Articles written by Kyle Orland

Subscribe to Kyle Orland's posts

Games.com News. CityVille, FarmVille, CastleVille games news

Comments
Social game maker Mind Candy named Top 10 British tech media company

Social game maker Mind Candy named Top 10 British tech media company

by Kyle Orland Sep 14th 2010 @ 9:40AM

The London-based firm behind 15-million-member strong social game Moshi Monsters has been named one of Great Britain's top tech media companies ...
Continue Reading

Tags: guardian, investment, list, mind candy, MindCandy, moshi monsters, MoshiMonsters, playfish, segerstrale

FarmVille

Comments
Microsoft Bing's Farmville ad campaign up for award

Microsoft Bing's Farmville ad campaign up for award

by Kyle Orland Sep 14th 2010 @ 9:15AM

As if attracting over 400,000 new Facebook fans for their client wasn't reward enough, the minds behind this Spring's inventive Farvmville-based ...
Continue Reading

Tags: ad, award, bing, deep focus, DeepFocus, farm cash, FarmCash, farmville, marketing, microsoft, omma, svnetwork

FarmVille

Comments
Quote of the Moment: 'Farmtown' floods Facebook friend feed

Quote of the Moment: 'Farmtown' floods Facebook friend feed

by Kyle Orland Sep 10th 2010 @ 12:00PM

"Quit posting everything you do to Facebook. ... All I see every time I go on there is 100 God damn message about your stupid farm. It's ...
Continue Reading

Tags: farmtown, greg and donny, GregAndDonny, gregdonny, humor, parody, qotm, video, youtube

Comments
Mass Effect 2 developers borrowing social gaming's metrics-mining approach

Mass Effect 2 developers borrowing social gaming's metrics-mining approach

by Kyle Orland Sep 9th 2010 @ 3:45PM

Social game developers are often criticized for focusing on "player metrics" -- gameplay data culled from actual player experience that's used to ...
Continue Reading

Tags: bioware, data, mass effect 2, MassEffect2, me2, metrics, minig, player, player data, PlayerData, stats

Comments
Doom co-creator Romero consulting on unnamed Facebook game

Doom co-creator Romero consulting on unnamed Facebook game

by Kyle Orland Sep 9th 2010 @ 3:15PM

With gaming luminaries from Trip Hawkins and Richard Garriott to Sid Meier and Brian Reynolds jumping onto the social gaming bandwagon of late, ...
Continue Reading

Tags: doom, id, id software, IdSoftware, john romero, JohnRomero, lolapps, quake, romero

Got Tips? Send us a message here
Advertisement

cheat sheet

The Buzz