If you’ve ever been addicted to a social game that involves gaining levels by repeatedly clicking on “finish quest” buttons, you’ve got to try Progress Wars. Progress Wars is Jakob Skierning’s new parody game that allows you to repeatedly click on a button to finish quests and gain levels… but that’s all there is to it.
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Kirstie Alley, the very public and notoriously inconsistent dieter, has made a cameo appearance in the Zoo World Facebook game.   The game, which revolves around building a zoo and keeping your customers happy, now allows for you to either purchase a Healthy Snack Stand item that is sponsored by Kirstie Alley, or you can buy a Kirstie Alley Greeting stand, which just sits there and looks pretty.
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You know an internet startup idea has become a trend once there’s a site that’s aggregative all of the sites that provide a specific service. 8coupons does just that for the numerous group shopping sites out there now. While Groupon may be the most popular of the group shopping sites, Living Social, and numerous others have created their own group shopping services. Rather than visiting every site each day, 8coupons will aggregate all the offers in your city for you.
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If you like music, then you probably want to be able to stream it online, listen to your friends’ favorites, and share your favorites with friends.  I have been looking for social music sites like these for the past few years, and have come up with a list of 5 streaming music sites that have great social features.  Enjoy the list and please leave us a comment below about your favorite social music sites.
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Playfish has launched it’s newest game, Hotel City, on Facebook. The game is a hotel management simulator, and is in fact quite different from all the other “city” games that have been released lately. The production values are great, and the gameplay is truly innovative. We’ll have more details on the game as it goes through its first week of bug-fixing and play testing.
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Yahoo today announced that they are acquiring Citizen Sports, a company that creates fantasy sports leagues for Facebook, iPhone, Android and other devices.  The acquisition is meant to enhance Yahoo’s position in social games and fantasy sports, and “strengthen Yahoo!’s social strategy of enriching, aggregating and distributing social content from across the entire Web, and offering a highly customizable social experience.”
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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 best described as a cross-breed between Pet Society and the Pandora music service…  Yes, you read that right.  Read on for the review!
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MetroGames, an Argentenian social games developer, has just secured a $5 million round of series A funding from social games developer Playdom.  The investment will be used to expand MetroGames existing selection of games and also further development on their games platform.  The release is available here.

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If you have or are planning to get into social game development on a tiny budget, you need to get financially creative and learn to bootstrap. The practice of bootstrapping a startup is essentially an act of balancing costs against revenues, and it applies as much to a game development studio as any other business. Do it right, and your business will likely survive long enough for your games to have a chance of success — something that’s a necessity given how many small studios and bedroom entrepreneurs are jumping into the social game development space. Here are a few tips on bootstrapping as relevant to game development.
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EA is promoting Saboteur, one of their newest console titles, by creating a Facebook quiz application that involves videos and content from the game. The application isn’t a full-fledged game, but does have a quiz element and leaderboards to compete with friends. There are also prizes to the top players, including an all-expenses paid trip to Las Vegas.
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