PetVille 10,000 Pet Cash Winner

With all the speculation of the PetVille pet cash offer for where all users had to do was click on a link and enter the drawing. Since the winner was supposed to be announced on April fool's day and the contest was launched just a few days before April fool's day. There was a lot of speculation that this might just be an April fool's joke played by PetVille.

People writing about it really wondered if they would give away 10,000 in Pet Cash. The PetVille pet cash giveaway was considered by many people as just a big joke but apparently it did not turn out to be so. There is a winner and the winner and his Pet are the recipients of 10,000 in Pet Cash.

For those of you who are not familiar with PetVille. Pet Cash is what is used to buy either PetVille Coins or PetVille Cash. Some items are sold on PetVille for real cash making this one of the richest social games on the web right now.

The happy winner of that Pet Cash  is Pawal S and his pet Puszek.

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Zynga launches new Facebook game Treasure Isle

Zynga made this announcement about their new game Treasure Isle

Check out our new game, Treasure Isle! Explore the exotic locales of Treasure Isle as you hunt for lost jewels and artifacts! Design a tropical oasis on your very own private island! Sail to neighboring islands and unearth buried treasure to share with friends!

Zynga just launched a new treasure hunting game. The new game is called Treasure Isle and like most of Zynga’s new games, it has YoVille’s avatars.

Here’s the official description:

“Become the most famous treasure hunter in the world! In Treasure Isle, you dig for rare and valuable treasure with your friends. Earn money, explore strange places, and decorate your very own island as you explore the world of Treasure Isle!”

The game has very relaxing theme beach music that will most probably get you carried away  and make you spend more time playing. I kept Treasure Isle running while updating YoVille Lounge and it helped me go through your stressful complaints. Maybe this is what YoVille players need, some soothing music.

Make sure to try this new game on your weekend. It looks good.

In short, Treasure Isle is about digging up treasure chests, opening them to get treasure, coins and experience points.  You then level up, gain more money, and decorate your island.  Your neighbors in the game can help you by giving you items you want: you create a wish list of items you like, and they send you the free gifts you need.  The game is reminiscent of another game on the social gaming scene, “Treasure Madness”, but has a bunch of innovative features that set it apart.

The graphics are big and fantastic, and the overhead map that shows you all the islands that are available really makes the game feel expansive, which is a lot of fun, and adds to the sense of escape in this game.  We’ll take a deeper look and full review of the game in the coming weeks, as the game goes through its first month adjustments, but so far we’re a fan.  Also, have to say that the music in this game is just as relaxing as the music in Safari Kingdom.  These social gaming composers are really hitting the mark.

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Mafia Wars easter egg hunt

Mafia Wars Easter Event, to ensure that you succeed at this job you need to go and secure the Easter Egg collection. The Easter Egg hunt is happening at the Market Place. You need to do the Featured job, ask your friends for help and ask your mafia to send an Easter Egg to complete the Easter Egg hunt. Check out the easter egg album we have uploaded below to find out which eggs you would need to complete your Easter Basket. Start the hunt to day as you on have about a day left.

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FarmVille Spring Basket

FarmVille's spring themed feature the new spring basket allows you to collect spring eggs (easter eggs) from your friends and redeem them for special items. (calls easter eggs. spring eggs because not all of their users celebrate easter).

This feature works exactly as the valentine's day box and the pot of gold.

How this feature works.
On opening your gift box you will find a spring basket waiting for you. After you place the spring basket on your farm you will be able to start collecting spring eggs. In order to collect spring eggs you will have to receive them from friends as gifts. Eggs can be sent to neighbors via the free gifts page. You will also be able to find eggs while fertilizing a neighbors farm. Clicking the "Asked For Eggs" button will allow you to send a single spring eggs to any of your friends just like the free gifts page. This gives you friends the chance to send you one in return. New farmers having been around for seven days or less can send out more eggs at a time. New farmers can send three spring eggs to a single friend. Upon accepting a spring egg it will appear in your gift box. Clicking "Use" will place the gift in your box automatically.

Every five spring eggs you collect you'll be able to post a feed to your wall to alert your friends of how all your doing and give them a chance to collect a free spring egg. Ten neighbors will be able to collect one free spring eggs by clicking on the feed within 24 hours. For each notch on the meter of your spring egg progress bar you basket will change appearance. Over flowing with more and more gifts. Clicking "Progress" in the spring basket menu will show you how many eggs you have in comparison to your friends.

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How to build a yard in PetVille

PetVille has announced new Yards for your pet house. There is a simple way to get started and you can also help your friends get started by sending them free gifts. The new yard store is also open and ready for business with materials to help decorate your yard.

How to Build a yard.
There are 5 different kinds of material that you will need.
Collect each of 10 yard building materials for a total of 50 items
Each of your friends can send you different kinds of materials
Extra yard material can be purchased from the yard window


How to get started.
To get started you would need to click on the new yard icon on the right side of your house.

There will be a progress sign while you are constructing your yard.

You get one wheelbarrow of dirt to help you get started. Your yard will contain a wooden sign with a green button on it. Click this button to use the materials you have collected. This button can be used anytime you have new materials to use.

Materials:

Once you have used up all your materials you would need to click on the "Get Supplies" button in your yard to bring up the materials window. In this window you can see how many more materials you would need, buy more materials, or ask your friends to send you more materials.

Send your friends yard materials for free and ask them to send some back to you.

Sending Materials:

Each pet can send 2 of the 5 materials you will need. These materials that you gift are determined randomly, so you will need the help of a few friends to collect all of the 5 different kinds of materials that you will need.

Once your done:

Once you finish building your yard you can then begin to decorate. Visit the new yard store to find decorations. Click on the world icon to visit the brand new yard store.

CLICK HERE to go outside and start building your yard now!

So go ahead and give your pet's a breath of fresh air and a feel of the great outdoors

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How many items can be held in the gift box in FarmVille

FarmVille announced via their podcast this week that the total number of items that can be held in the gift box has been increased to 50. This feature was added on February 24th along with a whole lot of features added by FarmVille.

Si this is the official number announced by FamVille and you now know how many items can be stored in your gift box.

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PetVille crosses 6 million fans and is giving away a free clean bomb to everyone

PetVille has experiences phenomenal growth since it's launch on Facebook in December of 2009. In four months time the game already has 6 million fans and growing. PetVille creators are very happy and are giving away a free clean bomb to all members. A Clean Bomb is used to instantly clear your home or your pet with a single click.

Saves you all that cleaning time.

Visit the PetVille page on Facebook

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Petville launches Valentine's Day clothing for your pet.

Make your pet feel extra loveable with new Valentine’s Day clothing and decorations! You can dress your pet up as Cupid complete with wings, bow and arrow!

That's the tag line that Petville has used to announce the new feature on their official Facebook fan page.

With all the hype of Valentine's day Petville wants to make sure that you pet is going to feel nice and lovable this Valentine's day. Of course your pet needs to feel the love and if you are lonely this Valentine's day you now know who to shower your love on.

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Farmville unreleased horse stable.

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 XeekThis 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 harness, a horseshoe, a nail, and a wooden board. Then you will trade it in for your Horse Stable.

Horse Stable update

FarmVille stables arrived today, and instead of a fully formed building, you need to do some work before you can move in your horses That work consists of acquiring 50 items used to complete the building.

Materials required to complete the stable are the following:
10 boards
10 nails
10 bricks
10 bridles
10 horse shoes

These materials can be acquired in two ways:

1. Convince friends to send them to you as gifts

Staring today, everyone will have two of the materials in the "Free Gifts" tab of the game. Each player will have a different pair of items -- it's completely random -- which they can send to their friends. Items will change every week. The goal is to convince all of your friends to gift the items required, and the best way to do that is by sending gifts to them as well.

Once you receive the items as a gift, accept it and it will appear in your gift box. Open the gift box and click the Use button on the item and the item will be stored in the stable.


2. Buy materials from the FarmVille Market

If you don't want to wait for friends to send all of the right items, there's also an option to purchase them in the Market for FarmVille cash. Each item costs 1 FV$ each, so getting everything you need will cost 50 FV$, which is not exactly cheap. Once you buy the items, they will automatically be stored in the stable.

Once the stable is complete, you'll be rewarded with a gray horse. You can also move up to 20 horses into the stable and harvest every 24 hours.

“Once you’ve placed the Foundation on your farm, you will be prompted with a message letting you know that you can post a feed to ask you friends for help building your stable.
Clicking the “Share” button will give you the option to post a feed to your wall. Up to 10 of your Neighbors can click on this feed to receive 100 Coins.
In order to use your Horse Stable, you’ll need to finish building it. Selecting ‘Look Inside’ from your foundation’s menu will show you what you need to complete your Horse Stable.
When you first place the foundation, you’ll have one Brick already. In order to build a complete stable you’ll need 10 of each item. You can get these items one of two ways:
1. From neighbors via the Free Gifts menu.
Neighbors can send you the components you need to build your Stable. Your Neighbors will be able to send you two of the five types of building components to help you complete your horse stables.
Please note that the two components displayed on the Free Gifts Page are randomized. As such, the components displayed on the Free Gifts Page may be different for each user. These two components are changed weekly.
When neighbors send you a building component, it works exactly like any other free gift. After you accept the gift it will appear in your gift box.
After clicking the “use” button under the gift it will automatically be added to your Horse Stable.
2. Purchasing components from the Market,
You can purchase components required to build your Horse Stable from the Market for 1 Farm Cash per item.
When you reach 25 items, you’ll receive pop-up that will allow you to post a feed to your wall. The first ten neighbors to click this feed will receive a random building component for their own Horse Stable construction.
When you complete your Horse Stable, you will receive a popup asking you if you’d like to share the news with your friends. Clicking the Share button on this popup will give you the option to post a feed to your wall that will give up to five neighbors who click on it a free Grey Horse.

Once the Horse Stable is complete, you’ll receive a Grey Horse of your own.
You’re able to store up to 20 horses in your stable and you may only have one Horse Stable per farm. Right now, you can store the regular brown Horse, the Grey Horse, and a new purchasable Pinto Horse.
Every 24 hours, you’ll be able to collect from the horses stored in your Horse Stable.”

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Latest Zynga games for Facebook

Zynga who created the most popular Facebook games has a directory for you to choose from. Zynga the creator of games like Mafia Wars. Farmville and Petville has a large list for users to choose from. With Vampires being the staff pick. Vampire Wars is a text based games which puts you in a scenario where you and your friends are vampires. The tasks that the users starts out with as an introduction to the games becomes the game itself. Users play to win strategy and blood.

So choose a game that suits you and happy playing

Mafia Wars

Cafe World

FishVille

PetVille

Roller Coaster

Zynga Poker

YoVille!

Vampires

Street Racing

Pirates

Dragon Wars

FarmVille

Special Forces

Fashion Wars

Blackjack

Scramble

Word Twist

PathWords

Sudoku

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Xbox Project Natal demo videos, no contollers required.

We wrote about project Natal from Microsoft a few days ago. The system allows you to play games on the Xbox without external devices but your own body. The system recognizes your hand gestures, kicks boxes etc. It also comes with a 3D technology.

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Microsoft to launch project Natal and new games for Xbox

Microsoft launches project Natal and new games for the Xbox. Project Natal will go on sale in November 2010. The system allows for users to use body movements to play games rather than hand held devices. Natal has body gesturing systems that allow the game to sense voice commands and players body movements, relying on cameras, sensors, microphones and software to understand players, voice, waves, kicks etc.


Alongside this Microsoft has also announced that the Xbox game Halo will be out in the autumn. Saying thay would like to release 1,000 games over the next three years. 


The game room will be new for users and will allow them to purchase classic video games like Atari, Sub Hunt, Star raiders and Activision for the 70's and 80's. 


It will also introduce a new genre of games, "the psychological action thriller," with a game called "Alan Wake" that tells the story of a mystery writer who gets trapped in his own novels. "Think 'Lost,' written by Stephen King and directed by David Lynch," Bach said.

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US Virtual Econmy is booming

With the boom in online gamers virtual currency is a market that is all set to boom. Gone are the days that 'Gamers' were connoted as a teen sitting in front of his console and playing for hours together. Today the average age of a gamer is 30 and these people have money to say. They are able to spend on virtual goods. Goods that do not really exist. Popular games on Facebook like Farmville and Mafia Wars sell goods to gamers in exchange for real hard cash.

Woman it appears are more heavy gamers than men and also try to hide this fact. They play it more to be in touch with family and friends. Social gaming is set to be the big thing in 2010. The BBC reported that the Virtual Gaming market in the US market would be $5 Billion over the next 5 years.

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