A&E, Majesco back Parking Wars 2 into Facebook this May

It's time to take the worst part of the driving test all over again. A&E and Majesco announced today that the TV network and games publisher are creating a sequel to Parking Wars for Facebook, inspired by the program of the same name. Again, the game will be developed by Area/Code, but this will likely be its last independent game given its new role as Zynga New York, VentureBeat reports.

The game will be aptly titled Parking Wars 2, and players will have to park on streets and feed meters. However, friends can sabotage the parking experience by writing parking tickets and throwing bricks through car windows. Of course, the game will feature virtual goods for purchase with Facebook Credits, according to VentureBeat.

"As Facebook becomes more mature, we are making it part of our strategy," Majesco CEO Jesse Sutton said about the company's growing interest in Facebook. "Our focus will be on brands, brands, brands" for casual audiences such as boys, girls, families and adult women."

N.J.-based-Majesco is already familiar with Facebook as it recently launched its flagship Cooking Mama series on the platform. But while the franchise has made the company crazy money on the Nintendo DS, it is suffering on Facebook with just over 700 thousand monthly players, according to AppData. Now, we know that Majesco can put out an impressive game on Facebook, but marketing it and attracting players is a different beast entirely.

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Are you psyched for Parking Wars to return to Facebook? How do you think Majesco will fare this time on the platform?

Cooking Mama-maker Majesco buys Quick Hit for social games boost

Quick Hit Football
In the social games world, somebody is always buying somebody else. This rings true for Quick Hit, a Foxborough, Mass.-based online game company that had its team gobbled up by Edison, NJ-based Majesco Entertainment for $836 thousand, Mass High Tech reports. Majesco, the studio behind the recent Facebook rendition of Cooking Mama, said in a press release that it bought the Quick Hit team for its experience with micro-transactions in online games.

However, only the 12-strong team will join Majesco, not its recently-released Quick Hit Football (pictured), an online football simulator featuring all 32 NFL teams, thanks to a licensing agreement. The game puts players in the coach's shoes (and fancy Motorola headset, we hope), managing teams filled with real and fictional players to victory. Of course, the game relies heavily on micro-transactions like almost all Facebook games.

Quick Hit Football might be a Majesco game soon enough. Mass High Tech reports that Jeffery Anderson, Quick Hit founder and CEO and now head of Majesco's online and social games, is in talks with Majesco regarding the fate of the game. While the acquisition was small compared to Zynga-grade buyouts (which might be not be a fair comparison), Majesco doesn't appear any less serious about the social games scene. Cooking Mama on Facebook currently enjoys just above 500 thousand monthly players, according to AppData. But we'll see soon enough whether Quick Hit can give it--and Majesco's mysterious "products in development"--the shot in the arm it deserves.

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Do you think Majesco will find success on Facebook through Quick Hit? What other Majesco games do you wish would come to Facebook?