An excellent interview with Playdom CEO John Pleasants. Playdom offers of Social City and Tiki Farm, amongst others, and is rumored to be in acquisition talks with Disney. Pleasants says: Social gaming is going to die. That is, the term will become meaningless, as all games will become social. They will be on Facebook and [...] read more

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Zynga, makers of the most popular social games, including new heavyweight FrontierVille, is on top of the world these days. However, usually when the New York Times, master of just-behind-the-curve reporting, anoints you the Google of Games it means your time has come and gone. We don’t think that the case here, but it would [...] read more

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There is a new game, Cow Clicker. Its a parody of other social games like FarmVille. According to creator Ian Bogost, “you get a cow, you click on it, six hours later you can click on it again.” There is a bit more, but not much, and it seems largely designed to demonstrate his perception [...] read more

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If you like shopping, but would like to get rid of the tedious aspects you can play Sugar’s new Retail Therapy social game. Design and manage a boutique, purchase inventory, grind through 40 levels. Fun! OK, actually sounds like it could be a hit. One thing we liked was that the virtual inventory are replicas [...] read more

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