‘Rippers’ For Savage Worlds Is Now A Facebook Game

Pinnacle Entertainment Group is extremely proud to present the Rippers Facebook game! Please come check it out and tell all your friends. We hope this is the first of many new electronic ventures, but of course that’s only the case if you help us spread the word!

Create a Ripper from one of six factions, Hunt monsters, complete Adventures, Craft new Rippertech, Build your Lodge, help your friends Take Back The Night!

Rippers is a new RPG on the Facebook social networking site. Featuring unique adventures, Rippertech crafting, a marketplace, and more than 300 items, Rippers offers a little more than traditional Facebook games. Join your friends in the “Horror War” against the evil Cabal and build your Lodge to aid you in your struggle.

Rippers was designed by Simon Lucas and programmed by Matthew Klausemeir and Christian Clough, with art by Jordan Peacock, Christophe Swal, Andrew Chason, Adji Setya Dharma, and Satya Hody, based on the original Rippers and Rippers: The Horror Wars by Shane Hensley and Chris Dolunt.

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Facebook For iPhone 3.0 Is Almost Here

The Facebook for iPhone 3.0 will be available for download (probably via the App Store) very soon. The new version of Facebook for iPhone will obviously bring many improvements and additions.

Some of new features include Homescreen, News Feed, Notes, Pages, Events (with the ability to RSVP) and enhanced notifications.

This application also allows you to create photo albums, upload photos, easily tag photos, zoom into photos, and add favorite profiles/pages to the homescreen. Stay tuned for more updates. [UnWiredView]

Xbox Live To Connect With Twitter and Facebook Directly

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has never been solely about games — it’s been a way for Microsoft to move beyond the PC and into the living room to become a digital entertainment hub. During its E3 press conference today, Microsoft got a whole lot closer to that goal with the addition of a host of new features for Xbox Live including Twitter and Facebook integration, social viewing and instantly watchable 1080p HD movies. We watched the conference’s live-stream and grabbed these choice nuggets:

Xbox Live users will soon be able to connect to their Twitter accounts to post updates and check in on their Tweet stream through their televisions. The Facebook integration goes a bit further: You can find Facebook friends who are also Xbox Live members, share photos and status updates, and post screenshots of games to your Facebook accounts.

The social activity won’t end there — the Xbox Live Party lets you watch content with your friends online. From the brief demo, it looks like you and your friends’ avatars will meet up in a virtual theater to watch videos on a simulated screen.

And watching videos will get a whole lot better through the service. Microsoft is beefing up its Netflix integration, allowing users to browse the Watch Instantly queue directly from the TV, as well as play movies instantly without adding them to the queue at all. As we reported the other day, BSkyB is also integrating its programming to allow U.K. and Ireland members to watch live television from the network through the Xbox. And we knew the Zune Marketplace was coming to Xbox, but today Microsoft announced that HD video will be offered at full 1080p through it and users can watch instantly, with no downloads and no delays.

Don’t want to watch a video? Then you can listen to music, as Xbox Live will add millions of songs from Last.fm direct to your TV.

All of these features are due to hit Xbox Live this fall.

Xbox also showed off its “Project Natal,” which is a future hardware add-on that abandons the controller entirely and instead uses body gestures to control games and navigate through menus. There was no release date for that tech, though.

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Facebook’s U.S. Numbers Still Under MySpace’s, Gap Narrowing

Although it was ranked the No. 1 social network worldwide in terms of unique visitors, Facebook has yet to surpass MySpace’s numbers in the U.S. But, according to some recent numbers, Facebook could be passing MySpace in the next few months.

According to TechCrunch, comScore’s data from March 2009 shows that 61.2 million people visited Facebook in the U.S., compared to 70.2 million for MySpace. Facebook’s numbers grew by 6.7 percent in March, with 3.8 million visitors. MySpace, on the other hand, gained 160,000 less visitors than in February of 2009, and attracted 5.8 million less than they had in January.

Facebook is now about 9 million unique U.S. visitors away from passing MySpace. I’m surprised it hasn’t happened sooner. MySpace does have the music thing going for it though, which Facebook is lacking. Although, with Facebook’s fairly new “fan pages,” MySpace’s music pages might see fewer visitors. Unless MySpace changes something soon, they might have to get used to being No. 2 in the U.S.

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The Pirate Bay Comes To Facebook

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “According to a report I just read in Mashable, Pirate Bay is coming to Facebook. Writer Ben Parr says that The Pirate Bay site now includes links under torrents to ‘Share on Facebook.’ Once posted to a profile, the Facebook member’s friends can click the link on Facebook to begin the download right away, provided he or she already has a torrenting client installed.

I just hope people do not use this feature to download copyrighted materials which are not authorized to be downloaded, or at least not materials copyrighted to litigation-happy RIAA Big 4 record labels. No doubt, if their song files were downloaded through this method, the record companies would sit back for awhile, derive profit from the promotional excitement generated for their dying industry, and then — armed with Facebook’s data — sue the pants off all the hapless Facebook users who fell for it.”

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Facebook Traffic More Than Doubles in One Year

Internet users are spending a lot of time on social-networking Web sites, and as a result Facebook has shot up in popularity and has everyone from groups of moms to priests talking about it. The number of users flocking to the site to communicate with friends, check event invites, and post photos has soared.

Social-networking sites in general saw an increase in visitors, claiming 6.13 percent of U.S. Internet traffic, up four percent year over year, according to tracking company Hitwise. Facebook’s share of that traffic more than doubled, to 36 percent from 14 percent.

“I think what is really interesting about the growth is how Facebook has continued to grow and Web-site traffic to Facebook has had an upright trajectory,” said Heather Dougherty, director of research at Hitwise.

Demographics Are Changing

Moms aren’t spending their nights out talking about their children spending time on Facebook — they are talking about their own experience on the Web site. Tracking results show the site is not only attracting teens, but visitors aged 35 and older, a group that grew 23 percent from February 2008 through last month.

The older demographic may also be switching from MySpace to Facebook, since MySpace saw a two percent decline in that age group during the same time.

“When you look at the ages of visitors on Facebook, the biggest share is still aged 18 to 24,” Dougherty said. In fact, 29 percent of traffic to Facebook last month was from that age group, 17 percent were 45 to 54, and nine percent were 55 and older.

Still, there is a clear shift away from Facebook being visited by just the 18-to-24 group. Traffic from all age groups — except the 18-to-24 category — increased from February 2008 to February 2009, according to Dougherty.

“It has become far more mainstreamed than…

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