Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp media empire has bought into the gaming business, purchasing not a global powerhouse, but… a tiny social games developer called Making Fun.
Now everyone on Facebook can experience the joy of hunting criminals and having dysentery, as Blue Fang Games and The Learning Company bring two of the most beloved learning computer games of all time to the social network next month.
A marketing research firm found that 17 per cent of social gamers – FarmVille, Mafia Wars and the like – consider themselves “addicted”, though it’s not clear if they say that regretfully or as a light-hearted self-description.
With countless folk horror tales of theme park rides decapitating or removing the limbs of riders, you’d think Six Flags would have shied away from promoting over-the-top, blood-spurting violence in their new Facebook game, Six Flags Mascot Park.