Back during Halloween, Zynga released a new Mystery Game feature in CityVille that allowed you to win some enchanted or spooky items for your town. Now that the holiday season is rapidly approaching, the big Z looks to get a bit more City Cash out of you by restocking the game with Fall-themed items.
There are six items available to win in this newly re-colored Mystery Game, as CityVille forums users have been able to confirm for us.
Turkey (Common) - Decoration with a 3% payout bonus
Fall House (Common) - Home with 410-810 population
Barbershop (Uncommon) - Store that requires 70 Goods and gives out 411 coins
20 Bonus Crew Members (Uncommon)
Department Store (Rare) - Not the same store that was already available
Fall Mansion (Rare) - Home with 590-1180 population
If you want a chance at any of these items, you'll be able to move the crane for 30 City Cash a pull. That's a pretty hefty price, but as of this writing, these items only look to be available through the game. As a nice gesture, we are given a single turn at the game for free. In my own attempt, for instance, I received the 20 Bonus Crew. Speaking of, this prize will allow you to fill in 20 crew spots within Community Buildings automatically, without having to ask your friends for help.
While these prizes might look enticing, I have to add a bit of a warning here, mayors. The Halloween Mystery Game was discounted to 30% off before the Halloween season ended, and there's nothing here telling us that the same thing won't happen. Perhaps as Thanksgiving ends or the Christmas season starts this game will be discounted as well. Either way, it doesn't hurt to wait a few days and see if you can save some City Cash, right?
Will you play the Fall Mystery Game in CityVille? Which of the six prizes above are you most hoping to walk away with? Which prizes have you won so far?
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Saturday, December 10, 2011
CityVille Harvest Festival Timed Goal: Everything you need to know
Thanksgiving has come to CityVille this week with the launch of a new timed goal in the game. This one is called the Harvest Festival, and it asks you to gather some decorations to set the mood, and then place your focus on crops so all of your in-game friends will be able to leave the dinner table stuffed! You'll have only two days to finish these three tasks for the Gold Trophy, so let's take an in-depth look at how you'll do just that.
Ask for 10 Harvest Festival Decorations
Harvest 50 Cranberry Crops
Harvest 20 Neighbor Crops
First and foremost, you'll be able to earn the Harvest Festival Decorations by posting a general wall post to your news feed that all of your friends will be able to see. While you're waiting for your friends to send you those Decorations, you can already have your Cranberries (well, perhaps a first batch of them) planted and growing. They take 12 hours to mature, so you won't want to waste any time in starting! In fact, since you can manually start this goal in your city, why not plant the Cranberries (again, perhaps even just a portion of them) before you actually start the goal so you waste even less time?
Finally, you'll need to visit at least four neighbors and harvest five fully grown crops each to finish this last task. If you have a lot of active neighbors, this shouldn't be a problem, but if it is, why not ask some friends if they'll plant some Strawberries since they grow so quickly? Just make sure to thank them afterwards - this is a time for giving thanks, after all.
If you can finish these three steps within the first 48 hours of starting the goal, you'll receive the Gold Trophy, 10,000 coins and the Harvest Festival Table decoration. It offers a 72% bonus payout to surrounding homes and businesses. For finishing within 96 hours, but after 48, you'll receive the Silver Trophy, 5,000 coins and 5 Energy. Finally, if you finish this one at any point after the first 96 hours have passed, you'll receive just 5,000 coins. Good luck!
Check out the rest of our Thanksgiving coverage right here.
What do you think of this Harvest Festival Timed Goal in CityVille? Do you want to see more Thanksgiving-themed content hit CityVille before the end of the month, or are you ready for a full-on push to Christmas?
Ask for 10 Harvest Festival Decorations
Harvest 50 Cranberry Crops
Harvest 20 Neighbor Crops
First and foremost, you'll be able to earn the Harvest Festival Decorations by posting a general wall post to your news feed that all of your friends will be able to see. While you're waiting for your friends to send you those Decorations, you can already have your Cranberries (well, perhaps a first batch of them) planted and growing. They take 12 hours to mature, so you won't want to waste any time in starting! In fact, since you can manually start this goal in your city, why not plant the Cranberries (again, perhaps even just a portion of them) before you actually start the goal so you waste even less time?
Finally, you'll need to visit at least four neighbors and harvest five fully grown crops each to finish this last task. If you have a lot of active neighbors, this shouldn't be a problem, but if it is, why not ask some friends if they'll plant some Strawberries since they grow so quickly? Just make sure to thank them afterwards - this is a time for giving thanks, after all.
If you can finish these three steps within the first 48 hours of starting the goal, you'll receive the Gold Trophy, 10,000 coins and the Harvest Festival Table decoration. It offers a 72% bonus payout to surrounding homes and businesses. For finishing within 96 hours, but after 48, you'll receive the Silver Trophy, 5,000 coins and 5 Energy. Finally, if you finish this one at any point after the first 96 hours have passed, you'll receive just 5,000 coins. Good luck!
Check out the rest of our Thanksgiving coverage right here.
What do you think of this Harvest Festival Timed Goal in CityVille? Do you want to see more Thanksgiving-themed content hit CityVille before the end of the month, or are you ready for a full-on push to Christmas?
FarmVille Harvest Bonfire Thanksgiving Basket: Everything you need to know
If you've been busy working on your Harvest Hoedown barn in FarmVille, and have more Scraps of Lumber than you know what to do with, then it's time to do a dance, farmers, as you now have somewhere to put them! That's right, another collection event has launched in the game, this time themed for Thanksgiving. The Harvest Bonfire Thanksgiving Basket (or just Harvest Bonfire, for short), will be given to you for free just as soon as this update rolls around to your farm.
As usual, you'll need to collect various Thanksgiving-themed goodies (called "Supplies"), including those Scraps of Lumber, in order to fill your Harvest Bonfire to the brim, unlocking more items for your farm. There are six items to "win" in all; here's the lowdown:
5 Supplies - Corn Maze Fence
15 Supplies - Railroad Tie Bench
35 Supplies - Iron Fire Pit
75 Supplies - Bare Tree Decoration
100 Supplies - Banjo Duck
170 Supplies - Flannel Cow
As usual, you'll have a variety of different ways to earn these Supplies, the easiest of which is to simply ask your friends to send them to you. You can also claim bonuses from friends' wall posts as they gather Supplies themselves, or can purchase them outright for Farm Cash. Again, you'll also want to make sure you collect from your Harvest Hoedown on a daily basis, as you'll earn Supplies there as well.
Ultimately, this feature is like most other collection events in the game, but if you enjoy collecting exclusive or even just holiday/seasonally themed items in FarmVille, this is your chance at six of those items (seven, if you count the Flannel Calf that could come from the cow) for your farms. Why not take a shot at collecting all six? After all, it is free!
Check out the rest of our Thanksgiving themed coverage right here.
What do you think of the prizes in the Harvest Bonfire collection event? Exciting or a big letdown? Will you try to earn all six prizes, or will you stop as soon as you earn enough for the Flannel Cow?
As usual, you'll need to collect various Thanksgiving-themed goodies (called "Supplies"), including those Scraps of Lumber, in order to fill your Harvest Bonfire to the brim, unlocking more items for your farm. There are six items to "win" in all; here's the lowdown:
5 Supplies - Corn Maze Fence
15 Supplies - Railroad Tie Bench
35 Supplies - Iron Fire Pit
75 Supplies - Bare Tree Decoration
100 Supplies - Banjo Duck
170 Supplies - Flannel Cow
As usual, you'll have a variety of different ways to earn these Supplies, the easiest of which is to simply ask your friends to send them to you. You can also claim bonuses from friends' wall posts as they gather Supplies themselves, or can purchase them outright for Farm Cash. Again, you'll also want to make sure you collect from your Harvest Hoedown on a daily basis, as you'll earn Supplies there as well.
Ultimately, this feature is like most other collection events in the game, but if you enjoy collecting exclusive or even just holiday/seasonally themed items in FarmVille, this is your chance at six of those items (seven, if you count the Flannel Calf that could come from the cow) for your farms. Why not take a shot at collecting all six? After all, it is free!
Check out the rest of our Thanksgiving themed coverage right here.
What do you think of the prizes in the Harvest Bonfire collection event? Exciting or a big letdown? Will you try to earn all six prizes, or will you stop as soon as you earn enough for the Flannel Cow?
Monday, October 24, 2011
Man Named Knucklez Doubles Space Invaders World Record
On October 7, 2011, Flemington, New Jersey’s Richie Knucklez catapulted himself into the video game record books by racking up 110,510 points in the original 1978 arcade hit Space Invaders, more than doubling the previously held record. How did he do it? Owning his own arcade certainly didn’t hurt.
Richie Knucklez Arcade Games isn’t just a New Jersey institution; it’s a place where video game legends go to make their names. It’s where veteran professional gamer Steve Sanders set the tandem record for Joust with his son last year. Where some of the most famous arcade gamers converged this year for the Donkey Kong Kong-Off.
Now it’s home to the highest score Space Invaders has ever seen.
Knucklez generated the 110,510 points on October 7, the score verified by the record keepers of Twin Galaxies, the accepted authority on all things video game record-related. The previous record, set back in 2003 by classic gaming champ Donald Hayes, was only 55,160.
It also didn’t hurt that Knucklez learned some moves from Hayes himself.
“He and I played together a few times and he showed me some good techniques that I tweaked,” Knucklez said of Hayes. “He taught me the basics with carrying the ships for 300 points and I tweaked it in a way that I could score at a faster rate.”
Already a record score holder for several games (Phoenix and Space Fury) the Space Invaders crown is Knucklez’s biggest achievement yet, but he’s not planning on stopping there. Richie’s next stop is the Twin Galaxies Video Game Festival in Ottumwa, Iowa, where he’ll be taking Space Invaders into the Iron-Man endurance contest, despite the game’s well-documented kill screen bug. That’s a ballsy move, but I’d expect nothing less from Richie Knucklez, defender of the Earth.
Richie Knucklez Arcade Games isn’t just a New Jersey institution; it’s a place where video game legends go to make their names. It’s where veteran professional gamer Steve Sanders set the tandem record for Joust with his son last year. Where some of the most famous arcade gamers converged this year for the Donkey Kong Kong-Off.
Now it’s home to the highest score Space Invaders has ever seen.
Knucklez generated the 110,510 points on October 7, the score verified by the record keepers of Twin Galaxies, the accepted authority on all things video game record-related. The previous record, set back in 2003 by classic gaming champ Donald Hayes, was only 55,160.
It also didn’t hurt that Knucklez learned some moves from Hayes himself.
“He and I played together a few times and he showed me some good techniques that I tweaked,” Knucklez said of Hayes. “He taught me the basics with carrying the ships for 300 points and I tweaked it in a way that I could score at a faster rate.”
Already a record score holder for several games (Phoenix and Space Fury) the Space Invaders crown is Knucklez’s biggest achievement yet, but he’s not planning on stopping there. Richie’s next stop is the Twin Galaxies Video Game Festival in Ottumwa, Iowa, where he’ll be taking Space Invaders into the Iron-Man endurance contest, despite the game’s well-documented kill screen bug. That’s a ballsy move, but I’d expect nothing less from Richie Knucklez, defender of the Earth.
What You Need To Know About Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3’s Heroes And Heralds Mode
This past New York Comic-Con weekend apparently got picked as Mode Reveal Weekend in the Capcom corporate offices. We saw Gem Mode revealed in Street Fighter x Tekken on Friday and then got word of the Heroes and Heralds Mode in Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3.
As divulged by producer Ryoji Niitsuma , it’ll be a free mode, out after the game launches, which builds in a CCG element to the fighting action. With each fight you win, you’ll get cards that let you use powers you wouldn’t normally have, like projectile invincibility. When the crowd went crazy watching Ryu use a Parry ability in the trailer, it was later revealed that Parry will be only available in Heroes & Heralds mode as a card move. In Heroes and Heralds, players can form clans and battle with others and Capcom’s Seth Killian hinted that characters from Power Stone or Breath of Fire games might show up as art on collectible cards in H&H mode. There’ll be over 100 cards used in combinations of three — which opponents will be allowed to see-that will total out to 1.2 million configuration combinations.
While the basic premise of the card tweaks in H&H Mode aren’t all that different from SFxT‘s Gem Mode, the former got a much warmer reception during its unveiling. When I asked Killian why he thought that might be he said that one’s being seen as serious strategic business whereas the other’s being thought of as a way to propagate cheesiness. We’ll see how differently they get used when Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 comes out in November and Street Fighter x Tekken hits next March.
As divulged by producer Ryoji Niitsuma , it’ll be a free mode, out after the game launches, which builds in a CCG element to the fighting action. With each fight you win, you’ll get cards that let you use powers you wouldn’t normally have, like projectile invincibility. When the crowd went crazy watching Ryu use a Parry ability in the trailer, it was later revealed that Parry will be only available in Heroes & Heralds mode as a card move. In Heroes and Heralds, players can form clans and battle with others and Capcom’s Seth Killian hinted that characters from Power Stone or Breath of Fire games might show up as art on collectible cards in H&H mode. There’ll be over 100 cards used in combinations of three — which opponents will be allowed to see-that will total out to 1.2 million configuration combinations.
While the basic premise of the card tweaks in H&H Mode aren’t all that different from SFxT‘s Gem Mode, the former got a much warmer reception during its unveiling. When I asked Killian why he thought that might be he said that one’s being seen as serious strategic business whereas the other’s being thought of as a way to propagate cheesiness. We’ll see how differently they get used when Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 comes out in November and Street Fighter x Tekken hits next March.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Man Completes Super Mario 64 Using His Feet!
Getting all 120 stars on Mario 64 is one of my proudest gaming achievements, so watching this guy do the exact same thing – WITH HIS FEET – is completely outrageous. The above video doesn’t show the full 120 stars, but it does feature ‘footage’ of him getting every single star on Tick Tock Clock — one of the most difficult levels in the game.
It’s worth watching — especially since the commentary has some of the best ‘feet’ puns around. You might say they’re toe-tally heel-arious.
Alright, I’ll just leave now.
It’s worth watching — especially since the commentary has some of the best ‘feet’ puns around. You might say they’re toe-tally heel-arious.
Alright, I’ll just leave now.
Has The PlayStation 3 Been Hacked Again?
The last time somebody got past the PS3′s copy-protection defences, it ended in lawsuits and a massive security breach that brought down the entire PlayStation Network. Here’s hoping the next time somebody manages, things are a little more peaceful.
That next time may already be upon us, with videos and reports surfacing showing a USB “dongle” similar to that used by the infamous PS Jailbreak being plugged into a PS3 and seemingly allowing the user to access a disc-free version of Pro Evolution Soccer 2012.
So, yeah, it looks to be exactly the same kind of device used last time, only this time it gets around the copy protection routines put in place by Sony after the last time.
Which is how these battles always go down! And always will!
PlayStation 3 hacked again? [DigitalFoundry]
You can contact Luke Plunkett, the author of this post, at plunkett@kotaku.com. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.
That next time may already be upon us, with videos and reports surfacing showing a USB “dongle” similar to that used by the infamous PS Jailbreak being plugged into a PS3 and seemingly allowing the user to access a disc-free version of Pro Evolution Soccer 2012.
So, yeah, it looks to be exactly the same kind of device used last time, only this time it gets around the copy protection routines put in place by Sony after the last time.
Which is how these battles always go down! And always will!
PlayStation 3 hacked again? [DigitalFoundry]
You can contact Luke Plunkett, the author of this post, at plunkett@kotaku.com. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.
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