Play Mafia Wars Hustlin’ Wit Dre on Your SmartPhone
By Julia on January 2, 2011, 6:17 pm
The gritty, single-player crime adventure now features a "Hustlin’
Wit Dre portion — allowing players to pick up virtual goods such as headphones, weapons and a vintage car. Of course, the game also features a stream of "Kush" (featuring Snoop Dogg and Akon)off the long-awaited "Detox" album slated for early 2011. There’s even a link within the game to buy the single on iTunes. Whether you’re busting caps, slapping hookers or stealing cars, Dre’s music, persona and sales pitch are now ever-present.
Zynga Mobile Games
Let’s be honest here, the Zynga games have never been a bastion of great graphics, so the mobile web browser approach makes a lot of sense. We do look forward to the company upping the ante with its mobile games in the future though, as the company recently
Buy Singles of Your Favorite Artists via Zynga
In the olden days, way back when people actually still bought those fragile little plastic coaster discs, an album release by a major A-list artist would be met with enough enthusiasm and momentum that artists didn’t have to shill ringtones or energy drinks to sell records. But we’re in the future now, in a time when nothing is worth anything unless it’s sponsored by seven different brands and incorporated into a myriad of other product pitches. True to the times, Dr. Dre has partnered with game developer Zynga to develop a variety of branded experiences within the hugely popular game
Even Farmville Has Gone Mobile
Other news regarding Zynga, however, is that Farmville will be making the trip as well. Originally we thought it would be the first game they would release for Android instead of Poker. ‘Farm Village’, which is what Farmville is called in Japan, has already made the jump to ’smartphones’ there and is also successful on iOS. The next logical step, Android devices, if in fact the ’smartphones’ in Japan playing Farm Village are not Android yet.
Mafia Wars for Android in 2011
Mafia Wars–which enables gamers to build an underworld empire by completing criminal missions and recruiting social networking contacts to join their mob family–currently boasts about 21 million active monthly users across the Facebook platform; speaking this week at Paris tech conference Le Web, Zynga senior vice president of mobile David Ko said the firm will make Android a priority in the months ahead, with additional titles coming soon to the platform.