Come for the games, stay for the drama.
Okay, seriously? I get this ad on my adbar when I load up Facebook. Looks like some me-too Bejeweled clone, so already it gets a negative one zillion on the Tipa Cool Game Scale. BUT! WAIT! You can also ad(d) to your pain enjoyment by installing the “mywebsearch toolbar”! OMG! I was HOPING someone would … Read more
If you’re going to waste time playing social games, you might as well play a game that elevates wasting time to a paying activity. In Astroape Studios’ Office Heroes, out now for the Apple iPhone and soon for Facebook, you’ll spend your day tweeting, drinking coffee, updating Facebook, surfing the web and trying to look … Read more
In these social town/farm/empire/chocolate shop building games on Facebook, it’s hard to see your entire place all at once. Even zoomed out in Frontierville, you can only see a fraction of your homestead — and that, blurredly. Enter Autostitch. I took 46 individual pictures of my homestead, cut out the UI cruft, loaded them into … Read more
While yesterday’s look at Playfish’ “My Empire” showed a game that at least reminds us of an actual game — a city simulator in the vein of the popular Caesar series — the core gamer saves their real scorn for the ubiquitous clicking games that made Zynga into the gaming powerhouse it is today. Make … Read more
“Facebook Games” as a genre have gotten a bad rep from core gamers, and it’s not hard to see why. Take any Flash game, figure out how to add a cash shop to it and add in plenty of spam for those unfortunate enough to be your friends, et voila, you have now contributed to … Read more