Featured Facebook Game of the Week – Where in the World is…

Carmen Sandiego? (I can hear Rockapella singing it now!) This is a game that I used to play on the computer when I worked in after school care with school age kids and watched on TV even before that. So when I saw it as a Facebook game, I felt that childlike excitement and couldn’t wait to get my mouse on it. The sentiment is the same, players take an active role as detectives hunting Carmen’s henchmen (and henchwomen) all over the world, testing and expanding geographical and cultural knowledge while putting deductive reasoning and perfect timing to the test putting clues together to get a warrant before actually finding the bad guy. Starting at the ACME headquarters in San Fransisco, players talk to witnesses in order to get information on either the identity of the henchperson or where they are headed next, get a warrant for the right one,

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Featured Facebook Game of the Week

I got word of a new sort of match 3 game that is sort of a mix of Pogo.com’s Poppit and PopCap’s Blitz series with added “strategy elements” to reel in and challenge players. It’s called Poseidon’s Realm. I have just started playing it and I am intrigued. The basic mechanism of the game is to pop bubbles and form lines of three or more (odd shapes or groups don’t count unless it’s a square) scoring as many points as possible in one minute. There are gems exchangeable for power ups, experience points, and novel abilities that add levels of complexity to the game. For instance, as bubbles pop, the ones below them float up to fill in the gaps. Well, the grid is on a sort of wheel, so players have the ability to turn the game 1/4 turn in either direction in order to change the flow of

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Review: Wheel of Fortune (Facebook)

Genre: Word/Puzzle social Developer: GSN When I saw that a friend of mine started playing Wheel of Fortune on Facebook, I nearly jumped off of my couch with excitement, because I have always loved watching that game on TV and fancied myself a pretty good couch Wheel of Fortune player. So, the thought of being able to compete in the game with my friends got me clicking pretty quickly. When I got to the game itself, I noticed it was in beta, which took down my expectations a little, but I was still super excited to play. The sound effects were pretty authentic, especially the little chime to start each puzzle, and even down to the wheel spinning, which, when coupled with the true to game graphics, really can get a fan in the mood to solve some puzzles. Each game gets a “normal” puzzle round and a bonus round.

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How Cute Can You Breed ‘Em?

IncrediLand is a unique Facebook game which allows you and your friends get into the business of breeding sweet, playful creatures called Incredimals, such as the “goofy Gambi”, the “zany Zorg”, and the “bold Boon”. Collect them all, raise them from an egg as they mature through adulthood, feeding them, caring for them, teaching them, and training them. You’ll want to reach into the computer and play with the Incredimals yourself! Then comes the really interesting (and fun) part. You and your friends can put your Incredimals in the breeding rooms together and create all new Incredimals! Part science, part business, you can also buy and trade eggs with your friends to help round out your collections and make more unique Incredimals. And to help you out, the makers of Incrediland have given us a special link for our readers to start you off with 200 incredicoins instead of the

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DinerTown’s New Address is on Facebook

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Invite Your Facebook Friends to Cooking Mama Friends Cafe

Majesco has paired up with social game developer Arkadium to test the social gaming waters with its first free-to-play social game, Cooking Mama Friends’ Cafe, for Facebook. In this latest incarnation of the popular franchise, Cooking Mama Friends’ Cafe is an all new experience that allows players to buy their ingredients, chop, mix, stir, fry, bake and pour to create more than 40 recipes including holiday ham, fried rice, and chicken parmigiana with infinite menu combinations, while managing customer service in an economy driven restaurant to earn coins and XP points for creating tasty food and serving up dishes. Players can also purchase special ingredients and decorations to customize kitchens with virtual and real dollars. The last hook is that players must return regularly and cook to maintain the business or their restaurants could be forced to shut down for good. “With domestic franchise sales of more than 8 million

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Zynga Takes Us to the City

Zynga, makers of some of the most popular social games on the market, FarmVille, FrontierVille and Mafia Wars, has now launched CityVille, their newest in line up of -Villes in which players con build their own dream cities from the ground up. CityVille contains features that ramp up the social aspect of the game, enabling players to interact with their friends’ cities and help each other build franchises. You can play CityVille (Beta) now on Facebook in English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish! .

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Making Chocolate’s Not Just a Game Anymore

PlayFirst and award-winning artisan chocolatier Charles Chocolates have teamed up to bring to life an in-game exclusive recipe collection from Chocolatier®: Sweet Society. This partnership includes 5 of Charles Chocolate sweet delight recipes such as Jasmine Tea Truffle, Raspberry Heart Truffle, Milk Chocolate Peanut Butterfly, Toasted Almond Cluster and Classic Fleur de Sel Caramel. for players to unlock and make in the game – and then have them sent right to their door or as a gift to the recipient of their choice! “This marks the first time a digital good ‘made’ on Facebook can be transformed into a real-world item and signals an important milestone in merging the virtual and real worlds,” said Eric Hartness, Vice President and General Manager of social games at PlayFirst. “We think players will really enjoy converting their in-game sweets into scrumptious treats from Charles Chocolates.” “Charles Chocolates and Chocolatier: Sweet Society are both

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Facebook Calls BINGO!

Arkadium and PCHGames.com have launched a new online Bingo game that puts players more in the driver’s seat and changes the pace of this “church basement classic.” Bingo Charms features all the fun of Bingo with the help of Charms, that can bring additional points, currency, and luck to your game. This adds a little bit of strategy to an otherwise destiny-dependent game, making it more intriguing and appealing. To top it off, each day eligible players can win instantly up to $500 or in-game currency thanks to Publishers Clearing House. “We are moving aggressively in response to our customer feedback to provide more winning opportunities online and through social media,” said Josh Glantz, vice president and general manager of PCH Online. “Bingo Charms is a fun way for us to engage Facebook fans and introduce them to our sweepstakes and PCHGames.com.” Bingo Charms works much like any other Facebook

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Are You a Pinball Wizard?

Sony Ericsson has brought Pinball back into the spotlight with their new Emusicon Pinball app on their Facebook page, allowing Facebookers to reminisce in the greatness of Pinball days and challenge their friends to a good old fashioned Pinball showdown on with a new look on a new platform. Emusicon Pinball is fun and easy to get started with. Choose a persona that best matches your personality, and launch away… make your friends spin for bonus points! It takes me back to my early days on Atari pinball, one of my all time favorites, and earliest addictions. I am excited to be playing it again. It brings the best parts of a Facebook game to light – competition, nostalgia, fun, and a quick escape from reality. I look forward to playing it more, and if you’d like to check it out, visit the Emusicon Pinball app anytime! Go on, spread

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