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  • MyClub Review
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    MyClub Review

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    My favorite experience while playing MyClub came not long after I clicked on one of my club's visitors. In other, similar social games, this usually signifies a chance to do something like improve the visitor's disposition (which is still possible here), but in MyClub I suddenly found myself looking through the eyes of the visitor as he downed a drink at the bar. Afterwards, he moved to the dance floor and later checked out my arcade table. Suddenly, all those hours of decorating my club seemed worthwhile and I could see why some choices worked and why others didn't. It's a small gimmick, but it highlights the tremendous potential of this new 3D club sim.
  • Spartacus: Gods of the Arena Review
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    Spartacus: Gods of the Arena Review

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    Spartacus: Gods of the Arena is the latest attempt by a major television studio to make a successful Facebook tie-in game, and predictably this virtual fighter largely follows the safe formula laid down by previous titles of the same ilk. You buy equipment, you level with every fight, and you take part in largely automated battles that hide most of the actual fighting. The good news, however, is that the Gods of the Arena have enough small tricks up their bloodied sleeves to warrant attention.
  • TrainCity Review
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    TrainCity Review

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    I came to TrainCity as one of the few Americans who still rides trains on a daily basis, whether it's by dodging knife fights on Chicago's Green Line or suffering through yuppie commentaries on Desperate Housewives on the statelier Metra line. As such, perhaps I expected a bit too much from this charming but simple offering by LIFO Interactive and Gamevil. TrainCity has passenger trains, yes, but it wrestles with just how to implement them into the growing city around it (much like Houston or Los Angeles), and while the overall gameplay isn't bad at all, TrainCity is probably best left to the most casual of city builders.
  • Fuzzits Review
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    Fuzzits Review

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    The eponymous protagonists of TnT's Fuzzits resemble nothing so much as Tribbles, the limbless little furballs that famously buried William Shatner up to his communicator in a famed 1967 Star Trek episode. Kirk and friends couldn't wait to get rid of them, but here your goal is to gain and care for as many Fuzzits as you can. As in other pet games on Facebook, you can pat, groom, and feed your pets and raise them to adulthood, but Fuzzits adds some flavor to the formula by letting you train them and letting them build their own town. It's a nice idea, but the trouble with Fuzzits lies in the execution.
  • EA SPORTS PGA TOUR Golf Challenge Review
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    EA SPORTS PGA TOUR Golf Challenge Review

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    Taking a cue from last year's earlier Tiger Woods' PGA Tour Online but ditching the series' ill-starred club-swinger for a safer anonymous title, EA comes pretty close to making the perfect Facebook golf game with EA Sports PGA Tour Challenge. Whereas previous EA Facebook games like Madden and FIFA Superstars focused on management at the expense of actual play, PGA Tour Challenge places golf at front-and-center thanks to the increasingly popular Unity engine. Fans of the browser-based Tiger Woods game may bristle somewhat at PGA Tour Challenge's simplified gameplay mechanics, but most casual users will enjoy the quick daily challenges and leaderboards that this new outings brings to the green.
  • Fortune Stones Review
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    Fortune Stones Review

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    As a person who plays Bejeweled Blitz about as routinely as I brush my teeth or put on my clothes, I was a little wary of playing Playteau's Fortune Stones at first. On the surface, the two games are a bit too similar. Both involve connecting three gems to make a match, both give bonus items for matching gems in L and T formations, and both have time limits to add to the exciting. At first, I was ready to write off Fortune Stones as a mere clone. But there's excitement and adventure here beyond the scope of Bejeweled. Fortune Stones pulls off the near-impossible: On some levels, it may actually be the better game.
  • Zombie Mosh Review
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    Zombie Mosh Review

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    Much like the flesh-dripping living corpses themselves, the zombie phenomenon refuses to die. We've seen zombies take over the world in multiple movies, we've seen zombies annihilated by defensive suburban flora, and even one of this year's best console games featured a decidedly non-sequitur zombie expansion pack. And now Facebook has Zombie Mosh, which mixes the rocking undead with various elements of Frontierville and Nightclub City. The concept has undeniable charm and the friendly developers plan to release additional features as the beta progresses, but it's hard to see this as more than a novelty game that should have been scheduled for a Halloween release.
  • Asteroids Online Review
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    Asteroids Online Review

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    In the dark and distant days before social networks (i.e., my childhood), Atari's Asteroids famously made local convenience store legends out of gaping teenagers who stood glued to the console's screen for hours on end. As such, it's only appropriate that such a gaming hallmark should make a triumphant entry into the nascent world of social gaming. Here is a game that frustrates while it pleases, challenges while it enchants, and revels in its retro roots while blasting a course for Facebook's acceptance as a hardcore gaming platform. To be sure, Asteroids Online isn't for everyone, but this incarnation developed by Atari and Joju Games proves that the original masterpiece has lost none of its force in the 31 years since its release.