Official CityVille Podcast : Storage for Buildings and a Zoo Coming Soon

Taking a page from FarmVille, Zynga has launched an official podcast for CityVille, led by Community Manager Clerk Casey. The first edition of the Official CityVille Podcast gave us a recap of new features added to the game recently, and also gave us a sneak peek of things that will be coming to the game in the future.

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Playdom's Gardens of Time Launches on Facebook

If there's one game genre that has clearly been missing from Facebook -- it's the ever popular hidden object game. But that's not going to last for long -- earlier this week, we saw the release of Mystery Manor from Game Insight and, today, Playdom has released its hidden object game, Gardens of Time

For the uninitiated, hidden object games, aka HOGs, are puzzle games where you find items hidden in different scenes, similar to the game I Spy that you may have played as a child. Most of these puzzlers involve some kind of storyline and generally contain high-end graphics and a lush soundtrack -- all characteristics specifically designed to appeal to their largely female audience. Some of the better known hidden object games are the Mystery Case Files series from Big Fish Games, which are available for download for a price.

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