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Mark Cuban, the forward-thinking owner of HDNet and the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, is looking to FarmVille-style games as a way to boost his team’s fanbase and increase his network’s productivity.
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“What would it look like if Nintendo built Google Earth?” That’s the question used to describe Crackdown and APB developer Realtime World’s new project, a mix of social gaming, social networking and traditional gaming known as MyWorld.
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Zynga’s massive community of fake farmers will plant its first branded crops in-game next week, teaching FarmVille players about organic farming and green living through a partnership with General Mills subsidiary Cascadian Farm.
As promised, FarmVille is now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch, dooming millions to endless mobile toil on virtual farms, unless the app’s slow speed and crashing save the day.
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Atari founder and industry forbear Nolan Bushnell discussed his “five-year ADD” during Wedbush Morgan’s 6th annual management access conference, where he described his latest passions and shared thoughts on the industry’s future. “Every five years, I’ve got to do something a little different,” he said.
In addition to founding Atari, Bushnell also founded Chuck-e-Cheese’s, and now he’s into social gaming. His current project is UWink, a social gaming-focused restaurant chain with touch screen consoles at every table where users can not only order food and drink, but also play games together. UWink is set to open its second restaurant in Hollywood soon.
“Social games aren’t sitting in boxer shorts in your basement,” Bushnell said. “It’s being out, having fun, being able to hi-five people around the table, and it’s a bridge between traditional board games, which are highly social experiences in the home, and a video game. The idea is to create games in which the conversations among the people are as important as the gameplay itself.”
One more thing on Bushnell’s list of current projects? “Think of the holodeck come true,” he said:
