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- Happy Birthday FarmVille! One year later, the farm game still rules Facebook
- FarmVille cakes: An homage to virtual farming with frosting and flour
- FrontierVille Cheats and Tips: Energy Guide
- FarmVille Unreleased Wasabi Crop, Wasabi Bushel, Wasabi Mastery Sign, & Wasabi Market Stall
- FarmVille Unreleased Silver Pony & Silver Pony Foal
- Wild Ones new map Kennel moves battle to a construction yard
- Wild Ones' new pet Hamster is members only
- Games.com's Summer Sale: All downlodable games half off!
- Never miss a post from Games.com The Blog
- FrontierVille: New Chicken Coop and Varmint Hunting quests
- Pet Society: Dig out a Kitty
- FarmVille New Gifts: Party Pig, Double Surfboards & Stripe Surfboard
- Offerpal: In-game offers triples advertising revenue
- FarmVille Adds More Country Flags to the Market: England, Cameroon, Belgium, Ghana, South Korea, Netherlands & Nigeria Flags
- FarmVille New Tiki Decorations: Tiki Bridge, Active Volcano & Tiki Surfboard
- FarmVille Japanese Decorations: Hot Springs, Koi Fish Pond II, Falling Blossom, Onigiri Statue, Cherrywood Statue, Japanese Trellis & Japanese Fence
- FarmVille Japanese Buildings: Sushi Shop & Japanese Gazebo
- Summer Puzzle Collection Item Coming Soon To YoVille
- Summer Arrives To The YoVille Furniture Store
- Summer Fashion Now In YoVille Clothing Boutique
| Happy Birthday FarmVille! One year later, the farm game still rules Facebook Posted: 18 Jun 2010 11:00 AM PDT Filed under: Farmville  Hard to believe that it was only a year ago that FarmVille ignited our passion for farming, albeit virtually. Since then, we've harvested thousands of crops, trees, animals and have sent about just as many gifts to our friends. We've also graduated from simple farming to asking friends for holiday gifts, Valentines and eggs for limited edition seasonal mini-games. We've upgraded from a regular tractor to a more efficient (but gas-hogging) Hot Rod tractor complete with flames on the sides. We've moved from farming solo, to farming with friends in Co-Op mode, with the Farmer's Market and now with Crafting Cottages. And, we finally discovered there was life beyond level 70 and buying that $1 million villa. Of course, this year has been filled with its share of problems: Friends complained about us spamming them on Facebook, there was that whole ScamVille incident, the game has had some ongoing stability problems, and oh yeah, some people got so addicted to the game that they neglected their families. But for many of us, these negatives can't overshadow the hours of enjoyment we've gotten out of this Facebook game that you can play for the low price of free. Even though the popularity of the game seems to be waning, 65 million some-odd people can't be wrong. Happy First Birthday, FarmVille -- here's to many more. %Gallery-95666% What are some of your favorite FarmVille items/moments from the past year? Leave a note in the comments below.
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| FarmVille cakes: An homage to virtual farming with frosting and flour Posted: 18 Jun 2010 09:00 AM PDT Filed under: Farmville  Slap on a paper hat and blow on your vuvuzela -- FarmVille, the virtual farming phenomenon on Facebook turns one year old this week. Hard to believe that the game has only been around for 12 months, and in that time has managed to attract at least 65 million players, many of them daily players. That devotion has spilled over into baking, and over the past 365 days we've spotted a slew of heavily frosted (and delicious looking) cakes that pay homage to the virtual farming game. Some are clearly the work of professionals and others are homemade, but they all convey one thing -- people love FarmVille so much that they actually want to eat it. But seriously, you'll be hard pressed to find many other games with such widespread devotion in cake form. %Gallery-95666%
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| FrontierVille Cheats and Tips: Energy Guide Posted: 18 Jun 2010 08:46 AM PDT Filed under: FrontierVille   Continue reading to see all our FrontierVille cheats and tips for the energy system. There are a number of ways to regain energy:  Waiting - One unit of energy is regained every five minutes (originally three, but it the time was extended). Therefore, the most viable way to regain a full meter is by simply taking a break from the game. Luckily, in the early levels, an hour or two will be more than enough to revitalize your settler.  Food - Food is gained by harvesting animals and crops, and can be used to buy meals at the FrontierVille marketplace. Meals will partially refill your energy meter, allowing you to continue working. Some of the various meals are: 
Visit Friends - Just for visiting friends you'll receive energy points among other items. So make sure you visit all your neighbors everyday.   Free Gifts - You can send your friends meals for free from the Free Gifts page. Either send or ask your friends for meals and accept the requests when they arrive to regain energy points. The free gift meals have the same energy value as they do at the marketplace so don't ignore this valuable resource.Working - Very often, working the land will yield extra energy. Whether it's chopping wood, clobbering a snake or whacking your house, a blue lighting bolt will sometimes pop out. This bolt represents one point of energy. Although that's not much, we're looking to get our hands on all the energy we can. Collections - Completing collections will yield a specified reward which can include energy boosts and upgrades. Leveling up - A level up will fully refill your energy bar and add one to your maximum energy possible. FrontierVille Energy Cheats and Tips Unfortunately, there are no real secret FrontierVille energy cheats allowing people to gain an unfair advantage. Otherwise, the people who pay good money for their goods would feel exploited. However, there are a number of ways to get ahead of the competition. Our FrontierVille Energy Cheats and Tips segment has discovered a few: Visit neighbors - Although all the posts saying "add me" may be overwhelming at times, these people know the real key to success: neighbors. Having an overwhelming amount of neighbors is the easiest way to abuse the energy system (and the other systems) in FrontierVille. Visiting neighbors refills energy and grants you other treats and are a great option once you've expending all your points. Visiting neighbors also allows you to do five tasks. If you help your neighbor by harvesting trees or animals, you can get extra food to buy meals with.  Use neighbors to work - As mentioned above, doing work can yield food and energy, both of which may contribute to your energy meter. Make sure you fully utilize neighbors visiting your farm to give you extra food and energy after your meter has ran out. In addition, you may hire two neighbors a day for 50 Coins apiece. These can also net you some food and energy. Use neighbors for free meals - Although we never like to abuse our friends' generosity, sometimes we just need that energy! And if your friends play FrontierVille they will be sure to understand. Send those free gifts and request gifts in return. Free meals are a great and easy way to get extra energy. Be smart - Our final advice for adventurers out braving the frontier, is to be smart about using energy. What we mean by this is simple, don't do anything that would cause a waste of energy points. For example, knowing that you are just two experience points away from an energy refilling level up, don't eat Beef Jerky or visit a neighbor. Simply do a task or two on your own farm so that those two more significant energy sources aren't expended. We leave the rest up to you. We've done our best to advise you in the ways of FrontierVille energy consumption. FrontierVille Energy Cheats and Tips was just the first in our series of FrontierVille guides. Be sure to check back in and get more tips for our favorite western Facebook game. What FrontierVille energy tips do you have? Share any ideas in the comments.
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| FarmVille Unreleased Wasabi Crop, Wasabi Bushel, Wasabi Mastery Sign, & Wasabi Market Stall Posted: 18 Jun 2010 08:15 AM PDT Filed under: Farmville
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| FarmVille Unreleased Silver Pony & Silver Pony Foal Posted: 18 Jun 2010 08:00 AM PDT Filed under: Farmville
Continue reading to see the unreleased animals move!
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| Wild Ones new map Kennel moves battle to a construction yard Posted: 18 Jun 2010 07:30 AM PDT Filed under: Wild Ones  Kennel is a construction yard themed map. The main structural feature is the scaffolding in the center of the map. This tower divides the map into two halves, preventing pets from easily hitting those cross map shots with ease. However, as we witnessed earlier, the digging armadillo and flying bat easily traversed the new map and were able to make insane plays almost without regard for the terrain. The central tower is made of thin barriers and can be destroyed fairly easily, changing the dynamic of the level. Also notable are the perches along the top of the level. The flood lights serve the sniping sort very nicely, and remove the player from the main action. However, don't take our word for it; be sure to head over to Wild Ones and play the new map, Kennel, yourself. Click here to play Wild Ones>
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| Wild Ones' new pet Hamster is members only Posted: 18 Jun 2010 07:00 AM PDT Filed under: Wild Ones  Wild Ones has released another new pet: the hamster. This hamster follows the release of the bat, two pets which require the $5 monthly membership subscription. The membership program became active not long ago and offers players access to exclusive weapons, items, deals and pets. Unfortuantely, only Wild Ones members are able to play as the fearsome rodent. This hamster is not a creature you want to mess with, in fact, when powered up it poses maximum danger. The hamster's special move makes it grow twice it's usual size and allows the player to suffer only half the damage it usually would take, for an entire minute (pictured at right, hamster dwarfing panda). That's a very valuable minute of damage squandering, especially against the beefier weapons. With the new digging armadillo and flying bat, the hamster arrives with another very unique element on the battlefield. Special abilities are becoming more and more important as new animals are released. Head to Wild Ones to check it all out. Click here to play Wild Ones>
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| Games.com's Summer Sale: All downlodable games half off! Posted: 18 Jun 2010 07:00 AM PDT  In the spirit of the season and all that comes with it (including a huge case of World Cup fever), Games.com is hosting a Summer Sale that must not be missed! This weekend all downloadable games on Games.com are 50% off! We've got over 1,400 games, and, yep, they are all half the regular price. If you've ever been anxious about spending money on a downloadable game now is your chance to save HUGE on great games. If you don't know where to start, we've listed some of the staff favorites below:    These are just an example of the deals can be had on Games.com! Act now, as the Games.com Summer Sale only runs through June 21st. Buy a new game today. For information on how to use the checkout code check out our walk through:
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| Never miss a post from Games.com The Blog Posted: 18 Jun 2010 05:54 AM PDT  We're so happy and so grateful for everyone who visits Games.com The Blog! In the last six months we've growth from a small little corner of Games.com to an important source for Facebook game news. Most of you come to Games.com The Blog from searching on Google and some some come from Games.com to see what is going on over at "The Blog." We're writing to let you know that you can access all the Games.com The Blog news from whereever you are. - Get the Blog sent you via email by entering your email address here: Email delivery of Games.com The Blog - You can follow every post on Twitter at @gamesdotcom - You can become our fan on Facebook and participate in our growing community of over 9,000 fans. Games.com Fan Page - Lastly, subscribe via your RSS reader. However you reach us thank you for taking the time to check out our blog. We're so glad that you're part of the experience here. Enjoy the games and enjoy our blog. Thanks again.
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| FrontierVille: New Chicken Coop and Varmint Hunting quests Posted: 18 Jun 2010 04:07 AM PDT Filed under: FrontierVille  FrontierVille has received new quests. First, the Chicken Coop will allow you to harvest all your chickens at once. To get started, purchase the Chicken Coop from the FrontierVille market. To buy the building, you must have 13 neighbors and 30 wood. Once placed on your land claim, the Chicken Coop will require 18 whacks, each costing 16 wood. Like the Cabin, to finish the Chicken Coop you'll need to get hand drills, nails, paint, hammers and bricks from your friends or by spending Horseshoes. Also new are varmint hunting quests. The FrontierVille Facebook fanpage advises players to "be on the lookout for quests to clobber snakes and scare bears, and show off your prowess at gettin' rid of varmints!" Sounds good to us, ain't nothing like giving a pesky snake a nice clobbering. Head over to FrontierVille to get started. Click here to play FrontierVille>
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| Posted: 18 Jun 2010 03:00 AM PDT Filed under: Pet Society  Despite the fact that we didn't find the kitty, we still like the Treasure Hunt feature. Our favorite part of it is actually the beginning. We like the map and how you can zoom into the forest. Who knew that the pets were living on an island?!  . The bear appears randomly, in a different spot of the forest. And sometimes, it's not there at all. We think Mama can get so close to the bear because they're so alike!  
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| FarmVille New Gifts: Party Pig, Double Surfboards & Stripe Surfboard Posted: 18 Jun 2010 02:45 AM PDT Filed under: Farmville
FarmVille New Gifts (Released June 17th 2010)
In addition to these newly introduced gifts, some older gifts have been removed from the Gifting Page. For the complete list of gifts that were removed, see below. FarmVille Free Gifts Removed from Gifting Page:
This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.
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| Offerpal: In-game offers triples advertising revenue Posted: 18 Jun 2010 02:30 AM PDT  Those ubiquitous, infamous offer walls that run below many social games are a great way for publishers to attract more revenue from their players. But they only work if users see them, and statistics show that the vast majority of players simply never bother scrolling down. Enter the harder-to-ignore in-game offer, which a new white paper from social game advertiser OfferPal shows is an incredibly efficient way of creating more revenue opportunities from players.How effective, exactly? Offerpal says developers that use it saw three times as much offer-based advertising revenue. According to the white paper, most of that increased revenue comes from users that had never participated in an advertising offer before (they made up 93% of those who participate in the in-game promotions). The in-game offers are relatively sticky as well, with 10% of these new promotion users coming back to complete another promotion within a week. Of course, OfferPal has a vested interest in putting a good face on in-game offers, since they provide those very offers to game developers as their core business. Still, we have no specific reason to doubt their reporting. If in-game offers are really this good at drawing more money out of social game players, you can expect to see them in a LOT more games relatively soon. [Via SocialTimes]
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| Posted: 18 Jun 2010 02:15 AM PDT Filed under: Farmville
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| FarmVille New Tiki Decorations: Tiki Bridge, Active Volcano & Tiki Surfboard Posted: 18 Jun 2010 02:00 AM PDT Filed under: Farmville
FarmVille Tiki Decorations (Released June 17th 2010):
Which new Tiki decoration is your favorite? This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.
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| Posted: 18 Jun 2010 01:45 AM PDT Filed under: Farmville
 Japanese Decorations (Released June 17th 2010)Farm Cash:
Coins:
What is your favorite Japanese decoration? This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.
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| FarmVille Japanese Buildings: Sushi Shop & Japanese Gazebo Posted: 18 Jun 2010 01:30 AM PDT Filed under: Farmville
There are two new limited edition Japanese inspired buildings- The Sushi Shop and the Japanese Gazebo. You can purchase these two buildings during the next 19 days with farm cash only.
What do you think of the new Japanese inspired theme? Will you purchase these buildings for your farm? This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.
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| Summer Puzzle Collection Item Coming Soon To YoVille Posted: 18 Jun 2010 01:17 AM PDT Filed under: YoVille  This is an official post by Zynga's Platinum Ninja.We've got a brand new summer inspired Puzzle Collection Item coming very soon! Check out a sneak peek of this Llama Floaty Collection item! Let's run through how to get your hands on these Llama Floaty Puzzle Pieces and how to share puzzle pieces with your friends! How Do I collect a Llama Floaty Puzzle Piece? To receive a Llama Floaty Collection Puzzle piece you will need to open up Collection Mystery Boxes(Free Gift) or Click in on Mystery Box Collection Puzzle Feeds. If you receive a Collection Mystery Box you will get the chance to receive a puzzle piece when you open these. To open these items place them in your room and click open or go to your inventory, click on the item and then click open. Keep your eyes out for the following feeds. Once you find one make sure to click on "Get a Random Piece" and if you are one of the first to click in you will receive a puzzle piece. * Please note that this Collections Mystery Box and Mystery Collections Feeds will be giving out Enchanted Puzzle Pieces, Luxury Puzzle Pieces, as well as Llama Floaty Puzzle Pieces. So there is the chance you can receive all of these different puzzle pieces when you click through these feeds or open this Collections Mystery Box* How to Share a Ll ama Puzzle Pieces with my Friends? You can share these Puzzle Pieces with your friends by sending them Collection Mystery Boxes or posting a Mystery Collection Puzzle Feed. After you receive a Llama Floaty Puzzle Piece you will be prompted to "Share" this opportunity with your friends, make sure to click share and this will be posted on your friend's walls to click in on.This will give them the chance to click in and get a puzzle piece to add to their collection Make sure to share these with your friends as well as send them some Collections Mystery Boxes as well! And don't be shy and ask for some in return Just like all the other collection puzzles you will have to collect each puzzle piece to complete the puzzle. Once you do you can redeem this item and it will appear in your inventory! Hope you enjoy and we'll let you know when this new collection puzzle item is live in game! - Platinum Ninja
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| Summer Arrives To The YoVille Furniture Store Posted: 18 Jun 2010 01:17 AM PDT Filed under: YoVille  Editor's Picks:
  Do you like the new colors? Share your thoughts in comments!               This article originally appeared on YoVille Lounge
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| Summer Fashion Now In YoVille Clothing Boutique Posted: 18 Jun 2010 01:17 AM PDT Filed under: YoVille  Colorful summer dresses, shirts and shorts are all available for coins with prices ranging between 1,000 and 2,300 coins. Many accessories such as glasses, flip flops and purses were also added for YoCash. Check a complete list of pictures and prices after the link. Thank you Spiralda for the tip.   
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