Games.com Blog: “Orange Spotted Octopus floats into FishVille” plus 12 more

Games.com Blog: “Orange Spotted Octopus floats into FishVille” plus 12 more

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Orange Spotted Octopus floats into FishVille

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 07:13 PM PDT

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FIshVille has released another limited time octopus today, and it's an adorable orange Spotted Octopus. This tentacled creature is not related to any particular theme, but is only available for 6.5 days. He's not cheap either; the Spotted Octopus will cost you 14 Sand Dollars if you want one of your own.

To buy this octopus, log into FishVille and check the "Limited Time" section of the FishVille Store. The octopus is joined by a Limited Edition fish - the Rainbow Basslet, which will be available for 4 1/2 more days before leaving the store forever.

Will you be buying the Spotted Octopus?

 

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FarmVille releases huge update: New levels, gifts, mystery box, and crops

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 06:13 PM PDT

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FarmVille have been teasing us all day, getting us excited for what they promised would be a very large update. We spend the evening refreshing the FarmVille fan page, and finally the release happened around 10:00pm Pacific Time. The main highlight of this release is 20 new levels; you can now reach level 90 in FarmVille. Along with the new levels are new item and crop unlocks, including more Island themed items. A slew of new gifts have shown up on the gift page, a change to the wheat crop, and a new mystery box. Read on for the full details on this enormous update.

The first thing that veteran farmers can look forward to are the 20 additional levels. If you have been level 70 for quite some time, you have actually been accumulating XP and when you log in - you will actually get the levels that you've earned retroactively. Some players are reporting up to 20 Farm Cash for leveling as well. If the Marketplace isn't allowing you to buy objects that you are clearly high enough level to purchase, try buying any low level cheap item to reset the counter and allow you to buy higher level items.

Mystery Box

The new Mystery Box that was released tonight is a bit of a disappointment, as it's filled with items we have already seen before in previous boxes. It's a good opportunity to get ahold of these premium items if you missed them the last time they came around. The Mystery Box is 16 Farm Cash as usual, and provides one of the following rewards:

Clydesdale
Old Faithful
French Quarter Building
Shamrock Inn
Vacation Home
Moose

New Gifts

Six new gifts were added to the FarmVille gift page. We're excited for something new, because the gifts had been growing stale in the game. The new gifts are: Mango Tree, Azaleas, Ginkgo Tree, Floral Container, Mangrove Tree, and Dutch Rabbit.



New Island Decorations

Surprisingly, the island themed items in FarmVille just keep on coming. Six new tiki decorations were released in the FarmVille market tonight. Most of them require Farm Cash, but there are two surfboards that can be attained without spending precious real life money. The list of items is as follows:

Hula Pig - 14 Farm Cash
Surf Shack - 18 Farm Cash
Mini Beach - 16 Farm Cash
Surfboard - 10,000 coins
Surfboard II - 10,000 coins
Trailer & Skis - 7 Farm Cash


New Birthday Decorations

Two new birthday decorations are now in the Shop, including a Birthday Cake for 9 Farm Cash, and a set of Animal Balloons for 7 Farm Cash.

New Miscellaneous Decorations and Animals

Along with a level increase to 90, new high level decorations have been released to give players something new to purchase. This includes a Wind Turbine for a hefty 1.5 million coins, a Silo Home for 1 million coins, and three new animals. The new animals are a Saddleback Pig, Arapawa Goat, and a Belted Cow.


New Crops

Here is the list of new crops that were added in tonight's major update:

Lemon Balm - Level 50+
Bamboo - Level 60+, was previously a limited edition crop
Posole Corn - Level 54+, requires Coin Mastery
Oats -Level 53+
Saffron - Level 64+, previously a limited edition crop

In addition, Wheat has been changed to a 12 hour crop. Wither on Wheat has been turned off until June 21 to allow everyone to get used to the new changes.

 

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FarmVille Unreleased June 15th Mystery Box

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 12:15 PM PDT

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FarmVille June 15 Mystery Box
Thank you to FarmVille Freak Farhan for finding this unreleased FarmVille Mystery Box that may be appearing today.

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

 

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Treasure Isle: New Limited Edition World Cup decor pits Crabs against Seagulls

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 11:00 AM PDT

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Treasure Isle Limited Edition World Cup
With goals, flags, a trophy, players, and animated soccer balls, Treasure Isle's new Limited Edition World Cup decor has all you need to set up an island soccer tourney of Crabs versus Seagulls. Two new additions to the previously released flags set are the South Africa and Soccer Flag, both going for 12 Island Cash each. Another item also costing 12 Island Cash is the golden Soccer Trophy. The coolest items are going to be the soccer balls, which come as "Bouncing Ball" for 13 Island Cash, and "Rolling Ball" for 10 Island Cash.
Treasure Isle soccer animals
While all the items in this soccer playset cost premium cash, the players are being sold for coins. This is good cause you're going to need several of them for each team. Both the Crab Footballer and Seagull cost 11,000 Coins each. The Crab dons a blue shirt, while the Seagull wears a red uniform sporting the number 7. Finally, the Monkey Referee rounds out this collection, as the most expensive item of the bunch, for 16 Island Cash.

Premium or not, all of them are only going to be around for the next 5 days, so grab 'em while you can.

 

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Treasure Isle: Grab 2 Free Island Cash in Windows Phone 7 survey

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 10:30 AM PDT

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SocialVibe Windows Phone 7 survey
Load up Treasure Isle and look to the bottom of your game today and you'll find a survey promising you 2 free Island Cash. All you have to do is pick one of three choices to this simple question: "Which Windows Phone 7 feature are you most excited to have in your pocket?" After that, you'll be led to a window asking you to join the phone's Facebook page, but you DON'T have to. Answering that question is the only action required.

Before you go running off for your chance at free premium cash, here's a heads-up! Players who have already completed Windows Phone 7 survey on June 4th via Cafe World might be disqualified from getting the cash because they've already done this survey. But hey, it can't hurt to try.

 

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FarmVille's update tonight is 'big' says Zynga insider

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 10:23 AM PDT

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A source at Zynga says that FarmVille will undergo an update tonight and that it will be "big." The details on what will be released in our favorite farming game have not been detailed, but keep an eye out.

From our source:
"I don't have the exact details to share just yet, but our update tonight will be pretty significant. More details to follow..."
What could it be? We know that the Farmer's Market was released and that was a 'big' update. A graphical change? Is it Zynga's new game portal called Zynga Live (or Zlive.com) that we heard about a few months ago? Stay turned.


 

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Social City secretly ups the price on Mandatory Caffeination

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 09:00 AM PDT

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Social City Factory Information Instant Caffeination more expensive
In Social City, factories are a player's major source of income. Depending on what a player chooses to manufacture, completion times and rewards would vary. But yesterday, the game came up with two great ideas that offer players options to increase production speed for a little bit of effort or real world cash.

The free option is called the Motivational Poster, an item that needs to be solicited from other Social City players via Facebook wall posts. This item boosts the speed of manufacture by 20%. The cash option is called Mandatory Caffeination, allows players to instantly complete production, and originally cost only 1 City Buck.

Yes, I say "originally" because the cost was quietly increased to 2 City Bucks within the last 24 hours. You can easily see this by comparing screenshots from yesterday's factory information and today's (see top image).

 

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Social City: Host your own World Cup with a Limited Edition stadium

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 08:00 AM PDT

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Social City World Cup Stadium
Not since May, have we seen a piece of Social City Limited Edition real estate as large (a 3x3 grid) and with such high stats as this new World Cup Stadium. Because stats-wise, it's a clone of the discontinued Football Stadium, sharing the same numbers of an amazing 60,000+ Happiness Points, and earning 10,000 Coins every 2 days. But the Football Stadium went for 69 City Bucks and this one is being sold for 65 CB. Rounding up, and going by the smallest price package currently being offered (55 City Bucks for $4.99 USD), that's about $9 USD.

This stadium will be around while supplies last, and there are still currently 17,627 buildings left at the in-game store. You can find it by clicking the "News" icon of the folded newspaper in the game. If you happen to miss this, Social City's new Gala Raffle feature can give you the opportunity of nailing this stadium for a much lower price, but that'll be long after this stadium's gone, and only if you get lucky.

 

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Happy Island: Undersea Explorer resurfaces for the second time

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 07:00 AM PDT

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Happy Island Undersea Explorer returns
First seen in early April, Happy Island's Undersea Explorer made a comeback at the end of the month citing "popular demand." And now, it's back again. Its price remains one of the most expensive Facebook items ever, and while it costs 199 Facebook Credits, which is exactly $19.90 USD, the payment page isn't going to let you off unless you fork over that extra dime.

Buying the Explorer entitles the owner to 10,000 daily free coins and the possibility of special items it might scrounge up on the ocean floor. No one knows what those may be. But we can bet Crowdstar loves this thing, seeing how many times they've resurrected it from Limited Offer status.

 

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FarmVille Unreleased Tiki Surfdive Shack, Tiki Jet Skis, & Tiki Beach

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 06:00 AM PDT

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FarmVille Tiki Surfdive Shack, Tiki Jet Skis, and Tiki Beach
It looks like some new Island themed decorations may be coming soon to FarmVille. Thank you to FarmVille Freak Martijn from FarmVille Code Hunters for finding these unreleased FarmVille Tiki Surfdive Shack, Tiki Jet Skis, & Tiki Beach.

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

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

 

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FarmVille Freak Glenn's Horse, Foal, Cow & Calf Collection

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 05:05 AM PDT

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FarmVille Freak Glen's Horse, Foal, Cow, & Calf Collection
Some farmers, like FarmVille Freak Glenn, love collecting all the FarmVille animals including limited editions, adoptables and farm cash only animals which make it especially difficult to own all the FarmVille animals ever released. FarmVille Freak Glenn has concentrated his endeavors on collecting all the released FarmVille Horses, Foals, Cows and Calfs.

While working on completing the collection, he has accumulated an almost complete matching set of Horses and their mini Foal versions as well as the Cows and their mini Calves.

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

 

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FarmVille Official Podcast for June 14th 2010

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 05:00 AM PDT

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FarmVille's official podcast, rescheduled from Friday, June 11th, has aired today June 14th 2010 and is hosted by FarmVille Community Manager, Lexilicious.

You can listen to the podcast in the video above, read our FarmVille Freak Podcast Summary below or read the official transcript of the podcast provided by FarmVille's official forum.
FarmGoddess' FarmVille Freak Summary

New Releases from Last Week:

1. Island Theme
  • Limited edition theme with decorations, animals, and crops.
  • Pink Hibiscus and Flamingo Flower crops. No Mastery, limited edition.

2. Soccer Theme

3. Tea Party Co-Op Job

4. Dogs Last trick

Free Fuel for FarmVille Email Users
  • One email per day.
  • Each email expires in 24 hours
  • Can get 3 tanks of fuel per day.
  • Must be level 12 farmer

Crafting Cottages
  • Bakery, Winery, Spa
  • Clicking "Learn More" will show you more details.
  • Limited edition gift of Gnomes for participating in the Crafting Cottage Preview.
  • Your choice of profession is not locked in, you can change it when they are actually released.
  • You can start collecting Bushels ahead of time that will be required for ingredients.
  • This pop-up will only appear ONCE.

User-Submitted Questions:
  • Q: How many Nursery Barns are allowed on farms? A: This is a GLITCH, not an intended function. This issue will be fixed. For now, users can have two Nursery Barns on their farm. If you have more than two Nursery Barns you are building at your own risk. You can lose any buildilngs or animals in excess of 2 when the glitch is fixed.
  • Q: Are other animals besides Dogs allowed at Zynga? A: All pets are welcomed. There are some cats, one artist brought in a Rabbit, so other animals are allowed.
  • Q: What constitutes a UNIT of gas? A: If you receive a Unit it is enough fuel for one plot of land.

:::COMING SOON:::

Adjustments to the Wheat Crop
  • Wheat will be changed to a 12 hour crop.
  • Wheat Crop Mastery will also change.
  • Reason for change is that Wheat will be a common component in the Crafting Cottages.

Dairy Barn Expansions are coming soon!

Bees
  • Bees will be coming soon!
  • In the next few weeks.
  • Will also include an entire new feature with Bees.
What was your favorite news in this podcast?

Official FarmVille Transcript for June 14th 2010

FarmVille Podcast - June 14th:
Hey Farmers, and welcome to this week's installment of the Official FarmVille Podcast! My name is Lexilicious and I am here to bring you all of the latest news and information about FarmVille from Zynga. This week, we will be discussing our latest releases, I will be answering some questions from members of the FarmVille Community, and you guys will all be getting a sneak peek of things coming to FarmVille in the future.

We had another week absolutely jam packed with new items for you guys to decorate your farms with. On Tuesday, the first installment of our new Island Theme made an appearance in FarmVille, bringing with it some items unlike any other you may have seen in FarmVille before. This new theme is very different from others we have released, which is wonderful for any users who are looking for a little variety in their game, or for those of you who like to stand out in a crowd. The new Island theme includes some great new animals and crops as well. The Spider Monkey, Pelican and Island Pig can now be found in the market along with the new Pink Hibiscus and Flamingo Flower.

For anyone who may be interested, the Pink Hibiscus is a 22 hour crop, costs 140 Coins and Yields 310 coins when harvested. The Flamingo Flower is a 16 hour crop, costs 35 coins and yields 200 coins when harvested. Both of these crops are limited edition so they cannot be mastered and they will only be around for short time, so make sure to plant them while you still can.

Along with the new Island themed limited Edition items, the new Soccer theme also made an appearance this week, along with the "Tea Party" Cop-op mission and the level 5 trick for your dogs. Remember, different breeds will do different things to help you around the farm, like fetching consumables, harvesting cows and harvesting sheep.

We also have a new feature that has been implemented as a thank you to our users for signing up for email! For a limited time only, we will be giving out fuel to users who are level 12 or above that you can only claim through email.

You will receive 1 email a day for the next two weeks containing free fuel. However, make sure that you claim your offer quickly because each fuel bonus expires within 24 hours. And the best part of this special promotion? You have the chance to get up to 3 tanks of fuel each day!

And on Tuesday, the new Crafting Cottages Preview made its debut in FarmVille! This preview will give you a sneak peek of the upcoming Crafting Cottages feature and provide you with some valuable information.
Upon logging into FarmVille, you will see a pop-up that shows the three new Crafting Cottages. The Bakery, Winery and Spa.
Clicking "Learn More" will show you a sneak peek of some of the recipes each crafting cottage can build.

Clicking the "Sign up" button will sign you up for one of the three professions. Upon doing this, you will receive a special Limited Edition gift as a thank you.

If you choose your profession and regret your decision, never fear farmers. Your choice of profession isn't locked in. You will have the opportunity to change your mind about which crafting cottage you want to use when the feature is released.

Now, make sure to start collecting bushels ahead of time so you'll be ready to go when the Crafting Cottages are released! Since this pop-up will only appear once, you can find the details of some of the upcoming recipes on the Official FarmVille forums.

And as you guys know, thousands of questions are submitted to the FarmVille team each week and the best ones are answered here.
Our first question this week comes to us from Jaime154, and her question is something I know many of you want answered. Jaime would like to know how many Nursery Barns you guys are allowed to have on your farms.

Well, since the release of Nursery Barns, a glitch came to our attention that allows users to have more than one Nursery Barn. This is not the intended functionality of this feature and the ability to have more than one Nursery is a glitch.

We are intending on fixing this issue in the future, however we have decided to allow users to have the ability to possess two Nursery Barns on their farm.

Please know that if you continue to take advantage of this glitch and choose to have more than two Nurseries on your farm, you are building at your own risk, as this issue will be addressed in the future. This fix may result in the loss of any Nursery Barns in excess of two.
Our second question comes to us from Nabby Sensai. "I want to know if zynga allows other animals besides dogs at work too. Are there ever cats at work and do the dogs chase them?"

In fact, Zynga is more than just dog friendly. Pets of all shapes and sizes are allowed at work, as long as they are relatively well behaved. I have seen a few cats wandering around the office, but usually they are smart enough to steer clear of the dogs here. Much to the delight of the members of the FarmVille team, last Thursday, one of our artists actually brought his rabbit with him to work. So to answer your question... yes, other animals are allowed here at Zynga.

And our last question is from Nana25 and this one is also something I see asked very frequently around the forums. "What constitutes a "unit" of gas"?
This one is actually quite simple. If you receive a unit of fuel from a feature, it is enough fuel for one plot of land. For example, if you have 100 plots on your farm and you wish to use a vehicle that costs fuel to tend to them, you would need to obtain 100 units of fuel.

Alright! That's it for user submitted questions for this week. Remember, if you have a question you would like answered by a member of the FarmVille team, please make sure to visit the Official FarmVille forums or www.farmville.com for more information.

Now, due to some internal changes, we will be temporarily be removing the Tip of the week segment for a couple of weeks, however we will be bringing it back as soon as we are able, since so many of you have requested to see it return.

And on that note, it's time for the part of the podcast I am sure all of you skip forward to hear... it's time for a sneak peek of things coming your way in the near future!

So first up, we are going to be making some adjustments to the Wheat crop. Soon, it will become a 12 hour crop and we will be adjusting the cost, yield, and mastery numbers to bring it in line with its new grow time. We're doing this because wheat will be a pretty common component in some of the crafting cottage recipes and we don't want you guys to be using a crop with a multiple-day grow time in your first recipes.

Now the second thing on the list this week is Dairy Barn Expansion! That's right folks, expansion for your dairies will be coming soon as per your request.

And lastly, we have a release coming your way in the next couple of weeks that I am sure many of you will enjoy. Now, if anyone who is listening frequents the "suggestions" section of the FarmVille forums, you will know that bees are one of the most requested items we see. Well, not only will you see bees soon... we are making an entire feature around them! So make sure to keep an eye out for this upcoming release and the others in the near future.

Alright folks, that's it from me this week. Again, my name is Lexilicious and thank you all so much for listening. I will be back this coming Friday with all of the latest news and information from around the Farm.
Happy Farming!
This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

 

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FarmVille Announces Multiple Nursery Barns as Glitch: Build at your own risk!

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 04:30 AM PDT

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On June 4th, we notified you about a Nursery Barn Glitch that is allowing farmers to build more than one Nursery Barn. Zynga has confirmed this as a glitch and has officially addressed the issue on the FarmVille forum. For the time being, you may be able to build multiple Nursery Barns, but it is not intentional or part of a new FarmVille upgrade. Zynga is aware of the glitch and will be working on a solution.

They are warning that you should build at your own risk . If you keep additional Nursery Barns (over 2) on your farm, it is possible that you may lose any animals stored in additional Nursery Barns whenever the glitch is patched in the future.

Update: The June 14th FarmVille Official Podcast announced that they will allow farmers to keep up to two Nursery Barns, but any additional Nursery Barns over two may be lost when the glitch is patched.

FarmVille Community Manager, Lexilicious announced via Official FarmVille Forum the following statement:
"Hi Farmers,

Since the release of Nursery Barns, a glitch has come to our attention that allows users to have more than one Nursery Barn.

This is not the intended functionality of this feature and the ability to have more than one Nursery is a glitch.

We are intending on fixing this issue in the future, however we have decided to allow users to have the ability to possess two Nursery Barns on their farm.

Please know that if you continue to take advantage of this glitch and choose to have more than two Nurseries on your farm, you are building at your own risk, as this issue will be addressed in the future.

This fix may result in the loss of any Nursery Barns in excess of two.

We appreciate your patience and understanding with us during this time.

Happy Farming!" (Source: FarmVille Forum)
This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

 

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