‘facebook poker’ Archives
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 makes another layout change
It wasnt long ago that Facebook had made the jump to a completely new layout that enraged it's users and led to the created of groups boycotting Facebook. Now they're rolling out yet another update to their design and interface in limited capacity to certain groups. The new layout allows users to send messages from the main Facebook homepage [...]
Facebook Poker Chips across multiple gaming networks
As social gaming continues to heat up, so do the game developers offering applications which use facebook poker chips as a digital currency. Although Zynga Texas Holdem Poker was one of the first game developers to popularize facebook poker chips in the virtual gaming field, others are now starting to move into the space with their own [...]
Zynga moving popular games to MSN Game Network
In an attempt to grow it's social gaming network even further, Zynga announced that it was bringing some of it's most popular games to casual game portal MSN Games. With over 500 million users between MSN Games and Windows Live Messenger, this opens up a huge new audience for Zynga. "Social gaming has gone mainstream," Zynga senior vice president [...]
