Social City Cheats & Tips: Six Easy Ways to Get Ahead

Earlier in March, Sorority Life and Mobsters creator Playdom launched a brand-new Facebook game, Social City , challenging players on the social network to build a small town into a thriving metropolis. Longtime gamers might recognize this style of game from popular PC game SimCity — look at Social City as SimCity Lite, with the addition of (no surprise) hooks and incentives to get your friends to play along with you. These six tips will help you on your way toward creating a booming concrete jungle 1

‘Progress Wars’ parody takes a well-placed jab at Facebook games

Even though millions of people spend time playing Facebook/social games daily, there’s always going to be a handful of contrarians. So far we’ve seen anti-FarmVille posters , special anti-social gaming Facebook groups and, now, Progress Wars, a parody game takes a well-placed jab at our favorite pastime

Hotel City on Facebook: Check in and you won’t want to check out

In the past year, Facebook has been overrun with pet simulation games, farming games and, more recently, city building games. For those tired of plowing, harvesting and cleaning virtual pets, Playfish’s brand new game Hotel City , lets you try your hand at something a little different — running a hotel.

NY decor debut in Restaurant City served with free chicken!

Why a chicken? One would think that Restaurant City would’ve gone with an apple to fit their new Big Apple theme , but no matter — a free chicken is a good thing, considering that meat ingredients are hard to come by, and when they are available, they don’t come cheap. Also, with the launch, we’ve discovered that the “Statue of Cookery” isn’t all just looks! While it costs 150,000 Coins, it actually brings a ‘restaurant effect’ of +1 second to your customers’ patience

Poker Blitz: Big on the "Blitz," not so much on the "Poker"

The first thing that strikes you about Zynga’s new Poker Blitz is the bright ,clean interface.

Breaking News! Playfish’s Hotel City launches on Facebook

Playfish’s new hotel sim game, which we caught wind of last week, has officially launched on Facebook.

MyReef 3D Lets You Roll With Your Aquarium

You don’t have to be continuously connected to Facebook in order to check out your customized fish tank. MyReef 3D Aquarium for iPhone/iPod Touch lets players of FishVille, Happy Aquarium and other newly-fish obsessed players get a calming dose of swimming fish from their car, office or while waiting in that two hour line at the DMV. While it lacks the experience point rushes of its fishy Facebook game peers, the game has just added five new colorful breeds (now 19 total), a portrait mode and an option to play your own music from your iPod playlist.

Happy Aquarium introduces the "Super Sea Shell Hunt"

We can recognize our neighbor Harold from the demo tank even when he’s all done up in a pirate costume, but it seems that Harold has taken on a new job as a finder-fixer, and needs your help. A Sea-Princess has broken her shell necklace, and now, players who find all the shells can earn a special item. So how do you get these shells?

GameZebo exclusive interview with FarmVille

Gamezebo ’s Erin Bell had an exclusive interview with FarmVille vice president and general manager, Bill Mooney. They discuss the ever growing FarmVille community of farmers and what it is exactly that makes the game so successful

Arkadium’s Mahjong Dimensions hits one million Facebook players

Back in January, when well-known casual game maker Arkadium launched its first Facebook game, Mahjongg Dimensions, we asked whether the game was “the next Bejeweled Blitz .” Now, just two months later, the game seems well on its way to that level of success, reaching a million monthly active users. Sure, that numbers is well short of Bejeweled Blitz’s over 10 million monthly active users , or even the five million players that have made Social City into an overnight success . But those one million monthly users represent 4.6 million distinct games a day, according to a recent GamesBeat piece , thanks to a quick viral spread that even surprised Arkadium CEO Kenny Rosenblatt.

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