Posts Tagged ‘facebook poker chips’
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 [...]
Facebook Poker Chips get left out of Zynga’s new Prepaid Card offers
Social gaming developer and creator of popular games like Zynga Poker and Farmville on Facebook announced that they were partnering with InComm to provide a line of prepaid virtual currency cards for some of their top games. These cards will be available at locations like 7-11, Best Buy, GameStop, and Target locations around the U.S. Players can [...]
E.A. Sports veteran Steven Chiang joins the Zynga team
As the social gaming tug of war between giants Zynga and Electronic Arts continues, Veteran EA Sports employee Steven Chiang joins Zynga to become president of their game studios. Zynga's game offerings have always been based on the premise that games should be simple, straightforward, and easy to learn so that they appeal to the largest [...]
Facebook Poker and Mafia Wars: can in game cross promotion succeed?
Facebook Poker and Mafia related games seem to hand in hand so this could be a great way to get players interested in one game to try out the other for the first time or get them back in if they haven't played in a long time. This seems to be a new trend with social game makers as they try to grab more and more of gamers' valuable gaming time. [...]
Playfish’s new Hotel City game debuts on Facebook
Playfish launched it's newest addition to the social gaming world today with the release of Hotel City. The gameplay centers around, you guessed it, a managing a hotel. Players can customize and manage all the aspects of owning a real hotel, from the decorations of the room to the house keeping and maintenance. Adding amenities like gyms and bars [...]
Zynga Poker Blitz: Facebook Poker meets Yoville
Zynga quietly launched an intriguing new title called Zynga Poker Blitz today for players on Facebook. The game is being marketed as "poker for the masses", and seems to be a mix between Texas Holdem Poker, Farmville, and Yoville. Players are given a certain amount of facebook poker chips to start, just as in their original title Zynga Poker. [...]
Trading Facebook poker chips for Facebook Credits
Presently, if you want to buy some farmville coins or facebook poker chips, you must go through each respective game's menu system and buy them in a seperate transaction with either your paypal account or a credit card. Since Facebook came out their with Facebook Credit system, they've been pushing social game developers like Playfish [...]
Poker Blitz and Hotel City: Two new games from Playfish and Zynga
Two new hotly anticipated games from developers Playfish and Zynga are set to hit Facebook sometime this week. Sticking to the city theme, Playfish is set to release Hotel City, which is a hotel management game where players can customize and run 5 star hotels. Playfish has stated that this will be their most customizable game to date. The other [...]
How many facebook poker chips will $3 billion buy?
A recent report suggests that the publisher of popular games like Farmville, Facebook Texas Holdem Poker, and Mafia Wars could be worth as much as $3 billion dollars, a little more than half of what gaming giant Electronic Arts is currently worth. With an active monthly base of nearly 230 million players, Zynga makes most of their profit by [...]
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 [...]
