Mafia Wars is one of the biggest games on Facebook. In fact, it is the People’s Voice Winner at the 2009 Webby Awards. Currently, it has over 24 million monthly active users. Many of these users have reached very high levels and have already mastered the game. So today is just the right time for Zynga to have launched Mafia Wars Bangkok.The Bangkok expansion is available to players, level 18 and...

Many of us think that the game of mahjong is a gambling game played by 4 people. Apparently, just like with cards, there is a solitaire version of it, too. The Facebook game developed by Café.com, Mahjong Temple 2 (http://apps.facebook.com/temple_of_mahjong/), is a solitaire version of mahjong.The goal of this Facebook mahjong game is to reveal the entire beautiful background by clearing all the...

The BBC or British Broadcasting Corporation, is the longest established and biggest broadcasting corporation in the world. They have diverse TV and radio shows that inform, educate, and entertain. They also have their own website (www.bbc.co.uk), and other products that include books, DVDs, a micro computer line in the 80s, etc. Among its most popular TV shows are BBC News, Doctor Who, Top Gear, In...

Foxy Bingo, one of the leading online Bingo sites in the UK, is opening its doors to the world, especially to Facebook users. Although registration and game play is done at the Foxy Bingo’s webpage (http://www.foxybingo.com/), fans of the Foxy’s page on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Foxy-Bingo/201587930203?ref=search&sid=646940670.2909058040..1#/pages/Foxy-Bingo/201587930203?v=wall&ref=search...

A new mixed martial arts game will be launched on Facebook. Break Media, a Los Angeles-based internet entertainment community for men, is set to release the game app, MMA FightPicker.MMA FightPicker is a fantasy sports game where the user can choose several fighters to compete in fight pools. In addition, they can also bet on upcoming MMA (mixed martial arts) matches. Winners will be awarded with...

Two weeks ago disaster struck Haiti in the form of a 7.0 magnitude earthquake. Last week, Zynga created the Relief Fund for Haiti to raise money to give to the UN World Food Programme to use in Haiti. Five days after Zynga started the relief fund, they have already gathered over $1.5 million from users in over 47 countries!Zynga encouraged Facebook gamers by selling limited edition virtual items...

Earlier this week, Facebook finally released its version of Twitter’s retweet. Called the “via” feature, this lets a user repost another person’s shared item. To use this feature:Go to the newsfeed and then to a friend’s post. Click “share”. A new window will come up showing the item to be shared with “via [friend’s name]” and an option to remove it. Click “share”.If the...

AT&T announced that it had already fixed the problem that caused a mom and her two daughters to get into other people’s Facebook accounts using their mobile phones, earlier this month. The problem was, AT&T had a glitch in their infrastructure that connected the phones to the internet. This made it lose track of who owns which profile. The mobile phone service provider said they added new...

There are things that should not be posted in anybody’s Facebook account. These things include writings and photos that could offend people, as well as those that could cause the owner of the profile to look guilty about something. Last Saturday, the police received a report about an incriminating picture. It was a Facebook photo of baby with an unlit cigarette in his mouth. The police traced the...

A few days ago, we talked about Island Paradise, a Facebook game published by Meteor Games. This time, we will talk about Little Rock Pool (http://apps.facebook.com/rockpool/), another game from the same game developer.Little Rock Pool is an aquaculture simulator, set in the ocean instead of a fish tank. The game allows the player to grow plants and take care of fish. The fish, such as Gold Carp,...

Yesterday, a new Facebook app was launched: Gangster City (http://apps.facebook.com/gangstercity/). This flash-based app is a role playing mafia game produced by Playfish.The game starts with a comic book style storytelling, where the player’s character just discovered that his father was part of the mob and was killed. The police didn’t really touch the case, so the killer is still on the loose....

Facebook is so popular and its gaming scene is so profitable that even known video game publishers are now releasing applications in the Social Networking site. Namco Bandai is a Japan-based developer and publisher of arcade and home video games. Its most popular games include Pac-Man™, Tekken, Dragon Ball, Time Crisis, and Naruto.With social networking discovery experts, Mplayit, Namco Bandai...

On January 20th, the new Facebook Email API will go live. This means that developers’ applications will soon have the ability to send emails to their users. For developers, there are 2 ways of using the new email sharing features:If the developers want to make email sharing optional, users will be prompted with this permissions dialog box:On the other hand, if the developers want to make email...

Habbo Hotel and Facebook recently announced its partnership. This partnership means that Facebook users can go to the Habbo Hotel Facebook application without the need to register and that Habbo Hotel users can mingle with Facebook friends through Facebook Connect. This integration also allows Facebook friends to know what your Habbo avatar’s name is. So for those teens who don’t want their avatar’s...

Ever wondered if there are any Facebook friends who have removed you from their list of Facebook friends? Want to know who? Last week, i-Doodz released the iPhone app, Defriended (http://www.appstorehq.com/defriended-iphone-124040/app), just to do that. Although the app is still present in the App store, Facebook immediately blocked that app only days after its release. So downloading it will just...