BREAKING NEWS – MySpace Founder Acquires Mindjolt.com

More big news coming out of the social games market – Mindjolt has been acquired by MySpace founder Chris DeWolfe’s company, Platform G. MindJolt.com is not just a games website.

Love social games? Want to write about them? Games.com is hiring

We’re on the hunt for a few dedicated bloggers to join the Games.com team. If you’ve got what it takes, we’ll pay you, give you a real excuse to play Facebook games all day, and, of course, extract oodles of great writing about social games from you

De-motivational posters designed to curb FarmVille addiction

Like anything that goes from zero to awesome overnight, FarmVille is starting to experience a bit of a backlash. We’ve seen people do everything from starting Not Playing FarmVille fan sites on Facebook to threatening to cut off friends who are constantly spamming them with updates that say stuff like “Libe just leveled up in Pet Society” or “Libe found a clumsy reindeer on their farm. Oh no!” (I am obviously guilty as charged).

How-To: Enable cookies on your browser

Some social games require or recommend cookies be enabled on your browser of choice before you can play the game. Mafia Wars recently received an update that requires cookies in order to be functional, for example. However, many don’t really understand what cookies are or even how to enable them.

Pete Cashmore lists 10 Web trends, social gaming one of them

Pete Cashmore is probably best known for his work on Mashable , where he is the founder and CEO. He knows quite a bit about the social media scene, and in a column for CNN , predicted the top ten trends on the internet to watch out for in 2010. They range from real-time applications (Twitter being an example) to cloud computing, but one of the more interesting is that social gaming will continue to be a trending topic come the new year.

Yahoo integrates Facebook Connect

Yahoo has been trying for a while to create a social platform as massive as Facebook , but it seems they have just given up. In a press release , Yahoo announced that they would be integrating the Facebook Connect API into the back-end of their system

Mafia Wars Toolbar Gives Players Limited Edition Utility Belt

Wish that you could monitor your Mafia Wars mafia all day without ditching work or school? Well the makers of the game have just introduced a new toolbar for Internet Explorer and Firefox that lets players check out their Health Energy, Stamina and the time remaining until they can use an Energy Pack. It’s pretty simple but installers of the beta version of the toolbar will receive an in-game advantage, a Limited Edition Utility Belt that comes with 30 Attack/30 Defense.