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EA Pulling Dragon Age: Legends From Facebook And Google+ On June 18th

EA hasn’t been shy about blatantly saying that they’re going to extend their big games across as many platforms as possible. The recent example Mass Effect Infiltrator on iOS — which links back to the console game via the mega-publisher’s Origin online service — shows how EA probably wants this kind of thing to work in the future. An example of how they don’t want things to work? Look no further than Dragon Age: Legends.


May 10, 2012
PC

Insomniac Explores The Wild Facebook Frontier With Outernauts

Breaking with a long tradition of creating Sony-exclusive console titles, the studio behind Ratchet & Clank and Resistance brings the full weight of its wit and style to bear in Outernauts, a quirky new adventure role-playing game… for Facebook.


February 23, 2012
PC

Assemble Your Own Oddball Avengers Team On Facebook

Cyclops! Black Cat! Invisible Woman! Facebook Avengers Assemble! Facebook’s Marvel: Avengers Alliance cares not for comic book continuity, focusing instead on giving players some sweet choices, and then making them pay for them.


February 7, 2012
PlayStation

The PS Vita Is A Social Beast That Will Entangle Us All In Its Loving Tentacles

What the latest Inside PS Vita is trying to say is that by purchasing a Vita you’re becoming a member of a global gaming community connected by glowing threads of gaming-infused light, wrapping about you like a brilliant cocoon in which you’ll never feel lonely ever again. I might be reading a bit much into it.


September 30, 2011
PC

Dungeons & Dragons’ Heroes Of Neverwinter Venture Forth On Facebook

The city-state of Neverwinter has never been quite as social as it is in Atari’s new turn-based tactical Facebook role-playing game, Heroes of Neverwinter.


September 20, 2011
News

Short Name. Big Booth. Mystery To Westerners.

This booth was one of the biggest booths at the Tokyo Game Show. It took up one-tenth of the entire show floor. It wasn’t Sony’s. It wasn’t Square Enix’s. It wasn’t Capcom’s. The booth belonged to Gree. So what the hell is Gree?


August 17, 2011
PlayStation

PS Vita Goes Social With Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter, Skype

Along with a series of Sony-built applications for keeping players playing together, the PlayStation Vita will come fully equipped to keep them connected to their favourite social networks. Wow, it’s like a mobile phone that plays games!


July 20, 2011
In Real Life

Wario Helps Show This Developer The Money

Tiburcio de la Cárcova, co-founder of social games studio Atakama Labs, doesn’t sell things at a cash register. His games go out over the internet. Meaning a sale isn’t as satisfying as seeing cash in the hand!

So he built this awesome Wario Robot (with help from his daughter!) to help make everything seem a little more real. Programmed to check his company’s store once a minute, every time the robot detects a sale, it reacts. So Tiburcio can be cooking some dinner, and ding, he knows he’s made money. Doing the laundry, ding, more money. Brushing his teeth, ding, hey, more money.

Arduino-Controlled Wario and Sales Alerts [MAKE]


May 14, 2011
Mobile

Programmer Behind OpenFeint Gaming Network Just Made $US106m

Jason Citron, 26, one of the guys behind OpenFeint – the other social gaming backend for Apple iOS devices – just sold his company for $US106 million American megaducats. Business Insider has an astoundingly gloat-free interview. [Business Insider]


March 24, 2011
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.