Fans freak at PopCap for closing Baking Life, start an online petition
PopCap hasn't been very sweet to Baking Life fans lately. If you ask them, EA's casual games maker has been downright rotten. Go ahead and ask them: When ZipZapPlay (PopCap property now) posted the...
View ArticleCaesars Casino: A Vegas Strip staple expands to Facebook
Instead of tripping to Vegas to hit the casinos, you can now visit those same smokey temples of vice... on Facebook. Caesars is the latest to bring its popular games of chance to Facebook in a new...
View ArticleSOPA's down, but not out, and it would seriously suck for social games
As far as Friday's go, January 20 is certainly the best one in 2012 so far, and likely for some time. (You know, unless it starts raining Skittles next Friday or something.) Internet companies from...
View ArticleFarmVille fans, you've been heard: New coin expansions for all farms
Will you look at that: Whining on the FarmVille forums and Facebook fan page finally did some good. A new loading screen image that only a few players had the pleasure to be greeted by in-game has...
View ArticleFarmVille Winter Pet Run: Everything you need to know
On top of coin expansions being launched across our farms, another bit of good news hit FarmVille this week with the launch of the Winter Pet Run animal storage building. The Winter Pet Run costs...
View ArticleCityVille: Play Hidden Chronicles for Zoning Permits and Mansion
And so it officially begins... While we knew it was only a matter of time before Zynga released cross-promotions across its games to advertise Hidden Chronicles, the only one we actually knew about...
View ArticleCityVille Sneak Peek: Will airports bring world travel to your town?
Honestly, we don't know. What we do know however is that airports will soon be coming to CityVille. Zynga has announced such on the game's official forums, where we've been told to "Get ready to build...
View ArticlePioneer Trail Irrigation Station: Everything you need to know
As any Pioneer Trail player knows, there's a huge focus in the game on planting and harvesting crops for goals, mastery points and more. However, some of those crops can take an awfully long time to...
View ArticlePioneer Trail: Play Hidden Chronicles for a Mastery Boost, Energy Meal and more
The Hidden Chronicles cross-promotional train has pulled into Pioneer Trail this week, offering players a chance at three free items on the Homestead if they are willing to try out Zynga's hidden...
View ArticleCastleVille: Celebrate Chinese New Year with exclusive themed items
With FarmVille and CityVille already being in the Chinese New Year spirit, it's not surprising that CastleVille has joined suit, as Zynga has released a new limited edition Chinese New Year item theme...
View ArticleGardens of Time: Celebrate Chinese New Year with new chapter
In keeping with tradition in Gardens of Time, Playdom has released a new limited edition chapter of scenes and items in the game to celebrate the upcoming holiday: Chinese (Lunar) New Year. This...
View ArticleFarmVille: Expand your Home Farm for free Rainbow Bridge
Apparently, the special snow treasures in FarmVille's Winter Wonderland did wonders to encourage users to expand their newest snowy farms, as a similar feature has come back to the Home Farm. With...
View ArticleGardens of Time: Join the Inner Circle for $15 a month
Even though Facebook games are no longer in their infancy, the idea of a premium, monthly subscription is still incredibly rare on the platform. Playdom looks to buck that tradition by offering the...
View ArticleCityVille Chinese New Year Goals: Everything you need to know
Perhaps no other Facebook game has taken to the Chinese New Year celebration quite like CityVille. The game is full of themed content, including items in the store and a Red Envelope collection event,...
View ArticleFarmVille: Earn 10% more Farm Cash in current promotion
Really Zynga? Is 10% really all you could spare? Regardless, if you're in the market for some Farm Cash in FarmVille and want to purchase some before Monday night, you can now earn 10% more with each...
View ArticleCastleVille Hazel Introduction Quests: Everything you need to know
An evil icy witch has come to CastleVille. Her name is Hazel and she comes with a series of new quests given to you by the Duke. There are eight quests to complete in total, with one being a preface...
View ArticleFarmVille Valentine's Day Items: Red Heart Cow, Twilight Crape Tree and more
With tonight's FarmVille market update, we've seen a set of new and re-released items launch in the game's Valentine's Day item theme. As with the Lunar New Year Items that also launched this evening,...
View ArticleFarmVille Mystery Game (01/22/12): Chinese New Year Animals up for grabs
As one final bit of celebration for the Chinese New Year holiday in FarmVille, we've seen this week's Mystery Game updated with animals in a Chinese theme. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like a free...
View ArticleFarmVille survey hints at auctions, swap meets and more
As we're always on the lookout for free Farm Cash deals under the FarmVille gameplay area on Facebook, imagine our surprise and delight when a new FarmVille survey appeared under our games. This new...
View ArticleFarmVille maker Zynga loses $150 per new paying player ... or does it?
Here's why most writers hate math: that damned subtraction part. Stern Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia said that Zynga, the recently public, San Francisco--well, everywhere, really--based social game maker...
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