Monday, February 13, 2012

FarmVille Unreleased Tiki Surfdive Shack, Tiki Jet Skis, & Tiki Beach

FarmVille Tiki Surfdive Shack, Tiki Jet Skis, and Tiki Beach
It looks like some new Island themed decorations may be coming soon to FarmVille. Thank you to FarmVille Freak Martijn from FarmVille Code Hunters for finding these unreleased FarmVille Tiki Surfdive Shack, Tiki Jet Skis, & Tiki Beach.

Note: Unreleased items have no official release date or guarantee that they will make it to the FarmVille Market. Zynga is the sole owner of all their copyrighted images.

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

Happy Island: Undersea Explorer resurfaces for the second time

Happy Island Undersea Explorer returns
First seen in early April, Happy Island's Undersea Explorer made a comeback at the end of the month citing "popular demand." And now, it's back again. Its price remains one of the most expensive Facebook items ever, and while it costs 199 Facebook Credits, which is exactly $19.90 USD, the payment page isn't going to let you off unless you fork over that extra dime.

Buying the Explorer entitles the owner to 10,000 daily free coins and the possibility of special items it might scrounge up on the ocean floor. No one knows what those may be. But we can bet Crowdstar loves this thing, seeing how many times they've resurrected it from Limited Offer status.

Social City: Host your own World Cup with a Limited Edition stadium

Not since May, have we seen a piece of Social City Limited Edition real estate as large (a 3x3 grid) and with such high stats as this new World Cup Stadium. Because stats-wise, it's a clone of the discontinued Football Stadium, sharing the same numbers of an amazing 60,000+ Happiness Points, and earning 10,000 Coins every 2 days. But the Football Stadium went for 69 City Bucks and this one is being sold for 65 CB. Rounding up, and going by the smallest price package currently being offered (55 City Bucks for $4.99 USD), that's about $9 USD.

This stadium will be around while supplies last, and there are still currently 17,627 buildings left at the in-game store. You can find it by clicking the "News" icon of the folded newspaper in the game. If you happen to miss this, Social City's new Gala Raffle feature can give you the opportunity of nailing this stadium for a much lower price, but that'll be long after this stadium's gone, and only if you get lucky.

Social City secretly ups the price on Mandatory Caffeination

Social City Factory Information Instant Caffeination more expensive
In Social City, factories are a player's major source of income. Depending on what a player chooses to manufacture, completion times and rewards would vary. But yesterday, the game came up with two great ideas that offer players options to increase production speed for a little bit of effort or real world cash.

The free option is called the Motivational Poster, an item that needs to be solicited from other Social City players via Facebook wall posts. This item boosts the speed of manufacture by 20%. The cash option is called Mandatory Caffeination, allows players to instantly complete production, and originally cost only 1 City Buck.

Yes, I say "originally" because the cost was quietly increased to 2 City Bucks within the last 24 hours. You can easily see this by comparing screenshots from yesterday's factory information and today's (see top image).

FarmVille's update tonight is 'big' says Zynga insider

A source at Zynga says that FarmVille will undergo an update tonight and that it will be "big." The details on what will be released in our favorite farming game have not been detailed, but keep an eye out.

From our source:

    "I don't have the exact details to share just yet, but our update tonight will be pretty significant. More details to follow..."

What could it be? We know that the Farmer's Market was released and that was a 'big' update. A graphical change? Is it Zynga's new game portal called Zynga Live (or Zlive.com) that we heard about a few months ago? Stay turned.

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Restaurant City's groovy Psychedelic Theme arrives full of flower power

restaurant city psychedelic theme
Restaurant City continues to embrace the grooviest decade ever with their new Psychedelic 60s theme. Last week, Restaurant City took a more hip approach to the decade with their 60s Pop Chic theme and Magic Box. This week, we're getting nice and relaxed with the new psychedelic decor. Some special guests are in town too. Distant cousins of The Beatles: John Lemon, George Halibut, Mango Star, and Paul Macaroni can be purchased to play in your restaurant.

Continue reading to see all the new items.


The new items are as follows:


restaurant city psychedelic theme
Chairs
Pink Mod Sofa -2,500 Coins
Burgundy Mod Sofa - 2,500 Coins
WIcker Chair - 2,500 Coins

restaurant city psychedelic theme
Doors
Bead Curtain Door - 4,200 Coins

restaurant city psychedelic theme
Wall Decorations
Groovy Records - 15,000 Coins

restaurant city psychedelic theme
Decorations
Plum Floor Rug - 5 Playfish Cash
John Lemon - 8 Playfish Cash
Hippy Camper Van - 12 Playfish Cash
Mango Star - 12 Playfish Cash
Hippy Potted Plant - 900 Coins or free gift
Peace Incense Holder - 1,000 Coins or free gift
Wood Incense Holder - 1,500 Coins
Small Wax Leaf Plant - 2,300 Coins
Ochre Modernist Divider - 2,400 Coins
Sky Modernist Divider - 2,400 Coins
PInk Modernist Divider - 2,400 Coins
Burgundy Mod Sofa Corner - 2,700 Coins
restaurant city psychedelic theme
Burgundy Mod Sofa Centre - 2,700 Coins
Pink Mod Sofa Corner - 2,700 Coins
Pink Mod Sofa Centre - 2,700 Coins
Camp Fire - 3,300 with email permission
Cypress Tree - 4,000 Coins
Hippy Tent - 5,200restaurant city psychedelic theme
Earth Mother Statue - 12,000 Coins
Hippy Guitarist - 15,000 Coins
Earth Floor Rug - 16,000 Coins
Mystic Statue - 16,000 Coins
Paul Macaroni - 25,000 Coins
Siting Monk Statue - 25,000 Coins
George Halibut - 36,000

restaurant city psychedelic theme
Floor Tile
Earth Tile - 35 Coins
Earthenware Terracotta Tile - 55 Coins
Earthenware Mixed Tile - 55 Coins
Earthenware Stone Tile - 55 Coins
Hotel Series Chocolate Tile - 70 Coins
Hotel Series Midnight Tile - 70 Coins
Orange Floral Tile - 80 Coins
Green Floral Tile - 80 Coins
Apache Pattern Tile - 120 Coins

restaurant city psychedelic theme
Wallpaper
Psychedelic Pink Wallpaper - 4,000 Coins
Psychedelic Green Wallpaper - 4,000 Coins
Psychedelic Tan Wallpaper - 4,000 Coins

restaurant city psychedelic theme

Functional
Hippie Ice Cream Van - 20 Playfish Cash

restaurant city psychedelic theme
Kitchen Appliance
Natural Juice Dispenser (Serves drinks 12% faster) - 10 Playfish Cash
Hippy Stove (Cooks 12% faster) - 15 Playfish Cash
Psychedelic Stove (Cooks 4% faster) - 15,000 Coins

Employee Uniform
Tie Dye Shirt - 1,600 Coins
restaurant city psychedelic theme
Personally, I'm a huge Beatles fan and a big fan of relaxing. I'm not old enough to know much about hippies, but I'm sure they were nice people. I'm definitely going to be getting on some of these awesome 60s items to hopefully peer into a decade i wasn't lucky enough to experience. Although, if I had to choose just one 60s item to purchase out of both the Psychedelic and Pop Chic themes, it would definitely be the Tie Dye Shirt. In fact, you can expect every one of my employees to be wearing it because that is an excellent piece of clothing. Far out.
restaurant city psychedelic theme
Head to Restaurant City to check it all out for yourself. What do you guys think of the new goodies?

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PopCap's ball-busting game Zuma heads to Facebook

PopCap, the makers of Bejeweled Blitz and Plants vs. Zombies, announced today that it's bringing its ball-busting game Zuma to Facebook.

The game -- called Zuma Blitz -- will have a virtual currency which can be used to buy power-ups, an experience points system which will unlock advanced features, regular installments of new levels -- and much like Bejeweled Blitz -- weekly tournaments and real-time leaderboards where you can see how your score, medals and achievements stack up against your friends on Facebook. Zuma Blitz will also borrow the killer app from Bejeweled Blitz -- a time limit of 60 seconds in which you bust as many balls as possible.

"Zuma is a very different game than Bejeweled, so the social adaptation has gone in different directions," PopCap Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer Jason Kapalka says. "Zuma is already a fast-paced arcade game, so the challenge was to make it feel approachable to players of all skill levels, even with just sixty seconds to play."

If this Blitz does for Zuma what it did for Bejeweled, we predict months of breaking balls on Facebook (and possibly iPhone) in the near future. PopCap says a beta version of the game will roll out "gradually" in about three weeks.