Too bad Law & Order is on its way out, because this story is ready-made for a TV crime drama. Police in Finland have raided five homes while investigating theft of digital furniture and other items from online game Habbo Hotel.
Habbo Hotel is a teen social networking site where you create an avatar and create a home for them, which includes furniture and other items that are purchased using real-life cash. Members of the social network reported that around $1,200 worth of items have gone missing, thanks to a phishing scam that direct players to fake Web sites and tricks them into handing over their user names and passwords.
The game's publisher, Sulake, says that out several hundred users to have been targeted by the attacks. This isn't the first time that Habbo Hotel has been attacked. In 2007, at 17-year-old was arrested for stealing around $4,500 worth of virtual items from the game. Numerous World of Warcraft players have also reported hacked accounts. All online games, just by their nature of being online, are susceptible to phishing and other scams. Tips like these can help you play it safe, so you can avoid starring in your own virtual-meets-real-life drama.
Thứ Tư, 15 tháng 2, 2012
FarmVille: New Free Fuel Popup
FarmVille Freak Eva16 and several others have reported receiving new fuel popups when fertilizing neighbors crops. When fertilizing farms, players receive free fuel, but not a popup to share with others, and the fuel is added to your overall amount. But now, when fertilizing a neighbor's farm, players can receive popups asking them to share free fuel directly with the neighbor whose farm they were fertilizing.
FarmVille free fuel pop-up window to share
After clicking the share option, a post goes directly to the farmers Facebook profile wall- not homefeed. The neighbor will be able to redeem one large can of fuel from clicking on the post.
FarmVille Freak Dave_NC's New Fuel Facebook Profile Wall Post
Note there are now 6 ways to get fuel:
1. Buying fuel for $FV in the market- You can purchase fuel in the FarmVille Market, 1 Refill for 3$FV, 10 Refills for 25$FV, 20 Refills for 40$FV, 30 Refills for 55$FV and 50 Refills for 65$FV
2. Free Fuel from plowing- Farmers randomly receive popups to share free fuel when plowing their farms. You can collect 1 large can and 9 small cans from neighbors per day.
3. Fertilizing neighbors crops- You can find free fuel when fertilizing your neighbors crops, this is at random and will be added to your overall fuel amount.
4. Completed Collection redemption reward- When trading in a completed collection you receive 5 Refills of fuel as a reward.
5. Farmers Market- When a neighbor shops at your Farmers Market stall, you have the option to redeem 15 units of fuel (this is one of 3 options).
5. Mystery Egg Prize- When opening Mystery Eggs you can find various amounts of fuel depending on the color egg. The current prizes available are 1/5 Refill, 1 Refill, 10 Refill and 20 Refills.
*6. When a neighbor fertilizes your crops and directly shares with you, as mentioned above. This may be in limited release.
FarmVille free fuel pop-up window to share
After clicking the share option, a post goes directly to the farmers Facebook profile wall- not homefeed. The neighbor will be able to redeem one large can of fuel from clicking on the post.
FarmVille Freak Dave_NC's New Fuel Facebook Profile Wall Post
Note there are now 6 ways to get fuel:
1. Buying fuel for $FV in the market- You can purchase fuel in the FarmVille Market, 1 Refill for 3$FV, 10 Refills for 25$FV, 20 Refills for 40$FV, 30 Refills for 55$FV and 50 Refills for 65$FV
2. Free Fuel from plowing- Farmers randomly receive popups to share free fuel when plowing their farms. You can collect 1 large can and 9 small cans from neighbors per day.
3. Fertilizing neighbors crops- You can find free fuel when fertilizing your neighbors crops, this is at random and will be added to your overall fuel amount.
4. Completed Collection redemption reward- When trading in a completed collection you receive 5 Refills of fuel as a reward.
5. Farmers Market- When a neighbor shops at your Farmers Market stall, you have the option to redeem 15 units of fuel (this is one of 3 options).
5. Mystery Egg Prize- When opening Mystery Eggs you can find various amounts of fuel depending on the color egg. The current prizes available are 1/5 Refill, 1 Refill, 10 Refill and 20 Refills.
*6. When a neighbor fertilizes your crops and directly shares with you, as mentioned above. This may be in limited release.
Restaurant City Now Allows 24 Hour Cooking
Restaurant City Select Opening Hours
As we told you in late May, Playfish has been hard at work bringing a feature to Restaurant City that many users have been clamoring for – 24 hour cooking. The time has arrived where such a feat is indeed possible, but this addition comes with much more complexity than simply allowing your restaurant to stay open for 24 hours.
First things first, to set your restaurant into motion, you'll need to click on the new sign in the lower left corner of the screen, where you'll be given eight options for how long you'd like to keep your restaurant open. If you are willing to come back every 30 minutes, you can keep your restaurant open for free, but for everyone else, the prices increase as you select more time.
Take note that if you choose a longer shift, you're actually spending more money than if you chose a shorter shift multiple times. As an example, if I wanted to open my restaurant for 24 hours, I could either choose the 24 hour option and pay 28,400 coins, or I could choose the 6 hour option four times (by logging in every six hours) and pay 20,400 coins instead, as just one alternative. In this way, shorter shifts actually save you money, which makes sense, as Playfish wants to encourage users to come back to the game sooner, rather than later.
Now that your restaurant will be open all day, Gourmet Points are obviously easier to earn (customers will now be constantly purchasing dishes after all), so Playfish has announced that they have increased the amount of points necessary to level up. Each user has been given a one-time point boost to keep them at their current level, so don't worry about losing progress.
To help you earn Gourmet Points and continue to level up, you'll be given bonuses for logging back into the game "on time," or at the end of the shift. The amount of time you have to login after a shift is the same amount of time the shift lasted – so, if your restaurant was open for six hours, you'd need to come back to the game within six hours after it closed to receive the bonus. Additionally, you'll earn more Gourmet Points for leveling up dishes and helping friends' restaurants.
Restaurant City Retro Arcade Machine changesOne feature that has been removed entirely is Resting. If you happened to employ the feature and there are beds in your restaurant, you'll not only see you staff sleeping when the restaurant is closed, but your staff will receive a speed boost of 0.5% for the Red Bed and 1% for the Gingerbread Bed (the speed boost does not stack). Should you not care about these bonuses, you can sell the beds for 4,500 and 12,000 coins, respectively.
Additionally, arcade machines have been tweaked to have a fixed capacity of coins, rather than simply breaking after a certain amount of uses. The coins will collect over time and you can cash out your profits when the machines are full. As examples, the Retro Arcade Machine collects 30 coins every 15 minutes, while the Crazy Planets Pinball machine collects 80 coins every hour. They'll even collect coins while you're away from the game, which is a new feature entirely.
Finally, in celebration of the launch of 24 hour cooking, Playfish is offering all members of the Restaurant City email club a free Pocketwatch Stove, which was first released in the Alice in Wonderland theme a few weeks ago. You'll receive the Pocketwatch Stove automatically when logging into the game – if you'd like to use it, you'll find it in your inventory. It cooks food 2% faster than a normal stove.
Restaurant City Pockewatch Stove
With so many changes implemented at once, this new feature might take some getting used to – head over to the game's page on Facebook to start becoming acclimated to the way things now work.
As we told you in late May, Playfish has been hard at work bringing a feature to Restaurant City that many users have been clamoring for – 24 hour cooking. The time has arrived where such a feat is indeed possible, but this addition comes with much more complexity than simply allowing your restaurant to stay open for 24 hours.
First things first, to set your restaurant into motion, you'll need to click on the new sign in the lower left corner of the screen, where you'll be given eight options for how long you'd like to keep your restaurant open. If you are willing to come back every 30 minutes, you can keep your restaurant open for free, but for everyone else, the prices increase as you select more time.
Take note that if you choose a longer shift, you're actually spending more money than if you chose a shorter shift multiple times. As an example, if I wanted to open my restaurant for 24 hours, I could either choose the 24 hour option and pay 28,400 coins, or I could choose the 6 hour option four times (by logging in every six hours) and pay 20,400 coins instead, as just one alternative. In this way, shorter shifts actually save you money, which makes sense, as Playfish wants to encourage users to come back to the game sooner, rather than later.
Now that your restaurant will be open all day, Gourmet Points are obviously easier to earn (customers will now be constantly purchasing dishes after all), so Playfish has announced that they have increased the amount of points necessary to level up. Each user has been given a one-time point boost to keep them at their current level, so don't worry about losing progress.
To help you earn Gourmet Points and continue to level up, you'll be given bonuses for logging back into the game "on time," or at the end of the shift. The amount of time you have to login after a shift is the same amount of time the shift lasted – so, if your restaurant was open for six hours, you'd need to come back to the game within six hours after it closed to receive the bonus. Additionally, you'll earn more Gourmet Points for leveling up dishes and helping friends' restaurants.
Restaurant City Retro Arcade Machine changesOne feature that has been removed entirely is Resting. If you happened to employ the feature and there are beds in your restaurant, you'll not only see you staff sleeping when the restaurant is closed, but your staff will receive a speed boost of 0.5% for the Red Bed and 1% for the Gingerbread Bed (the speed boost does not stack). Should you not care about these bonuses, you can sell the beds for 4,500 and 12,000 coins, respectively.
Additionally, arcade machines have been tweaked to have a fixed capacity of coins, rather than simply breaking after a certain amount of uses. The coins will collect over time and you can cash out your profits when the machines are full. As examples, the Retro Arcade Machine collects 30 coins every 15 minutes, while the Crazy Planets Pinball machine collects 80 coins every hour. They'll even collect coins while you're away from the game, which is a new feature entirely.
Finally, in celebration of the launch of 24 hour cooking, Playfish is offering all members of the Restaurant City email club a free Pocketwatch Stove, which was first released in the Alice in Wonderland theme a few weeks ago. You'll receive the Pocketwatch Stove automatically when logging into the game – if you'd like to use it, you'll find it in your inventory. It cooks food 2% faster than a normal stove.
Restaurant City Pockewatch Stove
With so many changes implemented at once, this new feature might take some getting used to – head over to the game's page on Facebook to start becoming acclimated to the way things now work.
FarmVille Cheats & Tips: Tuscan Wedding quick links
Hello, Facefolks! It's Mr. Cheats here to give you the down low on the things you shouldn't know.
By now, you know there's a big Tuscan Wedding happening in FarmVille and Nonna needs you to help supply olives, truffles, goat milk and eggs. Those items can be traded in for favors, which -- in turn -- can be traded in for rare items like a sheep with a bowl of spaghetti on its head or a leaning FarmVille Pisa building.
There are several ways to get these items - as a free gift or picked up from your Facebook wall. There's an extra catch, you'll only be able to send certain items on certain days, and, sorry folks, Mr. Cheats can't help you get past this one (not yet, at least). You'll have to check back on different days to be able to send all of these Tuscan Wedding items to your compadres.
Today's (June 3) special item is goat milk. Click on the image below and send bottles of the white stuff to your friends like you're some kind of old-timey milkman.
farmville tuscan wedding goat milk
On June 4 (tomorrow) eggs will be available to send as a free gift for two days. Mr. Cheats will activate the link for this as soon as it goes live.
farmville tuscan wedding 1 days
On June 6, Truffles will be giftable; the link will be activated then.
truffles wedding
On June 8, Olives will be available as a free gift; look for the link then.
farmville tuscan wedding quick links olives
In the meantime, the best advice Mr. Cheats has is to check your friends Facebook feeds not once, not twice, but three times to make sure you don't miss out on any freebies. Mr. Cheats hates nothing more than when a farmer misses out on something free.
By now, you know there's a big Tuscan Wedding happening in FarmVille and Nonna needs you to help supply olives, truffles, goat milk and eggs. Those items can be traded in for favors, which -- in turn -- can be traded in for rare items like a sheep with a bowl of spaghetti on its head or a leaning FarmVille Pisa building.
There are several ways to get these items - as a free gift or picked up from your Facebook wall. There's an extra catch, you'll only be able to send certain items on certain days, and, sorry folks, Mr. Cheats can't help you get past this one (not yet, at least). You'll have to check back on different days to be able to send all of these Tuscan Wedding items to your compadres.
Today's (June 3) special item is goat milk. Click on the image below and send bottles of the white stuff to your friends like you're some kind of old-timey milkman.
farmville tuscan wedding goat milk
On June 4 (tomorrow) eggs will be available to send as a free gift for two days. Mr. Cheats will activate the link for this as soon as it goes live.
farmville tuscan wedding 1 days
On June 6, Truffles will be giftable; the link will be activated then.
truffles wedding
On June 8, Olives will be available as a free gift; look for the link then.
farmville tuscan wedding quick links olives
In the meantime, the best advice Mr. Cheats has is to check your friends Facebook feeds not once, not twice, but three times to make sure you don't miss out on any freebies. Mr. Cheats hates nothing more than when a farmer misses out on something free.
Restaurant City celebrates new hours with a Limited Edition RC Polo Shirt
Restaurant City's new 24-hour schedule is a definite game-changer and involved tweaking everything from the arcade machines to the resting beds. To celebrate, there's a new uniform in the store to dress up your waiters in -- the RC Polo Shirt, costing 2,300 Coins. You can find it by clicking on one of your waiters for Employee Info, then Uniform, then Shirt.
Restaurant City Limited Edition RC Polo Shirt
But there's even a better way to get one. Players who start a shift will be awarded a RC Polo Shirt at the end of the shift for free!
Restaurant City Limited Edition RC Polo Shirt
But there's even a better way to get one. Players who start a shift will be awarded a RC Polo Shirt at the end of the shift for free!
Thứ Bảy, 11 tháng 2, 2012
Mafia Wars catches on to the 'Icing' trend
Looks like Mafia Wars has caught on the 'Icing' trend. Now, when you kill someone during a fight in the game, you get a new notification that says "You Iced Your Opponent." You also have the option to share your victory with friends, by offering them a Liquid Courage boost, which increases their attack skill by 44 during their next fight.
Though I'm sure Zynga would deny it, this is clearly a nod at Icing -- a silly prank that started in dorm rooms and has made its way to corporate America (which means it's already waaay past the point of being cool.) The prank/game/whatever works like this: If a person is presented with a Smirnoff Ice, they must drop on one knee and chug the entire thing. That is, unless the presentee happens to 'block' the Icing, by carrying a Smirnoff Ice of their own. Then the person who initiated the Icing has to drop and chug. To refuse will bring a pox upon your house or some other kind of karmic badness.
Icings have been well documented on brosicingbros.com (which has since been shut down by party poopers at Diageo, Smirnoff's parent company) and IceYou.com. I've also had the pleasure of getting Iced, and well, let's just say I won't be drinking any of Smirnoff's alco-pop, well, ever again.
Good to see that the bros behind the scenes at Mafia Wars are keeping their fingers on the pulse of America ... or at least wrapped around a cold bottle of a malt beverage.
Though I'm sure Zynga would deny it, this is clearly a nod at Icing -- a silly prank that started in dorm rooms and has made its way to corporate America (which means it's already waaay past the point of being cool.) The prank/game/whatever works like this: If a person is presented with a Smirnoff Ice, they must drop on one knee and chug the entire thing. That is, unless the presentee happens to 'block' the Icing, by carrying a Smirnoff Ice of their own. Then the person who initiated the Icing has to drop and chug. To refuse will bring a pox upon your house or some other kind of karmic badness.
Icings have been well documented on brosicingbros.com (which has since been shut down by party poopers at Diageo, Smirnoff's parent company) and IceYou.com. I've also had the pleasure of getting Iced, and well, let's just say I won't be drinking any of Smirnoff's alco-pop, well, ever again.
Good to see that the bros behind the scenes at Mafia Wars are keeping their fingers on the pulse of America ... or at least wrapped around a cold bottle of a malt beverage.
FarmVille iPhone's new exclusive items: Silver Pony, Rainbow Apple Cart, Rainbow Apple Barrel
Log into FarmVille on the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad this evening, and you'll find a handful of exclusive new items to send to your fellow on-the-go farmers, including the Silver Pony, Rainbow Apple Cart and giftable Rainbow Apple Barrel.
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