1）PopCap Games日前宣布与日本手机社交游戏平台GREE合作，推出日语版游戏《Bejeweled Legend》。

gree-bejeweled-legend(from serkantoto)

这是PopCap首款在日本自主发行的游戏，由PopCap东京工作室开发。值得注意的是，用户需通过日本App Store或Google Play下载后才能体验游戏，它并未发布GREE网页版本。

该游戏植入了每周玩家排行榜、限时竞赛等元素，融合了海盗故事和RPG内容，但并未采用gacha机制。

2）据insidesocialgames报道，King.com日前表示《Candy Crush Saga》是公司在美国用户中人气最高的游戏，其流量增长来源均衡分布于涂鸦墙、King.com其他游戏交叉推广，以及标准的Facebook营销渠道。据其所称，病毒传播是《Pyramid Solitaire Saga》的最主要成功因素，但并未透露具体数据。

Pyramid Solitaire Saga(from article.wn.com)

该公司认为Facebook是游戏门户网站的最大用户获取渠道之一；《Pyramid Solitaire Saga》目前仅次于Zynga游戏《Texas HoldEm Poker》和DoubleDown Interactive游戏《DoubleDown Casino》，成为Facebook排名第三的纸牌游戏，但博彩游戏与《Pyramid Solitaire Saga》之间的重叠用户并不多，所以无需担忧与此类游戏争夺用户的问题。

3）据games.com报道，迪士尼日前宣布将于未来数月发布新游戏《Disney’s City Girl》、《Disney’s Ghosts of Mistwood》以及《Mobsters Criminal Empire》。

《Disney’s City Girl》玩法类似于Playdom游戏《Sorority Life》，玩家在游戏中要扮演一个从小城镇进入大城市成就一番事业的女孩，该游戏以时尚为主题，因此观察者推测该游戏之后可能与一些时尚品牌进行营销合作。

disney-ghosts-of-mistwood(from games)

《Disney’s Ghosts of Mistwood》则是一款要求玩家提炼毒药和魔法以找回婶婶的游戏，从中体验一段类似于哈里波特的经历。

《Mobsters: Criminal Empire》是一款黑帮题材的游戏，提供了比《Mobsters》更有深度的玩法和视觉效果。

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4）EA近日宣布将向Facebook推出《Madden NFL Social》，计划于今年秋季发布游戏以配合2012-2013的NFL赛季。该游戏与Facebook平台其他体育类游戏略有不同，采用的是异步玩法，支持玩家通过iOS设备跨平台参与游戏，将使用卡牌系统管理自己的球队。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，拒绝任何不保留版权的转载，如需转载请联系：游戏邦）

1）Bejeweled Legend: GREE Gets Exclusive, Social Version Of Bejeweled [Social Games]

by Dr. Serkan Toto

I’m a big fan of PopCap’s tile-matching puzzle game series (and money-printing machine) Bejeweled and was excited to hear today that GREE added a new version of the game to their platform.

Bejeweled Legend is an entirely new addition to the franchise, exclusively available for players with a GREE account, and Japan-/Japanese-only at this point.

What’s interesting is that this is one of the few titles that requires users to download an app (from the Japanese App Store or Google Play only): it’s not available through the much

more popular browser version of GREE.

What’s social about Bejeweled Legends?

PopCap (rightfully) decided not to alter the general gameplay but build typical social elements around it. There is actually a (rudimentary, as usual) narrative: players need to conquer “Seven Seas” throughout the game by completing missions and beating bosses – for which teaming up with other GREE users is a must. Completing missions means achieving certain targets in the puzzles.

Other elements typically found in Japanese social games that Bejeweled Legend also uses include weekly player rankings, timed events, and a game-specific virtual currency, BijiCoins.

PopCap doesn’t use gacha in the game however, and decided to go for their usual Lucky Spin mechanic to let players win virtual items instead (there are Japanese versions of Bejeweled using the gacha function out there though).

My gut feeling tells me Bejeweled Legend will work much better as a social game in Japan than Pirates or Civilization, two other foreign game franchises GREE announced yesterday: there’s simply a much clearer game-market fit here.（source:serkantoto）

2）Pyramid Solitaire Saga continues King.com’s winning streak, hits 1 million DAU on Facebook

Mike Thompson

King.com and its “Saga” games are increasing their hold on the Facebook charts — the developer’s newest title, Pyramid Solitaire Saga is its fifth in a row to break the 1 million daily active user threshold.

While Pyramid Solitaire Saga isn’t the fastest  ”Saga” game to reach 1 million DAU — Candy Crush Saga reached the milestone a week faster — King.com tells us the game is its fastest-growing game among U.S. audiences. According to King.com, the game’s traffic boosters are fairly evenly divided between viral posts, cross-promotion from other King.com games and the standard Facebook marketing channels. The developer tells us viral sources are fueling the biggest chunk of Pyramid Solitaire Saga’s success, but declined to share exact numbers with us.

Player acquisition also comes from the developer’s games portal, even though King.com’s games outside of Facebook are designed to be more fast-paced  than the by the “Saga” games on the social network. King.com tells us Facebook is one of the largest acquisition channels for the  games portal; this isn’t too surprising, considering King.com’s games have regularly appeared on our Top 25 games lists ever since it debuted Bubble Saga on the social network in April 2011.

Pyramid Solitaire Saga continues to prove how successful solitaire games can be on Facebook, where three out of the top 10 card games on the platform belong to the subgenre. The game is now the No. 3 card game on Facebook, surpassed only by Zynga’s Texas HoldEm Poker and DoubleDown Interactive’s DoubleDown Casino. King.com tells us  there isn’t much of player crossover between the casino games and Pyramid Solitaire Saga, though, and it doesn’t have to worry about competing with these titles for user numbers.（source:insidesocialgames）

3）E3 2012: Disney’s City Girl, Disney’s Ghosts of Mistwood, Mobster’s Criminal Empire hit Facebook this summer

by Libe Goad

Disney’s social gaming arm, Playdom, has been busy behind the scenes building, well, games that don’t necessarily involve hidden objects, but (two of which) are takeoffs of some of the company’s older social games. Today, the Mouse House announced three new games that will be out in the next few months, Disney’s City Girl, Disney’s Ghosts of Mistwood and Mobsters Criminal Empire.

Disney’s City Girl riffs off Playdom’s Sorority Life, where you play a girl who moves from a small town to the big city and makes her way to the big time. The description of the game mentions that fashion will be a part of the game, so we can only imagine what big fashion brands will make an appearance in this game over its lifespan.

Disney’s Ghosts of Mistwood is decribed as a ‘crafting game’ where players make potions and enchantments to find a lost aunt and learn more about the events surrounding her kidnapping. Sounds like a Harry Potter experience for the social gaming set. Mistwood certainly sounds different than the average Facebook social game; we’ll see if it puts us under its spell when it arrives this month.

The third game, Mobsters: Criminal Empire, is another new climb-the-crime-ladder game that’s designed to give a more in-depth game experience, and better looking graphics, than the original Mobsters. It’s amazing that people are still interested in playing these crime sim games at this point — Zynga’s Mafia Wars 2 has less than impressive player stats — but we’ll see when the game arrives on Facebook this month.

Of the three, Ghosts of Mistwood seems like the most interesting. Of course, we’re still wondering, when is Mickey going to go social? Look for more info on these games this week.（source:games）

4）E3 2012: Madden NFL Social tries the play again this fall on Facebook

by Joe Osborne

EA made some edits to its social playbook, and it wants to make Madden work on Facebook. The publisher announced Madden NFL Social for Facebook, set to launch this fall along with the 2012-2013 NFL season. The game seems to take a different approach to sports gaming on the social network, as it focuses more on asynchronous play between friends and connectivity with Madden Social on iOS devices.

For instance, players go head-to-head in Madden Crossfire, a 3D, all-offense mode in which players trade off plays against one another regardless of whether they play on their iOS device or Facebook. Of course, players will get to manage their teams using a card-based system, just like in EA’s first crack at Madden on Facebook. Check out all of the details over at the official Madden NFL Social page, and we’ll likely have more come later this week when the E3 show floor opens up.（source:games）