social gaming
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Every Friend Recruited Is Clean Drinking Water For Burkina Faso
Scopely’s latest with Buddies game hits the iTunes app store today, bringing with it a flood of clean drinking water for a developing country. The developer has partnered with charity:water to donate the a gallon of water to the West African country of Burkina Faso for every friend you nag to play.
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Bubble Witch Saga Pops In On The Future Of Cross-Platform Social Gaming
Today players of King.com’s popular Bubble Witch Saga can continue their Facebook-based quest on the iPhone and iPad. To some a free-to-play puzzle game that seamlessly synchronizes between Facebook and smartphone might not sound like that big of a deal. To others it’s another step on the path towards a future of platform-free gaming.
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Bobby Kotick Didn’t Buy MySpace, Friendster Now Social Gaming Site
Activision boss Bobby Kotick didn’t buy MySpace. Someone else will for a measly $US35 million (considerably less than the $US580 million IGN owner News Corp. paid in 2005). Furthermore, also-dying social network Friendster is now a social gaming hub.
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N.O.V.A.: Elite, The Facebook FPS Where Paying Is Winning
Gameloft takes its iPhone Halo clone to Facebook with N.O.V.A. Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance: Elite, a competitive first-person shooter that eschews balance for the sake of getting paid.