FarmVille Halloween Animals: Robot Cow & Witch Cat

Tonight's FarmVille update brings with it two new Halloween themed animals, that you might recognize from one of the game's newest loading screens.

The animals are the Robot Cow and the Witch Cat, which are both available for Farm Cash (22 and 12 Farm Cash, respectively). It's interesting to see the Witch Cat being offered as a store item, seeing as how Zynga has advertised the item as a free gift with purchase of Farm Cash (see our article written earlier this evening), but we'll take the additional chance to purchase one without complaints.

With just three days left until Halloween, you'll need to reach into those virtual (or perhaps real world) pocketbooks soon to make sure you add these spooky animals to your farm while they are still available.

FarmVille Halloween Decorations: Ravens, Wizards, Black Roses, Pumpkins, & More

While Halloween is now just a few days away, that hasn't stopped Zynga from adding even more Halloween items to the FarmVille marketplace, with tonight's update offering up one new building and a new decorative item.

Follow us behind the break for full details about these new items.

For starters, there is one new building available to purchase, and it continues in the black and blue theme seen in other Halloween themed buildings released this year. The new offering is the Haunted Castle (it resembles the Beast's castle from Beauty and the Beast, if you ask us), which costs 50 Farm Cash.

Meanwhile, the new decorative items come in the form of a Raven perched atop a spooky branch, a Gargoyle Gate, a Wizard Gnome (because you can never have too many lawn gnomes), a tree made of pumpkins, a trio of lanterns made from purple pumpkins, a Spooky Bats tombstone, and even a Thorny Hedge and Black Rose Arch that match perfectly with the Black Rose crop released earlier today.

The coin items in this set are actually incredibly affordable, with the most expensive item being 10,000 coins. If you've been saving every single coin to get in on the Halloween decorating fun, now is definitely the time (better late than never, I always say).

Happy Pets Multi-Glow Pets are pretty in pink (and blue)!

The newest round of limited edition pets has been released in Happy Pets, with CrowdStar offering some new glowing pets to users. These aren't just any glow pets, however, as this new set of six limited edition animals are "multi-glow" pets, meaning that their glowing feature is bigger and better than those seen in previous themes of glowing pets. Basically, each pet now has an outer glowing ring of purple/lavender light, in addition to the color glow you choose to purchase specifically.

The six new available options are split evenly between those that are either blue or pink. The blue Multi-Glow pets are the Chicken, Pegazebra (a Pegasus and Zebra combined), and a Cat. For the Chicken and Pegazebra, remember that you'll need to have completed the respective animal holding building before you can purchase them. In this case, you'll need to have completed construction on the Chicken Coop before purchasing the chicken, and the Stable before purchasing the Pegazebra.

The pink versions are just as complicated, but offer different choices. In addition to another cat, you can pick up a couple of different animals in the form of a Dragon and a Unicorn. The Unicorn, again, will require the completed construction of a Horse Stable, while the Dragon needs a Dino Den to be built before you can purchase him/her.

Depending on the pet you choose, the cost varies, ranging anywhere from 58 Facebook Credits for the Blue Multi-Glow Chicken ($5.80 US) to 66 Facebook Credits for the Dragon, Pegazebra and Unicorn.

All of these pets are limited in their quantity in the store, with all of them being available to at least the next 500 users. Still, you'll want to shop fast to get your hands on one of these unique new pets.

CityVille: Take to the field with new Sports-themed items

I hope you had your fill of the Farm theme in CityVille, as another theme has swooped in to steal the spotlight. To be specific, this new theme has to do with Sports, and there are tons of items available (some for coins, which is a plus) to allow your citizens to spend time in the great outdoors, living a fit and healthy lifestyle. As usual, we're here to give a complete look at what these items are, and (more importantly) how much they cost, so that you can be better prepared the next time you take on your role as Mayor.

Sports Hall of Fame (Community Building)

    Costs: 60 City Cash
    Raises Maximum Population Cap by 1800 citizens
    Available for: 6 Days


Kid on Unicycle (Decoration)

    Costs: 5,000 coins
    Payout Bonus: 1% to residences and businesses; extra 1% to Sports themed items
    Available for: 6 Days


Dodge Ball (Decoration)

    Costs: 27 City Cash
    Payout Bonus: 27% to residences and businesses; extra 27% to Sports theme
    Available for: 6 Days


Win Water Sports Drink (Crop)

    Costs: 4 City Cash per square
    Harvest Time: Instant
    Supplies: 360 Goods per square
    First Star of Mastery: 3 Harvests
    Available for: 6 Days


Archery Store (Business)

    Costs: 350,000 coins
    Requires: 335 Goods
    Earnings: 1781 coins
    Available for: 6 Days


Birdie Manor (Home)

    Costs: 30,000 coins
    Population: 170-320
    Rent: 19 coins every five minutes
    Available for: 6 Days


Healthy Home (Home)

    Costs: 10,000 coins
    Population: 130-250
    Rent: 231 coins every day
    Available for: 5 Days


Red Card Residence (Home)

    Costs: 65 City Cash
    Population: 1850-3650
    Rent: 461 coins every day
    Available for: 6 Days


Half-Pipe House (Home)

    Costs: 75 City Cash
    Population: 2350-4350
    Rent: 240 coins every eight hours
    Available for: 6 Days


Trophy Store (Business)

    Costs: 20,000 coins
    Requires: 260 Goods
    Earnings: 1445 coins
    Available for: 5 Days


Big Play Brewery (Business)

    Costs: 46 City Cash
    Requires: 335 Goods
    Earnings: 1781 coins
    Available for: 5 Days


Trampoline (Decoration)

    Costs: 11 City Cash
    Payout Bonus: 11% to businesses and residences; extra 11% to Sports theme
    Available for: 5 Days


Monkey Golf (Decoration)

    Costs: 120,000 coins
    Payout Bonus: 12% to businesses and residences; extra 12% to Sports theme
    Available for: 5 Days


Holland Hole in One (Decoration)

    Costs: 135,000 coins
    Payout Bonus: 12% to businesses and residences; extra 12% to Sports theme
    Available for: 5 Days


Pirate Putt Putt (Decoration)

    Costs: 27 City Cash
    Payout Bonus: 27% to businesses and residences; extra 27% to Sports theme
    Available for: 5 Days


Fencing School (Community Building)

    Costs: 55 City Cash
    Raises Maximum Population Cap by 1700 citizens
    Available for: 5 Days


On top of all of these items, there's also a Sports Mystery Crate available for 45 City Cash. If you purchase one, you'll be guaranteed one of four items: the Half-Pipe House, Red Card Residence, Fencing School or Big Play Brewery. This Mystery Crate will only be available for five days, so you'll need to decide fairly quickly if you want to risk receiving duplicates by purchasing multiple boxes, or if you'll purchase the four items individually.

As you can see, all of these items will be disappearing from the game rather quickly, so if you have any desire for them whatsoever, your best bet would be to purchase them now (even if it's just a few coin decorations), rather than waiting. Why? Well, there are few things worse than forgetting... and then regretting.

Will you purchase any of these Sports themed items before they expire from the store? What sort of theme of items do you hope Zynga releases next?

CityVille: Swiss items take over the store

In addition to the new Swiss Museum Community Building that was released in CityVille last week, a new item theme has also been launched, surrounding tons of other Swiss items. There are businesses, homes, community buildings and even some decorative items available to purchase here, and you can find all of them under the "Limited Edition" section of the game's store. Of course, they'll only be available in the game for a limited time, so you'll need to go shopping within the next 11 days to get your hands on any (or all) of these items. Here's the current lineup of available items.

Swiss Ski Patrol (Community Building)

    Costs: 54 City Cash
    Allows: Raises max population cap by 1,000


Swiss Watch Shop (Business)

    Costs: 46 City Cash
    Requires: 200 Goods
    Earns: 1,167 coins


Swiss Ski Chalet (Home)

    Costs: 69 City Cash
    Population: 1,350 - 2,650
    Rent: 20 coins every hour


Brandenburg House (Home)

    Costs: 7,150 coins
    Population: 160 - 320
    Rent: 300 coins every day


Horn Blower (Decoration)

    Costs: 7 City Cash
    Payout Bonus: 6% to surrounding homes and businesses; extra 3% to Swiss themed items


Swiss Guard (Decoration)

    Costs: 4 City Cash
    Payout Bonus: 3% to surrounding homes and businesses; extra 3% to Swiss themed items


Swiss Flag (Decoration)

    Costs: 1,000 coins
    Payout Bonus: 1% to surrounding homes and businesses; extra 3% to Swiss themed items


Unfortunately, with the large supply of Farming, Fall and Metropolis items still available in the store, it can be a bit tricky to actually find these items in your store (they're not all on the same page, for instance). That being the case, if any of these items interest you, just type the first few letters of its name into the Search bar in the store and the game will automatically sort them out. A word of warning, though, mayors. The fall items that were released previously are now on sale, as they make their way out of the store. It's likely these Swiss items will be placed on a similar sale, so if you're willing to risk it and wait, youo could save some serious Cash or coins on your eventual purchase. The choice is yours!

What do you think of these Swiss-themed items in CityVille? Will you wait to see if any of them go on sale, or will you go ahead and make your purchases now, just to be safe?

CityVille Mexican theme expands with Statue of Independence, Cantina and more

As promised, here we are again with news of more Mexican Independence items that have been added to CityVille's store. You know, I honestly thought that this would be a one-time release, but leave it to Zynga to release more items even after the holiday in question has passed (this holiday being the Mexican Independence celebration). There aren't as many items here as in the original release we told you about earlier this week, but there is a new crop here, if you happen to be into that sort of thing.

Statue of Independence (Decoration)

    * Costs: 36,000 coins
    * Payout Bonus: 12% to surrounding businesses and residences; bonus 12% to Mexican themed items


Cantina (Business)

    * Costs: 3,800 coins
    * Requires: 95 Goods
    * Supplies: 640 coins


Quince Anos Party (Decoration)

    * Costs: 12 City Cash
    * Payout Bonus: 12%; bonus 12% to Mexican themed items



Fine Arts Theater (Community Building)

    * Costs: 80 City Cash
    * Allows: 7500 citizens added to maximum population cap


Agave Crop

    * Costs: 5 City Cash per square
    * Harvest Time: Instant
    * Supplies: 450 Goods per square planted
    * First Star of Mastery: 3 Harvests


See? There aren't as many items in this release, but luckily, we're given plenty of time to purchase them either way. You'll have 12 days to do your shopping for these new items (the original section of this theme is down to a 10-day time limit), so just make sure to go shopping eventually before these items do actually expire.

What do you think of these newest CityVille Mexican-themed items? What sort of cultural or geographical theme would you like to see released next? Sound off in the comments.

CityVille says Viva Mexico! with new Mexican themed items

To celebrate Mexican Independence, Zynga has launched a full theme of Mexican themed items inCityVille this afternoon. These items range from small decorations to large landmarks, so we'll make sure to give you a complete rundown on these items to know what to expect. Keep in mind, while they do have a longer time limit than usual at anywhere from 12-14 days (the usual being a week), they will eventually vanish from the store, so do some shopping sooner, rather than later. Here's what's available:

Ice Cream Cart (Decoration)

• Costs: 5,000 coins
• Payout Bonus: 3% to surrounding businesses and homes; bonus 3% to Mexico themed items

Guerrero Residence (Home)

• Costs: 40 City Cash
• Population: 600-1200
• Rent: 296 coins every 18 hours

Sombrero Store (Business)

• Costs: 6,800 coins
• Requires: 170 Goods
• Supplies: 1,024 coins

Garcia House (Home)

• Costs: 13,500 coins
• Population: 120-240
• Rent: 18 coins every five minutes

Watch Tower (Decoration)

• Costs: 24 City Cash
• Payout Bonus: 24%; bonus 24% to Mexican themed items

Mayan Pyramid (Decoration)

• Costs: 72,000 coins
• Payout Bonus: 12%; bonus 12% to Mexican themed items
• Not Limited Edition!

Morelos Fort (Community Building)

• Costs: 70 City Cash
• Allows: 2,000 citizens added to max population cap

Hacienda de Dolores (Home)

• Costs: 65 City Cash
• Population: 1850-3650
• Rent: 451 coins every 3.1 days

House of Churros (Business)

• Costs: 40 City Cash
• Requires: 305 Goods
• Supplies: 1648 coins

On top of all of this, there's also a Mexico Mystery Crate available for 40 City Cash that contains one of four items: the Morelos Fort, Hacienda de Dolores, Guerrero Residence or House of Churros. Sure, you'd get two items from this crate at a discounted price, but remember that there's no guarantee you won't receive duplicates when purchasing more than one crate. That is, if you're going for both the Hacienda and the Fort, you may very well end up with two House of Churros instead.

Either way, we'll make sure to let you know if other items are added in this Mexican Independence celebration theme, but we wouldn't be surprised if it's a one-time-deal.

What do you think of this new theme of items? Which ones have you purchased for your town and which ones will you skip? Sound off in the comments.