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Farmville 2 features 3D graphics, farming
Zynga is working on Farmville 2, a follow-up to its most successful title of all time, Farmville, the company announced at Zynga Unleashed today. Farmville 2 is Zynga's first 3D game, a short teaser demonstrated.
Zynga adds Majesco, 50 Cubes and Portalarium to partner program
At its ongoing Zynga Unleashed event in San Francisco, the social media game giant revealed three new partners: Majesco, 50 Cubes, and Portalarium.Majesco's current crop of top properties include the Zumba Fitness franchise and Cooking Mama. 50 Cubes currently features three titles on its website, including the "Facebook top fashion game for 2011" Mall World. Portalarium, which was founded by Ultima series creator and RPG legend Richard Garriott in 2009, recently launched a casual game based on garage sales, and is working on a project the company says will return Garriott to his RPG roots.At its conference, Zynga also highlighted three partners it announced during GDC 2012: Konami, Playdemic, and Rebellion.
Zynga adding real-time multiplayer to its games, starting with Bubble Safari
Zynga is introducing real-time multiplayer to its games through zynga.com, starting today with Bubble Safari. Booting up Bubble Safari allows players to enter a live match with four other people, friends and strangers alike. Each multiplayer match runs for 90 seconds, a time that can be easily changed in the backend, Zynga announced at its conference today.Bubble Safari multiplayer will also incorporate in-game group chat.Real-time multiplayer will be available in all games in the new Zynga With Friends network from here on out. This is not to be confused with the Zynga With Friends studio, formerly Newtoy, which produces titles such as Words With Friends and Hanging With Friends. The network has 290 million users and will soon replace zynga.com on the web and mobile with more social features and an inbox function.
