Posts Tagged ‘Reviews’

Terence McGhee, former software developer, believes that not enough games on Facebook are created for hardcore gamers. With that being said, his mission is to develop more games that appeal to those gamers who are looking for a challenge, “A game must have a certain degree of challenge. It must reward good decision-making and punish poor decision-making.” Space Force Fleet Commander, McGhee’s solution, attempts to bring gaming back to traditional gamers instead of ordinary people.

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Yesterday Yelp rolled out a new feature for advertisers – the option to include video on business pages. The addition of video is great for businesses, as it gives them a new vehicle for attracting customers, apart from the traditional pictures and text. This new feature is also fantastic for Yelp, as it sets them [...]

What has large cuddly pandas, New York rock n’ roll, virtual coins and talking squirrels? It’s Music Pets, one of the fastest growing games on the social gaming scene. The game has accrued 700,000 users in only a month, and is one of the most talked about applications on my news feed. The game is [...]

Just as farming games like (Lil) Green Patch, Farm Town and Farmville once surged in popularity, the city-building genre is rapidly gaining players. Playdom’s new Social City has gained 5,600,000 users in 2 weeks and is an excellent example of a city building game; it has great graphics, a pleasant interface and some great social [...]

With the rapid growth in the use of Twitter, there’s bound to be a growing interest in tools to analyze Twitter statistics and social graphs, even while on the go. Tweeb is the latest application to do just that, and it’s for the iPhone. Tweeb is developed by D.C.-based Ken Yarmosh and Mobomo.