Tag Archives: Gaming

First Look: Parallel Mafia on iPhone

by fdvent1 Posted on April 7, 2012

@import url(http://www.google.com/cse/api/branding.css); Custom Search PerBlue, a mobile and social gaming software company founded in 2008 has released their newest location-based MMORPG (Massively multiplayer online role-playing game), Parallel Mafia for Iphone. According to Ellie Humphrey, PerBlue's Public Relations and Social Media … Continue reading →

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Parallel Mafia, Not Your Typical Mafia Game

by fdvent1 Posted on March 17, 2012

Parallel Mafia is a location-based MMORPG (Massively multiplayer online role-playing game) a genre of role-playing video games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world. In this mafia game, a new … Continue reading →

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Tropico Developers to Release Omerta – City of Gangsters

by fdvent1 Posted on March 9, 2012

Kalypso Media and Haemimont Games, is branching out to a new form of ruthless ruling, mixing it up with the Cosa Nostra in Omerta – City of Gangsters. Taking the role of a fresh-from-the-boat immigrant, with dreams of the big … Continue reading →

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Player Spent $100,000 on Mafia Wars: Ex- Zynga Engineer

by fdvent1 Posted on February 12, 2012

An anonymous user, claiming to be a former Zynga engineer, has been posting allegedly internal information about the company to Reddit. In the post, filled with unsubstantiated claims about Zynga corporate culture, the ex-employee says some customers spent unbelievable sums … Continue reading →

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Woman Embezzles $166,000 Some Goes to Mafia Wars

by fdvent1 Posted on December 19, 2011

Bettysue Higgins, former administrative assistant for the Maine Trial Lawyers Association pleaded guilty to embezzlement charges after her fraudulent spending on casual video games was revealed. Between 2006 and 2010, Higgins wrote out around 220 checks using the forged signature … Continue reading →

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