Ridiculously fun mobile game Jetpack Joyride is now available for free on Facebook, which means you probably won’t do much work today. Check it out, if you haven’t already. It’s a simple idea, executed brilliantly.
App Stores. Everyone is doing it. So, naturally, it was only a matter of time before Facebook went and launched its own fancy little app store. And, as usual, Facebook is attempting to make its App Store the mega super App Store to end all App Stores. Well, kinda…
You are probably one of three people. 1) You might be a fan of NBA Jam and NFL Blitz fun, over-the-top arcade games masterminded by a guy named Mark Turmell. If you had to guess what his first game for his new bosses at FarmVille juggernaut Zynga would be about, you’d probably guess “something about sports” and you’d be wrong.
Earlier today, we got to see just a portion of a new Assassin’s Creed III trailer. Just a glimpse! Like this series on Facebook and you can see the whole thing!
The overlap in intended audience between Empire and The Hunger Games Adventures is probably vanishingly small. Both are found on Facebook but, in tone and in content, aim themselves completely different ways. It seems unlikely that very many players would approach both for long enough to realise that the two are, in every way that counts, the same game.
Game designer and champion Jane McGonigal advocates games as a tool for making the world a better place. She has a book and a pile of research explaining all of the ways in which games can be beneficial for players’ physical and mental health as well as for the wider world.
Jay-Z is one of the world’s most famous rappers. He has a fashion line, a chain of upscale sports bars, and a share of the New Jersey (soon to be Brooklyn) Nets. He has sold millions upon millions of albums and married Beyoncé, with whom he now has a daughter. What was left for the superstar? To become a Facebook game, of course.
