Gamestop invests further in social games with Kongregate purchase

It looks like game retailer Gamestop’s interest in social gaming no longer begins and ends with its promotion of subsidiary Jolt Online . That’s because the retail giant has announced plans to purchase web-based casual gaming hub Kongregate . While most of Kongregate’s thousands of free-to-play Flash games are single-player experiences, the site has many elements familiar to more traditional social games, like chat rooms, achievements, friends lists and a site-wide leveling system

Gamestop promoting Facebook game with free game giveaway

Filed under: Mafia Wars With downloadable and web-based games taking up an ever-bigger chunk of the video game market, many brick-and-mortar game retailers are struggling to adapt their business models to a coming new world order that might not need their services. Case in point, game mega-retailer Gamestop, which first dipped its toes in the social gaming waters with its late 2009 acquisition of web-game maker Jolt Online .

Are social gamers messing up Facebook’s user stats?

Much has been made in the press in the last few days about Facebook’s imminent crossing of the 500 million user threshhold . This seriously huge number suggests that nearly one in every 14 people in the world has a Facebook account — a staggering yet not altogether unbelievable idea

FarmVille and Cascadian Farm Upcoming Promotion: Grow Organic Blueberries!

Filed under: Farmville Cascadian Farm FarmVille will be partnering with Cascadian Farm and, for the first time ever, will be introducing a sponsored branded in-game crop that will also be available to all farmers. Cascadian Farm, originating in 1972, is one of the country’s leading brands of organic foods, offering more than 80 products from ready-to-eat cereals and granola bars to frozen fruits and vegetables, juice concentrates and fruit spreads.

Kid-focused Moshi Monsters celebrates 10 million players

Outside the Facebook gaming world, free-to-play games are thriving in different ways. For instance, UK-based Moshi Monsters , a web-based game for children, surpassed the 10 million registered players mark

Sony launches The Agency: Covert Ops on Facebook

Sony Online Entertainment, well known for popular MMO titles EverQuest, EverQuest II, and Star Wars Galaxies, has just released their second Facebook game. The Agency: Covert Ops is a Mafia-Wars style game where you lead the life of a secret agent, unlocking locations, playing mini-games, engaging in battles, and customizing your avatar. This game ties in with SOE’s upcoming and anticipated Playstation 3 and PC game, The Agency

World’s Most Addicting Games Are On Games.com Blog

While we have been covering the the most addictive Facebook games like FarmVille, Mafia Wars and Happy Aquarium, it occurred to us that there are hundreds of addicting games out there that are not on Facebook at all.

Farmville April Fools News Wrap

Zynga isn’t the only one changing up Farmville for the purposes of April fooling. Here’s a round-up of some of the better jokes various news sites have made up for the ubiquitous farming simulator today.

Champions Online Is a Better Mafia Wars

Time management games on Facebook follow a pretty basic template.

The Future of Farmville: What will social games look like in 2015?

Right now, Facebook gaming, aka ’social’ gaming, has attracted millions (and continues to grow), but skeptics still say this form of snack-sized gaming is nothing more than a fad. Social game publisher, LOLapps, responsible for creating a handful of games including Yakuza Lords, Diva Life and video game tie-in app Dante’s Inferno, says that not only is this relatively new form of entertainment not a fad, but — in five years — it’ll be a serious competitor to Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

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