Facebook: Farmville is better than Sex

 Facebook, games, Online Communities, social networks  17 Responses »
Feb 032010
 

Farmville is better than sex. Don’t just take my word for it:

From FMyLife website:

Today, my husband and I were in bed, and just as I was about to finish he screamed, “Oh shit! It’s 4:15, my strawberries are gonna whither!!!!” and then jumped off me and went to check on his farm on FarmVille. An imaginary farm, on Facebook. FML

Love the 258 comments

What would you do if this guy was yours?

  1. Leave him?
  2. Build a better farm?
  3. Build a better farm and then leave him?

I vote number 3. Are our lives changing? It’s interesting to me that a few years ago, he’d be like, “gotta go now, the footy is on the telly”. People don’t change. Just their pathetic excuses do :P Or is social gaming somehow a different beast? Have we time shifted our television viewing just to be sucked into the false urgency of reaping crops? Ummm, you answer that, I’ve gotta go milk the cows and harvest the pineapples.

My farm is pretty sexy, no?

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Parents take Xbox away: Boy rings Police

 games, Humour, Online Communities, social networks  6 Responses »
Dec 112009
 

Which brands would you call the police for if snaffled away from you by a family member?  What toys did you have taken away when you were a wee person? Mine was a teddy bear. Buffalo Grove boy dials 911 after parents take away his Xbox video game A 15-year-old boy told Buffalo Grove police that his parents had taken away his video game system and asked whether they were within their rights. They were, police told him. The teen called 911 about 12:50 p.m. Sunday but then hung up, said Cmdr. Steve Husak. Officers went to the house, and Continue Reading…

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Assassins Creed 2 and 3D Avatar game Tsuke

 games, Online Communities, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks  9 Responses »
Oct 062009
 

Avatar in 3D, Assassins Creed 2 movie and game, all at the Tsuke launch.

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Tis the Season for Gaming… PS3 Home

 games, Online Communities, social media, Social Media Australia, virtual world  7 Responses »
Dec 192008
 

We got a Playstation 3 (on loan!) yesterday. Love it. But this advice is for all games boxes/consoles/whatnots over the “Tis the season to be gaming” holidays. Getting the your little darlings a PS3 for Christmas? Planning on having “Home” -the social virtual world – act like a babysitter while you get squiffy with your sister, gramps and the outlaws? I really really suggest you take the box into work or somewhere with a fast connection THIS WEEK. Get ALL the downloads and updates (it will take 24 hours at least). You thought forgetting batteries was bad? Wait until you Continue Reading…

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Web 3.0, RocketOn and Living Web

 games, Online Communities, social media, social networks, virtual world, web 3.0  1 Response »
Oct 212008
 

What do I do in the evenings? Well, I have my avatars pose, act, and otherwise help/hinder Gary Hayes in exploring the 3D web on webpages. Why, what do you do? Here’s Gary’s post Inching Towards the live Web 3.0 – Layered Social Virtual Worlds My work in virtual world give me a unique – I think – perspective in observing the migration of the 3D element out of obvous game engine into overlays. Or at least, I have fun experiencing them. Like this food fight using the RocketOn overlay (a little addon for Firefox etc) on the Sydney Morning Continue Reading…

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World of Warcraft and Second Life

 games, virtual world  5 Responses »
Aug 212008
 

You might like this – it’s a machinima made by m’love Gary Hayes – we’re chasing each other through virtual worlds. So I am SilkCharm in both World of Warcraft and Second Life. BACKGROUND: Machinima is using game engines (the virtual world) to tell stories through video. Second Life is free (unless you buy land) and you make the world, a couple of million members. World of Warcraft is not free (about $13 a month I think, making $1.1 billion per year), the world is developed by Blizzard, and has about 60,000 preconstructed storylines that you have to complete as Continue Reading…

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Facespook: Interactive TV?

 games, Online Communities, social media, TV  No Responses »
Aug 192008
 

Report Get your passport photo ready! FaceSpook is here. Upload a photo when asked, the facemapping program places you in the story. You have to make a couple of decisions. People live or die by your choices. Interactive TV, online game and movie all in one.Now all I need is for them to make a virtual world out of it, and it’ll be truly cross media. What choices did you make and what was the outcome? Are you a fan of Spooks, the British spy show?Hat Tip: Gary Hayes and his LAMP post goes into much more detail. Tags: TV, Continue Reading…

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Superstruct: Invent the Future game

 Featured, games, Online Communities, social media, social networks  1 Response »
Jul 212008
 

Use blogs, wikis, forums, YouTube, Flickr, Facebook whatever, to tell of a world in trouble, in the year 2019. A press release from the future: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 22, 2019 Humans have 23 years to go Global Extinction Awareness System starts the countdown for Homo sapiens. PALO ALTO, CA — Based on the results of a year-long supercomputer simulation, the Global Extinction Awareness System (GEAS) has reset the “survival horizon” for Homo sapiens – the human race – from “indefinite” to 23 years. If there’s no oil left in 2019, who will drive cars…? Flickr: TitoSlack ….Police only? Superstruct Continue Reading…

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Disablities social networks games

 games, Online Communities, social networks, virtual world  1 Response »
Jun 142008
 

David N Wallace has written a great post about accessing touch technologies and the disabled. The Touch Barrier – Accessibility and usability issues around touch technologies June 14th, 2008 I’m Worried. Worried about recent technology developments – actually the application of one technology in particular – touch. In this instance, when I say ‘touch’ I’m referring to devices requiring skin – a finger as opposed to a stylus – ala the iPhone and nearly every laptop on the market. (read more) Yes. It’s important and not a minority issue.How about this for game benefits? Disabled Gamers’ Comprise 20% of Casual-Videogame Continue Reading…

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AIMIA Event – Tonight: Virtual Worlds and online games

 Event, games, Social Media Australia, virtual world  No Responses »
Mar 242008
 

Who’s going to Online Games drinkies tonight? Hmm Friends don’t let friends drink and game… Online games going mainstream – the implications for the media and advertising industries The Online games industry is morphing into a compelling new medium. We are seeing the convergence of games, movies, virtual worlds and social networking applications into an environment where the participant can create their own mash-ups of entertainment experiences. Many online games have the community as a major part of the entertainment and from this we are seeing new trends emerging about how we play and socialise. These trends, along with powerful Continue Reading…

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User Generated Content – Games

 consumer gen. media, games, user generated content, virtual world  5 Responses »
Mar 182008
 

Interesting article re: leveraging user generated content in and around games. You really should read the whole thing at clickz but here’s some snippets: Reinforcing the value of UGGC, Cliff Bleszinski, lead designer for “Gears of War,” said, “For a PC title that expects any sort of longevity in sales, playability, and online time, a mod community can be extremely important. Having thousands of fans of the game purchase and then modify the title while exchanging the fruits of their labor can turn a simple game into its own gaming platform.” (clickz) You have to understand the Chuck Norris Facts Continue Reading…

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Happily eating my words…

 games, Humour  No Responses »
Feb 152008
 

Is there anything more perfect in the world? hat tip: marshallk Tags: Humour, games, chocolate scrabble, twitter

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Wanna play?

 games, Humour  No Responses »
May 222007
 

You can be banker if I can be the racing car, or maybe the horsey. And… shouldn’t the board have rounded corners? Technorati Tags: games, Humour, flickr, web2.0poly, computerjoe

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Job: Game Spot Editor Sydney Australia

 games, Jobs, Media, Social Media Australia  3 Responses »
Apr 232007
 

Are you a serious gamer? I can’t believe they are asking that in a job description. It’s like, ‘can you leave World of Warcraft or BF2 alone long enough to actually do some work?’ (I can’t talk, I’m blogging instead of writing a report). Associate Editor, GameSpot AU Are you a serious gamer with flair who wants to work on Australia’s largest gaming Web site? Do you have a background in journalism, with proven experience in news, features and reviews writing? Do you have a dynamic and outgoing personality with experience in multimedia reporting? Are you keen to work in Continue Reading…

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