  Do you think there will be other 3×3 vehicles available thought Co-op Gold Rewards? This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.
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| FarmVille: Complete Set of FarmVille Foals Posted: 12 Apr 2010 05:00 AM PDT Placing a Wandering Stallion or White Stallion in your stable gives you a chance to breed a Foal, of which 5 of your friends may adopt after posting it to your Facebook homefeed. There are currently 8 breeds of Foals. FarmVille Benjoni recently sent us a request to see all them on a farm:  In the last podcast Lexilicious mentioned that a Nursery Barn was headed to FarmVille, this new building with purpose will allow us to grow our Calves and Foals into adults. Do you want to grow your Foals/Calves into adults? Or keep them babies forever? This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.
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| FarmVille Unreleased Items: Hanging Flowers & Ornate Sundial Posted: 12 Apr 2010 04:55 AM PDT Thank you to FarmVille Freak Hicham for finding the unreleased FarmVille Hanging Flowers & Ornate Sundial. These items are Unreleased and their is no official release date or guarantee that they will actually make it to the FarmVille Market.  1. FarmVille Unreleased Hanging Flowers - Zynga FarmVille 2. FarmVille Unreleased Ornage Sundial - Zynga FarmVille This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.
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| Posted: 12 Apr 2010 04:50 AM PDT  You can now build your own cave/underground hideaway in YoVille. The furniture store was updated with stalagmite and stalactite that will give the cave effect to any of your rooms. Hidesway wallpaper and flooring are also available. We'd like to see pictures of your caves! Make sure to head to the picture section of our forum and show off your creations!All of the cave items are for coins. Prices range between 620 and 1000 coins. 
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| YoVille: More Enchanted Stuffed Animals for YoVille Plush Collectors Posted: 12 Apr 2010 04:45 AM PDT   Stuffed animals are currently trending in YoVille. Plush lovers can now head to the Furniture Store and add 2 new items to their collection. The enchanted dragon and enchanted toucan are available for 6 YoCash each.This article originally appeared on YoVille Lounge.
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| Cafe World: Wall Postable "Mystery Gift Box" Posted: 12 Apr 2010 04:35 AM PDT Zynga played a little bit with how the Daily Bonus is being handled and made it even cooler than the new special rewards of Restaurant City. One of the biggest additions is the Mystery Gift Box, one you can earn from your friends' activity, and one that holds amazing prizes inside. Read on to find out everything about the Mystery Gift Box in Cafe World!  It is a prize awarded to Cafe World players who click on the wall feed of their friends who logged in to Cafe World and cooked for more than three days in a row. It can be also received as a gift from friends who decide to share a Mystery Gift after getting one themselves (similar to the Lottery tickets). What can you find inside the Mystery Gift Box in Cafe World? You can find tons of stuff, like anything between 1-4 Cafe Cash, various amounts of coins, Cafe Points and even free dishes, or a Red Smooch Chair, Baseball Chair and Happy Tiger Bench. Overall - a really cool new addition to the game, don't you think? This article originally appeared on Social Games Help.
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