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Man in Saudi Arabia spends over $25,000 on virtual items like facebook poker chips.
"Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time to spend that money on anything you want" Insidesocialgames.com recently reported on the phenomenon of social gaming "whales", or rather players who spend over $1000 buying virtual items like farmville cash and facebook poker chips in online games. Much like the well known "whales" of Las [...]
Hacker arrested after stealing over 400 billion facebook poker chips
Hacker arrested for stealing 400 billion zynga poker chips Between June and September of 2009, British resident Ashley Mitchell used his backround in computer programming to hack into the systems of Zynga Game Network and steal nearly 400 billion (thats billion with a B) in facebook poker chips. Mitchell attempted to split up and store the [...]
Mickey Mouse joins Facebook Poker Games as Disney buys Playdom for $560 million
Disney acquires Playdom for $560 million In the largest social gaming deal since Electronic Arts bought Playfish, this week entertainment goliath Disney purchased Playdom, the creator of games such as Mobsters, Facebook Poker Palace, Tiki Farm, and Sorority Life for social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace. Does this mean Mickey Mouse [...]
Zynga Poker Con comes to Las Vegas with real money instead of facebook poker chips
Zynga replaces zynga poker chips with real cash at Poker Con Zynga invaded Las Vegas this past weekend by dipping their toes in real money poker games for the first time ever, offering players a cash prize pool of $100,000 (that's USD not facebook poker chips). Zynga General Manager Laurence Toney had the following to say about Zynga's latest [...]
Zynga Poker developer Zynga Games rumored to be partnering with Google on new gaming portal
TechCrunch has reported that Google is in talks with Zynga Texas Holdem Poker and Farmville developer Zynga Games to launch a new social gaming portal called "Google Games" where gamers will be able to play games the latest Zynga games. Google has allegedly invested anywhere from $100 to $200 million dollars into the social gaming leader all the [...]
