Lost Island Mahjongg: Play new puzzles every single day

OK, so in addition to publishing stuff about big-name Facebook games -- Games.com is also home to thousands of casual games, a few of them we created ourselves. One of those exclusive games is Lost Island Mahjongg, a standard mahjongg puzzle game with a jungle theme. This game has been out for a while, and players have been spending an average of 300,000 hours a month matching tiles with the dexterity of a fighter jet pilot.

Starting today, we've rolled out a new daily puzzle in Lost Island Mahjongg, meaning that when you log into the game, you will get a brand new puzzle. Every single day. Today's puzzle for instance is called 'Star' because the Mahjongg tiles are -- you guessed it -- in a star shape. If you miss a couple days, you will be able to go back and play those as well. The puzzles are new every day and will never repeat (at least, that's what our developers tell me).

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Game of the Day: Bird Pax

Today's Game of the Day is a unique bird-themed card game. It combines rules from a variety of popular games and mixes them all into one addictive package. It might take some careful strategy and a bit of luck to get through all the levels. But, once you've got a grasp on the Bird Pax basics, you should be able to cruise through.

The rules of Bird Pax are a bit complicated for beginners, so I'll explain here. The object of each round is to earn as many cards as you can. You're always trying to take your opponent to the cleaners. You win cards by having better cards in each match up. The higher the number, the better the card. When cards are played from the same bird family or of the same value, a "Pax" begins. Each player risks 3 cards. The 4th card will determine who wins all the cards currently in play. If you're still a little confused, check out the full instructions in the game. Good luck!

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What level were you able to get to in Bird Pax?

Game of the Day: Ice Breakers Penguin Pirates

And unfortunately, it doesn't sound like you'll have much of a choice. EA, co-creator of Playfish's The Sims Social on Facebook (and arch nemesis to Zynga at this point), has announced EA Legend.

This is the company's new platform to provide marketers and advertisers with "campaign and audience insights across mobile, social, online and console games reaching over 300 million people worldwide," a release reads.

In other words, you're more valuable to EA than you might already know. The publisher wants to use the information you provide them inadvertently through gameplay to rope in ad and marketing deals not just through its Facebook games but all of its games. More specifically, EA said it can provide advertisers with (prepare for buzzword overload):

    Key cross-platform campaign performance indicators such as impressions, clicks, unduplicated reach, demographic profiles, social media buzz, and ROI metrics.

    Segmented audience insights based on demographic, psychographic, and social data.

    Ability to drill down into the factors that impact campaign effectiveness including audience engagement, audience segmentation and type of creative all measured over time.

EA Legend
What's that again--psychographic data? This may all sound like something out of "1984," but it's nothing new. If you think other game creators don't do this type of stuff, then here's your wake-up call. We won't know exactly what information about us EA will provide to advertisers through Legend until it makes advertisers see green at this year's Advertising Week event in New York City on Oct. 4. And if EA keeps using words like psychographic, we may never know.

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