Games.com Blog: “Foretell the future with Tiki Resort fortune teller” plus 19 more |  |
- Foretell the future with Tiki Resort fortune teller
- Become an equestrian in Horse Academy
- Give basketball a shot with new Social City stadium
- Delicious candy theme coming soon to PetVille
- FarmVille Game Card Special Item Reward
- Zynga 7-Eleven promotion: Redeem codes for these special items
- Restaurant City: Shrink your customers with "Drink Me" Potion recipe
- Sports Illustrated bringing fantasy football to Facebook
- PetVille: Email for exclusive yellow baby bird
- Mother's Day a boon for social game makers
- Domain registrations point to new Zynga social network
- Mafia Wars Central Mainframe Access secret code unlocks daily bonuses
- Social City limited edition buildings: Capital Monument, Italian Vineyard, Underhill Home
- PetVille: Buy Pet Cash or Coins and get a free unicorn
- PetVille's "Tweet For Cash" contest launches today
- FishVille spreads fan love with 2 free Kissing Fish
- Happy Aquarium: Free female frog for 28 days of logging in
- FishVille gives away 10 free Sand Dollars to fans
- How to detect a scam or fake FarmVille post on Facebook
- YoVille: Luxury & Pirate Costumes Now In Clothing Store
| Foretell the future with Tiki Resort fortune teller Posted:  Tiki Resort has released another limited edition item, and this one is an interesting looking Fortune Teller. We're not really sure what this has to do with being on a Tiki Resort, but chances are that your tourists will appreciate the extra added entertainment. The Fortune Teller only has 2,384 remaining in the shop as of this writing, and costs 29 Facebook Credits (or $2.90) to obtain. It takes quite a bit of time for these items to sell out. For example, the Wedding Chapel was released almost a month ago and only had 4,000 available. It still has 200 left, so we predict the fortune teller will at least be around for a couple weeks. Will you be buying this Fortune Teller? Why or why not?
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| Become an equestrian in Horse Academy Posted:  Horse Academy is a brand new game that just released last week that allows you to own your own horses and care for them. The main objective of the game involves buying caring for, and breeding horses, then racing them to level them up, before finally selling them to make a profit. Horse Academy also incorporates the standard "dollhousing" aspect of creating your own farm. You can buy stables to increase the number of horses you can have, decorate with foliage, buy jockey houses and other buildings, and pave roads. There are a couple features in this game that make it stand out from the others, and they're mostly involving social features. The first is that the racing system actually matches you up with other players who are online, and actually allows you to chat with them before the race starts. This kind of real-time interaction is seldom seen in Facebook games. In addition, when you sell a horse you actually enter them in a multiplayer marketplace where players can sell horses to each other. This is a neat feature that may help set Horse Academy apart from other horse games such as Horse Gaga.
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| Give basketball a shot with new Social City stadium Posted:  Social City have just brought back a previously released building, the large Basketball Stadium. Many players have been asking for this item to return, but they'll have to buy it quick as it currently has just over 2,000 left to purchase. The Basketball Stadium is 3x3 tiles in size, increases your population by 45,000, takes 1 minute to build, offers 916 XP, and rewards 10,000 coins every two days This stadium will set you back a whopping 65 City Bucks though, so it won't come easy. If you were one of the people begging for the Basketball Stadium, buy it now while it's basketball season. You can find this building on the newspaper that comes up when you first log in to Social City. Give it a shot, a three-pointer even!
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| Delicious candy theme coming soon to PetVille Posted:  PetVille have just given us a sneak peek at their next theme - Johan's Candy Shoppe. Johan Honeycrumb, who is a confectioner, will be providing tasty treats in PetVille. We're not exactly sure when this will roll out to the world, but our sweet tooth is already starting to ache in anticipation. Hopefully this theme will not just be food items to put on the shelf. The preview image has a slightly transparent curtain through which a giant lollipop appears to be seen. And is that a cupcake? We'll have to wait to find out. This new theme should be arriving this week and will be a nice follow up to the Paris items from last week. Are you excited for the Candy Shoppe theme in PetVille? What kind of items do you hope they include?
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| FarmVille Game Card Special Item Reward Posted: For a limited time farmers will receive a special limited edition Wildflower pond for redeeming a FarmVille game card. FarmVille game cards are available at Game Stop, 7 Eleven, Target and Walmart -as well as some other retail outlets. You can purchase a game card for $10 (55FV$) or $25 (145FV$), you also have the option to redeem these cards for FV coins.
Will you be buying a FarmVille game card to receive the Wildflower pond? This article first appeared on FarmVille Freak.
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| Zynga 7-Eleven promotion: Redeem codes for these special items Posted:  Starting May 17, we predict Slurpee and Big Gulp (and other snack) sales will be up, up, up once the convenience store chain starts rolling out FarmVille, Mafia Wars and YoVille-branded versions of these items. These items will contain a special code that can be redeemed for exclusive virtual prizes on buyearnplay.com. Here's a complete list of exclusive 7-Eleven items that you'll have the chance to add to your game. (We'll update these with images as soon as we have 'em).
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| Restaurant City: Shrink your customers with "Drink Me" Potion recipe Posted:  
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| Sports Illustrated bringing fantasy football to Facebook Posted:  Fantasy sports might be one of the original social games, with obsessive fans organizing rotiseree leagues in person or via snail mail long before the Internet or Facebook were even things. That was then, though, and now Sport illustrated and WaterCooler Inc. have announced a deal to bring online fantasy football competitions to Facebook.The press release describes a "branded SPORTS ILLUSTRATED environment" (no, we don't know why it's all capitalized either) that will include many of the trappings of traditional fantasy football sites, such as stats, news and analysis. Only now it's all on Facebook, so it should be easier than ever to find friends to play with, get updates on what's happening in your league, and, most importantly, post trash talk on your Wall. Intriguingly, the press release also teases a FanZone feature that "will reward players for amassing large fan bases to cheer for their fantasy teams," suggesting that some of the trappings of traditional Facebook games may be infesting this fantasy sports experiment. No word yet on when this new fantasy football experience will actually be available, but we're gonna guess somewhere around football season.
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| PetVille: Email for exclusive yellow baby bird Posted:  If you receive this email, make sure that you buy your Pet Cash or coins through the link in the email, otherwise you will not get the exclusive baby bird. If you're unlucky like us and haven't received the email yet, you'll have to hold tight and hope that it comes around. This bird has adorable big green eyes and a huge bow on its head and would look cute in your pet's home.  Have you received the free bird email yet? Did you buy coins or Pet Cash to get this exclusive?
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| Mother's Day a boon for social game makers Posted:  That conclusion doesn't seem so far fetched in light of a new report (PDF link) that estimates social gaming revenues increased 400% in the run up to Mother's Day. The report, commissioned by gaming payment company TrialPay, found that social gaming companies generated a million dollars a day through "gifts for mom" promotions in the week leading up to Mother's Day. What's more, a good 40% of those gift purchasers were completing in-game offers for the first time, a good sign for publisher's looking to expand their paying customer bases. [Via TechOat]
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| Domain registrations point to new Zynga social network Posted:  Registrations for ZyngaLive.com, ZyngaLive.net, ZyngaLive.org, ZyngaLive.info and ZyngaLive.us have popped up on DNS databases. All five domains were first registered on Feb. 5 by MarkMonitor Inc., the same organization that initially set up the main zynga.com domain back in 2007. As if that weren't enough evidence that Zynga is behind these web sites, the ZyngaLive.us registration actually lists administrative, billing and technical contacts at San Francisco's Zynga Game Network Inc. Of course, these registrations don't absolutely confirm Zynga has plans to launch their own social network at these addresses, or that the company will be moving away from Facebook. Perhaps Zynga Live is a completely different project. Perhaps the company is just hedging its bets by taking some possible Zynga-related domains for itself. Perhaps this is all a misunderstanding and some guy named Zyng wants to tell the internet he's Alive. Still, we're more inclined to believe the simplest explanation that points to some interesting moves from Zynga coming in the near future. By the by, if you want to register ZyngaLive.biz, it's still available.
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| Mafia Wars Central Mainframe Access secret code unlocks daily bonuses Posted:  While playing Mafia Wars this week, you might be lucky to get a random pop-up window that gives you Central Mainframe Access, i.e. a secret code that you can use to unlock special bonuses every day. Note: Write down the code right away, because once you click the close button (see window above), it will be gone for good. 
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| Social City limited edition buildings: Capital Monument, Italian Vineyard, Underhill Home Posted:  Social City has rolled out three new limited edition buildings -- the Capital Monument (59 CB), Italian Vineyard 1 (45 CB) and Underhill Home 2 (20 CB). Each of these buildings cost City Bucks, which can be earned while playing the game but generally requires purchase using real-life cash. We probably won't shell out for these, but if we had to pick one it'd have to be the Capital Monument -- it's epic! Then again, that Underhill home is a little reminiscent of Bilbo Baggins' house in The Hobbit. Decisions, decisions... Which limited edition building did you buy?
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| PetVille: Buy Pet Cash or Coins and get a free unicorn Posted:  A promotional banner for the unicorn (top image) can be seen above the purchase page.
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| PetVille's "Tweet For Cash" contest launches today Posted:  This contest runs today until May 12th. You can submit up to 5 tweets per day. Each day will have 10 winners who'll get 100 Pet Cash. And one grand prize winner of 500 Pet Cash will be decided on May 12th, 11:59 pm PDT. That means we should have 31 PetVille winners by then. Will you be one of them?
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| FishVille spreads fan love with 2 free Kissing Fish Posted:  The latest FishVille fan freebie, the two free Kissing Fish, harkens back to Valentine's Day, where the fish first debuted in both FishVille and Happy Aquarium as the most romantic fish for the holiday. Click here to grab the free fish now!
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| Happy Aquarium: Free female frog for 28 days of logging in Posted:  There's also plenty of folks who still haven't gotten their free male frogs. For those that need to report bugs with this frog feature, join the Happy Aquarium Community on Facebook and head over to this forum thread to make your issues known.
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| FishVille gives away 10 free Sand Dollars to fans Posted:  "Sand Dollars" are a type of premium currency in FishVille that can be earned through real money purchase or by leveling up in the game. But now, with FishVille in a fan-loving mood all week, you can grab 10 free Sand Dollars by clicking here. Just make sure you're logged into Facebook and a fan of the official FishVille Facebook fanpage to make it work.
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| How to detect a scam or fake FarmVille post on Facebook Posted: All FarmVille players should all be aware of scam or fake reward posts/groups and how to detect them in their Facebook homefeed. These scams seem to be increasing at an alarming rate and have started to look more authentic but are not! 'Click here to get your blue turtle', '200 free FV$, just click here' or most recently, 'Join to receive rare collectables' are not real offers. These fake or scam groups cannot and will not provide you with any rewards or unreleased items. Only through Zynga can you purchase FV$, puppies, adopt animals or receive special rewards. To protect yourself, your Facebook account and your friends FarmVille player Brian Weaver provided the following tips:
Just to reiterate, the word FarmVille and the ear of corn must both visible in a posts footer for it to be authentic. Another great way to check for a fake or scam post is by clicking the 'hide' option on homefeed. Simply, hover your mouse over the upper right hand side of a post and click hide. If it says anything other then "Hide FarmVille", it is a fake!
Are you annoyed by these fake posts filling your home feed? This article first appeared on FarmVille Freak.
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| YoVille: Luxury & Pirate Costumes Now In Clothing Store Posted:  If you are interested in something formal to wear, you can now purchase a breathtaking luxury black gown or a fancy black suite for 1,300 coins only. More prices and pictures gathered by Angie after the link.
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