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Facebook-Xbox 360 Overlap Games Launch
You play a game on Facebook. I’ll play one on Xbox 360. Our winnings will contribute to the same side of a virtual reenactment of World War I. Behold, the first Facebook-360 gaming link, launching this week.
About 11,000 Facebook users are playing Match Defense: Toy Soldiers, a Microsoft Games Studios game quietly launched a couple of weeks ago. The game will link to Toy Soldiers (pictured up top), an Xbox Live Arcade game that launched Wednesday.
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Platinum Life Beta Begins on Facebook
Heatwave Interactive, a Texas online game startup, is launching its Platinum Life Web Edition game as a beta test on Facebook. The game is a kind of music career role-playing game, where the player starts out as an aspiring hip-hop star.
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Madden Facebook Game on the Way
Madden NFL has traditionally been a cash cow for EA but the next game that comes out might not cost you a penny. EA Sports boss Peter Moore says they want to bring Madden to Facebook.
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Facebook Protest over Forbidden Words in Scrabble Dictionary
Until now an uneasy peace has prevailed between casual Scrabble players and their more serious competitive counterparts but the popularity of internet versions of the board game has caused the two cultures to clash.
Players who use websites such as Facebook have been incensed to discover that official word lists, which are compiled by competitive players, allow proper nouns, archaic terms, foreign words and slang that would have been forbidden when the game was first published in 1949 and may contravene present rules.
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Preview: City of Eternals on Facebook
The majority of games currently available on Facebook are simple. In fact, some of them lack any depth of any kind and aren’t fun to play for more than few minutes — if that. Now a group of developers who worked on games like EverQuest, Planetside, and Free Realms is planning to deliver what may seem impossible – a true MMORPG on Facebook that will appear to both the hardcore and casual audience, and that game is called City of Eternals.
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Dragon Age Gets a Gift from the Yeti
BioWare, as the developer, and Electronic Arts, as the publisher, have announced that they are releasing a new application, called Gift of the Yeti, on Facebook, which will be playable by all those who have an account and allows those who play it to get $10 off the price of a new copy of Dragon Age: Origins, when bought from the official web site of Electronic Arts.
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EA Launches Need for Speed Nitro Social Gaming App on Facebook
Recently we saw EA launch a Facebook game for its much anticipated Dante’s Inferno, which lets users send others to hell. Now Electronic Arts has launched a Need for Speed Nitro social application on the Facebook platform. The game is fun and interactive and can be experienced by players and everyone else in their social network.
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Ohai Launches MMO Vampire Game on Facebook
Game startup Ohai is launching a new vampire-themed online world on Facebook as part of an attempt to snare more time and money from social network fans.
Ohai wants to take social games to the next generation by launching a massively multiplayer online game that will have synchronous play, meaning live games with constant movement and action.