Escape Helicopter
Only Schwarzenegger in Restaurant City during the undead invasion screaming, "Get to the choppa!" would make this item any more awesome. Only available for another five hours as of this writing, this 450,000 coins (yikes!) item will add +1 to your maximum popularity.
Not to mention it might ensure your safety from the impending zombie hordes, but more on that later. While it's generous of Playfish to only charge coins for this item and not Playfish Cash, I sure don't know many folks with nearly a half million of them. Especially for something that, "just kind of flashed and moved a bit," says the item's description. Regardless of whether it will save your lives, at least it'll look super cool next to your mad scientist's lab and cadaver-crawling cafe.
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Friday, February 3, 2012
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Restaurant City Aztec Week honors Mexican history with sweet and spicy chicken
Chocolate Chili ChickenWhat spells Aztec relics and history better than refreshing hot cocoa and strangely flavored poultry? Nothing, according to Playfish's update to Restaurant City titled "Aztec Week." For seven days, we have the chance to honor the birthplace of chocolate and some of the most impressive temples built in human history.
This event introduces two new recipes to master: Exotic Hot Chocolate and Chocolate Chili Chicken (pictured right). Both of which will require lots of the sweet stuff, but only mastering the Chocolate Chili Chicken will reward players with access to the Aztec Temple decoration. While the new dishes are the star of the show, there are tons of new items to deck your cafe out to look like an ancient Mayan eatery.
These items are slowly being rolled out into the game, with only a few items currently available for free gifting like Aztec Woven Basket, Aztec Dragon Statue and the Aztec Statue. However, what have to look forward to later this week are items such as the Aztec Chief, a Shaman Waiter and a Pan Pipe Band. The more interesting incoming furniture includes a Golden Inca Statue, a Golden Sundial, and the Aztec Calender. (As long as it isn't Mayan we're in the clear.) Expect more items to show up later this week, but in the meantime feel free to ogle on the Restaurant City Blog.
This event introduces two new recipes to master: Exotic Hot Chocolate and Chocolate Chili Chicken (pictured right). Both of which will require lots of the sweet stuff, but only mastering the Chocolate Chili Chicken will reward players with access to the Aztec Temple decoration. While the new dishes are the star of the show, there are tons of new items to deck your cafe out to look like an ancient Mayan eatery.
These items are slowly being rolled out into the game, with only a few items currently available for free gifting like Aztec Woven Basket, Aztec Dragon Statue and the Aztec Statue. However, what have to look forward to later this week are items such as the Aztec Chief, a Shaman Waiter and a Pan Pipe Band. The more interesting incoming furniture includes a Golden Inca Statue, a Golden Sundial, and the Aztec Calender. (As long as it isn't Mayan we're in the clear.) Expect more items to show up later this week, but in the meantime feel free to ogle on the Restaurant City Blog.
Restaurant City: Just when you thought Halloween was over...
...the ghouls have invaded Restaurant City again, and this time, they're stalking the streets in broad daylight! (This isn't as cool as the endless hours of darkness imposed over the game during the holiday, but players can easily replicate the effect for themselves by completing the Lounge Bar or buying the Night Sculpture for 20 Playfish Cash.) But I'm certainly not complaining, cause it's clear that "The Ghouls are Unleashed" is a great feature for releasing special items, and if Playfish wants to milk it for all its worth, that just means more freebies for us.
Today's Gold award is the Golden Inca Statue, which doesn't exactly tie into their upcoming Aztec Week. But it's due to cultural ignorance more than insensitivity that gets people lumping the Mayans, Aztecs, and Incans together. Anyway, the game's set the cost of the statue at 4,000 Coins, but it's not available at the store. The sell price on it is 1,333 Coins, so if you don't like it, you can sell it for coinage.
As for the other awards, Bronze grants you a free 500 Coins, and Silver is offering a free Chili ingredient, which is mighty considerate of Playfish. You see, Chili is one of four ingredients required to master the Chili Chocolate Chicken, so expect it to disappear fast.
Today's Gold award is the Golden Inca Statue, which doesn't exactly tie into their upcoming Aztec Week. But it's due to cultural ignorance more than insensitivity that gets people lumping the Mayans, Aztecs, and Incans together. Anyway, the game's set the cost of the statue at 4,000 Coins, but it's not available at the store. The sell price on it is 1,333 Coins, so if you don't like it, you can sell it for coinage.
As for the other awards, Bronze grants you a free 500 Coins, and Silver is offering a free Chili ingredient, which is mighty considerate of Playfish. You see, Chili is one of four ingredients required to master the Chili Chocolate Chicken, so expect it to disappear fast.
Chocolatier on Facebook enables choco-lovers to buy real-life sweets in game
If you've played Chocolatier on Facebook, then you're probably more than familiar with the game's uncanny ability to make you want to go out and buy actual chocolate. There's just something about stirring vats of virtual chocolate and putting it on display in your oh-so quaint shop that makes you want to nibble on bon-bons while you work.
chocolatier charles chocolates on Facebook
Chocolatier is now taking its role as a chocolate enabler much more seriously, as the game announces a partnership with the San Francisco-based Charles' Chocolates. Now you can make virtual versions of the brands more popular "creations" and buy real-life versions of the same chocolates at a 10% discount until December 31 from inside the game. So much for that pre-holiday diet.
chocolatier charles chocolates
chocolatier charles chocolates on Facebook
Chocolatier is now taking its role as a chocolate enabler much more seriously, as the game announces a partnership with the San Francisco-based Charles' Chocolates. Now you can make virtual versions of the brands more popular "creations" and buy real-life versions of the same chocolates at a 10% discount until December 31 from inside the game. So much for that pre-holiday diet.
chocolatier charles chocolates
FarmVille-creator Zynga wants a 'dog activated world'
Zynga wants to be everywhere
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus revealed an interesting, if vague, fact about the company's mission for the future at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco yesterday. Pincus wants Zynga at your beck and call on every device and platform you're on. While the topic of the conference was titled "Points of Control," the CEO said, "The future is not about points of control (where companies control what users see). It's about user control. Users will have services that they feel will be basic, like a dial tone. It's always there. It's annoying if it's not there," VentureBeat reports.
In other words, it appears he wants Zynga to become as ubiquitous as, say, Facebook itself. And with a pool of 320 million users and up to three million logged in at any point, Pincus might be onto something. If he has his way, Zynga will serve a very specific purpose in the future.
"It's for when you don't have time to watch movies or TV or console video games," Pincus said yesterday. And how he hopes to accomplish this goal of instant-on, goal-driven gaming while increasing Zynga's 300 million plus users is by focusing on the hooks that draw players in, what Pincus calls "bold beats," according to VentureBeat. If Zynga improves upon these hooks, making them more meaningful to players, playing Zynga games could become second nature.
Also mentioned in his talk was that there are 400 employees focused on new intellectual property, which means brand new games are, in fact, on the way. Pincus also bragged about FrontierVille's 650 thousand same-sex marriages claiming, "That's amazing, that's probably more than any country in the whole world," according to TechCrunch. With sky high claims like these, Zynga officially has massive shoes to fill.
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus revealed an interesting, if vague, fact about the company's mission for the future at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco yesterday. Pincus wants Zynga at your beck and call on every device and platform you're on. While the topic of the conference was titled "Points of Control," the CEO said, "The future is not about points of control (where companies control what users see). It's about user control. Users will have services that they feel will be basic, like a dial tone. It's always there. It's annoying if it's not there," VentureBeat reports.
In other words, it appears he wants Zynga to become as ubiquitous as, say, Facebook itself. And with a pool of 320 million users and up to three million logged in at any point, Pincus might be onto something. If he has his way, Zynga will serve a very specific purpose in the future.
"It's for when you don't have time to watch movies or TV or console video games," Pincus said yesterday. And how he hopes to accomplish this goal of instant-on, goal-driven gaming while increasing Zynga's 300 million plus users is by focusing on the hooks that draw players in, what Pincus calls "bold beats," according to VentureBeat. If Zynga improves upon these hooks, making them more meaningful to players, playing Zynga games could become second nature.
Also mentioned in his talk was that there are 400 employees focused on new intellectual property, which means brand new games are, in fact, on the way. Pincus also bragged about FrontierVille's 650 thousand same-sex marriages claiming, "That's amazing, that's probably more than any country in the whole world," according to TechCrunch. With sky high claims like these, Zynga officially has massive shoes to fill.
Facebook games discovery returns in 2011 with TeePee Games
TeePee Games
We all know discovering new games to play has been nigh impossible since Facebook essentially ruined it for everyone, so former Player X CEO Tony Pearce hopes to provide the answer we've been looking for with TeePee Games. A brand new games discovery service, TeePee Games promises to provide gamers with smart recommendations for games based on what they play. According to TeePee Games co-founder and CEO Pearce, "TeePee Games has built an incredible discovery engine, a cross between Amazon's recommendation engine and Apple Genius."
In other words, this service will suggest new games for you to play based on what you're already into. Better yet, the portal pulls games from Facebook, the mobile space and your everyday Flash games. TeePee Games also integrates Facebook Connect, Twitter, YouTube and MySpace to serve as your social gaming hub. Pearce hopes his new service will solve the game-discovery problem created by the top 20 games that dominate every category.
It's been a growing trend in the industry that developers are either making a mad dash for other platforms or outright rejecting the social network as the end all, be all for social gaming. While TeePee seems to serve a slightly different purpose, it could provide gamers with an avenue of escape from Facebook. That is, if they want to.
TeePee games will launch in early 2011 with several games provided by Facebook, mobile and Flash game developers and publishers. Though, TeePee Games is about to face some serious competition if Facebook's fabled Games Portal launches before then.
We all know discovering new games to play has been nigh impossible since Facebook essentially ruined it for everyone, so former Player X CEO Tony Pearce hopes to provide the answer we've been looking for with TeePee Games. A brand new games discovery service, TeePee Games promises to provide gamers with smart recommendations for games based on what they play. According to TeePee Games co-founder and CEO Pearce, "TeePee Games has built an incredible discovery engine, a cross between Amazon's recommendation engine and Apple Genius."
In other words, this service will suggest new games for you to play based on what you're already into. Better yet, the portal pulls games from Facebook, the mobile space and your everyday Flash games. TeePee Games also integrates Facebook Connect, Twitter, YouTube and MySpace to serve as your social gaming hub. Pearce hopes his new service will solve the game-discovery problem created by the top 20 games that dominate every category.
It's been a growing trend in the industry that developers are either making a mad dash for other platforms or outright rejecting the social network as the end all, be all for social gaming. While TeePee seems to serve a slightly different purpose, it could provide gamers with an avenue of escape from Facebook. That is, if they want to.
TeePee games will launch in early 2011 with several games provided by Facebook, mobile and Flash game developers and publishers. Though, TeePee Games is about to face some serious competition if Facebook's fabled Games Portal launches before then.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Zynga releases FarmVille on Google Chrome Web Store
Google's Chrome Web Store launched today, and with it came the release of a FarmVille by Zynga Chrome web app. In an effort to keep you as up-to-date as possible concerning all things FarmVille, we took this app for a spin.
Technically, the app is incredibly easy to install on your Chrome web browser. Just sign into your Google Account, head over to the Chrome Web Store, and search for FarmVille. This shows you a page where you click on "Install" to, you guessed it, install the "app." From there, every time you open a new tab in Chrome, you'll see the FarmVille logo presented under the new "Apps" heading, like in the screenshot at the right of this post.
Clicking on this button - wait for it - takes you to FarmVille.com. No, that's not a joke. All this "application" does is add a much larger bookmark to your new tab (where you normally see links to your most visited websites). However, since it had been awhile since we've actually played the game on FarmVille.com, we did notice one nice thing, that being the launch of Widescreen Farming.
Where the true Facebook experience is limited to the small gameplay window shared by the vast majority of Facebook apps, this Widescreen Farming on FarmVille.com allows you to view a screen that is about 1/3 wider than normal. This means that those farmers that like to view their farms up-close-and-personal, rather than being zoomed out, will have an easier time scrolling around their land, as you can simply see more land at once.
Ultimately, is the App worth installing? We'd have to say no. Unless you have too many bookmarks in your Chrome Bookmarks Bar (the one underneath the address bar), and you want to free some space, you're better off just skipping this one.
Is Google Chrome your primary browser? If so, have you checked out the Web Store? Will you download the FarmVille app for its new bookmark?
Technically, the app is incredibly easy to install on your Chrome web browser. Just sign into your Google Account, head over to the Chrome Web Store, and search for FarmVille. This shows you a page where you click on "Install" to, you guessed it, install the "app." From there, every time you open a new tab in Chrome, you'll see the FarmVille logo presented under the new "Apps" heading, like in the screenshot at the right of this post.
Clicking on this button - wait for it - takes you to FarmVille.com. No, that's not a joke. All this "application" does is add a much larger bookmark to your new tab (where you normally see links to your most visited websites). However, since it had been awhile since we've actually played the game on FarmVille.com, we did notice one nice thing, that being the launch of Widescreen Farming.
Where the true Facebook experience is limited to the small gameplay window shared by the vast majority of Facebook apps, this Widescreen Farming on FarmVille.com allows you to view a screen that is about 1/3 wider than normal. This means that those farmers that like to view their farms up-close-and-personal, rather than being zoomed out, will have an easier time scrolling around their land, as you can simply see more land at once.
Ultimately, is the App worth installing? We'd have to say no. Unless you have too many bookmarks in your Chrome Bookmarks Bar (the one underneath the address bar), and you want to free some space, you're better off just skipping this one.
Is Google Chrome your primary browser? If so, have you checked out the Web Store? Will you download the FarmVille app for its new bookmark?
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