FarmVille How To: The Tips and Tricks of The Farming Masters [Strategy]

With around 82 million players worldwide, odds are at some point you’re going to be playing the hit Facebook game, FarmVille. Kotaku went directly to Zynga’s FarmVille team for tips and tricks on harvesting your way to the top. More

Sam Fisher Tweets His Quest For Vengeance [Twitter]

With the NSA’s Third Echelon taking the hunt for Sam Fisher to Facebook, the protagonist of Splinter Cell: Conviction turns to the only people he can trust – millions of Twitter users. More

Sam Fisher Tweets His Quest For Vengeance [Twitter]

With the NSA’s Third Echelon taking the hunt for Sam Fisher to Facebook, the protagonist of Splinter Cell: Conviction turns to the only people he can trust – millions of Twitter users. More

I work with Gravity Bear and I can tell you… [From Comments]

I work with Gravity Bear and I can tell you that, for us, Achievements are important and we wouldn’t give them away like candy. I understand you’re asking a larger question and it’s not specifically about Battle Punks or Gravity Bear. But I just wanted to comment to make sure it’s clear that it doesn’t apply to our game in particular. Our team has been making games for a long time (Diablo 2 and many others). What was shown in this demo was strictly that… a demo. We ported a tiny subset of our full game to the Windows Phone 7 in order to show that the device could run a 3D game, connected to XBox Live and Facebook. When thinking about the demo, you have to figure that Microsoft has maybe a minute or two to show each game in a press interview, and we all wanted to show off the fact that you could earn some Achievements. So, we made the demo such that a couple Achievements could get unlocked easily and quickly, in order to illustrate the point in a brief press interview. The fact that games on Windows Phone 7 are fully connected to Xbox Live and can unlock Achievements is pretty awesome, I think, and it’s also a pretty huge advantage for Microsoft vs other mobile phones. Unlocking Achievements as easily as we showed in the demo, however, is not indicative of what a full release will be like, at least for us. Hope this reply is helpful! Anyway, if you want to check out Battle Punks and get a sense for what kind of game it is, feel free to check it out on Facebook now: [apps.facebook.com] Fair warning: it’s a very casual, social game and the gameplay is 100% asynchronous, so it’s not going to be your cup of tea if you’re only looking for hardcore play. But hopefully you can appreciate the fact that while most Facebook games are extremely simple and fairly junky, we’re trying to kick up the quality a bit. What you see in live beta today is just the beginning for what we plan to do with Battle Punks in the future, and we’re developing the game live with player feedback, which is pretty fun compared to the old way of making games! More

Contrarian Corner: Battlefield Bad Company 2

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (X360) The anxious social habits of the North American male, or Facebook for men who don’t want to sleep with each other.

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The Hunt For Sam Fisher Begins On Facebook [Ubisoft]

Third Echelon’s best agent has gone rogue, and they’ve turned to Facebook for help tracking down Sam Fisher. Where would you go if you were a top secret government agency trying to track down a traitor? MySpace? Please. More

Call of Duty For The Rest Of Them [Gdc]

There are people who can’t play Call of Duty. Maybe, according to a flight of fancy proposed last week at the Game Developers Conference, those people could at least help us CoD players out. More

Progress Wars Cures Your Craving For Progress Bars [Hot Flashes]

Are you addicted to leveling up in Facebook games like Mafia Wars and Farmville? Jakob Skjerning cures that craving with Progress Wars – “The ultimate game of being better than all your friends at filling progress bars.” More

Progress Wars Cures Your Craving For Progress Bars [Hot Flashes]

Are you addicted to leveling up in Facebook games like Mafia Wars and Farmville? Jakob Skjerning cures that craving with Progress Wars – “The ultimate game of being better than all your friends at filling progress bars.” More

Dead Space 2 Asks Fans to Plan the Perfect Kill [Dead Space]

The makers of Dead Space 2 have put out a call for gruesome dismemberment ideas to be included in the game. The top submission not only will be rendered in the full release, its creator will be, too. You don’t have to be a whiz with cinematography or visual design; Electronic Arts says word-based descriptions of Isaac rough-housing with and finishing off a necromorphs (choose from Slasher, Lurker or Leaper) will do just fine. The contest began today and will run until March 26. Basically, for those who’ve ever said, “Man it’d be so cool if they did this ,” now’s your chance to make that heard. The contest is open to anyone older than 18 in the U.S., Canada (except for Quebec), Australia, the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden. For more info, see this Facebook link or this video.

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