‘facebook poker chips’ Archives
From Facebook poker chips to Farmville coins: how virtual goods have grown in 3 years
Back in 2007 when nobody knew what a Farmville chicken coop or a facebook poker chip was, social games on networks like Facebook and MySpace were just peeking their collective heads from out behind the stone. The biggest applications were still viral garbage like "which simpsons character are you". Fast forward 3 years and social gaming is [...]
Why the popularity of simple games like farmville and facebook poker has veteran developers excited
Some say the explosive growth of simple and relatively easy to produce games like Facebook Texas Holdem Poker, Farmville, Fishville and Mafia Wars might be interpreted as bad news by established console game developers who routinely spend tens of millions of dollars and many years producing big titles. But employees at mega companies like Lucas [...]
Myspace looking to social games to regain prominence
Once the King of the Hill in the social networking scene, MySpace is now looking to regain some of that popularity by using social games the way that Facebook has to gain users. Exclusive games like Farmville that are played only on Facebook, with over 80 million users, have helped to rocket Facebook's numbers to over 400 million users [...]
Social games such as Facebook Poker may soon outgrow Facebook
At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco a sensative topic was raised as to whether game developers like CrowdStar, PopCap Game, Zynga and Playfish would eventually outgrow Facebook, as they look to own more of and more of their player's online time. Right now social gaming and social networking sites go hand in hand and the [...]
South Korea rules that virtual currencies like facebook poker chips can be exchanged for real money
The South Korean Supreme Court made a ruling last month that virtual currencies in digital worlds was legally exchangable for real world currency. They also noted that transactions of this type would be taxed as normal income. This type of taxation would have huge implications for game maker Zynga, which is reportedly on track to earn [...]
Game Developers Conference highlights games like Facebook Poker, Farmville and Restaurant City
Social Games and their role in the future of online gaming was the topic of most presentations at this years Game Developers Conference. Many believe that social gaming is still in its infancy and is set to change the way people interact over the interent, pulling people from chat rooms and bulletin boards into virtual worlds where they can use [...]
Zynga opens new development center in India
With India's Internet end users predicted to reach 81 million people throughout the up coming three years, Zynga Games Network, the designers of social networking applications such as FarmVille, Zynga Poker, Mafia Wars has opened up a production centre in Bangalore. The Indian locations will originally concentrate on establishing up a [...]
Portalarium whips up their own brand of facebook poker chips
An Austin Web game start-up today launched an internet browser plug-in designed to enhance online game play via Facebook, Myspace and additional social media. Game design founder Richard Garriott started Portalarium last year, however it formally was introduced Feb. 17. It's Texas hold'em Web game, Sweet @$! Poker, launched at about the same [...]
Playdom Announces Acquisition of Offbeat Creations
Playdom, a top social gaming organization, reported today it has purchased Facebook programmer Offbeat Creations, Inc., a leading programmer and author of gaming platforms on social media sites. Offbeat Creations had been privately operated and is centered in Bellevue, Wash. The particular provisions of the purchase were not revealed. With a [...]
Facebook poker chips cheats hacks and other random musings
One point that most individuals play incorrectly, which includes myself at occasions, is perform consistently in facebook poker. You might perform your AQ differently occasionally preflop or whenever you hit an Ace or Queen. You might bet a various quantity (in No-Limit) or select to jam the pot at a various facebook poker chips. Nevertheless, [...]
