Rumour has it that Microsoft will start to allow free to play games such as Farmville and Cityville onto the Xbox 360 in the near future.

Recent race-related xenophobic shootings in Malmo, Sweden, in which an obviously disturbed 38-year old man killed one person and tried to do the same with a further 15 have inexplicably been linked to video games. Perpetual scapegoat Counter-Strike, specifically. That’s according to video-game hating British Labour VP Keith Vaz, anyway. Despite the killings obviously being fuelled by hatred, the killer …

Want to know what Farmville has that makes it very alluring to advertisers? 17 million players, that’s what. It’s an advertiser’s wet dream insofar as captive markets are concerned. Zynga is sitting pretty with this resource, and now movies are set to make use of it. DreamWorks Animation has signed a deal with Zynga that will see their upcoming movie, …

Facebook’s FarmVille isn’t what you’d call a game abundant with violent imagery or themes. There are many that would contend it’s not what you’d call a game at all. Still, it’s the reason a particularly addicted woman is now facing life in prison. A lazy-eyed 22 year old woman from Jacksonville, Florida has pleaded guilty to killing her baby son …

Take THAT all you gamers who sneer at casual games on Facebook (I’m including myself in that group by the way). It’s somewhat depressing to learn that Zynga’s estimated market value is now greater than Electronic Arts’. This shows two things: how quickly the social gaming market has grown; and how quickly the mantle of “largest game publisher in the …

  Bloody Hell! I always knew Facebook was responsible for draining away at productivity – but I had no idea it was this much. Facebook really ought to be destroyed, in a fire. human beings, you see, spend 927,000,000 hours a month playing those horribly casual Facebook games. Of the 250 million people utilise Facebook for games,  Facebook, around 50 …

Are you inundated with unsolicited advertising of the spam variety? Ever wondered where the bastard gets your info from? If you’re a regular player of unfathomably popular Facebook games like Mafia Wars and the ubiquitous Farmville, they may be the source. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the games – and many other Facebook apps -  violate Facebook’s privacy …

Wildly popular Facebook game Farmville is indeed wildly popular. Picture one middle aged woman. Now multiply her by thirty. Now imagine that group of thirty middle aged women, and arbitrarily multiply that by one million. That’s how many people play FarmVille every single day – and it’s just a fraction of the number of registered FarmVille Users. According to data …