SimCity is coming back in more ways than one. While series creator Maxis is busy putting the finishing touches to the next, proper installment of the SimCity series – essentially a reboot – there’s also something slightly more casual on the way. The problem? It may destroy your life. Read more
Zynga has made a bold decision. The company is re-designing its website in an effort to end its reliance on Facebook and set itself up as a standalone gaming platform. Is this the start of a tide-turning trend that could rock the social network? Read more
We may have Google+ games to compete for our attention now but there’s still plenty of addictive distractions popping up on Facebook. Farmville maker Zynga snaffled up Newtoy, to Facebook. The word game, which is obviously in no way like Scrabble, uses practically the same interface for its Facebook version as on iOS. That’s no coincidence.
Our Words With Friends addiction is long-established and will now become even more crippling. The Words with Friends Facebook app syncs with the iPad and iPhone versions if you sign in using your Facebook account. That means you can start a game on Facebook and seemlessly switch to mobile. From our testing, the games update almost instanteously.
There’ll be some frowning faces over at Facebook today. In an entirely unshocking move, Google has announced Google+ Games and it’s got big names on board already. Rovio announced Angry Birds Facebook earlier this year but the game has yet to flock there. Just like those pesky pigs with the eggs, Google’s grabbed it first.
Angry Birds has landed on Google+ alongside titles from PopCap (Bejeweled Blitz), Zynga (Zynga Poker) and BioWare (Dragon Age Legends). Read on for full details on the long-awaited Google games service…
Word With Friends, the Scrabble-esque iOS word game is coming to Android following in the footsteps of Angry Birds. Farmville creators Zynga bought up Words With Friends recently and is now slinging the app onto the Android Market imminently (as soon as next week).
The Words With Friends Android app will be cross platform so you’ll be able to play with your iPhone 4 owning friends as well as people packing the Google Nexus S. If you’re desperate for Android apps in the meantime, try out Android apps all-time top 100 list.
Out TBC | From £free | Words With Friends
Like Words With Friends? Feel smug that the iPhone games maker produces more cerebral than fodder like Farmville? We have some bad news. Zynga has gobbled up Newtoy, makers of Words With Friends and Chess With Friends. That means the online-play focused iPhone and iPad games are now an outpost of the Farmville and Frontierville empire. Oh dear…
Out now | From £free | Zynga
