Founded in July 2008, Platogo is an award-winning Austrian-based social games platform. In 2009, it won the Mini Seedcamp Berlin because of its Platogo Wrapper. This is a free-to-use gaming platform that turns casual games into social games that can easily be published on Facebook.How is this done? First the developer must register the casual game on the Platogo website. Platogo will check if the...

If you get an e-mail saying Facebook has reset your password due to security reasons and ask you to open or download an attachment to retrieve your password, then remember, it is a scam.McAfee warns that several malicious programs including password stealer is installed when user clicks on it. The password stealer can potentially access any username and password combination used on the computer,...

Time and again we come across various apps that promises or claims that it can show us our profile stalkers – the people who have visited our profile, or who checks out our photos. Facebook is currently clamping down such apps and warn it’s users. Facebook said in a statement, “Don’t believe any applications that claim they can show you who’s viewing your profile or photo....

Earlier this month, Gravity Bear released the next generation of Facebook games: the 3-D game, Battle Punks!Basically, the game involves fighting with an opponent. As your character takes on adventures, it also battles enemies to gain items which can be used during combats or can add points to its level of experience. One of the good things about playing this game is that as you wait for the game...

For the first time, Facebook overtook Google as the most visited website in the United States last week, according to the Web analytics firm Hitwise. Heather Dougherty, Hitwise’s director of research, said that Facebook had ‘reached an important milestone” with the weekly figures. According to the firm’s weekly figures on March 13, the two sites accounted for 14% of all US internet...

Zynga, Facebook’s leading game developer, has just launched a brand new game called Poker Blitz. Yes!! As the title suggests, it’s a Poker game. You might be surprise, why Zynga is coming up with another Poker game when it’s own Texas Hold’Em Up Poker is doing quite well. Right?Poker Blitz is, as described by Zynga’s Casino General Manager Har ‘Sim’ Mimran,...

Do you think, having an FBI agent as a friend on Facebook is cool? Maybe, but all the criminals boasting about their exploits will be in for a shock. Us federal law enforcement agents are said to be going undercover with false online profiles in the social-networking sites – including Facebook, Linkedln, MySpace and Twitter – to search for evidence and witnesses in criminal cases, and in...

Arkadium, casual social game developer, hit a million jackpot with their first Facebook game while many other gaming industries are having a hard time to adapt to the popularity of social games. The game, Mahjong Dimensions, which was launched on January 15 have generated more than 1 million monthly active users in just two months.According to Kenny Rosenblatt, CEO of Arkadium, “We are extremely...

Facebook is moving out to the Asian continent to open a new office, and the pitstop is Hyderabad, city of pearls. Hyderabad, India’s city of pearls and one of India’s top IT hub, house many foreign firms including search-engine giant Google, IBM, Microsoft, Dell, and Oracle. The Hyderabad office will have advertising and developer support teams, the company said on Monday. Don Faul, director...

Italian police tracked down and captured one of the country’s most-wanted fugitive mafia suspects through Facebook. Pasquale Manfredi, believed to be an influential figure in the ‘Ndrangheta mafia, was found in Calabria. Manfredi is said to call himself as ‘Scarface’, after a 1983 epic  movie with the same name starring Al Pacino as Godfather Tony Montana. The 33-year-old,...

The latest game maker to make a move towards the ever-increasing popularity of social media and social gaming is Frogster. Frogster America has announced that it is currently developing a new Facebook game. “Runes of Magic – The Challenge”, set in the Runes of Magic Universe expands to Facebook. Facebook players will be able to use “The Challenge” in order to unlock extra...

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...