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Love pets? Love Advent? Then this article is for you.

SuperPoke! Pets doesn’t just bring holiday themed items this year.  The team brings us a free item each day during Advent.

Each day a different day is uncovered, much like on a real world Advent Calendar.  Underneath is a special item.  They are suspiciously like something out of The 12 Days of Christmas song.

The items are fun, unique and make for great decorating. Along with these items, the SuperPoke team introduced Hanukah, generic seasonal items and of course other Christmas standards. You’ll see Christmas trees, dreidels, Santa related items and goodies from the North Pole. There are even new  plushies to be had.

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Spore Islands on Facebook screenshot

Maxis and EA bring Spore Fun to Facebook

Love Spore? Love cute Facebook games? This is for you.

Spore Islands isn’t like the full blown Spore game available on PC and Mac.  In this version of Spore, you design a creature and let him loose on your own private island.

You pick from several types of islands to call home. Once you pick, that’s our creature’s home island for the rest of the game. On the island will be two ‘wild’ creatures.  These are game generated creatures. Additionally, you can invite up to two friends to join you on your island.

Evolution

Spore Islands has creature design and evolution. It retains some of the same elements, such as picking body parts, and choosing upgrades.  Evolution though is limited not based on your creature’s success but on an allotment of DNA points. DNA points regenerate over time, up to a maximum of 12 available.

Each change of your creature costs one or more DNA points. That includes changes to diet, speed, and attack power selections.

Check it out. You’ll see sliders to change. Your creature’s appearance changes as you adjust the sliders.

Spore Islands on Facebook evolution

Over time, you’ll find a combination that works well on your island type. At that point, you’ll not need to spend evolution points on a regular basis. DNA points can then be used for changing creature appearance and other visual changes. Also DNA points allow abilities to be purchased.

Facebook Gaming

Facebook brings along it’s own poisoning of anything good though. Like other applications, you can purchase points.  Maxis calls them DNA points, but like Zynga games, they can be purchased or through partner deals. In this game it’s going to be extra tempting.  Who doesn’t want special abilities and a cute hate for their creatures.

If you’ve had a chance to play this, please share your stories and thoughts with me.

Yours,

Todd

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This is one of the new messages you’ll see when you visit a friend’s restaurant. There are a variety of calls for help as well.

Here’s the leak.

So there you go, you’ve got a leak to fix. It’s a no brainer though as you simply click on any of the leak spouts in the restaurant.  A click activates a small timer over the top of the leak or other issue. Once the countdown is done, away it goes.

You’ll receive a message box like the one above.  Your friend rewards you with either 5 or 10 coins. This doesn’t replace clean up coins you earn for picking up pizza slices and discarded soda cans. It’s an additional way to get some coins.

The nicest thing about this feature? It’s redeemable in all of your friends’ restaurants.  I was able to claim over 100 coins today in this feature alone. Not a windfall but it pays for those cups of water.

My personal favorite is the penguins.

Yeah, cute little guy. Apparently he’s equally annoying to leaks, a sleeping bear, giant mushrooms, and skunks. Honestly PlayFish, picking on penguins.

This is a fun feature addition to a pleasing casual game.  PlayFish continues to add nice little features.  Upcoming are new themes as well.

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Mafia Wars: Halloween Loot Event! Starting Friday at midnight (PT), all jobs and fights have a chance to give you special Halloween-themed items. Act fast because the event ends Monday, November 2 at midnight (PT). Sneak a peek into a few of the items!

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Dungeons & Dragons comes to Facebook and the world loops back on its self.  Coming full circle from the original social game.  Wizards of the Coast brings us Dungeons & Dragons: Tiny Adventures.

Tiny Adventures isn’t about little cartoon D&D characters. Adventures are short, include only your character, and are scripted. Players choose a race and character class combination, choose a name, and then their off on the first adventure.

Equipment is the key to preparing for each adventure.  Characters can equip, purchase, sell, and loot gear.  Not all gear is usable by every class, much like in the pen and paper version of D&D. Druids can’t use swords being a prime example.

Adventures consist of a series of encounters.  Each encounter requires a ‘roll’, comparing against some stat.

Derit Row made an Armor Class check with a difficulty of 26 . . . and rolled 22.

Each roll affects the outcome of the encounter. A low roll spells trouble, while making the roll nets rewards.  Encounter rewards include gold, experience, and equipment. Most encounters result in some loss of hit points.  Potions can mitigate damage or even boost stats enough to make encounters safer.

Adventures are solo, and players have no interaction with the plot other than choosing to take a potion or equip/unequip items. This is not like the select an option and that chooses your path adventures.

There is one element of cooperative play. Players can buff and heal friends’ characters. Buffs last for a few encounters. Healing can only be done between encounters.

I love the story feel of it. Reminds me of a DM relating an encounter to the players. Miss having choices though on what actions to take. Miss adventuring along side other players.

Expect more articles on this game in the future.

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Disclaimer: not a Slider Inc sponsored contest.

Hi,
Glad you took your time to drop in to see what this is about.
We (a group of friends and relatives that live and ride motorcycles and horses here in Texas) have a few male and female friends that have had or have breast cancer.

Well, October is BREAST CANCER AWARENESSMonth and we have decided to hold a contest.
This is an independent contest and it is not run by Slide, Inc.

Rules:
1. Create a habitat that is in good taste for BCA.
2. Tell us a story about the habitat and if it is dedicated to anyone.
3. We will not ask for your real name, however you can use it if you like. But we would like your age so we can have a child’s level **(ages 13-18 ) and an adult level(ages 19 & up.)**
4. Your entry is allowed 1 time and 1 time only! If there are any repeats this will disqualify you. So plan it carefully before you hit that POST Button.
5. This contest RUNS FROM 02am EST. on 09-23-2009 UNTIL MIDNIGHT PST 10-31-2009!
Any post after that time will not be considered.

WINNERS:A Post will be made no later than November 5th,2009 Stating the WINNERS. (I, hope we can go through all of the entries before then. LOL )

There will be a team of 6 judges. Each of us will go through all the entries and make a decision and then we vote on the final 6 from each category.

PRIZES: They will be awarded to each level. (Child’s level & Adult level)
1st Place:3 gold items!
2nd Place: 2 gold items!
3rd Place: 1 gold item and 1 of the oldest items from our treasure boxes.
3 Honorable Mentions: 1 of the oldest items from our treasure boxes.

Note**
Eligibility Criteria and Representations. You hereby represent that the following are all true:
a. You are at least 13 years old, and if You are less than 18 years old, You have the permission of Your parents or legal guardian to use the Slide Service. (Please be aware that Slide may create certain areas on the Slide Site that contain adult or mature content. You must be at least 18 years of age to access and view such areas.) If You are not at least 13 years old, please discontinue using the Slide Site and the Slide Services immediately.

We are looking forward to all the creations. If you are just dropping in to take a look, PLEASE GIVE US A BUMP!!
Send this on to your friends too.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
LOVE, LIFE, HOPE
And remember:
“BOOBS ROCK”
Angy, Chante, Trey, Lori, Willow & Brian

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Mafia Wars Loot Suggestion Contest by Zynga

Get your Twitter on with Zynga and Mafia Wars.  That’s right; Mafia Wars team is taking new loot suggestions via Twitter. Here’s the scoop:

Tell us what kind of loot you want in Mafia Wars! Submit your idea for a new weapon, armor or vehicle by tweeting a description of it. Tell us a name, a look or anything we’d think is awesome.

The team will choose 10 winners and create your item as a new limited edition loot. Winners will get 50 reward points plus 501 of the new loot!

To Enter:
1. Follow us on Twitter @MafiaWars
2. Send a tweet with the following sentence: “I want [describe your item] in #mafiawars. http://bit.ly/MRIkY”
3. Make sure you include #mafiawars and the bit.ly link!
4. Enter as many times as you want. Any offensive or inappropriate entries will be disqualified.

Contest Ends Friday, September 18th.

The fine print:

Submissions of new Mafia Wars item names and descriptions to twitter.com/mafiawars give Zynga Game Network Inc. (“Zynga”) the following rights: the unrestricted, unconditional, unlimited, worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual fully-paid and royalty-free right and license to host, use, copy, distribute, reproduce, disclose, sell, re-sell, sub-license, display, perform, transmit, publish, broadcast, modify, make derivative works from, retitle, reformat, translate, archive, store, cache or otherwise exploit in any manner whatsoever, all or any portion of the Mafia Wars item contest submission and any supporting materials for any purpose whatsoever, in any and all formats; on or through any and all media, software, formula or medium now known or hereafter known; and with any technology or devices now known or hereafter developed and to advertise, market and promote same. Zynga is under no obligation to use any submission.

Please be original!

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Moscow is the next Mafia Wars city. Zynga is kicking it off with some cool new loot.

Mafia Wars: Moscow Preview! To celebrate the upcoming release of the Mafia Wars: Moscow, all jobs and fights can drop Russian Mafia items. Collect them all for a chance to unlock an exclusive item. Hurry before time runs out.

If you’ve not played yet today, you can expect to see this box pop up.

Here’s one of the fine Moscow loot drops:

There are eight pieces of Russian goodness and they are dropping randomly on all missions. Get out and get your Moscow preview loot.

Cheers,
Don Jordan
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Mafia Wars, a Zynga favorite, has added some new toys – Boosts! Never got one yet? Well they’re not hard to come by.

Here’s what the game shows about boosts:

These one-shot items can help you fight or defend better, and even give you discounts on energy required for jobs. Once consumed they are gone, so plan your actions wisely. You can only buy up to 20 of each boost each day.

Some examples:

The boosts are initially collected by re-vaulting collections.  Each collection has a specific bonus it gives.  Each bonus boost is a one shot item.

Making life easier with these though is the ability to buy a bunch up each day. They don’t stack, meaning only one boost of a type gets used at a time.  In addition, they get used automatically when you are the victim of an attack if you’ve used a defense boost.

The boosts awarded for each collection are given off to the side of each collection.  No need to hunt them down for research.

I’m looking forward to trying these out to see just how effective they are. Hoping you do the same and can share your experiences.

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Mafia Wars on Facebook just got easier. They’ve incorporated a window on the Home page that shows up in the same place as the Improve Your Character box.

The new box cycles through helping with missions, sending gifts, and even adding mob members.  It not only prompts you, it takes care of business right in the window. You’re then presented with the next offer to help someone. No new window is spawned, and there’s no redraw of the screen. Very efficient.

What’s the biggest value though? The quick turn around on mission support. I was able to request assistance for multiple missions very quickly.  Likewise I was able to help on several missions in very short order. Heck, I was even able to send folks energy boosts.  This is going to greatly reduce the wait time for mission assists to pay out.

Cheers to Zynga for a useful and easy to use improvement.