Pocket God to dominate Facebook thanks to Frima Studio

Pocket God
Soon enough, you'll be able to dominate hapless island villagers both at the desk and on the go. The hit iPhone game Pocket God will soon be on Facebook through Quebec-based Frima Studio's efforts later this fall. (I hope Frima knows that fall is nearly over.) Original developed by Bolt Creative in San Francisco, Pocket God instills the power of a god into players, allowing them to do nearly whatever they please to a growing group of island pygmies.

On Facebook, however, a breadth of social features and episodic content has been promised by Frima Studio. Not to mention that "a host of hilarious ways to both dispose of and resurrect the immortal pygmies of each island" will be added to the Facebook game, according to Frima Studio.

Steve Couture, CEO of Frima Studio, says, "Everything fans have grown to love about this game and its characters has been happily fed to the sharks and tossed into the volcano, only to be resurrected onto Facebook in a way that fans are truly going to love." Pocket God will enter a closed beta phase later this year, according to Frima Studio, with access granted only to the game's "rabid fanbase." Players interested in playing god on Facebook early can soon find out how over on the Pocket God Blog.

Facebook is down: FarmVille & FrontierVille down, sorry social gamers!

If you're experiencing the same issues we are, Facebook is currently down completely. That's right--kaput. We're unsure as to why exactly the website is down, but we're on to one possible lead. Users have reported that their profiles have been forcibly switched to the new Facebook profile on the fly, which could have caused the crash.

And that means all of your favorite social games, including FarmVille and FrontierVille, are also down. Stay tuned for updates and hopefully an explanation as to why Facebook bit the dust.

Update: Facebook is back for us here at Games.com as well as FarmVille and FrontierVille. However, search is still unavailable. Keep your eyes peeled for more updates.

Update #2: Facebook seems to be up and running for everyone, which includes all applications and search. Enjoy your return to [insert name of social game here]. According to All Facebook, the downtime was intentional to fix some glitches related to launching several of the website's brand new features at once.

Nexon races KartRider onto Facebook later this year

Yeah, yeah, so you've already heard that Nexon is bringing its KartRider franchise to iOS and Android devices later this month. (Don't forget about MapleStory on Facebook!) However, Inside Social Games (ISG) found out from Nexon VP of Social Games Operations, Soo Min Park, that KartRider will also be released on Facebook through the Unity Engine. Players will be able to race as the game downloads thanks to this emergent technology in the social games space. Micro-transactions have also been confirmed, while KartRider is scheduled for an extremely vague release date: "later this year." In related news, ISG also discovered that mulitplayer in MapleStory Adventures will be asynchronous (dammit, Nexon!).

[Image Credit: ISG]

Will you try KartRider out on Facebook once it launches? What do you think of Nexon's first two moves into social games?