Farmers of FarmVille who are looking to purchase in-game currency will now have a new option. Apart from the previously  available options, Credit cards and PayPal, Farm Cash and Farm Coins can now be purchased using Facebook Credits – Facebook’s virtual currency.This new payment system have been adopted in a number of popular Facebook games like Happy Island, Happy Aquarium and Happy...

Oberon Media has announced that it will be adding social features to its casual games on a variety of platforms. This enhanced social features will allow players to use Facebook Connect to link their social networks and see friends who are also playing the game, suggest the game to others and share in-game achievements. The first two games with this enhance social features are City Sights: Hello Seattle...

Last March 8th, we introduced Sony Online Entertainment’s newly released game on Facebook, PoxNora. Now, it is time to get into the details.As previously mentioned, PoxNora is a turn-based strategy card game. To play you must have a battlegroup which is a collection of 30 cards or Runes. There are 4 kinds of Runes: the Champion, Spell, Equipment, and Relic Runes. These magically come to life when...

Facebook users can expect a location-based service soon. This new service will allow Facebook’s 400 million plus users to see the locations of their friends in addition to their status updates. The new service is expected to be released during the Facebook’s f8 developer conference, to be held in late April. According to a report in The New York Times, the new service will let users share...

Search engine giant Google Inc. and Facebook Inc., the largest social-networking site in the world,  have been slapped with a lawsuit by Wireless Ink Corp. According to a Bloomberg report, Wireless Ink Corp., which runs the Winksite service, has claimed that Facebook Mobile and Google Buzz are infringing a patent related to ways of offering content that is accessible by mobile devices. The patent...

Facebook has over 500,000 applications at present, and i am pretty sure that most of you might have tried your hands on many of them, used them once, twice, some days and have forgotten about most of them altogether. But the trouble is, our account seems to remember them and worst, newsfeed and request of all sorts pile up on the wall and homepage. Not only that, sometimes some friends doesn’t...

Betty White, the former Golden Girl, will appear on Saturday Night Live – an idea she referred to as ‘ridiculous’ just a few weeks back -  in the near future as confirmed by the People magazine. The “Betty White to Host SNL (please?)!” Facebook Page has now filled with congratulatory messages from fans who supported the campaign. Though the Facebook page has stagnated...

Cassi Van Den Dungen, 17-year-old Australian model, recently went to France to find modeling work for Paris Fashion Week, and got herself in a controversy by posting some outrageous post on Facebook, after returning home empty-handed. According to a report by The Daily Telegraph, she labeled the French as “frog eaters” and “snail “slurpers”. She also took on the “Frasians...

A Sydney man was charged for allegedly trying to groom an 11-year-old girl for sex on Facebook. The 27-year-old man allegedly made contact with the girl on Sunday March 7. The man is accused of sending numerous messages via the site to the girl, and arranging a location to meet her for sexual activity. The girl told her mother about the man and Mt Druitt police were informed. Police officers arrested...

Sony Online Entertainment LLC launched its popular turn-based strategy game PoxNora on Facebook. PoxNora, a combination turn-based strategy game and collectible card game set in a fantasy world of creatures, relics and spells, was acquired by Sony Online Entertainment  in January 2009. Ever since, the game has expanded in reach and popularity with over 2.5 million registered accounts to date. “The...

A Briton sex offender admitted the kidnap, rape and murder of Ashleigh Hall, 17, whose body was found in a farmer’s field near Sedgefield last October will be serving a minimum of 35 years. The Telegraph reports that Peter Chapman, 33, evaded police for 13 months after breaking the terms of his Sex Offenders’ Register order by failing to notify a change of address. Chapman allegedly posted...

Last week Facebook games statistics, February 27 to March 5,  showed MindJolt Games as the fastest growing Facebook game. Mindjolt have always been in and around the top five fastest growing games. It is unusual, but the application hasn’t been doing much in order to get itself noticed apart from letting its users spread the word. Another uniqueness of Mindjolt is that it doesn’t develop...

Just recently, DinglePharb Studios, an Asian developer of social and mobile games, announced that they have developed a new fully 3D Facebook game and that they will be launching it on March 26th.  The game is called Woldtown, a virtual world based on the widely popular Chinese casual social game, VVDragon. Although this will be one of the first fully 3D games in Facebook, it’s not the first venture...

Brevard County school officials are investigating a threatening Facebook post against a school teacher by one of her students. The student wrote on Facebook, “Hey, I want to kill Mrs. Bowen. Does anybody want to help?” said attorney William Whitacre. Apparently, the student at Edgewood Junior/Senior High School in Merritt Island didn’t want teacher Kathy Bowen to return to school...

One of the latest games to hit Facebook is Bingo Derby, developed by C.A. Mobile of Japan. Currently with almost 5 thousand monthly active users, the game is slowly gaining popularity.As the name suggests, this is a bingo game that utilizes the same basic rules of an ordinary bingo game: There are eight standard bingo cards, and every few seconds, a number is called. When this number is present in...