Happy Pets Twin Idol and Coin Idol in store
Like the old Doublemint gum commercials, two new Limited Edition idols at the Happy Pets store have players seeing double -- the Twin Idol and Coin Idol (image above). Technically, there are four new idols in the store since both idols come with 3-day and 7-day versions. And yes, this means that not only are the idols for a limited time only, but so are the perks that these idols bring with them.
Coin Idol doubles the amount of coins you earn from cleaning and petting, while Twin Idol promises that you'll "get twins from every successful breeding." (NOTE: This doesn't mean that you'll get twins each time your pets breed. For that, you'd need the Love Potion or the Love Idol which you can get by clicking on the "Breed" button after clicking your pet.)
The 3-day Coin Idol costs 28 Facebook Credits (or $2.80 USD), while the 7-day costs 52 FB Credits ($5.20 USD). Finally, the 3-day Twin Idol goes for 40 FB Credits ($4 USD), and the 7-day version costs 76 FB Credits ($7.60 USD).
Monday, February 13, 2012
FishVille's Gulf Coast Turtle helps Audubon raise awareness and funds in oil spill
FishVille Audubon Society Gulf Coast Turtle
Images of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continue to inspire a great deal of anger and heartbreak, but many people also offer hope by helping clean up the mess left by the spill. Zynga's FishVille and the Audubon Society have paired up this week to raise funds and awareness with their new Gulf Coast Turtle.
The Turtle came out last week and can be found under the "Creatures" tab at the in-game store. This Turtle is only available for the next 4 days. Zynga is promising to relinquish 50% of the Turtle's sales to the Audubon Society and players have the option to pay either 25 or 200 Sand Dollars for it. Sand Dollars can be bought from the "+ Add Sand Dollars" tab on the top of the game window. A set of 25 Sand Dollars cost $5 USD, and while there's no set of 200, you can buy a set of 240 Sand Dollars for $40 USD.
Adopt the FishVille Baby Gulf Coast Turtle
A new Baby Gulf Coast Turtle has also shown up in the game, which can be adopted via Facebook Wall posts, to help spread the word.
Images of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continue to inspire a great deal of anger and heartbreak, but many people also offer hope by helping clean up the mess left by the spill. Zynga's FishVille and the Audubon Society have paired up this week to raise funds and awareness with their new Gulf Coast Turtle.
The Turtle came out last week and can be found under the "Creatures" tab at the in-game store. This Turtle is only available for the next 4 days. Zynga is promising to relinquish 50% of the Turtle's sales to the Audubon Society and players have the option to pay either 25 or 200 Sand Dollars for it. Sand Dollars can be bought from the "+ Add Sand Dollars" tab on the top of the game window. A set of 25 Sand Dollars cost $5 USD, and while there's no set of 200, you can buy a set of 240 Sand Dollars for $40 USD.
Adopt the FishVille Baby Gulf Coast Turtle
A new Baby Gulf Coast Turtle has also shown up in the game, which can be adopted via Facebook Wall posts, to help spread the word.
Hotel City: Unlock new Exclusive NYC themed rooms and backgrounds
Hotel City New York Background at the Bellboy Hotel
Hotel City has spent a good several weeks teasing us with their new backgrounds. Players first saw the Night time background in action with the game's first-ever flags release. Today, you can see the Playfish's Bellboy Hotel has hit the big time with their new, New York background (pictured above). Along with these new backgrounds are exclusive, themed rooms already furnished with the latest furniture and decor.
Hotel City Night View Collection
Hotel City New York Collection
But unless you're willing to shell out Playfish Cash, decorating your hotel with the new themes isn't going to be easy. Hotel City has paired up the two backgrounds into the Night and New York packages. The Night package costs 50 Playfish Cash, while the NY one costs 66 PFC. (NOTE: If you're willing to be patient and collect "luxuries" to earn these packages, the PFC price will go down as your luxuries collection increases.)
Hotel City New York Luxuries
To get the New York package, you need 33 "Luxury Items" -- fifteen Broadway tickets, ten "1st class airline tickets" and eight cups of "Hot green tea". You can only get the Broadway tickets by collecting them from the wall posts of your friends, or by visiting the hotels of neighbors sporting the icon of a little brown shopping bag tied with a yellow ribbon. When you get a Luxury Item, you can post on your wall to share it. These can also be gotten by generous friends who gift you.
Hotel City Luxury Item Wall Post
The Night collection works pretty much the same way, but it requires only 25 Luxury Items -- fifteen Gold Watches and twenty "1st class airline tickets."
Hotel City Night Luxuries
While it's a lot of work, these new backgrounds look good enough to be worth it. I should mention that the niftiest thing about these is that they're not entirely static images. While you scroll across a hotel's street, you get a noticeable shift in perspective. Anyway, we expect more backgrounds to roll out soon. So what is Hotel City's next planned stop? SAN FRANCISCO!
Hotel City San Francisco Teaser
Hotel City has spent a good several weeks teasing us with their new backgrounds. Players first saw the Night time background in action with the game's first-ever flags release. Today, you can see the Playfish's Bellboy Hotel has hit the big time with their new, New York background (pictured above). Along with these new backgrounds are exclusive, themed rooms already furnished with the latest furniture and decor.
Hotel City Night View Collection
Hotel City New York Collection
But unless you're willing to shell out Playfish Cash, decorating your hotel with the new themes isn't going to be easy. Hotel City has paired up the two backgrounds into the Night and New York packages. The Night package costs 50 Playfish Cash, while the NY one costs 66 PFC. (NOTE: If you're willing to be patient and collect "luxuries" to earn these packages, the PFC price will go down as your luxuries collection increases.)
Hotel City New York Luxuries
To get the New York package, you need 33 "Luxury Items" -- fifteen Broadway tickets, ten "1st class airline tickets" and eight cups of "Hot green tea". You can only get the Broadway tickets by collecting them from the wall posts of your friends, or by visiting the hotels of neighbors sporting the icon of a little brown shopping bag tied with a yellow ribbon. When you get a Luxury Item, you can post on your wall to share it. These can also be gotten by generous friends who gift you.
Hotel City Luxury Item Wall Post
The Night collection works pretty much the same way, but it requires only 25 Luxury Items -- fifteen Gold Watches and twenty "1st class airline tickets."
Hotel City Night Luxuries
While it's a lot of work, these new backgrounds look good enough to be worth it. I should mention that the niftiest thing about these is that they're not entirely static images. While you scroll across a hotel's street, you get a noticeable shift in perspective. Anyway, we expect more backgrounds to roll out soon. So what is Hotel City's next planned stop? SAN FRANCISCO!
Hotel City San Francisco Teaser
Playfish MIA from Electronic Arts' big E3 press conference
At the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, also called E3, publishers get together to show their wares to the press and other members of the game community. Basically, if you pay attention to this event, you'll have a pretty good idea what big games will be coming out the rest of the year.
So imagine our surprise when we went to the big Electronic Arts press conference, and there was a bunch of hullabaloo over high-action gun toting games such as Bulletstorm, Crysis 2, Medal of Honor, Battlefield Bad Company Vietnam, and even a quick nod to EA Sports best-selling Madden football game series, but ne're a mention of FIFA Superstars on Facebook, or any other game that EA's recently acquired social gaming company Playfish might be working on behind the scenes. There's been rumors flying that there will be a Madden or Need for Speed game on Facebook, but nothing was confirmed or denied at today's big press event. What gives, EA?
So imagine our surprise when we went to the big Electronic Arts press conference, and there was a bunch of hullabaloo over high-action gun toting games such as Bulletstorm, Crysis 2, Medal of Honor, Battlefield Bad Company Vietnam, and even a quick nod to EA Sports best-selling Madden football game series, but ne're a mention of FIFA Superstars on Facebook, or any other game that EA's recently acquired social gaming company Playfish might be working on behind the scenes. There's been rumors flying that there will be a Madden or Need for Speed game on Facebook, but nothing was confirmed or denied at today's big press event. What gives, EA?
Getting Ahead with the Mob Wars Calculator
Looking to get ahead in Mob Wars? There are several tips and tools available to help you advance more quickly. One of the newest entries is the Mob Wars Calculator coming to you from Sal the Foot's Mob Wars Guide. The concept originally started with a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet from Jester Nim and was later taken over by Craig Goley with even later maintenance help from Melissa Keays. Now that Craig abandoned his spreadsheet, Steve Lugon, aka Sal the Foot, offers a reworked spreadsheet recoded by Mark Williams.
What does the Mob Wars Calculator offer? A quick and easy way to determine what items for your armory you need to buy and sell and what properties are best to optimize income. As your mob grows in size, you want to keep them well armored but want to keep upkeep costs down so your income and thus your bounty increases. By utilizing the calculator, you'll get easy help on what to buy next and when to sell items. As cash flow permits you to buy new and better items and you get more freebies for helping other mobsters, finishing heists and completing boss battles, the spreadsheet will remind you to sell off the old unneeded items that require upkeep. And, on the property side, you'll see what are the next best properties to buy for the highest return on investment, thus optimizing income.
For those familiar with one of the earlier spreadsheet versions, you no longer have to manually enter in your stockpile. Instead, by just copying and pasting the stockpile into the four magic spreadsheet cells, the spreadsheet automatically detects what you have. It is that quick and easy now to upgrade spreadsheet versions as new toys become available in the game.
What does the Mob Wars Calculator offer? A quick and easy way to determine what items for your armory you need to buy and sell and what properties are best to optimize income. As your mob grows in size, you want to keep them well armored but want to keep upkeep costs down so your income and thus your bounty increases. By utilizing the calculator, you'll get easy help on what to buy next and when to sell items. As cash flow permits you to buy new and better items and you get more freebies for helping other mobsters, finishing heists and completing boss battles, the spreadsheet will remind you to sell off the old unneeded items that require upkeep. And, on the property side, you'll see what are the next best properties to buy for the highest return on investment, thus optimizing income.
For those familiar with one of the earlier spreadsheet versions, you no longer have to manually enter in your stockpile. Instead, by just copying and pasting the stockpile into the four magic spreadsheet cells, the spreadsheet automatically detects what you have. It is that quick and easy now to upgrade spreadsheet versions as new toys become available in the game.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Frontierville's limited edition garden items: Spiral Flower and Tree House
As part of the larger garden-themed release today, FrontierVille also rolled out two premium limited edition items. Both items will be available four roughly a week and the Spiral Flowers costs 14 Horseshoes and yields 84XP. The Tree House costs 20 Horseshoes and yields 120 XP.
If you have an image of these, send them to libe@games.com, and I'll feature them here.
What do you think of the Spiral Flower and Tree House? Are they worth the Horseshoes?
If you have an image of these, send them to libe@games.com, and I'll feature them here.
What do you think of the Spiral Flower and Tree House? Are they worth the Horseshoes?
FarmVille and Cascadian Farm promotion: Grow organic blueberries
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. People have enjoyed our great-tasting and convenient organic foods for more than 35 years. The Cascadian Home Farm is nestled in the foothills of the breathtaking North Cascades mountain range in western Washington's Upper Skagit Valley.
The upcoming FarmVille and Cascadian Farms cross promotional event will take place the week of July 19 through July 26.
*Dates are subject to change without notice.
Cascadian Farm, "a pioneer in the organic food industry" teams up with FarmVille as a week-long integration, that "will offer players the chance to purchase Organic Blueberries for their farms. In addition, players will receive a variety of other benefits, including coupon offers, organic and green living tips, and the opportunity to build their farm at a rapid speed."
Key Features of the FarmVille & Cascadian Promotion:
Organic Blueberries will be the highest Coin and Experience Point (XP) Crop of the Week- During this week-long integration, the Cascadian Farm branded crop will be the most profitable FarmVille crop offered in the game. It will also be available to purchase for all beginner (Level 1) and experienced players. Rumor has it that the Organic Blueberries crop will have Crop Mastery, as there are images of Organic Blueberries Crop Mastery signs.
Real-Life Farm Goes Virtual - The brand will recreate the real Cascadian Farm, located in the Upper Skagit Valley of Washington's North Cascade Mountains, as a virtual farm in FarmVille. Users can request to be the farm's neighbor by "friend-ing" Farmer Joe Cascadian online at Facebook here and by using the FarmVille application to become his neighbor in-game.
Marketing Manager of Cascadian Farm, Tim Goldsmid, explains "Given our heritage of engaging consumers to increase awareness and support for organic farming and the organic lifestyle, partnering with FarmVille was a natural fit for Cascadian Farm. We're excited to have the opportunity to partner with a leader in the online gaming world and offer unique ways for new and existing consumers to become involved with the brand."
Vish Makhijani, Zynga's Senior Vice President of Business Operations said, "When deciding on our first branded crop integration, we wanted to offer our users a unique opportunity that would benefit their gaming experience and add value to their lives both on and offline. Cascadian Farm perfectly aligned with our vision and what the FarmVille game represents."
As we learn more details about this upcoming promotion we will be sure to share with you here!
Are you excited about this FarmVille-Cascadian Farm collaboration? Will you participate?
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. People have enjoyed our great-tasting and convenient organic foods for more than 35 years. The Cascadian Home Farm is nestled in the foothills of the breathtaking North Cascades mountain range in western Washington's Upper Skagit Valley.
The upcoming FarmVille and Cascadian Farms cross promotional event will take place the week of July 19 through July 26.
*Dates are subject to change without notice.
Cascadian Farm, "a pioneer in the organic food industry" teams up with FarmVille as a week-long integration, that "will offer players the chance to purchase Organic Blueberries for their farms. In addition, players will receive a variety of other benefits, including coupon offers, organic and green living tips, and the opportunity to build their farm at a rapid speed."
Key Features of the FarmVille & Cascadian Promotion:
Organic Blueberries will be the highest Coin and Experience Point (XP) Crop of the Week- During this week-long integration, the Cascadian Farm branded crop will be the most profitable FarmVille crop offered in the game. It will also be available to purchase for all beginner (Level 1) and experienced players. Rumor has it that the Organic Blueberries crop will have Crop Mastery, as there are images of Organic Blueberries Crop Mastery signs.
Real-Life Farm Goes Virtual - The brand will recreate the real Cascadian Farm, located in the Upper Skagit Valley of Washington's North Cascade Mountains, as a virtual farm in FarmVille. Users can request to be the farm's neighbor by "friend-ing" Farmer Joe Cascadian online at Facebook here and by using the FarmVille application to become his neighbor in-game.
Marketing Manager of Cascadian Farm, Tim Goldsmid, explains "Given our heritage of engaging consumers to increase awareness and support for organic farming and the organic lifestyle, partnering with FarmVille was a natural fit for Cascadian Farm. We're excited to have the opportunity to partner with a leader in the online gaming world and offer unique ways for new and existing consumers to become involved with the brand."
Vish Makhijani, Zynga's Senior Vice President of Business Operations said, "When deciding on our first branded crop integration, we wanted to offer our users a unique opportunity that would benefit their gaming experience and add value to their lives both on and offline. Cascadian Farm perfectly aligned with our vision and what the FarmVille game represents."
As we learn more details about this upcoming promotion we will be sure to share with you here!
Are you excited about this FarmVille-Cascadian Farm collaboration? Will you participate?
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