FarmVille Groovy Cow Adoptable!

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A new lost, roaming animal, the Groovy Cow has made its way to FarmVille and should be roaming onto a farm near you.

The Groovy Cow is an adoptable animal, meaning that if you find one on your farm you cannot keep it for yourself, but you can choose to share it with your FarmVille neighbors via FaceBook newsfeed and give them the opportunity to adopt. farmville groovy cow

Her story is that while seemingly dazed and confused she got lost and can't remember where she lives! Maybe this Groovy Cow was under the influence, what do you think?

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

YoVille: New Movie-Studio at Realtors and Movie Sets in Furniture Store

Hollywood has arrived at YoVille , you can now buy a Movie studio for 29 YoCash at the realtors and start directing Movies with your friends. Then get over to the furniture store and start buying all these fantastic items to get your studio looking like a Movie set. Hollywood Movie Lights 4 YoCash, Hollywood Camera 12 YoCash, Hollywood Director Chair 4 YoCash and many more. You can create a Classic Romance, Western Classic or Horror Movie for 3,895 Coins with these back drops, they look fantastic. Happy Shopping!

Thanks Spiralda for the info and pics.
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This article originally appeared on YoVille Lounge.

FarmVille Crafting Cottage Preview!

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Tonight, as promised by Lexilicious via official FarmVille Podcast, more information was released about the upcoming Crafting Cottage feature. For participating in this Crafting Cottage you will receive an exclusive limited edition prize as a reward, the Chef Gnome (Bakery), the Bacchus Gnome (Winery), or Spa Gnome (Spa). Each Gnome coordinates with the Crafting Cottage you select.
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The Crafting Cottages are still "Coming Soon" status, but if you participate in the Preview you will be able to pick which Crafting Cottage you want. There are three choices: The Bakery, the Winery, and the Spa.

    Bakery: Uses fruit and vegetable bushels to make pies and cakes.
    Winery: Users fruit and grain bushels to make wine and juices.
    Spa: Uses flowers and fruit bushels to make perfume and candles.

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The Crafting Cottages will work with the Farmer's Market feature, specifically bushels, in which you will use to create specialized crafting goods depending on which Crafting Cottage you own. These specialized crafting goods will give your farmer an energy boost or "super-charge" your farmer.

According to the preview pictures, there are a few recipes that list the ingredients needed (bushels) to create the specialized crafting good. For example, the Bakery Crafting Cottage has a recipe for Strawberry Shortcake which requires Strawberry and Wheat bushels to make.

Crafting Building, Recipes, and Ingredients:

Bakery Crafting Building

    Pumpkin Bread – Pumpkin and Wheat Bushels
    Strawberry Shortcake- Strawberry and Wheat Bushels
    Spicy Muffins – Carrots, Peppers, and Ghost Chili
    Pattypan Tart – Pattypan Squash, Onion, and Rice

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Winery Crafting Building

    Sweet Sake – Rice and Cranberries
    White Sangria- White Grapes, Sugar Cane, and Strawberries
    Table Wine – Grapes and White Grapes
    Fruit Wine – Raspberries, Blueberries, and Sugar Cane

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Spa Craft Building

    Fresh Sachet – Pumpkins, Cranberries, and Sunflowers
    Floral Perfume – Raspberries and Morning Glory
    Soothing Herbal Lotion – Aloe Vera and Green Tea
    Relaxation Oil – Blueberries and Morning Glory

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What do you think about this upcoming feature to FarmVille? Which Crafting Building is your favorite?

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

FarmVille for iPhone & iPod Touch Official Demo

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Here is an official demo video of FarmVille native iPhone & iPod Touch App by Zynga as demonstrated at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2010. FarmVille for iPhone is said to be released by end of June 2010 just in time to celebrate FarmVille's one year anniversary, as announced by Zynga CEO, Mark Pincus.

Continue reading to check it out.


Highlights of FarmVille for iPhone

    You will be using your same existing FarmVille farm, now accessible through your iPhone.
    You will have access to the same friends and neighbors as on FaceBook.
    There are "push" notifications that will alert you when your crops are ready to be harvested.
    Improved plowing, seeding, and harvesting functions that will allow you to work with multiple plots at the same time (more than even the Hot Rod tractor).
    Exclusive animal for FarmVille on iPhone only is the Snow Leopard animal.


This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

FarmVille unreleased animals: Black Spotted Stallion, Persian Cat, Mock Turtle

Since FarmVille is releasing new items every day this week in the Mystery Game, you can expect to see a lot of unreleased animal posts on Games.com - The Blog! over the next few days. Here is the latest batch of unreleased animals, courtesy of FarmVille Freak, including an white, fluffy Persian cat and adorable turtle.

               
Mock Turtle     Persian Cat     Belted Duck     Brown Spotted Stallion     Black Spotted Stallion

I'm sure these will show up as Mystery Game animal prizes in the next few days. Stay tuned.

Have you been playing the Mystery Game in FarmVille? What prizes did you win?

Zoom Zoom! Cars coming soon to YoVille

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YoVille have just announced on their official blog that cars will be coming soon to the game. According to the post, players will be able to drive these cars around town and anywhere in YoVille. While the post didn't give us too much gritty information, they're promising that the full details will be coming along soon and we're find out exactly how these cars will work.

So far, players are begging for coin car options and hoping that not all the cars will require YoCash in order to enjoy. We're not so sure - cars seem like a big addition to YoVille and are likely a perfect candidate for a premium item. Time will tell though, and we'll be sure to have all the details on YoVille cars as soon as they're available.

What do you think about the idea of cars in YoVille? Which model of car are you hoping for?

FrontierVille: Complete the 'Hot Wheels!' Goal for a Deluxe Buggy!

A new goal appeared in FrontierVille (as if building your own Horseshoe Pit wasn't enough) this weekend titled "Hot Wheels!" that asks players to complete three simple requirements to get the Deluxe Buggy. Honestly, the item is simply the original Black Buggy with a new name, but what's in a name anyway?

The original cost of 55 Horseshoes for the Black Buggy compared to zero for a Deluxe Buggy is a trade we would take any day. Join us behind the break for a short guide on how to accomplish this not-so-daunting task.
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This goal has three requirements, two of which aren't necessarily difficult, but will take a little while to complete:


    Collect Ten Saddle Soap (Unlock for 20 Horseshoes)
    Collect Ten Elbow Grease (Unlock for 20 Horseshoes)
    Clear Five Grasses




While it appears last on this list, the simplest requirement here is clearly the grasses, so just get that out of the way first. The two other goals require you to ask your friends to gift the items to you. But don't worry about trying to sell them on the idea, a free lunch is in it for them if they decide to lend a hand. Also, remember to respond to your friends' requests for these gifts, because doing so will net you one of the items too.
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After you've complete the three requirements, you'll find yourself with a new whip and 100 more experience points. Not too shabby for an item that used to cost quite a lot of Horseshoes. Don't pass up on this chance to have the ride of your dreams, at least until the Jalopy shows up. Hey, it's only a matter of time!

FarmVille Unreleased Rainbow Chicken, German Tree, German Barn Stage 1, Barn Stage 2, & Barn Stage 3

Could FarmVille soon be celebrating Octoberfest, with an upcoming German theme? It looks like some of these items would fit in perfectly on a German-themed farm.

Thank you to FarmVille Freak Teresa for finding these unreleased FarmVille Rainbow Chicken, German Tree, German Barn Stage 1, Barn Stage 2, & Barn Stage 3 items!

Note: Unreleased items have no official release date or guarantee that they will make it in-game.

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

Cafe World welcomes you to the Far East with the Zen Garden set

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A massive new set of items is available to spruce up your fine establishment in Cafe World: the Zen Garden set. Zynga added a slew of decorations like a arcade games and a karaoke as well as animated items including sumo wrestlers, ninjas and samurai.

To turn your cafe into the best sushi bar or noodle house in town, continue reading for a list of what's available.
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Unfortunately, most of these items--especially those that are animated--cost sometimes exorbitant amounts of Cafe Cash with only three items available for an insane amount of coins. Take a look at what you'll be saving up for below:

Decorations:


    Indoor Zen Garden (18 Cafe Cash)
    Karaoke Stage (20 Cafe Cash)
    Arcade Games (22 Cafe Cash)
    Sword Display (5 Cafe Cash)
    Bamboo Fountain (5 Cafe Cash)
    Armor Display (7 Cafe Cash)
    Mystical Creature (13 Cafe Cash)
    Ninja (16 Cafe Cash)
    Sumo Wrestler (16 Cafe Cash)
    Japanese Food Display (40,000 coins)
    Tea Booth (50,000 coins)
    Taiko Drum (60,000 coins)



Furniture and Furnishings:


    Japanese Table (2 Cafe Cash)
    Japanese Chair (2 Cafe Cash)
    Japanese Door (2 Cafe Cash)
    Ocean Painting (14 Cafe Cash)
    Woman Scroll Painting (6 Cafe Cash)
    Bird Scroll Painting (6 Cafe Cash)
    Slide Door Wall (1 Cafe Cash)



Functional Items:


    Helmet Stove (6 Cafe Cash)
    Japanese Counter (3 Cafe Cash)



Outdoor Items:


    Sakura Tree (5 Cafe Cah)
    Zen Garden (18 Cafe Cash)



And that's everything you'll need to make your cafe into the next booming sushi bar. However, with an immense price tag of 187 Cafe Cash for the complete set, you're going to be saving for a long time to launch the Japanese fusion restaurant of your dreams. In the meantime, work on that fabled Grand Master Chef who should help get you that cash even faster.

Mafia Wars: Atlantic City coming soon for mobile devices only

There will soon be a new location for Mafia Wars players to wreak havoc, Atlantic City, according to a leak caught by Mafia Wars Maniac. However, the new location will only be a city available to mobile phones--not to be confused with Zynga's Mafia Wars game for iPhone, which oddly has little to no connection with the Facebook game.

Atlantic City can only be accessed by going to m.mafiawars.com from a web browser on a mobile device, but the content is currently in beta testing and no launch date has been announced. Fortunately, the leaked promo page in Mafia Wars gives a great amount of detail as to what we'll be enjoying in Atlantic City.

Players Level 18 and above will be able to tackle this city using the same stats and items from their Facebook profile (finally!) as well as use their Las Vegas currency to complete the jobs. There will be an exclusive daily bonus for playing on your mobile device accompanied by two impressive reward items for mastering the location: the Automatic .22 with 105 Attack and 98 Defense and the Bullet 44 OET vehicle (99 Attack, 116 Defense). Bookmark the website on your mobile browser and stay tuned here for when Atlantic City finally goes live.

Microsoft could buy its way into social games in 2011, analysts say

The year 2011might involve even more acquisitions in social gaming from more companies than just Zynga, with potential buyers like Microsoft and media giant Viacom expected by analysts to be considering serious purchases, Reuters said. Because advertising isn't exactly working out this decade, big media and tech companies will look to virtual goods to stay afloat, according to analysts' predictions.

"The truth is everybody is talking to everybody, every potential buyer is probably talking to just about every social game company out there," said principal with Norwest Venture Partners Tim Chang, whose firm invested in Playdom.

Apparently Microsoft could be the next big customer, looking to enhance its Xbox Live platform, industry executives said. With Zynga's FarmVille coming to Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, they just might be right. However, Zynga is pretty much off the table at this point with an estimated worth of over $5 billion, but that doesn't mean smaller companies couldn't fill that void.

Find out who could be gobbled up next after the break.
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"With Playfish and Playdom gone, Zynga being unbuyable, we're on the downside of that slope," said Don Rainey, a partner at Grotech Ventures. "We're through the big moves and into the small moves."

What about 'small move' companies like CrowdStar or Kabam? While CrowdStar chairman Peter Relman reportedly doesn't feel the pressure to sell, Microsoft could probably offer him something enticing. Who knows, Microsoft could be looking to promote the next phase of its Halo franchise through social gaming. All the cool kids are doing it. A Microsoft-owned CrowdStar could become the Facebook brand manager for Microsoft Games Studio much like Playfish is for Electronic Arts.

While consolidation through buyouts is certainly good for business, this could hurt the creative potential of social games studios to make gripping games with fresh ideas. There's nothing like the pressure to create a brand seller to stunt innovation. Hey, at least according to analysts, social games could be worth over $2 billion come next year.

Mobile social games are cooler than Sunday Night Football

And that's just on the Flurry network for iPhone. According to data compiled by Nielsen and Flurry, a social network for iPhone games and applications, more people played social games on their iPhone than those who watched Sunday Night Football on NBC.

When television is competing with mobile social games for viewers, you know this industry is more than a fad. Not to mention mobile social games on the iPhone alone are only about two years old. Flurry welcomes 19 million daily players for 22 minutes on average through the 50,000 apps that support the network, which is only 4 million viewers away from the most popular TV out there, American Idol. With numbers like this, it's a no-brainer for studios like Zynga and CrowdStar to look at mobile as the next frontier.

Count in players from other mobile social gaming networks like Open Feint and Plus+, open up the device categories to include Android and Blackberry and you got yourself far more eyes than that glorified Star Search American Idol will ever reach. It's no wonder that media giants like Viacom are joining Microsoft in looking to join the fun. It looks like we're going to see plenty more ads in our games than we might like come 2011.

Pre-order FarmVille for Dummies on Amazon.com

No folks, this one isn't a joke. FarmVille for Dummies now available for pre-order on Amazon.com. In case you still need to learn more about how to play everyone's favorite social game, this 288-page paperback book will teach you everything you need to know.

Aimed for new FarmVille players who are just starting out, FarmVille for Dummies will teach you how to find neighbors, how to achieve all of the ribbons and collections, how to shop at the FarmVille Market, how to do co-op missions, and how to deal with any technical issues that might be keeping you down. FarmVille for Dummies is written by Angela Morales of FarmVille Freak, and co-authored by Kyle Orland (who has done quite a bit of writing for us here).

The book is $13.59 USD, and has a release date of February 15, 2011. What could make a better Valentine's Day present than a copy of FarmVille for Dummies? We'll definitely be picking it up!

Preorder FarmVille for Dummies on Amazon here >

Treasure Isle: Build the Ziggurat Relic for extra energy

A new relic is available to build in Treasure Isle, and this one comes in the form of a Ziggurat Relic. This relic is a land-based object, which is actually fairly large, so you may need to rearrange some items before placing down your free base.

You'll need to build the Relic, just as you have all of the others, using materials collected from friends. In this case, the first stage of the build requires 1 each of Metal, Ectoplasm, Gold, Pillars, and Paint. You can accept these items either as general gifts from your friends (that they initiate), or you can click on the "Ask for More" button associated with the item you want to post a request to your wall asking your friends for help. Remember, you can have five of these requests active on your account at one time, so feel free to ask for all five if you don't think your friends would mind.

All told, there are four steps to the Ziggurat's construction, requiring a total of 10 of all of the individual ingredients, or 50 items. Once completed, you'll earn a permanent +3 maximum energy boost, that will stay active on your account until you store or sell the relic, at which point the boost would be removed.

PetVille All-in-One Store makes shopping for items easier than ever

If you're on a slower computer, you might find PetVille to be one of the harder games to navigate on Facebook, especially when it comes to shopping for new items, as you have to scroll (and scroll... and scroll... ) to find virtually anything in the game's Furniture or Clothing, and other stores.

Now, though, Zynga has launched the "All-in-One" Store in PetVille, allowing users to simply load a basic menu, showing pictures of all items, along with their prices, and purchase them with the quick click of a mouse. The store's menu contains tons of sorting features, like sorting items that are limited time only, those that belong to particular themes (collections), those that go in a particular room (bedroom, kitchen, etc.), those that are on sale, and on and on it goes.

All of the game's items have been combined into this store (hence the name), allowing you to pick up wallpaper and flooring just as quickly as you can buy a complete new outfit for your pet. The only downside to this is the fact that in using this new store, you lose the ability to see a complete collection laid out in an example space. In the kitchen department, for instance, it was always nice to see a set of cabinets arranged to see how they would really look placed next to one another.

Luckily, the old stores are still available to browse through, giving you complete freedom in how you want your shopping experience to look in the game.

FarmVille: Free Gifts page updated with six new Holiday items, including trees

If you're in the giving mood this holiday season, why not send your FarmVille neighbors some interesting new themed items from the game's free gifts page? There are six holiday items now available to send, with four of them being new to the game, and two being a return from last year's Holiday celebration.

One of the returning items is the Snowflake Pole, and it is the only item of the six that is available to send through traditional means, meaning that you can stay right on Facebook and send it to your friends. The other item, the Giant Lollipop I, is a FarmVille.com exclusive, meaning that you'll have to head over to FarmVille.com and gift them to your Facebook friends from there (the process is the exact same, but you'll just need to be on FarmVille.com to do it).

As for the other, new items, there is a Gold Nutcracker (a redesigned version from last year's Gold Nutcracker, so it technically is a new item), a Red Hanging Bell, and a Holiday Tree that all must also be sent from FarmVille.com, and a White Xmas Tree that is only available to send from the FarmVille app on iPhone/iPad.

The Holiday Tree is especially interesting as it is a real, growing tree, that grows silver and gold ornaments and garland, can be harvested, and can presumably be mastered (as we saw with the then unreleased Mastery Sign in a recent FarmVille Sneak Peek). You'll only be able to send the tree to your friends by logging into FarmVille on your iPhone/iPad and heading to the free gifts menu within the app.

Keep in mind though, that no matter where you are sending your gifts from, you'll still only be able to send one gift to a particular friend everyday, so plan your gifting ahead of time if you want to outfit your friends with all of these items before they're gone.

Check out the rest of our Holiday 2010 coverage right here.

Which of these items do you most want your friends to send you? Have you already collected all of these items from generous friends?

FarmVille Balloon Crop now in store, but unavailable to grow [UPDATE: Now available]

UPDATE: The Balloons Crop has been officially "released" as part of the New Year's Ball Drop / Party Barn event. You'll need to unlock access to planting the crop after having 10 of your friends accept your invitation to your party. Find out all of the details about this new event by clicking on this link.

If you've been looking forward to planting some of the cheerful and colorful Balloon crop seeds in FarmVille as much as we have, you'll be happy to hear that the Balloon Crop has now been spotted in the wild, via an in-game store listing that is now available for players to look at. However, that's all you can do with the crop at the moment, as it is "Locked."

The reasoning for the locked status is that a "License is needed." We'll be sure to let you know how to obtain said license as soon as we can, but in the meantime, let's take a look at the announced stats for this new crop. First, it's cheap, available to grow for just 15 coins per square. It grows for 16 hours, and you'll be able to harvest each square of ready balloons for a return of 126 coins per square.

This looks to be a fairly good crop for lower level players to jump into planting, not only due to its low price, but due to the fact that you'll gain 2 experience points for each and every square of the Balloons that you plant, which might allow some players to level up before all is said and done. Finally, the Balloons Crop can be mastered, with the first star or mastery coming after harvesting just 80 balloons.

When will the Balloons Crop be available to grow? That much is still up in the air, but we'll be sure to let you know when it unlocks, or what you'll need to do in order to unlock it, as more information becomes available.

What do you think of this unusual, imaginary new crop? Will you attempt to master the Balloons Crop before it (presumably) leaves the store?

FarmVille Party Barn / New Year's Ball Drop Event: Everything you need to know

We've known about the upcoming New Year's Party in FarmVille for a few weeks now, but users everywhere have now started to see the New Year's Ball event kick off in the game, with the launch of the Party Barn in the store. While some users have been given the base of the Party Barn for free, others (even after refreshing) have had to resort to purchasing the base for 5,000 coins. Regardless of how you get it onto your farm, it can be upgraded with ingredients to turn into something truly spectacular.

This is another collection event, that is sure to end the year on a high-note with users, thanks to the prizes available via this event, and we have all of the information you need about this year-ending party behind the break.
First things first, if you're like me, and have an overwhelming number of Winter Holiday decorations flooding your farm, leaving you with little free space, you'll need to do some serious reorganization in order to even fit the Party Barn on your land, as it is simply massive.

Once placed, you'll be shown a menu that details all of the aspects of this new event. First and foremost, while this is a collection event in the most basic sense of the word, you'll be collecting friend RSVPs, rather than any actual item. You'll need to invite your friends to your in-game New Year's Ball Drop party, and the more friends that accept your invite, the bigger your party becomes, and the better the rewards that you'll unlock.

As of right now, there are four prizes to unlock for both girl and boy players, but the avatar clothing item therein is different depending on the gender of your in-game avatar. For both genders, three of the prizes are the Fireworks Finale (presumably a one time fireworks show that you can put on, on your farm), an unlock of the Balloons Crop, and a Disco Pony. However, for girl avatars, you'll also be able to unlock a fancy black Party Dress for your avatar, while boys will unlock the black Party Tuxedo for the same amount of "Guests."

You'll earn the Fireworks Finale after 5 guests have been added to your party. 10 Guests unlocks the Balloons Crop, which we told you about earlier this evening (16 hour crop that rewards 2 XP when planted for 15 coins per square; harvestable for 126 coins per square), 20 guests unlocks the avatar clothing item for your specific gender, and reaching the full 40 guest capacity unlocks the Disco Pony, an animal that we told you about recently in a FarmVille Sneak Peek.

To invite guests to your party, you'll need to click on the "Invite" button within the Party Barn menu. This will take you to a menu like the one seen below, where you'll be shown a list of all of your Facebook friends, with each friend having a "Share" button underneath their profile picture. Clicking on the Share button for a particular friend allows you to post an individual invite to that user's wall. If you haven't turned on automatic wall posting within the game (Zynga suggests that you do, but this is entirely voluntary for this event), you'll need to approve each wall post as it goes onto your friends' walls, but automatic posting will speed this process up considerably.

While you're waiting for your "guests to arrive" - their avatars will appear next to your barn, but can be removed by simply clicking on them to clear space, and they will then show up inside your barn on the dance floor - you can take a few moments to upgrade your Party Barn using the standard three ingredients: 8 Wooden Boards, 8 Nails, and 8 Bricks. You can either buy them for 1 Farm Cash each from the store, or you can ask your friends to send them to you via individual gift requests.

Of course, once the barn has been completed, it will be transformed from a simple red barn to a neon, flashing 2011 Party Barn, complete with large crystal ball perched atop a pole from the top of the barn, as seen at the top of this post. Once the party ends at the beginning of the new year, you won't be able to invite anymore of your friends to the party (meaning you won't be able to add more guests to redeem more items), but you will be able to re-watch the ball drop, or purchase prizes you already have enough guests for. In addition, the Party Barn will thankfully be storable.

And there you have it! A complete run-down on FarmVille's last big blowout of 2010. Remember to head into your own game to get the party started!

Check out the rest of our New Year's coverage right here.

What do you think of this Party Barn / New Year's Ball Drop event? Is it better or worse than other holiday events in the game?

How about a Zynga Pirates game? Zynga survey teases game ideas

Or, better yet, what do you think of a Robin Hood social game by Zynga? Those are some of the possibilities for future Facebook or mobile games that Zynga teased in one of its infamous surveys. It appears that the company is toying around with several potential game ideas in house, and wants you to help decide what becomes the next big thing since, well, Empires & Allies, really.

The game ideas span Hollywood acting and production to acting as a music mogul. But our favorite from the list is absolutely the idea for a pirates game in which players sail the high seas in search of treasure and--gasp!--romance aboard a massive ship. Besides, it would fit Zynga's modus operandi to enter the pirate games sub genre with Mighty Pirates and others sailing about.

However, the idea of becoming the world's most famous detective on Facebook sounds exciting, and relatively original. OK, so there is To Catch A Killer, but we really just want to be the next Elliott Stabler on Facebook. If you want to have a hand in Zynga's next potential game, check out the survey right here.

Zynga vs Vostu: Brazilian game developer responds to Zynga infringement lawsuit

Yesterday, Zynga filed suit against Brazilian social game developer Vostu for infringement. According to detailed examples provided by Zynga, Vostu has copied Zynga games like CityVille and PetVille wholesale in its Mega City and Pet Mania games, even going so far as to replicating the company's mistakes in its games, as TechCrunch reports. In response to Zynga's detailed accusations, Vostu spokesman Davidson Goldin said:

    Zynga has been accused of copying so many games that they've sadly lost the ability to recognize games like ours that are chock full of original content and have been independently created. Vostu has 500 brilliant employees working night and day making hand drawings and writing proprietary code for online games that our 35 million users worldwide enjoy. Zynga's anti-competitive effort to bully us with a frivolous lawsuit - especially when we have some of the same key investors - is pathetic. While Zynga plays games with the legal process we will continue focusing on using our substantial resources to create games that entertain our customers.

Essentially, Vostu is responding how we initially responded to the news yesterday: Zynga has had a history of run-ins with other companies for similar reasons. Most recently, it's Oregon Trail expansion to FrontierVille had its name changed in response to a lawsuit filed by The Learning Company, the creators of the original PC adventure game. However, we're interested to see how Zynga responds to Vostu's, um, direct statement, but more importantly how the courts perceive the wealth of comparisons.