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  • Jamie Oliver

    Jamie Oliver's food revolution continues in Restaurant City Facebook game

    Playfish gamers can use his recipes 19 May 2011 10:56 GMT

    Playfish 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...

  • APP OF THE DAY - EA Sports FIFA Superstars (Facebook)

    APP OF THE DAY - EA Sports FIFA Superstars (Facebook)

    Cross between football fantasy league and management sim 23 June 2010 18:00 GMT

    Let'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...

  • EA brings FIFA to Facebook

    EA brings FIFA to Facebook

    Playfish finally gets its hands on an EA dream title 11 May 2010 16:28 GMT

    EA 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...

  • EA acquires Playfish

    EA acquires Playfish

    Social gaming co hooked for $300 million 9 November 2009 15:29 GMT

    Electronic 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.

    EA will purchase the company that specialises...

  • Playfish debuts Quiztastic Facebook game

    Playfish debuts Quiztastic Facebook game

    Create your own quiz show 29 September 2009 15:26 GMT

    Playfish 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.

    Playfish doesn't seem to be...

  • Playfish hits 100 million installed games

    Playfish hits 100 million installed games

    Social gaming company meets milestone 1 July 2009 11:13 GMT

    Playfish, 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.

    The company relies on social networks to spread its...

  • Playfish COO touts success of

    Playfish COO touts success of "social gaming"

    Company behind "Pet Society" speaks up 17 June 2009 16:47 GMT

    94 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...

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