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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 [...]
Digital Drugs: How Facebook poker chips and other virtual currencies are transforming addictions
However, in place of cocaine are crack, these dealers are distributing Facebook poker chips, Farmville coins, and Mafia Wars or World of Warcraft Gold and other coveted virtual goods and currencies to their loyal buyers. Instead of an artificial drug induced high, players are rewarded with surges in endorphins and [...]
Playdom’s new Social City game on Facebook is a hit
Building off the success of virtual simulation games like Farmville, Playdom's Social City lets you customize and build a city from the ground up, developing every aspect of it as if you were the mayor, city builder, and real estate tycoon all rolled into one. Players can customize the factories in their city, decide which industries to pursue, [...]
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 [...]
Games.com and AOL roll out their own facebook poker chips
While other games rise, peak and fall, one game braves through the storm of social gaming fickleness: Facebook Texas Holdem Poker. People love their facebook poker chips in Zynga, Playfish, and Playdom poker games and AOL and Games.com have finally taken notice and decided to introduce their own facebook poker application for texas holdem [...]
Yahoo brings Facebook Poker to it’s users
Yahoo brings Facebook poker chips to its users Yahoo announced this week that it will be bringing games like Facebook Texas Holdem Poker to it's suite of gaming sites through a partnership with Zynga Game Network, giving it's users a broader selection of games to choose from and access to new ways to interact with friends and family while tending [...]
Facebook Poker creator Zynga rumored to be considering splitting from Facebook
Could Zynga and Facebook be parting ways? Three years ago it seemed a match made in heaven. Facebook had tens of millions of users and Zynga had the games like Facebook Texas Holdem Poker and Mafia Wars to keep them coming back and continually draw in new users. Fast forward to today and the symbiotic relationship between the two internet pioneers [...]
Are facebook poker chips ‘Intellectual Property’?
Are facebook poker chips intellectual property? Notoriously sue happy social gaming company Zynga last week filed a lawsuit in United States District of California court this past week, one of a long line of copyright disputes brought by the company against online sellers of facebook poker chips in their popular online game Zynga Texas Holdem [...]
