LTTP writes: "Insta-review: Mafia Wars is a staple of the free internet gaming realm. It's extremely easy to play yet filled with incredible depth. It is fun, casual, and core all at once, and is best played in bite-sized increments on every system it has appeared on. I highly recommend those who haven't played it to give it a try. You WILL be sucked in (until you get bored, at least).
Okay, now that that's over with I can dive into the full-on fun review of the game. In this review, I'll be comparing the Facebook and iPhone versions of the game that continues to take us gullible gamers by storm. But here's the surprising thing: It's not the traditional gamer that enjoys it most."
Zynga will no longer continue development on its soft-launched 4X game Mafia Wars.
Available from the App Stores in Canada, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan in April, the titlewas a reimagining of an early Zynga mobile hit updated with new mechanics and monetisation.
WC writes: Facebook is perhaps one of the greatest websites in the history of the internet. It has revolutionized online social media, trumping MySpace, Google+ and others in almost every aspect. At the end of September, Facebook accounted for 1.01 billion active users worldwide – that’s an astonishing 14% of the world’s population.
But for every person that uses Facebook, there’s probably an app or game. And almost every single one of those games could disappear without a trace, and the world would not bat an eyelash.
Here are just a few of those Facebook games that all of us honestly wish would just disappear.