FarmVille introduces a new limited edition crop -- Wasabi

As part of its ongoing Japanese theme, FarmVille introduces a new limited-edition crop -- Wasabi. You need to be a level 42 farmer to plant this new crop.

Wasabi stats are as follows:

Cost: 200 coins
Sells for: 330 coins
XP: 2
Grow time: 16 hours

FarmVille intros new limited edition tree -- Asian Pear

The Japenese theme continues with new crops, building and a tree. An Asian Pear tree in fact, which cost 6,000 each. Plant as many as possible to create your own Japanese-themed farm.

FarmVille Japanese theme gets a little larger with more limited edition items

       
More Japanese themed items appeared in the FarmVille Market tonight. Here is a list of what you will find:

Limited Edition Japanese Items:

* Japanese Manor - 42 Farm Cash
* Edo Style Home – 36 Farm Cash
* Manga Store – 27 Farm Cash
* Zen Garden II - 18 Farm Cash
* Lush Knoll - 4 Farm Cash
* Sakura Flowers – 45,000 Coins
* Lamp Sculpture – 36,000 Coins
* Small Lamp-12,000 Coins

What Japanese items have you bought for your farm so far?

Get a restaurant surprise with free Cafe World lotto ticket

Cafe World lotto ticket
Cafe World has just granted all of their fans one free lotto ticket. This lotto ticket can be claimed by clicking here. Once you click that link, you'll be presented with a Fan Club Lotto ticket like the one above. There are three spaces that can be clicked on (or "scratched off") that can give you a surprise, but you can only scratch off one space per ticket.. According to the Cafe World wall, this lotto ticket can grant coins, Cafe Cash, or even items. When we scratched ours off, we got one free Cafe Cash. Become a fan of Cafe World and click here to claim your free lotto ticket.

FrontierVille Cheats & Tips: Animal cheatsheet with all values

Are you the type of social gamer who likes to make sure everything you are doing is carefully calculated, so that you're getting the maximum XP, food, and gold in FrontierVille? We have a full guide to the FrontierVille animals, telling you how much each animal is worth. This handy chart will be updated going forward with new information, but this is the latest and greatest information. How much coins is a chicken worth? How much food will a goat provide? This chart gives you all of the detail about FrontierVille animals.

Looking for our FrontierVille Tree Cheatsheet? Click here!

Last updated January 20, 2011:

YoVille: Moroccan Mystery Box Items Revealed

YoVille Mystery Box
The Moroccan Mystery box that was recently released got a very positive review from most of the YoVille players. We know that many of you want to find out about what's hidden inside! The YoVille Lounge Forums prepared a list of the items found in the box. Don't forget that the new box can also earn you coins and YoCash.

What did you get from the box? YoVille Mystery Box Results

This article originally appeared on YoVille Lounge.

Pet Society: Homes of High Society Pets

Ever wonder what it's like to be royalty? Jean-Pierre has always been a little prince, living it up in 5-star luxury. He was especially excited when the Versailles-themed items were released earlier this month. Kellie from High Society Pets gives us this exclusive tour of her pet's palace, including the Hall of Mirrors, where Jean-Pierre takes tea with visiting pets of importance, his conservatory playhouse, and his dressing room.

I think Kellie did a fabulous job of decorating, don't you? Check out more of her pet's home at High Society Pets.

Hall of Mirrors:
Pet Society Hall of Mirrors
Sleeping Chambers:
Pet Society Sleeping Chambers
Conservatory Tea Room (made from Playhouse):
Pet Society Conservatory Tea Room
Dressing Room (made from Display Room):
Pet Society Dressing Room
The picture below comes from another player, Jessica, who re-created the Versailles Hall of Mirrors or Galerie des Glaces. Looks like this little princess could be a good match for Jean-Pierre!
Pet Society Galerie des Glaces
This article originally appeared on Pet Society Anonymous.

EA signs deal with Live Gamer; doubles down on microtransactions

Paying nickels and dimes to buy additional content in games isn't going away anytime soon, and, in fact, it looks like EA may be doubling down on microtransactions by announcing a new partnership with Live Gamer, which will run all of EA's "microtransaction projects" and will help "accelerate the company's online gaming strategy."

The press release doesn't mention any specific games, but just off the top of my head, this deal seems particularly relevant to EA's social gaming arm, Playfish, responsible for Pet Society and FIFA Superstars on Facebook, as well as its casual gaming portal Pogo, which has had microtransactions for a while now. EA has also started to integrate more microtransactions in its blockbuster console games as well: Madden NFL Football debuted microtransactions in the 2010 edition, Dragon Age and Dead Space (among other EA console games) also rolled out additional downloadable content.

A recent study says microtransactions will grow to $7 billion globally by 2015, so it's no surprise that Live Gamer's picking up new clients, which includes THQ and Real Networks' GameHouse. I'm sure we'll be hearing similar news from other traditional game publishers in the near future -- the success of selling virtual goods has everyone seeing dollar signs.

Cafe World: Free Grill Father Super Stove when you level up in Mafia Wars

In Cafe World, Super Stoves streamline cooking in the game into a one-click process, but harnessing that convenience costs 32 Cafe Cash. There's also a suited up version, called the Grill Father, that goes for 35 Cafe Cash. This puts it somewhere around $4-5 per stove.

But you can get the Grill Father for free by leveling up 5 times in Mafia Wars. New players will have to make it to Level 15. To get started, look for the tiny icon of the Grill Father Super Stove on the left side of your Cafe World game screen. Click on the notice (image above) and answer "Yes" to be redirected to the Mafia Wars game.

Cafe World: Dinner at Twilight Eclipse is a guys-only affair

Cafe World Twilight
We haven't seen a Twilight Eclipse release since Crowdstar's Happy Pets and Happy Aquarium sets earlier this month. But just when we thought the Twilight fever has passed, Zynga's Cafe World comes out with 27 new decor pieces for Team Edward and Team Jacob. And like the Crowdstar sets, Bella is strangely absent...
Cafe World Twilight Gifts
There's also three new giftable snacks: Garlic Necklace, Apple of Temptation, and Vampire Staked Steak. The last of which, is also a new cafe recipe which earns 2,010 Coins from 335 servings in one day.
Cafe World Vampire Staked Steak
For those who want to collect both Twilight hunks, Edward is listed as Twinkling Vampire, is animated to sparkle, and costs 15 Cafe Cash. Jacob is the shirtless, Transforming Werewolf and costs 16 Cafe Cash. The most expensive premium item is the Red Plasma Fountain, which costs 18 Cafe Cash. For regular currency, the honor goes to the Vamperial Throne, which costs 35,000 Coins.
Cafe World Twilight decor
And for a bit of a heads-up, while the Blood and Bats Entrance looks like it should be a blood-dripping doorway, it actually doesn't move. So if you're thristing for the red ooze effect, grab A Family Portrait for 3 Cafe Cash under the windows section instead.

Restaurant City's Bazaar Week provides a taste of Moroccan Luxury

restaurant city bazaar morocco
Falafel lovers rejoice! Restaurant City has rolled out a Moroccan Bazaar theme that is both luxurious and exotic. A Bazaar is a permanent market selling a great variety of things, similar to what you might call a flea market. Yet, traditional Bazaars have taken on a now iconic look, and with Restaurant City's new theme you can fill your eatery with the eastern items. As usual, the Restaurant City update features new items, appliances, decor, and recipes. You can even turn your restaurant into a full-fledged, trendy hookah bar. Let your imaginations run wild my friends!

Continue reading to see pictures and prices of all the new Bazaar Week items.
restaurant city bazaar morocco
Chairs
Turkish Sofa - 1,200 Coins or Free Gift
Blue Moroccan Chair - 1,500 Coins
Red Moroccan Chair - 1,800 Coins
Pink Moroccan Chair - 2,000 Coins
Blue Moroccan Sofa - 2,600 Coins
Pink Moroccan Sofa - 2,600 Coins
Red Moroccan Sofa - 2,600 Coins


restaurant city bazaar morocco
Tables
Large Gilded Table - 3 Playfish Cash
Star Side Table - 900 Coins or Free Gift
Octagon Side Table - 1,300 Coins
Small Gilded Table - 1,600 Coins
Large Octagonal Side Table - 1,800 Coins


restaurant city bazaar morocco
Wall Decorations
Moroccan Wall Lamp - 6,000 Coins with email permission


restaurant city bazaar morocco
Decorations
Exotic Vase - 4 Playfish Cash
Red African Floor Lamp - 5 Playfish Cash
Tunisian Rug - 6 Playfish Cash
Moroccan Archway - 8 Playfish Cash
Moroccan Market Archway - 14 Playfish Cash
Pink Moroccan Corner Sofa - 1,000 Coins or Free Gift
Silver Kettle - 1,000 Coins or Free Gift
Moroccan Divider - 1,700 Coins
Moroccan Divider Block - 1,700 Coins
Red Moroccan Corner Sofa - 2,800 with email permission
Gold Kettle - 3,000 Coins with email permission
Hookah - 6,500 Coins
restaurant city bazaar morocco
Blue African Floor Lamp - 10,000 Coins
Hookah Customer - 14,000 Coins
Turkish Rug - 15,000 Coins
Humble Waiter - 17,000 Coins


restaurant city bazaar morocco
Functional
Mosaic Toilet - 8 Playfish Cash - Works without breaking 8 times longer and works 60% faster
Mosaic Sink - 12,000 Coins


restaurant city bazaar morocco
Wallpapers
Dark Tunisian Wallpaper - 3,200 Coins
Light Tunisian Wallpaper - 3,200 Coins


restaurant city bazaar morocco
Floor Tiles
Brown Moroccan Tile - 35 Coins
Red Imperial Tile - 45 Coins
Brown Imperial Tile - 45 Coins
Turkish Stone Tile - 70 Coins


restaurant city bazaar morocco
Kitchen Appliances
Turkish Stove - 20 Playfish Cash - serves 15% faster


restaurant city bazaar morocco
Recipes
Mint Tea - Tea Leaves, Mint, Water
Doner Kebab - Flour, Lamb, Onion, Salad
Moroccan Lamb Shank - Lamb, Lamb, Mint, Coriander

Click here to play Restaurant City>

Games.com Super End of Summer Contest

End of Summer Contest

Celebrate the final days of summer with a Scavenger Hunt for Stamps to adorn your Player Profile! Visit the games below and complete the described Dare. Complete all three Dares before 9/7 and you will win the 'Dog Days of Summer' Stamp for your player profile!
Dog Days - Sarah Quest Stamp
Sarah Quest: The Pharaoh's Trap
DARE: Finish Level 5 in "Story" mode to win this Stamp.
Take Dare Now
+
Finish level 5 in the Book of Treasures Stamp
The Book of Treasures
DARE: Finish Level 5 in "Quest Mode" to win this Stamp.
Take Dare Now

+
Lost Island Mahjongg Purity Stamp
Lost Island Mahjongg
DARE: Solve a puzzle without using hints to win this Stamp.
Take Dare Now

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Dog Days of Summer
Dog Days of Summer
This Stamp is yours when you complete the Dares in the three featured games!

FarmVille Crafting Mastery Guide

As you know FarmVille Crafting Mastery is now available for all farmers.

To begin your Crafting Mastery just continue making your Goods. When your Recipe levels increase you will unlock more levels of mastery which will give you more XP and Coins.


Each Recipe is organized by Star Levels. The higher tier level of your Crafting Building, the higher the Craft Mastery will be for that Recipe. Each Recipe will have five Mastery or Star Levels available per each Crafting Recipe. If it seems confusing, refer to the chart below, provided by Zynga, that displays what Recipe Level is required before you can unlock a specific Mastery Star.
farmville crafting mastery guide

    Zynga's Example: "If you have a 1-star Bakery on your farm, the first recipes available to you were Pumpkin Bread, Strawberry Shortcake and Spicy Muffin. You can earn your first Mastery star in those three recipes once that you reach recipe level 20. If you upgrade your Bakery to 2-star, you unlock a new slew of recipes: Patty Pan Tart, Triple Berry Pie and Peanut Butter Cookie. For these recipes you need to reach recipe level 23 to get your first Mastery star.

In order to get a second Mastery star for Pumpkin Vinegar (which requires a 4-star Winery) you will need to raise your recipe level to 39."

If you would like to check your current progress for a specific Recipes Craft Mastery, ..

Craft Mastery Rewards & Craft Mastery Signs

So, you may ask what is the point in participating in Crafting Mastery? Just like with Crop Mastery, mastering a Craft Recipe rewards you with additional XP (experience points) and bonus Coins. Not to mention, you get a cool Crafting Mastery Sign for your farm to let everyone know that you are a master crafter.

After earning your first star with a Crafting Recipe, you will be rewarded with a Recipe Mastery Sign. You can find the Craft Recipe Mastery Sign in your FarmVille Gift Box. By placing your sign on your farm you can simply hover over the sign to check your Mastery progress and what you need to reach the next Star Level.

Whenever you earn more star levels, your sign will automatically update to reflect your current mastery status.

Crafting Building Mastery Signs can also be placed in storage.

The chart below reflects the specific Recipe Mastery level with coordinating XP and Coin Rewards.
farmville crafting mastery guide
Upon earning each star level, you will be given the opportunity to share a FaceBook newsfeed notice with your FarmVille neighbors. Up to 5 neighbors can receive a free good from your post.

Remember, that any progress up to this point is retroactive, meaning that all your hard work will automatically count towards your Crafting Mastery.

Some of you may find as soon as Crafting Mastery was released you immediately earned Crafting Mastery for some Recipes by finding the Crafting Mastery Signs in your FarmVille Gift Box.

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

Check out the rest of our FarmVille Cheats & Tips right here.

What do you think of Crafting Mastery so far? Do you like this new feature?

FrontierVille Varmint Cannon arrives

frontierville varmint cannon

Varmint Cannons have started to roll onto FrontierVille, as mentioned earlier this week. Of course, you can't just buy a cannon -- that would be too easy. You're going to have to put in a little elbow grease and get help from your friends before you can blast varmints in one click. To get started on building your very own varmint blaster -- head to the Market, and buy the Cannon Quest. It costs 5,000 coins and can be found under the *Special* tab. It's pretty hard to miss, just look for the picture of the bear skull with the two crossed cannons behind it.

frontierville cannon quest in market

frontierville missions

Once you've purchased that, you will launch a series of missions. The first mission is to Build a Foundry!

BUILD A FOUNDRY MISSION

frontierville varmint cannon

To start construction on the Foundry you will need three things:

1. A Saltpeter, created by completing and turning in the Manure Collection
2. Craft fire
3. Build a Foundry

The Foundry can be purchased in the Market for 50,000 coins and 50 Wood.

frontierville foundry

Once you buy the foundry, place it on your property and start whacking it. You'll need to give it 25 whacks total (each whack requires 1 Energy) and you'll spend 10 Wood per whack. So bascially, it'll take 25 Energy and 250 Wood to raise the frame on the foundry. You'll earn 2 XP per whack, for a total of 50 XP when you're done. Once you've completed all that whacking, the frame will look like this (see image below).



But, hold up pardner! Not so fast. The job ain't done yet. You'll then need to collect 25 building materials required to get the Foundry in working order. Here's what you'll need:

    5 Shingles
    5 Mallets
    5 Pegs
    5 Cement
    5 Windows

As per usual, there are several ways you can get all of the materials you need:

1. Ask friends to send you materials. Click the 'Ask Friends' button, which will launch the friend selector.
2. Buy materials using horseshoes
3. Receive materials as free gifts from neighbors

frontierville finish your foundry

Once you have all of the materials, click 'Finish.' You will be rewarded with 100 XP, 500 coins and you'll have the option to share extra 'poop' with your friends via a Facebook wall post.

frontierville foundry finished

WHAT WE NEED IS A SNAKE CANNON MISSION:

Phew! Mission one complete. But wait, there's more! Cannon mission #2 will arrive as soon as #1 is done. This goal is called "What We Need is a Snake Cannon," and you'll need to pull off three things to get 'er done.


frontierville snake cannon


1. Craft or Buy One Powder Keg

To Craft a Powder Keg, open the Foundry building that you just completed, and you will be taken to the Crafting Workbench. You'll need a saltpeter (which you can get by turning in the Manure Collection) and 5 Fires (which can be made in the Wagon) -- to make one Powder Keg.

frontierville crafting workbench

If you don't want to do the extra work, you can always opt to buy the Powder Keg in the Market. You can buy one Powder Keg for 1 Horseshoe or 5 Powder Kegs for 4 Horseshoes.
frontierville powder kegs

2. Get 10 Insurance Waivers from Neighbors

Post a message to your Facebook wall asking friends to send you Insurance Waivers, and if they do so, they will also be rewarded with an Insurance Waiver.

frontierville insurance waiver


3. Buy Snake Cannon

To purchase a snake cannon, click on the Foundry and select 'Buy Cannon.' That will pop the cannon store, and you should be able to buy a Snake Cannon for 5,000 coins.
frontierville buy snake cannon

frontierville foundry cannon collection

See below to take a peek at what the Snake Cannon looks like once it's placed on your homestead.



Once you've completed this Goal, you will be rewarded with 100 XP and three Powder Kegs, and the option to share experience with friends via your Facebook Wall.

frontierville need snake cannon rewards

Once you've got your snake cannon ready to go -- the next mission will arrive...

SERIOUSLY, IT IS A CANNON THAT SHOOTS SNAKES MISSION

cannon that shoots snakes

The goals in this mission are as follows:

Clear one skull:

Fire Snake Cannon Twice:

Purchase A Bucket:

Developing...

FarmVille Official Podcast - August 27, 2010

This week's official FarmVille Podcast is hosted by Lexilicious.

Some exciting news featured in this week's podcast includes Nursery Barn expansion and a new feature that will allow farmers to collect XP and coins by helping out on their neighbors farms!

You can listen to the video above, read the podcast summary below, or read the entire transcript provided by Zynga at the bottom of the post. FarmVille Freak Podcast Summary – August 27th 2010

Pigpens Released

* Constructible building.
* Stores up to 20 Pigs.
* Only one Pigpen per farm.
* To read more details about Pigpens read on FarmVille Freak by clicking here.

Crafting Recipe Mastery

* Gain XP, Coin Rewards, and Crafting Mastery Signs for your farm.
* Do not have to "do anything" to start, just continue making Goods.
* Crafting Mastery is retroactive meaning you will be rewarded for your progress thus far before the release.
* Mastery Signs can be found in your Gift Box.
* To read more details about Crafting Mastery visit our FarmVille Freak Guide by clicking here.

LE Wild West Theme

* New theme released this week.
* More items will be coming next week.

Where do you mobile farm, Photo Contest?

* Win up to 500 FV$ farm cash.
* Ends at 11:59 PM on August 31st 2010.
* Take a picture of yourself playing your FarmVille on your mobile device.
* Visit the FarmVille Mobile Forums (zynga.com) for more details.

Coming Soon to FarmVille

* Nursery Barn expansion will be debuting in the coming weeks.
* Wild West themed Mystery Game.
* More LE Wild West theme.
* Improved neighbor visit. This new feature will allow you to complete functions on your neihgbors' farms, you can harvest their trees, collect from their animals, and plow fallow land. Not only will you be rewarded XP and Coins for helping out on their farm, so will your neighbor. (Similar to neighbor visits on FrontierVille).

Official FarmVille Podcast Transcript click here.

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

FrontierVille FarmVille Quest Guide: How to get your FarmVille mule

frontierville farmville quest
A few days ago many farmers experienced pop-ups in FarmVille that promoted the new FarmVille and FrontierVille cross-promotion. The promotion is for a Quest to complete in FrontierVille. Clicking on these pop-ups did not trigger more details and the in-game pop-ups have since vanished. Because of this there was general confusion about how to get to the quest and if the prize (Mule) would be for FarmVille or FrontierVille. Just to clear things up, the Mule is for use in FarmVille, not FrontierVille.

Use this guide to complete the FrontierVille FarmVille Quest and get your Mule for FarmVille.
frontierville farmville quest 1
First of all, you need to install and play the FrontierVille app. If you already play FrontierVille, then good for you because that's one less step.

FrontierVille's FarmVille Quest I Guide

1. Install the FrontierVille app on FaceBook. Click the following link which redirects you to FrontierVille.

http://apps.facebook.com/frontierville/index.php?promoId=ftv_5wayin_farm&cat=xpromo&subcat=farm&creative=ftv_5wayi

2. Complete the goal, "The Farmville Quest I" in FrontierVille.

Requirements for The FarmVille Quest I:

    Plant 20 Crops.*
    Harvest 20 Crops.
    Buy 3 Cows from the FrontierVille Market.


*Hint: Clover takes only 5 minutes to grow.

3. Click on "Claim Mule button" and head over to Farmville. You can then find your Mule in your Farmville Gift Box.
farmville mule
Rewards for Completing FarmVille Quest I Goal

    FrontierVille: 250 Coins, 50 XP
    FarmVille: Mule


This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

FarmVille freaks of the week: Meet the Shafer family

Ever heard of Family time? How about FarmVille family time? The Shafer family knows how to spend a little quality time together . . . while farming of course.

    "Hello Farmgoddess,

    We just wanted to send you a couple pictures of our Farmville Freak Family, including the littlest farmfreak. We have all been playing since the game was introduced. All four laptops are logged on to Facebook and playing farmville. It's what we do for fun at our house, LoL. The littlest Farmville freak you see in the pictures is only 16 months and already "addicted". We also have a 5 year old who isn't pictured, but has her own farm and can navigate through the game with the best of 'em. Thanks for taking a look. We love the site!

    -The Shafer Family, FarmVille Freaks"

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We all know that group farming is more fun! Thank you for sharing with us Shafer family.

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

How do you farm?

FarmVille Unreleased Combine Building Feed Icons

    farmville combine build     farmville combine
Thank you to FarmVille player Linkaholic for finding these unreleased Combine Building Feed Icons and menu!
farmville super combine tractor
This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

FarmVille Spooky Mausoleum, Spooky Skeleton, Grave Open, Grave Closed & Coffin haunting us this Halloween

Thank you FarmVille player Linkaholic for finding these unreleased FarmVille Spooky Mausoleum, Spooky Skeleton, Grave Open, Grave Closed, Grave v2, & Coffin items!

Along with the rest of the exciting FarmVille Halloween items we've stumbled upon, it should definitely be an eventful holiday.
This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

FarmVille Game Cards free "Fertilize All" perk

farmville free fertilize all
FarmVille is now giving away free "Fertilize All" with the purchase of FarmVille game cards! This announcement can be found above your FarmVille screen.

You can purchase FarmVille Game Cards at these local retailers:

    Target
    7-Eleven
    Best Buy
    GameStop
    Wal-Mart


This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

Is "Fertilize All" a good enough perk to get you to purchase a FarmVille Game Card?