Tag: FACEBOOKGAMES

Most Facebook games may not do a whole lot for the body, mind and soul, but one online game may have just saved the life of a disabled man named Robert Chambers. On Tuesday, Chambers was at home in Spokane playing a Facebook game called 'Evony,' when his toaster caught on fire. Smoke began filling his living room, and Chambers began to panic. Because he suffers from muscular dystrophy, the ...

Share A woman in Colorado has been arrested after telling police that she was busy on Facebook while her one-year-old son was drowning in a bathtub. The mother, 34-year-old Shannon Johnson, reportedly told authorities that she was playing a Facebook game called 'Cafe World,' browsing through her news feed, and sharing videos around the time that her son was in the tub one day last September. ...

Highlights from this morning's big tech headlines... At last night's Games Announcement, Facebook detailed an updated sidebar that will push your most commonly used apps to the top. For non-gamers, Facebook will be cutting down the amount of gaming updates hitting your feed, which means you won't have to keep track of every cow your friends purchase on FarmVille. Meanwhile, social gamers will ...

Those of you... okay, those of us who rushed to the nearest Gamestop (or just got online) to throw $60 at 'StarCraft II' the day it dropped are not the future of the video game industry. According to a recent report from NPD Group, one in five Americans over the age of six has played games on a social network within the last 90 days, while spending less than the average on video games overall. Of ...

Whether you love or hate 'FarmVille' and its Facebook-game brethren, you can't deny their reach or their influence on how we play today. Enter video game designer and critic Ian Bogost and his new Facebook app 'Cow Clicker,' a meta-game that pares down social networking lifestyle entertainments to the root of their essential mechanics. According to Bogost, "You get a cow. You can click on it. In ...

As far as agriculture goes, FarmVille's pretty environmentally friendly. After all, everything "grown" on a computer screen is about as local as it gets. And the only thing a user could possibly waste, besides money, is an entire social life. Soon, however, the game's agrarian community will have a whole new way to raise pretend plants... and hemorrhage even more cash. As the New York Times ...

'On the Waterfront' spawned 'The Godfather,' which spawned 'Goodfellas,' which spawned... 'Mafia Wars'? Somewhere, Joe Pesci is choking himself with a telephone cord right now. Yep, a movie based on the absurdly popular Zynga-produced Facebook game is definitely in the works, effectively driving a stake through the heart of American cinema. The "film," which describes itself as a "crime ...

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Monetizing a highly addictive game like FarmVille can be great for business, and it can be devastating to personal accounts. Just ask the mom of a 12-year-old boy who recently piled up nearly $1,367 (£900) in credit card debt, simply because of his online agrarian addiction to FarmVille. The mother, who understandably chose to remain anonymous, says that after her son emptied the $478 ...