Atomic Ape's Tiny Gourmet offers text-based farming on go
While iPhone isn't without its fair share of farming and cooking games, Atomic Ape's Tiny Gourmet offers a combination of both of those genres, presented in a Mafia Wars-style text format. The game's...
View ArticleMafia Farm: Get your crops and guns in the same place
The cooking and farming genres go hand-in-hand both on Facebook and on iOS, but can farming and the mafia go together just as well? 6waves Lolapps seems to think so, as it has released Mafia Farm on...
View ArticleCafe World Cruise on the Seine Catering Order: Everything you need to know
A new Parisian-themed catering order has launched in Cafe World this week, offering a romantic trip down the river Seine for two of the game's secondary characters. You'll be there while the couple...
View ArticleFarmVille Hawaiian Paradise Items: Sea Shell Tree, Sand Dollar Tree and more
Tonight's FarmVille update brings more items to the limited edition Hawaiian Paradise theme, with some of these being rather whimsical takes on the theme, rather than anything too realistic. Since the...
View ArticleFarmVille St. Patrick's Day items: Lucky Charm Tree, Rainbow Fence and more
The luck of the Irish is continuing in FarmVille this week, with the release of additional items in the St. Patrick's Day limited edition item theme. There are new trees, animals and more up for grabs...
View ArticleThe Sims Social 'The Prankfather' Quest: How to finish it fast
Playfish has decided to go all "Boardwalk Empire" on The Sims Social this week. It's Gangster Week in the developer's hit Facebook game, and with it comes another big time quest for players to...
View ArticleStudy: Why are motion games so popular? Simply put, they're more fun
Sometimes it's a wonder why motion gaming has taken off, considering standard buttons, joysticks, keyboards and mouses are still more precise by comparison. Then we remember the gold standard of...
View ArticlePerspective-shifting Fez wins big at the 2012 Independent Games Festival
If artist MC Escher had ever made a game, it might look something like FEZ, the charming game that won the Seamus McNally Grand Prize and a $30,000 cash award at last night's 2012 Independent Games...
View ArticleWatch an astronaut pimp Angry Birds Space from, well, space [Video]
We all know Angry Birds Space is headed for iPhones, iPads, Android devices, PCs and Macs on March 22. But we knew very little about what the game would look like or how it would play differently from...
View ArticleNgmoco: Mobile will kill game consoles like consoles killed arcades
Man, remember taking out the trash for a weekly allowance, only to blow it at the local arcade on Pac-Man and Street Fighter? Those were the days, and if you ask Ngmoco Sweden head Ben Cousins, we...
View ArticleMapleStory Adventures gets stabby with Thief, Bowman classes [Video]
Sure, blasting adorable baddies with magic spells and bashing their heads in with bludgeons is cool. But you know what's even cooler? Stabbing and shooting them, that's what. Nexon has released a...
View ArticleMarvel wants more on Facebook where Avengers Alliance came from
Who knew comic book heroes and social games would make for a Facebook dream team? With Marvel: Avengers Alliance creeping toward 1 million monthly players, it appears that Marvel and Playdom are ready...
View ArticleZuma's Revenge, World Series of Poker et al iPhone-bound from EA
Veteran games publisher EA is on a tear in the social and mobile game spaces, and it shows no signs of stopping. During an event at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, EA revealed an...
View ArticleTrouble Makers, Playfish's next iOS game, is up to no good in Canada
Of course, "Canadians" can play the game, too. EA and Playfish's Montreal studio are poised to release their next big iPhone and iPad game, Trouble Makers. Live testing now in the Canadian App Store,...
View ArticlePlayfish: The Sims Social's WooHoo is 'the strongest Wall post we have'
Well, we guess we know what's on the minds of The Sims Social's 20 million monthly players. It's one thing for players of the number one Playfish game to virtually do the deed 680,000 times a day...
View ArticleKonami, Playdemic and Rebellion join Zynga as platform partners
When we were first given a preview of Zynga's Project Z (and the new Zynga.com experience), we learned of Zynga's move to become a game publisher, on top of being a game developer. With the Zynga...
View ArticleTrouble Makers on iOS is almost more trouble than its worth
While we already told you that Playfish's Trouble Makers is now available to download for those lucky enough to have access to the Canadian iTunes store, we've actually had a chance to get our hands...
View ArticleZuma's Revenge on iOS might be the best version of Zuma yet
And that's saying a lot. While EA has also announced that World Series of Poker will be heading to the mobile space, PopCap's Zuma's Revenge has already been released on iOS in two paid versions: the...
View ArticleCastleVille St. Patrick's Day items: Feel the luck of the Irish on your kingdom
With St. Patrick's Day right around the corner, CastleVille is getting into the spirit with a series of new items being available in the game. There are only seven items available as of this writing,...
View ArticleFarmVille Paul and Linda's Big Trip Goals: Everything you need to know
Paul and Linda are ready to take a vacation in FarmVille, so what better place to get away from it all than in Hawaiian Paradise? There are nine goals in their new "Paul and Linda's Big Trip" series,...
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