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  • Sim City Social Aiming Directly For Zynga In New Video

    The social gaming world is getting more and more cut throat as the days go by. There is no better example of this than this new video from EA titled “More City Less ‘Ville.” This is an obvious shot at Zynga and their seemingly hundreds of ‘ville games like Farmville and Cityville.

    This video has a catchy tune and even features a bleeped out swear word which is one of my favorites. It obviously pokes fun at Farmville the most.

    The biggest thing this video does is to show some of the functions that the game will feature and it seems to be a pretty good facsimile of Sim City. The game obviously has a social part to it, but I really hope this game bucks the trend of having to post crap on your wall to get people to send you stuff. I can’t stand games like that and have lost more than one Facebook friend in the past because of it. It’s like most social game developers do not care that your friends don’t want to see that you need wood to build a new house in Frontierville.

  • Facebook Post With One Million Comments Set To Break Guinness World Record

    There is a photo on Facebook that a few of my closest friends and I hold very dear. It’s from our high school days, so the picture brings up a certain feeling of nostalgia – so much so that we use the comment thread on it to keep in touch. We’ve generated about 500 comments on the post, a number that I thought was staggering.

    Until I heard about this epic post.

    Avid Frontierville player Cathy Matthews has spearheaded a campaign to break a lesser-known Guinness World record. She wants to hold the title for most comments on a single Facebook post. At the time of her submission, the particular post in question had 1,000,733 comments.

    The actual update was posted to an open Facebook group created for the sole purpose of beating the record. As of now, the current record is 529,335 comments on a single post, one made by an Italian man in January of 2011.

    Here’s the actual post in question:

    “I’m no spring chicken anymore and I really haven’t done anything phenomenal,” Matthews told FOX 40 in Sacramento.

    She claims that about 107 people participated in the world record attempt, which as of right now totals just shy of 9,400 comments per person. Many of the comments aren’t that meaningful – two-letter words, hearts, smiley faces and such. But the sheer willpower to keep a thread going for 1 million+ comments is impressive, don’t you think?

  • Zynga Set To Release English Countryside Expansion Pack for FarmVille

    Zynga Set To Release English Countryside Expansion Pack for FarmVille

    Zynga has announced an expansion pack to it’s wildly successful FarmVille game, in hopes to lure back some users. The social gaming company is set to unleash FarmVille English Countryside sometime over the next few weeks.

    If all goes as planned, this expansion pack could return the game to its past glory as the game with the largest and most profitable audience in the world, according to GamesBeat.

    FarmVille’s user base peaked a year ago with about 83 million, since then the social game has been in steady decline. It should be noted that Zynga was busy with launching two other insanely popular games, CityVille and FrontierVille.

    Do you think this expansion will return FarmVille to past glory? Tell us what you think.

  • Zynga Launches Western-Themed Game On Facebook

    Zynga, the company behind the popular "Farmville" game has launched a new title on Facebook called "FrontierVille."

    Zynga describes "FrontierVille" as a Wild West-themed social game that allows users to tame the wilderness, grow a family, and build a frontier town.

    Features of "FrontierVille" include multiple avatars on one screen, virtual families allowing users to customize a spouse and raise a virtual family, along with wildlife encounters, varying weather and vegetation growth.

    FrontierVille

    "FrontierVille gives users creative new ways to connect with people around the world while bringing out the pioneering spirit in all of us," said Brian Reynolds, Zynga’s chief game designer who led the development of FrontierVille.

    "FrontierVille is Oregon Trail meets Little House on the Prairie meets FarmVille."

    Zynga has over 230 million monthly users playing its online social games. The games include "Treasure Isle," "Zynga Poker," "Mafia Wars," "YoVille," "Caf World," "FishVille," and "PetVille." Zynga games are available on Facebook, MySpace and the iPhone.