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SimCity Social
''SimCity Social'' is a defunct online social game for the Facebook social network where users create their own city and interact with cities of their Facebook friends. The game was developed by Playfish and published by Electronic Arts. The game was announced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2012, during EA's press conference on June 4, 2012,http://www.marketwatch.com/story/simcity-social-breaks-groun 4d-on-facebook-2012-06-04 and released on June 25, 2012. On April 14, 2013, it was announced that the game would be shutting down. On June 14, 2013, ''SimCity Social'' and ''The Sims Social'' both ceased completely, with no possible access to the game. This was met with very negative response from players of both games. Objective Like its forebear, ''SimCity'', the objective is to design and build a city without specific goals although in ''SimCity Social'', optional goals are introduced in the form of quests. Gameplay This is a resource-based game. Players must collect vari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SimCity Social
''SimCity Social'' is a defunct online social game for the Facebook social network where users create their own city and interact with cities of their Facebook friends. The game was developed by Playfish and published by Electronic Arts. The game was announced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2012, during EA's press conference on June 4, 2012,http://www.marketwatch.com/story/simcity-social-breaks-groun 4d-on-facebook-2012-06-04 and released on June 25, 2012. On April 14, 2013, it was announced that the game would be shutting down. On June 14, 2013, ''SimCity Social'' and ''The Sims Social'' both ceased completely, with no possible access to the game. This was met with very negative response from players of both games. Objective Like its forebear, ''SimCity'', the objective is to design and build a city without specific goals although in ''SimCity Social'', optional goals are introduced in the form of quests. Gameplay This is a resource-based game. Players must collect vari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CityVille
''CityVille'' is a defunct casual gaming, casual social network game, social city-building game, city-building game developed by Zynga, and released in December 2010. A sequel, ''CityVille 2'', was released in December 2012. It was closed down on February, 2013 just three months after the game's release. ''CityVille'' was shut down on April 30, 2015. Players had been given a notice when opening the game prior to the shutdown. Gameplay ''CityVille'' allows players to become the owner of a virtual city and to oversee its development into a large metropolis. The city can grow with various tasks to be performed. The amount of energy available increases as the player gains in experience levels, up to a maximum of 30 or 38 with the dam addition and up to 47 with the addition of the wind farm. The energy points are replenished automatically at a constant rate of one energy every five minutes. The player can also visit their neighbor's city and perform up to five different jobs every ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Video Games
Numerous video games were released in 2012. Many awards went to games such as '' Borderlands 2'', ''Far Cry 3'', ''Journey'', ''Mass Effect 3'', ''Dishonored'', '' The Walking Dead'' and '' XCOM: Enemy Unknown''. The year began with the worldwide release of Sony's handheld game console, the PlayStation Vita, originally launched in Japan in December 2011. The end of the year marked the worldwide release of Nintendo's home game console, the Wii U. Critically acclaimed titles Metacritic (MC) and GameRankings (GR) are aggregators of video game journalism reviews. Highest-grossing games The following were 2012's top ten highest-grossing video games in terms of worldwide revenue (including physical sales, digital purchases, subscriptions, microtransactions, free-to-play and pay-to-play) across all platforms (including mobile, PC and console platforms). Events Hardware releases The list of game consoles released in 2012 in North America. Series with new entries Series with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Online Games
An online game is a video game that is either partially or primarily played through the Internet or any other computer network available. Online games are ubiquitous on modern gaming platforms, including PCs, consoles and mobile devices, and span many genres, including first-person shooters, strategy games, and massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG). In 2019, revenue in the online games segment reached $16.9 billion, with $4.2 billion generated by China and $3.5 billion in the United States. Since 2010s, a common trend among online games has been operating them as games as a service, using monetization schemes such as loot boxes and battle passes as purchasable items atop freely-offered games. Unlike purchased retail games, online games have the problem of not being permanently playable, as they require special servers in order to function. The design of online games can range from simple text-based environments to the incorporation of complex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electronic Arts Games ...
This is a list of video games published or developed by Electronic Arts. Since 1983 and the 1987 release of its ''Skate or Die!'', it has respectively published and developed games, bundles, as well as a handful of earlier productivity software. Only versions of games developed or published by EA, as well as those versions' years of release, are listed. Sections * List of Electronic Arts games: 1983–1999 * List of Electronic Arts games: 2000–2009 * List of Electronic Arts games: 2010–2019 * List of Electronic Arts games: 2020–present External links Official portal of EA GamesList of Electronic Arts gamesfrom MobyGames {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Electronic Arts Games Electronic Arts Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Founded in May 1982 by Apple employee Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer game industry and promoted the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Facebook Games
Facebook is an online social media and social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, its name comes from the face book directories often given to American university students. Membership was initially limited to Harvard students, gradually expanding to other North American universities and, since 2006, anyone over 13 years old. As of July 2022, Facebook claimed 2.93 billion monthly active users, and ranked third worldwide among the most visited websites as of July 2022. It was the most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s. Facebook can be accessed from devices with Internet connectivity, such as personal computers, tablets and smartphones. After registering, users can create a profile revealing information about themselves. They can post text, photos and multimedia which are shared with any oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SimCity (2013 Video Game)
''SimCity'' is a city-building and urban planning simulation massively multiplayer online game developed by Maxis Emeryville and published by Electronic Arts. Released for Microsoft Windows in early March 2013, it is a reboot of the ''SimCity'' series, and is the first major installment since the release of ''SimCity 4'' a decade before. A macOS version was released on August 29, 2013. Players can create a settlement that can grow into a city by zoning land for residential, commercial, or industrial development, as well as building and maintaining public services, transport and utilities. ''SimCity'' uses a new engine called GlassBox that allows for more detailed simulation than previous games. Throughout its development, ''SimCity'' received critical acclaim for its new engine and reimagined gameplay; however, publications cautioned the game's mandatory use of a persistent internet connection, which enables cloud saves and multiplayer functionality, allowing cities to trade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sims Social
''The Sims Social'' was a Facebook addition to the ''Sims'' series of video games. It was announced during the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2011 press conference. As with the original ''Sims'' games, ''The Sims Social'' lets the user create their own customizable character. In this version, however, the player uses their character to interact with those of their Facebook friends. The characters can develop likes or dislikes for other Sims, creating relationships that can be publicized on the user's Facebook page. Description ''The Sims Social'' was a Facebook videogame developed by Playfish and EA, taking place in a fictional town called Littlehaven. A mobile application for smartphones was in development as a companion app to the Facebook version. The game also features remakes of real life famous people such as Lady Sim-Sim (Lady Gaga), Elvis Plumbob (Elvis Presley), and Sims Cara (Sin Cara). Skills Like other games in ''The Sims'' series, Sims could develop skills. There we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferris Wheel
A Ferris wheel (also called a Giant Wheel or an observation wheel) is an amusement ride consisting of a rotating upright wheel with multiple passenger-carrying components (commonly referred to as passenger cars, cabins, tubs, gondolas, capsules, or pods) attached to the rim in such a way that as the wheel turns, they are kept upright, usually by gravity. Some of the largest modern Ferris wheels have cars mounted on the outside of the rim, with electric motors to independently rotate each car to keep it upright. These cars are often referred to as capsules or pods. The original Ferris Wheel was designed and constructed by George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. as a landmark for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago; however, wheels of this form predate Ferris's wheel by centuries. The generic term "Ferris wheel," now used in English for all such structures, has become the most common type of amusement ride at state fairs in the United States. The tallest Ferris wheel, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playfish
Playfish was a developer of free-to-play social network games. Playfish was founded in 2007 by Kristian Segerstråle, Sebastien de Halleux, Sami Lababidi, and Shukri Shammas. It closed in 2013. Playfish in the past had attracted up to 55 million users a month, with over 37 million users coming from Facebook users. In October 2008, they secured US$17 million in venture capital funding from Accel Partners and Index Ventures. The company was acquired by Electronic Arts in 2009, with the last of Playfish's games being retired in 2013. History ''Who has the Biggest Brain?'' was the company's first release. It was one of the first Facebook games to attract millions of daily players, and allowed the company to raise the funding necessary to produce other games. The company made money by selling virtual goods inside its games. On Monday, November 9, 2009, Electronic Arts announced their acquisition of Playfish for $400 million. The acquisition was initially for $275 million cash and $25 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PayPal
PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational financial technology company operating an online payments system in the majority of countries that support online money transfers, and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders. The company operates as a payment processor for online vendors, auction sites and many other commercial users, for which it charges a fee. Established in 1998 as Confinity, PayPal went public through an IPO in 2002. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of eBay later that year, valued at $1.5 billion. In 2015 eBay spun off PayPal to its shareholders, and PayPal became an independent company again. The company was ranked 143rd on the 2022 Fortune 500 of the largest United States corporations by revenue. History Early history PayPal was originally established by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek in December 1998 as Confinity, a company that developed security software for hand-held de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
