Archive for the ‘Facebook Games’ category
Bubble Speed Review (Facebook)
Gamezebo Rating: This is starting to get confusing. Bubble Speed is not only one of many Facebook puzzlers built off of the Bust-a-Move formula, but like all of those games it also has bubble in the title. With a structure lifted from Popcap’s Blitz series, the game doesn’t offer a whole lot new, but it’s [...]
MinoMonsters Review (Facebook)
Gamezebo Rating: MinoMonsters is another attempt at creating a clone of Nintendo’s super-popular Pokemon series for Facebook. This stab at social monster collecting dispenses with social mechanics almost completely and zeroes in on the monster battling and collecting aspect of the game. The game makes a lot of the right calls with regard to not [...]
Syfy jumping into Facebook development (Facebook)
The Syfy network has announced that it’s getting into social game development, starting with a slate of unannounced Facebook games set to release later this year. Read More…
Rumor: EA Sports teaming up with MLB for new Facebook release (Facebook)
Ever since the purchase of Playfish, EA has slowly but surely been bringing its popular EA Sports franchises over to Facebook. And now rumors are suggesting that baseball could be the next sport to make the move. Read More…
Naked Gun firing onto Facebook in episodic adventure (Facebook)
The film series may be done and over, but that doesn’t mean that we’ve seen the last of Frank Drebin, as developer Gamecentric Media is reinventing the Naked Gun series as a social game called Naked Gun: International Crime Unit Police. Or, ICUP. Read More…
Favorite Four: Updating Multiple Social Networks
If you’re anything like me, you’re probably attached at the hip to your social networks. However, I know I’m not the only one who has many that I’ve abandoned simply out of frustration of having to constantly check and update different pages or apps for each one. With this in mind I’ve put together a [...]
Be top gun in Squadron Commander: Dark Skies
Squadron Commander Facebook Game Squadron Commander: Dark Skies is a RPG Facebook Game that combines tried and true gameplay foundations with innovative features in a fresh environment. Based around a modern day sci-fi storyline, Squadron Commander puts you in command of a squadron of increasingly powerful aircraft as you complete campaigns, take down [...]
Diamond Dash Review (Facebook)
Gamezebo Rating: Bejeweled Blitz set a trend for arcade puzzlers on Facebook, giving players one-minute bursts of match-3 gameplay that proved to be massively popular. Now Wooga, already with several solid puzzle games to its name, is attempting to emulate that formula with Diamond Dash. It’s a solid and enjoyable effort, though it’s definitely lacking [...]
The Dating Game Review (Facebook)
Gamezebo Rating: Much like other game shows of old, The Dating Game has finally come to Facebook. And it brings with it the exciting prospect of finding out who you are most compatible with. But while the idea of something so gleefully social sounds fun, the execution is almost as dull as your last blind [...]
Dragon Age Legends Review (Facebook)
Gamezebo Rating: Electronic Arts’ EA2D studios recently asked why no one’s really ever made a decent turn-based RPG for Facebook. And, finding no suitable answer, set out to make just that. The offspring of this wild endeavor is Dragon Age: Legends, which could be dismissed as mere promotional tripe were it not for the game’s [...]
Twilight Wars Review (Facebook)
Gamezebo Rating: Twilight Wars is a Facebook-friendly take on simple multiplayer deathmatch gameplay. While this sort of game is popular in FPS format on consoles, Facebook’s platform calls for something a bit simpler and scaled down. Twilight Wars uses a top-down perspective, similar to the first two Grand Theft Auto games, and cartoony graphics that [...]
Boxhead the Nightmare Review (Facebook)
Gamezebo Rating: Boxhead the Nightmare goes out to the people that think Facebook games only involve tending farms and waging mafia wars. It’s a pure twitch action game that requires you to have decent reflexes and control over the keyboard. It does a good job of incorporating both shooting and a persistent upgrade system to [...]
A social spin on a classic: Playfish talks Monopoly Millionaires on Facebook (Facebook)
The developers at Playfish had an unenviable task with Monopoly Millionaires: to recreate a classic, much loved board game for Facebook. And with over four million monthly active users and much critical acclaim (including our own 4.5 star review) it looks to have been a success. Gamezebo recently had a chance to chat with Adam [...]
Woho World Review (Facebook)
Gamezebo Rating: Woho World is a management sim about running a sunny island resort that begins with a typical tutorial. The tutorial asks you to purchase a Ghost House from the store and put it on your island, so you know how to purchase and place buildings. Diligently I clicked upon the store, but what [...]
Zynga grows bigger with purchase of Floodgate Entertainment (Facebook)
And the big just keep on getting bigger. Less than two months after aquiring Drop7 developer Area/Code, Zynga has announced that is has purchsed Boston-based game studio Floodgate Entertainment. Read More…
Zombie Lane Walkthrough (Facebook)
Do you have what it takes to survive a zombie apocalypse? Zombie Lane played at Facebook and developed by Digital Chocolate is the ultimate way to get your daily dose of brains! It is up to you to clean up and rebuild after the zombie apocalypse has left everything in ruin. Fight off various zombies [...]
Face-Gamers unite! Japan Earthquake Relief: Help Save the Children
The Japan earthquake and tsunami has displaced one hundred thousand children in Japan. Families are now struggling to cope with no home to go to, nothing to drink or eat and harsh snow weather conditions without any heating to keep them warm. Some children are without a family left to care for them [...]
Sega Play! Baseball Review (Facebook)
Gamezebo Rating: Sports games are continuing to make their way to Facebook, but up until recently there hasn’t been much for baseball fans to get excited about. Sega Play! Baseball fills this void with a decidedly casual experience, that seems designed to appeal to those aren’t fans of the sport as well. It may be [...]
Zombie Lane Review (Facebook)
Gamezebo Rating: There are plenty of games on Facebook about farming and building up a home or neighborhood. But not many of them have zombies. Or shotguns. Or flaming boxing gloves. So while Zombie Lane may share the same core gameplay as plenty of other social titles, it manages to differentiate itself with a goofy [...]
Interview: John O’Hurley talks Dog Show Friends (Facebook)
John O’Hurley is known for a lot of things. He played J. Peterman on Seinfeld, he was the host ofFamily Feud, and has performed on Broadway. But for the last decade O’Hurley has also been host of the National Dog Show on NBC, which led him to play the role of the player’s guide in [...]
Diamond Dash Preview (Facebook)
Developer Wooga certainly knows how to make a great puzzle game on Facebook, as anyone who has spent time with the incredibly addictive and charming Bubble Island can attest to. And today Wooga has launched its latest game on Facebook, the macth-3 puzzler Diamond Dash. Read More…
Help support the Japanese relief effort through your favorite social games (Facebook)
There are plenty of ways that you can help support those affected by the recent natural disasters that have struck Japan, and several of your favorite social game developers are doing their best to make it easier. Read More…
Battle Pirates Review (Facebook)
Gamezebo Rating: While being a swashbuckling pirate armed with a fleet of ships sounds like a lot of fun, the premise is just about all Battle Pirates has going for it. How can a game about battling pirates go so wrong? Read More…
Angry Birds Facebook has been in the works for a year (Facebook)
We may have just learned that Angry Birds was coming to Facebook earlier this month, but the developers at Rovio have been working on the game for almost a year. Read More…
Ratchet & Clank developer opens Facebook game division (Facebook)
Insomniac Games is one of the biggest names in console development, having created notable series like Ratchet & Clank and Resistance. And now the studio is going to start making Facebook games. Read More…
Serf Wars Review (Facebook)
Gamezebo Rating: Serf Wars is a medieval-themed castle-building sim that, even though it offers features like combat, is more CityVille than Kingdoms of Camelot. You can train soldiers but there’s not a big emphasis on battling much of anything. The game is mostly about designing, arranging, and maintaining a super-cute medieval kingdom that slowly generates [...]
FarmVille Preview (Facebook)
This June FarmVille will celebrate its second anniversary. And though the game has been around for a while, it’s still the second most popular game on all of Facebook. So what’s next? Zynga wants to take you, and your farm, to the English Countryside. Read More…
Coins Dozer Review (Facebook)
Gamezebo Rating: If you’ve ever been to a state fair, you’ve seen the real-life inspiration for Coins Dozer. These coin-pushing games are known by any number of names like Jackpot or Lucky Coins, but they’re all basically the same. You have a little cabinet full of coins with prize tokens and sometimes actual prizes placed [...]
Gunshine.net Preview (Facebook)
Gunshine.net is a free-to-play online RPG with a strong social element that, while not actually a Facebook game, features well-integrated support for the world’s most popular social network. Currently in closed beta, it’s a little different than what you usually see in social games; instead of the family-friendly fun of planting crops or digging for [...]
Molecules Review (Facebook)
Gamezebo Rating: People often think of Facebook games as being too easy. Those people clearly haven’t played Molecules. The deceptively simple puzzle game is incredibly difficult, with challenging puzzles and short time limits. It might even be too hard for some. And with bare bones options this can make for a frustrating experience. Read More…