Thứ Tư, 15 tháng 2, 2012

YoVille: New Hollywood Collectibles added to furniture store

Two new YoVille collectibles have been added to the furniture store. The two new collectibles available are an Animated Train Ride for 32 Yocash and a Hollywood Lady With Glittering Lamp Statue for 17, 200 Coins. The Train ride allows you to ride into a dark tunnel. The Statue adds a nice Glamorous feel to a Hollywood home. Go ahead to the furniture store to purchase these fabulous new additions for your home!

What do you think?

This article originally appeared on YoVille Lounge.

Game of the Day: Word Roundup Challenge

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YoVille Hollywood Bathroom Items added to furniture store

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Bathroom items have been added to the YoVille Furniture Store. These items are a part of the Hollywood theme. Some of the new items include a Hollywood Black Shower for 6 Yocash, Hollywood Green Sink Cabinet for 2,995 coins, a Hollywood Red Toilet for 7 Yocash, and much more! These items would be great for you Hollywood home. Head on over to the furniture store to buy your glamorous bathroom items today!

Pictures after the link.

Do you like the new stuff?
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Thanks to Spiralda for the pictures!

This article originally appeared on YoVille Lounge.

Zynga & 7-Eleven event kicks off FarmVille, Mafia Wars & YoVille promotion

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With the epic kickoff event on June 1st, FarmVille, Mafia Wars and YoVille have invaded 7-Elevens all over the United States. The promotion includes game branded groceries, snacks, beverages and more. Once purchased, players can redeem the codes printed on the treats in return for valuable in-game cash and other limited edition items. Fans have been excited to get their hands on both the great looking snacks and the lucrative game rewards. Fortunately, yesterday, the kickoff event finally opened the flood gates.

Select 7-Elevens in New York, Dallas, Chicago, San Francisco, Denver and Los Angeles hosted the event which included tons of free give aways and fun. Those who were lucky enough to attend found the event to be full of games, free merchandise, amusement park tickets, carnival gift cards and of course, loads of FarmVille, Mafia Wars and YoVIlle themed goodies.

FarmVille fan and donkey, Backpacking Brighty, snapped a few pics from the event in Dallas. In addition, FarmVille Freak asked readers who attended to send in images.

Continue reading to check out all the awesome pictures from the Zynga 7-Eleven Kick Off Event.

Note: Send photos of your FamVille, YoVille and Mafia Wars 7-Eleven merchandise to editors@games.com and we'll post them up on the blog!


Dallas, Texas
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Staten Island, New York

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San Francisco, California

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Denver, Colorado

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Chicago, Illinois

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If you're like us and missed the crazy kickoff event, try not to worry; there will be plenty of Zynga game themed goodies to go around. If you haven't already, head to 7-Eleven's store locater by clicking here and see if there is one in your area.

Although supplies are sure to last, rumor has it that a few jerks are going into stores and snapping pictures of all the codes, leaving few rewards to go around! So if you're interested in getting some FarmVille, YoVille and Mafia Wars themed 7-Eleven stuff, it may be in your best interest to act quickly!

Send photos of your FarmVille, YoVille and Mafia Wars 7-Eleven merchandise to editors@games.com and we'll post them up on the blog!

What do you think of the Zynga 7-Eleven kickoff event?


Sources:

    Backpacking Brighty - Dallas, Texas
    FarmVille Freak - San Francisco, California
    FarmVille Freak - Denver, Colorado
    FarmVille Freak - Staten Island, New York
    FarmVille Freak - Chicago, Illinois

Happy Pets: More horses in more colors

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Happy Pets has been absolutely crazy about horses lately. Recently, they released limited edition horses in some seriously zany colors, then they rolled out new horse decor, and finally, they've released a new set of permanent horses in addition to the existing five. The new horses are as follows:

    Dun Horse (41,795 Coins)
    Chestnut Horse (39,795 Coins)
    Bluegrass Horse (45,795 Coins)
    Butter Horse (43,795 Coins)



While the horses are all rather expensive, we're relieved that they can be bought with coins. Also interesting is the selling price for the adult horses. An adult horse can be sold for about 20,000 Coins more than the price of the pony, allowing Happy Pets players to do a little ranching. Head to Happy Pets to perhaps consider a horse of a different color.

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FIFA Superstars: Everything you need to know

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EA Sports' FIFA Superstars has finally arrived, and just a week after going live, the soccer game already has 30,000 users. FIFA Superstars is accessible to all soccer fans whether they've played video games before or not. Like Gangster City, Playfish's other recent title, FIFA Superstars focuses on simple gameplay and fleshes it out with unique components and high production value. The result is a game that is deep, enjoyable and compelling.

Continue reading as we run through everything you need to know in order to successfully play FIFA Superstars.
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Start up FIFA Superstars and you'll hear music gnarly enough to get anyone ready to take on the gargantuan role of soccer team manager. After the brief load time, you'll be prompted to create your team and run through a tutorial. Finally, you'll come face to face with the home screen, the heart of FIFA Superstars. There is a ton of information on this screen, so we're going to break it down so you can begin training your team. Although the game may seem confusing at first, you'll see it is quite simple and you'll be winning matches and scoring goals with the professionals in no time.
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Home Screen
The first thing to do when you reach the screen pictured above is edit your team's crest. Click the crest at the top left of the screen and you'll be able to choose from a number of emblems, colors and nations.

Centered on the screen are the players currently selected to start in upcoming matches. Along the left hand side you have the options:

    Play - Allows you to choose a league and play matches.
    Manage - Where you can swap out players and change formations.
    Trade - Mysterious feature that is coming soon.
    Stadium - View the current training regiment, stadium facilities and coach. Make sure to buy stadium upgrades to earn more money, experience, and training from everything you do.
    Training - Choose a training regiment to keep your team in top form.
    Store - Purchase new players, coaches, stadium upgrades and match credits.


The bar along the top of the home screen also gives you important information such as your team's rating, your experience, your match credits and your current amount of coins.
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Team Management
Your team's overall skill rating, shown in yellow at the top right of the home screen, is a combination of training and talent. Talent, shown at the top left of each player card and when rolled over, is predetermined and cannot be changed. To better your team's talent you must buy all new players. Click the store or manage button, then click players. Three tiers of player packs are available:

Bronze Transfers - 10,000 Coins or 8 Playfish Cash
Silver Transfers - 25,000 Coins or 20 Playfish Cash
Gold Transfers - Unlocks at level 10 or 60 Playfish Cash

The better the transfer pack the better players you'll receive. Each pack contains five random players from the tier you selected. After receiving new players, you can head to manage from the home screen and swap out players into their appropriate positions. Depending on the make up of your squad, you may want to change formations to reflect that. For example if you have a lot of great defenders, change your formation to 5 - 3 - 2 so more of your better players can play at once.
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Note that you can also sell players from this screen. Be careful, while you'll never need substitutes during a game, remember that if you switch formations in the future, you may end up needing a player you sold for a mere 200 Coins.

Training
Unlike talent, your training stat is not set in stone. Your training stat is left up to you and because training makes up your overall rating, it's important to keep your team in top form. If your team is well trained, you may have a higher overall rating than a team with more talent and as a result, be able to defeat them.
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To begin training your team, click the training button on the home screen. Training is a combination of your Current Base Training (which increases every time a training regiment is completed), your Facilities (training equipment purchased at the store), and your Coach who can increase your training by 20 points.

To increase your base training, select one of the regiments. When the specified amount of time finishes counting down, you will gain that amount of training. Unlike FarmVille and its withering crops, FIFA Superstars will not penalize you for failing to see the training through. It will give you your training points whether you are playing or not.

It is possible to have up to 100 base training. However, don't think because you've maxed out you're training it's going to be smooth sailing all the way through the Barclays Premier League. Whenever your players are idle your training will begin to decrease, so it's important to sign in every day and have your team train to stay competitive.
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Matches & Leagues
To earn money, gain experience and rank up in FIFA Superstars, you're going to have to play matches. To play matches, you're going to need match credits. Every time you play a game, a match credit is subtracted from you. There are several ways to refill your match credits. First, you are given a match credit every six hours, so you can just wait for them to refill. You also receive match credits when you level up. It is also possible to ask for and to send credits or mystery gifts to your friends (which may include match credits in addition to players and coins). Finally, you may purchase more match credits in the store for Playfish Cash.
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To set up a game, click the play button from the home screen. You'll be prompted to select on of the following leagues:
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2010 FIFA World Cup - Coming soon.

Premier League - Raise your overall rating enough and you'll be able to take on the teams of the Barclays Premier League such as Manchester United and Arsenal. (As you can see at the right, my mighty team defeated Blackpool.)

League Matches - This is what you'll select most often as you complete and advance through the various leagues until you reach the elite Superstar League.

Friendly Matches - This league lets you play with your friends. Select it then select a friend to challenge and play. You can only play each friend once every day. These matches don't cost match credits.

Once a league has been chosen, choose a team you wish to play. It's always a good idea to make sure your overall rating is higher than the opponents if you want to win. Instead of wasting your precious match credits when the odds are against you, either take on an easier team, train, or buy players and come back later. Once you've chosen a team, click play, a match credit is deducted, and the game is underway.

After a match has begun, the player has two options: watch a long series of cutscenes as the game plays out or skip straight to the final score. The way the game works is all based on stats and positioning. Throughout the game players will try to dribble other players, pass the ball, and shoot. FIFA Superstars compares the talent and training of the two interacting players and decides which one will be victorious.
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For example, my striker Hughes is on offense with the ball and encounters defender Maire. Because Hughes has higher stats and training, he was able to successfully leave "Amaud Maire standing!"
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Another example is shooting on goal. Enemy midfielder Toner, was able to break through my defense and get a shot on goal. Goalkeeping also works in a similar fashion to offense play. The match up this time is between my keeper Fejzic and Toner. Depending on the players' talent and training, the shot can either be saved or reach the back of the "potato sack."
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This continues until time is up and the final score is announced. Proportionate to the difficulty of the challenge and the outcome of the match, you will receive experience and money.
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Calling all Footie Fans
Whether you call it soccer or football, it makes no difference. FIFA Superstars revolves entirely around the sport we love. With the current scarcity of sports games on Facebook, we hoped the soccer simulator would begin to fill the hole in the social network's game lineup.

Despite our excitement, we would love to see more Facebook friend integration (perhaps in the trading feature coming soon). In addition we'd like some interactivity, especially in the matches themselves, allowing players to further influence the outcome. Finally, our last complaint is that we just can't get enough of it! The match credit system makes us wait for days just to get my team out on the pitch for just a few minutes!

However, in the end, beggars can't be choosers, and we're certainly relieved to finally see quality in a genre that has been struggling to produce a hit. Despite the game's relatively slow start, the FIFA World Cup is around the corner, and we're hoping to see FIFA Superstars catch on.

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Cafe World Super Stove "disappear?" Here's how to find it

So you've finally finished your Cafe World Super Stove -- now what? Many complain that their stoves disappear when they're completed, but they're actually semi-hidden in the in-game store. To locate your stove, click on the 'Functional' icon at the bottom of the screen (the icon with orange and blue gears).
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Once you click the gears icon, you will open the list of functional items,and you'll see several rows of stoves. The Cafe World Super Stove is located on the top row, next to last stove. It has the word 'HOT!' next to it and if you have a stove ready to go, it will also have a x1 next to it as well.

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The next step is to place the Super Stove in your cafe. Click on the Super Stove image, hold and drag the stove into your restaurant, and place where desired. Then -- let the cooking commence.

If you want to start building another stove, click on the Super Stove icon (the one with the blue wrench), buy a new frame and start the process all over again. For more information on how you build your own stove, read this guide: Cafe World: How to build your own Super Stove. Better hurry though, the Super Stoves might not be around much longer, and you'll miss your chance for one-click cooking.

How many Super Stoves do you have in your cafe so far?