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It has been reported by games.com that PetCash will soon be coming to Petville. There's already coins in PetVille, and Pet Cash will be harder to come by -- and be required to buy extra fancy clothes and household items for your pets. Games such as FarmVille and Pet Society have similar two-pronged virtual payment system -- coins, which can be earned by playing the game, and cash, which usually requires a player to plop down a credit card to purchase, which is then used to buy rare or "premium" items in a game. Most likely the Diamond Disco Collection, also set to arrive this week, will include items that can be purchased for Pet Cash only. Here are the latest headlines, ripped straight from the front page of the PetVille Weekly 2010 PetVille Snow Games - Sportswear stores stock up on ice skates and skiwear . Snowboards and skis are hot items at the furniture store! World Flags Available Now – Pets cheer on their favorite team by hanging flags from around the world. D...

Zynga has confirmed to gamesutra that they will be opening a new development studio in the Los Angles area. The company is Famous for creating popular social games, Farmville, Petville and Mafia Wars. Located in Marina Del Rey, the studio will be San Francisco-headquartered Zynga's second satellite studio. Last year, it opened a Baltimore office spearheaded by Alpha Centauri and Civilization II designer Brian Reynolds, co-founder of Big Huge Games. "Zynga LA will be very much like our Zynga East office in Baltimore where it will be a studio for our new games," a Zynga rep said to Gamasutra. The studio does not have a concrete staff target, with the rep explaining that Zynga is "looking to expand and scale our talent as we grow." An original post by Sociolatte

Thank you to FarmVille Freak Xeek for digging up the this information regarding FarmVille's rumored Horse Stable. This information has not been confirmed. Looks like barn raising will be coming back for the horse stable. The following two links may shed some light on this rumored item. This is what Xeek was able to find out. From what i dug up: its a 7×3 building stable is 5000 coins, limit of 1, 20 horses horse, clydesdale, pony, grey, and superbowl horse it requires you to build the stable 50 items required to do so. bricks, harnesses, horseshoes, nails, and wood boards 10 of each im seeing coins 100 / cash 1? they are limited items available from nails 1/31-2/2 woodboard 2/2-2/4 horseshoe 2/2-2/5 bricks 2/4-2/6 harness 2/6-2/8 FarmVille Freak Xeek This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak . It was announced in the official FarmVille January 29th Podcast that stables will be released soon. When released, you will have to collect a brick, a harnes...

Sid Meier’s Civilization is coming to Facebook and the open beta will begin in June. The game in which you have to build a civilization up from scratch over a periods of thousands of years will start beta-testing this June on Facebook. The Game on Facebook will allow members to invite their friends and go build the coolest civilization. Not much is known about the Facebook version of the game but below we have added what Sid has said about it. It is available to play for free.  To visit the Facebook Page click here .  A message from Sid Meier! Hello Civ Fans! I wanted to let you know we’ll soon be looking for beta testers to help us develop a unique new way to play Civilization. Ever since we finished Civilization® Revolution™ last year, I’ve been looking at ways of expanding the Civ gameplay experience to include solo, competitive and cooperative play to take advantage of the uniqueness of social networks. We’re calling this project Civilization® Network™ and the full game will be ava...

It's Doppelganger week on Facebook. Which means simply this if your friends have ever mentioned you look like a celebrity now's your chance to shine. Change your profile pic to the celebrity you most resemble There is also a Facebook group which centered around to this memes. No one is really sure how this happened and it origins but about the mid of last week people started the "Celebrity Doppelganger Week" and it is still catching on. This week is definitely going to last for more than seven days as people change their Avatar to look more like stars. This however clearly violates Facebook terms but no body is doing any complaining and the fun is starting to rage. Facebook said they would respond only if there were any complaints and to date there are not. So what's you new Avatar? An original post by Sociolatte

According to an AP report gang members are flocking to social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. Twitter gives them the chance for instant bragging right and instant messages to let other members know what's going on. Facebook allows them to easily share videos and pics with friends. They are able to now share information in real time and warm other members of dangers and to also brag of recent achievements.  There are also goons who use social networking sites from inside join to post threats to rivals. It is also an avenue for some of them to become famous. Like the UK fugitive who kept appearing on Facebook and had a large fan following. Found the below extract on the Washington Post Authorities can also seek help from the Web sites. Representatives from Twitter and Facebook say they regularly cooperate with police and supply information on account holders when presented with a search warrant. Neither company would discuss specifics. Gang use of Twitter and Facebook st...

Democratic Senator Dick Durbin has sent letters to thirty tech companies including Amazon, Facebook and Twitter asking them to detail their human rights practices in China after Google threatened to pull out of China. The Democratic Senator of  Illinois who is chairman of the Judiciary subcommittee on Human Rights and Law also said there would be a hearing in February on Global Internet Freedom.  He said the hearing would feature companies like Google and their business practices in internet restricted countries.  Durbin's letter comes nearly three weeks after Google Inc. said it would stop censoring search results in China and threatened to pull out of the country altogether after uncovering a hacking attack that emanated from China and attempts to snoop on dissidents. Durbin said he is gathering information about the conduct of other big technology companies to prepare for a hearing on Google's actions in China. The hearing will also examine the Global Network Initiative, a ...