News

Two Years In Jail For Hacker Who Stole $US300k From Zynga Poker

The British hacker who fleeced Zynga Poker for 400 billion chips, which have an official worth of $US12 million, $US300,000 on the black market, will serve two years in prison.


PC

FarmVille Grows Into The English Countryside

How do you expand a farming game played by more than 44 million people a month? You give them another farm. FarmVille English Countryside expansion gives FarmVille players a whole new row to hoe.


March 13, 2011
News

Resistance, Ratchet & Clank Creators Push Into Facebook With Insomniac Click

Insomniac Games, the makers of the Resistance and Ratchet and Clank series, will push into mobile and Web-based games development with a new division – Insomniac Click – that the studio unveiled on Saturday.


March 6, 2011
Mobile

Angry Birds Crashing Into Facebook Soon

Perhaps spurred on by ripoff apps already in place, Angry Birds’ developer says the game will have a Facebook adaptation inside of the month.


February 17, 2011
PC

Become A Millionaire With Facebook Monoopoly

The offline social game you play with your friends becomes the online social game you play with your friends with Monopoly Millionaires, the Facebook game where everybody gets their own Monopoly board.


February 4, 2011
News

UFC Undisputed Takes A Swing At Facebook

THQ adds its UFC Undisputed to the list of licensed console sports titles with a Facebook game adaptation, wheeling out a microtransaction-supported venture that focuses on training and leveling-up your created fighter.


January 21, 2011
PC

Facebook Game Satire Continues With ‘Cow Clicker Blitz’

Cow Clicker, the send-up of social gaming absurdity, has expanded its parody of all things Facebook with an application platform that offers “seamless bovine integration”. Cow Clicker Blitz is a proof-of-concept of the robust leverages it can architect. Or something.


January 12, 2011
PC

Facebook Hits The Links With PGA Tour Golf Challenge

PGA Tour Golf Challenge, the third Facebook game produced by EA Sports over the past year, is now live on the social networking site, bringing real-time 3D gameplay elements to a genre with few console-style games.


November 28, 2010
News

FarmVille Maker Settles Trade Secret Lawsuit With Disney

Zynga, makers of Farm- Frontier- and all things -ville on Facebook, slapped Disney with a lawsuit after it acquired social games competitor Playdom and, Zynga alleges, hired off ex-Zynga workers to learn its “secret sauce.” The matter is now settled.


November 23, 2010
News

Ding, Dong, Farmville Is Dead (Well, It’s Not #1)

It’s finally happened. After an amazing fifteen months spent atop the Facebook application charts, Zynga’s Farmville has been knocked off its perch.