Bejeweled is about to get a run for it’s money…
Last October’s announcement that Sid Meier would be bringing his “Civilization” franchise to Facebook elicited raucous celebrations from fans of the classic strategy game – and groans from HR reps, who saw productivity about to take another dive…
…Take Two Interactive Software tells us that the beta for “Sid Meier’s Civilization Network” isn’t expected to hit until sometime in June…
The game will use Facebook’s social qualities to let fans play solo, competitive or cooperative games in a persistent world. It will, like other social network games, be free to play as well…
Free to play multiplayer Civ!? Oh man…
Read more at Variety.
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Some good ones in there… like Rodney Bradford, who was posting to his page at the exact time of a robbery he was accused of.
His defense lawyer, Robert Reuland, told a Brooklyn assistant district attorney, Lindsay Gerdes, about the Facebook entry, which was made at the time of the robbery. The district attorney subpoenaed Facebook to verify that the status update had actually been typed from acomputer located at 71 West 118th Street in Harlem, as Mr. Bradford said. When that was confirmed, the charges were dropped.
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