Zynga & 7-Eleven event kicks off FarmVille, Mafia Wars & YoVille promotion

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With the epic kickoff event on June 1st, FarmVille, Mafia Wars and YoVille have invaded 7-Elevens all over the United States. The promotion includes game branded groceries, snacks, beverages and more. Once purchased, players can redeem the codes printed on the treats in return for valuable in-game cash and other limited edition items. Fans have been excited to get their hands on both the great looking snacks and the lucrative game rewards. Fortunately, yesterday, the kickoff event finally opened the flood gates.

Select 7-Elevens in New York, Dallas, Chicago, San Francisco, Denver and Los Angeles hosted the event which included tons of free give aways and fun. Those who were lucky enough to attend found the event to be full of games, free merchandise, amusement park tickets, carnival gift cards and of course, loads of FarmVille, Mafia Wars and YoVIlle themed goodies.

FarmVille fan and donkey, Backpacking Brighty, snapped a few pics from the event in Dallas. In addition, FarmVille Freak asked readers who attended to send in images.

Continue reading to check out all the awesome pictures from the Zynga 7-Eleven Kick Off Event.

Note: Send photos of your FamVille, YoVille and Mafia Wars 7-Eleven merchandise to editors@games.com and we'll post them up on the blog!


Dallas, Texas
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Staten Island, New York

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San Francisco, California

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Denver, Colorado

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Chicago, Illinois

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If you're like us and missed the crazy kickoff event, try not to worry; there will be plenty of Zynga game themed goodies to go around. If you haven't already, head to 7-Eleven's store locater by clicking here and see if there is one in your area.

Although supplies are sure to last, rumor has it that a few jerks are going into stores and snapping pictures of all the codes, leaving few rewards to go around! So if you're interested in getting some FarmVille, YoVille and Mafia Wars themed 7-Eleven stuff, it may be in your best interest to act quickly!

Send photos of your FarmVille, YoVille and Mafia Wars 7-Eleven merchandise to editors@games.com and we'll post them up on the blog!

What do you think of the Zynga 7-Eleven kickoff event?


Sources:

    Backpacking Brighty - Dallas, Texas
    FarmVille Freak - San Francisco, California
    FarmVille Freak - Denver, Colorado
    FarmVille Freak - Staten Island, New York
    FarmVille Freak - Chicago, Illinois

FarmVille Botanical Garden & Gift Box glitch

In a new FarmVille glitch, FarmVille Freaks are reporting that their Gift Box is doing some strange and unusual things.

The most common report is that farmers FarmVille Gift Boxes are being found filled with Botanical Garden building supplies. The Botanical Garden was a past limited edition building, now retired, that required you to have the help of your neighbors to build. It is not a building with purpose and does not provide storage.

As reported by FarmVille Freak OctaviousOrion,

    I got a glitch somehow in Farmville and I posted about it myself and had others say they got the same thing. I opened up my FarmVille page and noticed I had nearly 70 gifts....and 49 of those were the materials needed to build the Botanical Gardens previously released by FarmVille. In no way did i have any part in receiving these, they just showed up. I'll include the screenshot of what i received. (See Picture below)" – FarmVille Freak OctaviousOrion



Similarly FarmVille Freak Dustin experienced this as well,

    "I logged into my farm this afternoon and found something weird in my Gift Box. Before I signed off last night I knew I didn't have over 70 items.. so I checked and found all of the Botanical Garden items in there. I already completed the Botanical Garden when it came out, and it's in my storage. I don't know where all these items came from, and I didn't accept any old requests. Anyone else have the same thing happen to them? You can see all the items in this screen shot, and there are 9 Glass Tiles on the first page of my Gift Box, not included in the screen shot." – FarmVille Freak Dustin

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

FarmVille unreleased item: Small Japanese pond

Thank you to FarmVille Freak Shiori for finding this unreleased FarmVille Japanese Small Pond! We can probably expect to see this unreleased item as part of the limited edition Japanese theme in FarmVillle.

Note: Unreleased items have no official release date or guarantee that they will make it to the FarmVille Market.

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

FarmVille unreleased item: Japanese Teahouse II

Thank you to FarmVille Freak Farhan for finding this unreleased FarmVille Japanese Teahouse II!

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

FarmVille unreleased items: Lederhose Gnome & Heidi Gnome

Check out these adorable new unreleased FarmVille Gnomes! Thank you to FarmVille Freak Shiori for finding these unreleased FarmVille Lederhose Gnome and Heidi Gnome.

Note: Unreleased items have no official release date or guarantee that they will make it to the FarmVille Market.

What is your guess as to what FarmVille theme these Gnomes will be part of?

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

FarmVille New England Tree: Heirloom Apple

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farmville heirloom appleA new limited edition New England tree, the Heirloom Apple Tree, has hit the FarmVille Market.

This limited edition Tree can be purchased for 10,000 coins during the next 10 days only.

This non-decorative tree is harvestable, meaning it will yield coins when harvested.

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

FarmVille New England Decorations: Flower Bridge, Rose Arch & Quilts

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Three new limited edition New England themed decorations have been added to the market tonight in FarmVille.

The FarmVille Flower Bridge, Quilts, and Rose Arch decorations can be purchased in the market during the next 10 days only.
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FarmVille New England Decorations (Released August 2, 2010):

    Flower Bridge -42FV$
    Rose Arch- 7FV$
    Quilts – 10,000 coins


This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

FarmVille New England Buildings: Stone Villa & Village Center

   
There are two new limited edition New England buildings, the Stone Villa and the Village Center now available in FarmVille.

These two buildings may be purchased with farm cash in the FarmVille Market during the next 10 days only.
   
FarmVille New England Buildings (Released August 2, 2010):

    Stone Villa – 50 FV$
    Village Center – 36 FV$


This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.


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FarmVille New England Crop: Lady Slippers

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A new limited edition New England themed crop, Lady Slippers, a type of orchid, are now available for planting!

Limited Edition Lady Slipper seeds can be purchased in the FarmVille Market during the next 10 days only.
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Lady Slippers are unlocked to Level 15 farmers and above. The seeds can be purchased for 70 coins, are ready to harvest in 6 hours, and yield 115 coins and 1 XP with a profit of 30 coins (when you deduct the 15 coin cost of plowing).

There is NO Crop Mastery available for Lady Slippers.

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

Will you grow Lady Slippers on your farm?

FarmVille LE Wild West Animal: Western Longhorn

Attention all Longhorn lovers, there is a new special Wild West Limited Edition Western Longhorn that FarmVille debuted tonight.

You can purchase the Western Longhorn for 20 farm cash in the FarmVille Market during the next 9 days only. The Western Longhorn can be placed in the Dairy Farm and there will also be a chance at yielding a Western Longhorn Calf.

FarmVille LE Wild West Animal (Released September 7, 2010):

    Western Longhorn – 20 FV$


This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

Will you purchase a Western Longhorn for your farm?

FarmVille LE Wild West Decorations: Stream, Gold Panning, Well, Wanted Sign, Mine Cart, Sagebrush & Tumbleweed

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Continuing with the Limited Edition Wild West theme, there are lots of new decorations that FarmVille released tonight.

You can buy a Wild West Stream, Gold Panning, Wild West Well, Wanted Sign, Mine Cart, Sagebrush and Tumbleweed in the FarmVille Market during the next 9 days only.

FarmVille LE Wild West Decorations (Released September 7, 2010):

    Wild West Stream – 22 FV$
    Gold Panning – 20 FV$
    Wild West Well – 8,000 Coins
    Wanted Sign – 6,000 Coins
    Mine Cart – 4,000 Coins
    Sagebrush – 1,000 Coins (decorative plant)
    Tumbleweed – 800 Coins (decorative)


This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

What is your favorite Wild West decorations or item thus far?

FarmVille looking to Windows Phone 7 to sow seeds of addiction

FarmVille on Windows Phone 7At the recent GigaOm Mobilize Conference in San Francisco, general manager of developer and platform evangelism Matt Thompson claimed that the "hook" Windows Phone 7 will have other smartphones is Xbox Live integration, according to Venture Beat. More importantly, Thompson also mentioned briefly during his time on stage at the GigaOm event that (drum roll, please) FarmVille will be one of the many games coming to Windows Phone 7.

This is the second mobile platform that Zynga will officially be taking its insanely addictive Facebook farming game to (can you guess where you can find it already?). With the San Francisco-based social game creator looking for Android developers, it can't be too long before we're harvesting crops on our Android phones as well.

Whether FarmVille on Windows Phone 7 will take advantage of the phone's Xbox Live features is uncertain, but it is possible considering games on the device are only developed through Microsoft's XNA. A development environment used for Xbox 360's indie games that already allows for Live features, players could add Xbox Live friends as neighbors and share their progress on Xbox Live.

Windows Phone 7 will be available this fall on almost all major carriers, so scratch the, "but there's no FarmVille" excuse off your list of reasons for not getting one of these bad boys.

FarmVille Stone Coffin: Could this be the last Halloween item?

Just a few minutes ago, Zynga announced the release of yet another Halloween-themed limited edition item into the FarmVille marketplace.

The item is the Stone Coffin, and it can be found under the Decorations tab of the marketplace. It is available to purchase for 20 Farm Cash, and it is an animated item. Remember, as a Farm Cash item, you can also gift one to a friend, if you are so inclined (I'm sure your friends wouldn't turn down a free Farm Cash item).

Could this really be Zynga's final release in this year's Halloween limited edition item set? From the wording on the post on the FarmVille Sheep fan page, it certainly seems so, as the words "one last" definitely indicates such.

Either way, we'll be sure to continue to bring you all of the news concerning FarmVille's Halloween celebration, if it does continue to update. For now though, be sure to add take a look at this item in the marketplace before it disappears in just two days' time.

FarmVille Halloween costumes: Revealed!

If you're a FarmVille fan and are looking for a last-minute Halloween costume for this weekend -- look no further. Pay homage to your favorite virtual pastime by dressing up as a FarmVille farmer. We've outlined everything you need in our quick Halloween costume guide, and dug up these photos of other people's costumes for additional inspiration.

Our favorite FarmVille costumes we've seen so far is from this duo, who donned overalls, plaid shirts and then added ribbons, stars with their levels in the game. Then, as the pièce de résistance, they handed out chocolate gold coins to anyone who asked about their costume. Awesome.

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This lady farmer on horseback used her dog as a prop. Put on farmer gear, then dress your pooch as a chicken, cow or other farm animal, and you've got a stand-out FarmVille costume. Of course, make sure that pets are welcome at whatever festivities you might be attending.

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And, then there is this ultimate last-minute costume for FarmVille freaks - put on a plaid shirt, print a few images from the game and paste them to your chest. Ta-dah! You're a FarmVille farmer.

[Via College Humor, Horse & Rider, iJustine]

Official FarmVille Podcast (November 19) - Winter Workshop and Holiday Tree Details

In this week's edition of the official FarmVille podcast, FarmVille Community Manager Lexilicious let users in on a special sneak peek of items and features that will be coming to FarmVille in the near future.

First the Winter Holiday theme of items will start releasing in the game very soon. This will see not only a release of new Winter and apparently Christmas themed items, but will also see a re-release of some of last year's items, similar to the setup of this year's Halloween event.

Next, a Chicken Coop expansion will be coming to the game. In other building news, we've received confirmation that the Winter Workshop building will be coming to FarmVille. It will be a constructable building that will let you earn coins once built.

For the Christmas season, the Holiday Tree will be making an appearance in the game in the coming weeks, that will allow you to collect "special goodies that will help you make presents." It's unclear right now as to whether or not this Holiday Tree will be an entirely new tree released in the game, or whether this will simply be a rehashing (in terms of function) of last year's Tree.

We'll be sure to bring you complete details on all of these new features as they go live in the game, but for now, if you want to check out the full podcast, which includes a recap of last week's events, you can find it above.

FarmVille: Zynga gives free Holiday gift to all players!

For the past few days, Zynga had been asking FarmVille players to "Like" the official Zynga Inc. fan page on Facebook. We brought you news of this in the past, as Zynga was promising a free Festive / Holiday Cow to all users, should said fan page reach 1 million likes.

Of course, that total has been reached, and passed, and Zynga has confirmed that we will be receiving the Cow. Now, users that log into FarmVille will receive a very interesting pop-up, as Zynga has released a free present in the game. This is a wrapped present, and we are told we won't be able to open it until Christmas proper - December 25. Could this be the Holiday Cow they promised us?

While that would make the most sense, as the free present ensures that all users are able to have their free cow without any extra work outside of the game, we also wouldn't turn down another free gift, just for playing the game.

When the time comes (or if you'd just like to look at your present early), you can find your gift by heading into your Holiday Tree's menu (click on the and click on "Look Inside") and then click on the Presents tab. This is where you will find all of the wrapped (read: locked) gifts on your account, and this is where you'll be able to go to unwrap them when we get the green light.

We'll be sure to let you know what's inside the wrapped Zynga present, if it turns out to not be the free cow (it may be unlikely, but stranger things have happened).

FarmVille: Second wave of Holiday Tree prizes now available

As we told you last week, the FarmVille Holiday Tree is now available, and friends and family everywhere have turned their eyes squarely to the endeavor of collecting presents - lots, and lots, and lots of presents. At launch, there were but six prizes available to earn by redeeming some of your stockpile of presents (if you don't include the many contents of the Winter Whimsy box), and today, we see FarmVille increasing the prize variety by six.

Now, if you look inside your Holiday Tree (click on the tree and click "Look Inside" on the small menu that appears), you'll see that instead of just being able to trade your presents in for the first six items, that there is now a "Page 2." This Page 2 has some of the items that you were able to earn via the Winter Whimsy box (like the Ice House or Tinsel Tree), but it also has items that were given away during the Festive Tree quest set (like the Frozen Fantasy statue).

All told, these new items cost more presents, but are more elaborate, or at least more exclusive, so it seems to make up for the increased cost. The six items are:

Sneezy Sheep - 75 Presents
Tinsel Tree - 100 Presents
Frozen Fantasy - 125 Presents
Ice House - 150 Presents
Kodiak Cub - 200 Presents
Arctic Fox - 275 Presents

Don't worry though - if you had yet to gather enough presents to have a chance at the six items released at first, these items are still there for your redemption pleasure. For those that have enough Ice Cubes or Winter Whimsy boxes, however, these prizes will give you plenty more to collect for.

Check out the rest of our Holiday 2010 coverage right here.

Do you like this second set of presents better than the first? For the items that are found in the Winter Whimsy boxes, will you choose to save up to purchase the items outright, or will you continue to purchase the Winter Whimsy boxes and hope to get lucky?

FarmVille Mystery Game (01/02/11): "Best of" animals now available

It's a Sunday night, and during the holiday season, that means that FarmVille's Mystery Game has been restocked with six new items for you lucky players to try and win. This week's theme is "Best of" animals, and it contains, as the name suggests, some animals that were released in the game previously, but were removed and are now making a reappearance (likely due to fan suggestions).

The confirmed contents of this week's Mystery Game are:

White Peacock
White Owl
Japanese Duck
Red Parrot
Carinal
Female Ostrich

Remember, these items range in rarity from Common to Rare, so keep that in mind when playing the game. If you'd like to do so, this week's Mystery Game costs 20 Farm Cash to play, with 20 Farm Cash earning you a single dart that you can use to attempt to win one of these prizes.

This week's Mystery Game contents will be available for just the next six days, at which point another round of the Mystery Game will launch, with six new items to play for and collect.

FarmVille Winter Wonderland Animals: Baby Penguin, Brown Gypsy Horse, Brown Gypsy Foal

In tonight's FarmVille update, we see the launch of an entirely new limited edition item theme in the game. This theme will continue in the game's love of the winter holiday, as it is called simply "Winter Wonderland." To start this theme off with a bang, we see the release of three new animals to the game, with two of those animals being available in the game's store.

For some of you, you'll recognize these animals as those we brought you a sneak peek of some time ago. They are the Baby Penguin and the Brown Gypsy Horse. Both of these animals are premium, meaning that they can only be purchased with Farm Cash. The Baby Penguin costs 12 Farm Cash, and the Brown Gypsy Horse costs 26 Farm Cash. You'll gain a hefty XP bonus for purchasing either animal - 1200 for the Penguin and 2600 for the Horse.

Remember, since this is a Horse that can be placed inside the Horse Stable, it can also be bred. You guessed it - the Brown Gypsy Horse can produce a Brown Gypsy Foal, that can then be shared with your friends on your wall. If you know of any of your FarmVille neighbors that have purchased this horse for themselves, keep a special lookout for their wall posts to make sure you don't miss out on a free Brown Gypsy Foal for your own farm (or Nursery Barn, if you prefer).

This (first?) round of Winter Wonderland items will remain in the game's store for the next 13 days. We'll be sure to let you know if and when more items are added to the theme in the future, so keep checking back!

Check out the rest of our Holiday 2010 coverage right here.

FarmVille Winter Wonderland Building: Bundle up and head into the new Igloo

Brrrrr. It's cold in here. You'd think the walls were made of ice or something. Oh wait... in the case of FarmVille's newest Winter Wonderland building, the Igloo, they are made of ice! The new Igloo is a cute, average sized building item that you can purchase for Farm Cash as a decorative building for your farm. Unfortunately, you can't actually walk inside it - darn!

The Igloo can be purchased for 16 Farm Cash, and can be sold for 8,000 coins, should you change your mind about keeping it once the winter season ends. You'll receive 1600 experience points as a bonus for purchasing the Igloo. While 16 Farm Cash might seem like a high price, this is actually one of the most affordable buildings we've seen released in the game in some time, at least where premium, or Farm Cash only, items are concerned. That being the case, we certainly couldn't blame you if you wanted to pick this one up because of its slightly lower price.

The Igloo will remain in the game for the next 13 days, at which point it will disappear from the store, likely not to be seen again (at least not until Zynga potentially decides to re-release the Igloo next year once winter comes around).