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Welcome to the news section! We'll be keeping this area up to date as we make changes (big and small) to the site and the games.
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| Chili Pepper Blackjack released! | October 17, 2008 |
Our latest game, Chili Pepper Blackjack, has been released on the App Store. You can get the full version or the lite version version.
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| Native Video Poker Available! | August 21, 2008 |
Fat-Free Video Poker is now available from the App Store. The free version (with ads) can be found here. The paid version (no ads) can be found here.
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| Free Version of Cookie Bonus Solitaire Available! | July 30, 2008 |
You can now enjoy Cookie Bonus Solitaire as a native application for FREE! The free version has all of the same features as the paid version, but there are ads in-between each game. If you already have the 2.0 Firmware update you can click here to get it now!
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| Cookie Bonus Solitaire Update Released! | July 25, 2008 |
Apple's App Store has just released our 1.0.1 version of Cookie Bonus Solitaire. Updating your application is free and this update should solve many of the crash issues that have been reported.
The following issues are fixed with the 1.0.1 update:
- A bug with the dragging of cards.
- Crash involving the loading of icons and badges in the chat.
- A few other minor issues.
If you have purchased our native version, please update as soon as possible by visiting the App Store on your Mac/PC or by accessing it on your iPhone or iPod Touch, pressing the Updates tab, and pressing on Cookie Bonus Solitaire. We will be sending down badges and icons again later in the day and this may cause problems with the 1.0.0 version.
We will also be submitting a 1.0.2 update that fixes even more issues that will hopefully be available some time next week.
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| Coming Soon! | July 8, 2008 |
The native apps are coming soon, check out all the details here!
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| Code of Conduct | July 7, 2008 |
In order to make it clear what users can expect when they're chatting, as well as what is "ok" and what is off limits, we've added a new Code of Conduct to our chat system. You can see it here.
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| New Community Features - And Video Poker changes! | June 24, 2008 |
Video Poker
New payouts for regular hands. A royal flush is HUGE now!
Extra bonuses in the apples - and you thought 250s were fun!
Community
From a user's profile you can now click "Ignore User" and you'll never see anything they say in chat.
You can also mark someone as your Friend from their profile.
In your user profile, there is a new field for "Buddy Score" which is based on how many people have marked you as their friend.
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| Gumball Bingo Updated | April 1, 2008 |
Bingo Changes:
1. Previously, there were frequently many games with 1 or 2 people in them. We've changed the way joining games already in process works so now there will be significantly more people in each game.
2. Chat is now shared between all of the bingo games. If someone is chatting in a different game than you, you will see a "G" followed by a number indicating which game they're in.
3. We've removed some of the more full patterns, and added several new smaller patterns.
Token and Scoring Changes:
1. We're continuing to tweak the rate that points for individual games are converted into tokens. This should stabilize over the coming weeks.
2. Instead of showing the weekly score inside the games, we are now showing your lifetime score. However, the rank is still based on your weekly score.
Profile Changes:
1. We've reworked the profile screens to make them more attractive, and to show both your lifetime and weekly ranks.
Game Changes
1. We now have the ability to display news summaries inside the games!
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| Tokens Tokens Tokens! | March 26, 2008 |
In our largest site update yet, almost everything has gotten a massive overhaul. The most significant of which is a massive change to the way scores in the various games are handled.
Previously, there was only one total score for each game and it would keep growing larger the longer you played. This score was used for the rankings of all the players in the games and they got incredibly large. The net result of this was that the rankings of players were based largely on how long you had been playing the game, and very little on how well or how often you played. This presented a daunting challenge for new users, and severely hurt the long time viability of the games. After all, who would want to join a new game and try to catch up to the scores of people who had been growing their score for months, or even years!
In order to over come this, we've changed the way scores and rankings are handled. There are now two main scores for each game: an in-game score and a lifetime score. There is also a new ranking system, as well as a system wide token system.
Each week on Monday at around 3am PST the various pieces will be updated as follows:
- The in-game score for the week will be added to your lifetime total score.
- The weekly scores for every game will be converted into tokens and added together to produce a token total.
- Players will be ranked based on their in-game scores for each of the individual games.
- Players will also be ranked based on their token totals for a site-wide ranking.
- The in-game points will be reset and a new week of stats will begin collecting.
For now, tokens have limited value beyond the site-wide ranking, but we created the system so we could leverage tokens in future enhancements. The ranking system is also in its early stages and we have a lot of future plans for it.
We think this combination of scoring and ranking will make for a much more lively system, and one that we can do a lot more with than the old system.
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| PC/Mac Playing Disabled | March 13, 2008 |
Due to excessive cheating and abuse of games we have been forced to temporarily disable the ability for you to play Fat-Free Games from your PC/Mac.
We apologize for the inconvenience but nothing about your iPhone playing experience has changed.
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| New Features! | February 29, 2008 |
We've added some new features and bug improvements to the various games and the site in general.
Site:
- Users can now change their chat preferences to disable chat by going to their settings page.
- Clicking on a users name in-game will allow you to vote to mute that person. If someone received 5 votes, they will be muted for 24 hours.
Frozen Lexicon:
- Fixed a bug that was preventing all of the words from being seen
- Increased the size of the score box so scores over 4 digits could be seen properly
Gumball Bingo
- Improved the frame rate of the card animations
- Added an end of game animation
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| Fat-Free Games comes to your PC! | February 7, 2008 |
You can now play all of the games here at FatFreeGames.com on your PC or Mac with the Firefox or Safari web browsers. Unfortunately, we cannot support Internet Explorer at this time.
The PC versions of our games include improved performance and easier chatting. Enjoy!
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| Cookie Bonus Solitaire Released! | January 28, 2008 |
Fat-Free Games third release is now available to play online! Cookie Bonus Solitaire takes traditional Klondike solitaire and adds cheats and bonus cards to make the game even more fun than the original. Check it out now at here.
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| New Chat Features | January 24, 2008 |
We have added some new chat features to make chatting easier and more enjoyable.
- Added chat popup with a set of predefined messages for quick small talk.
- Added sorting buttons for the active user list inside the full screen chat dialog.
- Prioritized in game congratulations messages to prevent chat messages from scrolling too fast for easier chatting.
- Increased 'Chat' and 'Menu' button sizes for easier clicking.
We hope these new features make socializing in our games more enjoyable. See you in game!
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| Bug Fix Update | January 17, 2008 |
We've wrapped up a couple of bugs in this patch and enhanced a couple of things:
- Fixed bug with number of players reported in games being too large
- Improved user time outs on the server to reduce page reloads while in the games
- Added support for a custom icon when adding a bookmark to the site to your home screen (new feature in iPhone 1.1.3 update)
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| Website Redesigned! | January 16, 2008 |
We have redesigned our website and added a bunch of new features. Here's a list of the changes:
- Updated art assets
- Added new site areas (see header)
- New layouts for all pages
- Unified the iPhone and PC web sites
We've also replaced our existing game server with a totally new custom server written in Java. The new server should scale much more efficiently and give us better reliability and control of the back end that keeps all the games running.
As with anything new, there's always a chance that we may have broken something so if you see anything that isn't quite working right, please send an email to support@fatfreegames.com and let us know what's wrong!
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| Quick Update | January 10, 2008 |
Just a couple of minor fixes and improvements:
- Added a "Reset Password" option to the login page.
- Improved in-game ad framing. Ads will now refresh every 5 minutes, and will open up a new window when they're clicked on.
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