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Jamie Oliver's food revolution continues in Restaurant City Facebook game
Playfish gamers can use his recipes 19 May 2011 10:56 GMT TweetPlayfish has signed famous chef Jamie Oliver to provide virtual recipes and other branded cooking items for its massively-multiplayer Facebook game Restaurant City.
For four weeks, players will be able to access one of his pasta recipes per...
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APP OF THE DAY - EA Sports FIFA Superstars (Facebook)
Cross between football fantasy league and management sim 23 June 2010 18:00 GMT TweetLet's be honest here, this was written before the England vs Slovenia match, mainly because we wanted to SEE the England vs Slovenia match and are currently either a) raucously celebrating a hard-fought victory which sees the plucky Three Lions heading...
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EA brings FIFA to Facebook
Playfish finally gets its hands on an EA dream title 11 May 2010 16:28 GMT TweetEA Sports stories are like buses. You wait ages for one and then two come in quick succession. Hot on the heels of the news that EA plans to charge secondary owners of its sports titles to access online content, the game-giant has also announced that...
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EA acquires Playfish
Social gaming co hooked for $300 million 9 November 2009 15:29 GMT TweetElectronic Arts has confirmed it is to acquire social games giant Playfish. Playfish will be incorporated into EA Interactive, a division of EA that produces games for the Web and mobile devices.
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Playfish debuts Quiztastic Facebook game
Create your own quiz show 29 September 2009 15:26 GMT TweetPlayfish has launched another casual game to appeal to the masses on Facebook. This one's called Quiztastic and lets players create and customise a TV-style quiz show to play against friends and Playfish users.
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Playfish hits 100 million installed games
Social gaming company meets milestone 1 July 2009 11:13 GMT TweetPlayfish, the social gaming company which was recently profiled on Pocket-lint, has announced that it's met a pretty impressive milestone - 100 million of its games have been installed.
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Playfish COO touts success of "social gaming"
Company behind "Pet Society" speaks up 17 June 2009 16:47 GMT Tweet94 million games installed. 30 million players each month. Seven games, all having been in the top 10 of Facebook's app list. Not bad for a company that's just 18 months old. Pocket-lint spoke to COO and co-founder Sebastien de Halleux to find out what...