Posts Tagged ‘zynga’
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
