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  • Zynga wants to be big in Japan
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    Zynga wants to be big in Japan

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    Zynga and Softbank plan to announce an alliance to take Zynga's popular games on Facebook to Japan, according to Dean Takahashi of GamesBeat. The Zynga-Softbank partnership was initially reported back in April, but now details are emerging. The market for social mobile games is huge in Japan, and this is an opportunity for Zynga to go international and become less reliant on its partnership with Facebook.
  • PuppetShow: Souls of the Innocent Review
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    PuppetShow: Souls of the Innocent Review

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    The detective from Puppet Show: Mystery of Joyville is back to investigate more puppet-themed wrongdoing in the sequel, Souls of the Innocent. This time, the people of a small town are falling into deep sleeps, and the only clue to their ailment are creepy spider puppets that are all too familiar. You soon discover that the heartless Felicia, who escaped your grasp in Joyville, is stealing people's souls for her own nefarious needs.
  • Golden Trails: The New Western Rush Review
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    Golden Trails: The New Western Rush Review

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    Strap on your sixgun and polish your badge, sheriff -there's been a bank robbery in Somerville, and that ain't the only thing that's a-goin' on in hidden object game Golden Trails: The New Western Rush. Some gold's gone missing, Cowboy Joe's been cheated out of his ranch, a gunrunner's selling arms to the local tribes, and a young girl's being strongarmed into a marriage she doesn't want. Who knew the Old West was so dramatic?
  • Special Enquiry Detail Review
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    Special Enquiry Detail Review

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    Special Enquiry Detail: The Hand That Feeds is from the same folks who brought you the Women's Murder Club hidden object games, and it shows. The mystery, involving the death of a philanthropist's teenage daughter, is smart and well written, and the game itself is polished and enthralling. If only the characters would just keep their mouths shut.
  • Zynga will soon Yahoo!, but don’t count your FarmVille chickens before they hatch
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    Zynga will soon Yahoo!, but don’t count your FarmVille chickens before they hatch

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    As reported on Gamezebo this morning, Zynga and Yahoo! announced a partnership that will enable you to play and get updates for your favorite Zynga games (FarmVille, Mafia Wars, Treasure Isle, etc) through the Yahoo! Network of web sites, including the Yahoo! home page, Mail, Messenger, and Games. If done right, this is potentially a huge deal for both Yahoo! and Zynga. Yahoo! is still a leading web property with the most trafficked web page on the Internet (home page) and most popular online mail product in the US. If it's done right.
  • Robinson Crusoe and the Cursed Pirates Review
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    Robinson Crusoe and the Cursed Pirates Review

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    Pirates get romanticized a lot, but if Robinson Crusoe and the Cursed Pirates is to be believed, it was a pretty lousy gig. Swipe one inappropriate bit of loot and all of a sudden you're marked with the Black Spot and doomed to haunt an island until the end of time. You do get to hang out with parrots and monkeys, though, which is kind of cool.
  • Lost Lagoon: The Trail of Destiny Review
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    Lost Lagoon: The Trail of Destiny Review

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    It's tough to make a standout hidden object game these days, as it seems like a new one comes out every three and a half minutes. There's nothing actually wrong with Lost Lagoon: The Trail of Destiny, but everything it does has been done better by another game, probably twice. It's a perfectly competent, utterly adequate, and thoroughly forgettable game.
  • Zynga’s Profit Machine: Rock Star High Today, Gone Tomorrow?
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    Zynga’s Profit Machine: Rock Star High Today, Gone Tomorrow?

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    We're way too obsessed about Zynga. Well, at least I am. Why the obsession? Well, over the past year, there have been successes, scandals, and intrigue. It's like an episode of Dallas for the social gaming world. Here's another article to add to the mix. Techcrunch has posted a guest blog by entrepreneur Steven Carpenter where he gets down and dirty with Zynga's numbers in his TC Teardown.