Poker 2.0 News

One of the classic games which will never die is probably Space Invaders with its thousands of versions. One of the most popular was Chicken Invaders, but now we have a new one called Poker Invaders . Aliens are the same - angry and thirsty of cow blood, therefore we, humans, need to defend the Earth from ords of landing alien invaders. The game is for iPhone and hopefully iPad users. Poker invaders is yet to be launched soon, so do not miss it. Here is a promotional video of this iPhone game :) The game is produced by a new gaming company Moon Sheperd.

The future belongs to Android OS and devices with this operating system - mainly planchette computers (iPad, Samsung Galaxy etc). The developers of various poker applications perfectly understands that an their primary target is to create a cool and nice poker apps. One of the most popular Android poker app is Texas Holdem King 3 . The grafics are not very sophisticated, but the number of downloads says that it is worth to try. This application also allows playing against live players rather than AI of the application. There are some more options in the market. Poker applications for Android are free, but some are already paid. We are at the start of huge business. In next 2 years the world will be filled with Android devices, so these applications may bring lots of users and profit to the creators and developers.

Here comes the N’th poker application in Facebook. This time WPT decided to grab a piece of multi-million social gaming market by introducing a new poker application simply called WPT Texas Hold’em . It has nothing to do with former WPT poker room or new owners of the brand – PartyGaming. So far the app has 175K monthly users and increasing. Anyway Zynga Poker is the biggest and still can share it’s market piece to small challengers like this one.

The newest tech geek toy iPad has already got its first poker application. It comes together with a handy app called Game Table on April 3rd, 2010. Poker is just one of the games besides chess and checkers. This iPad application costs $0.99, so it’s really affordable. There is no more details about the game, but it seems quite interesting if players will be able to fold or through away chips with finger touch. Hopefully it will reveal a new touchscreen experience for poker players.

The World is not enough for Zynga. 3rd most popular Zynga’s game Zynga Poker now has a little brother – flash game Poker Blitz . This is a fast poker game against the house where player must collect as much money as possible over period of time. Of course the game is full of various achievements to be considered a real social game. So far Poker Blitz game can be played in Facebook . According to AppData , Poker Blitz has already reached 750K users this month and will be growing.

The new year brings all poker players (those, who use Facebook, of course) some hope, that poker will never die. Despite of Zynga Poker popularity and 10-100 times bigger size than any competitor, new players arrive to the market. Recently we have announced about PlayFish’s Poker Rivals arrival. Now there is another player with 1,200 monthly users – Broadway Poker . It has been developed by 2 quite famous social games (Scrabulous) developers brothers Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla. It is still quite empty in comparison even with Poker Rivals or Poker Palace, but it is worth to try. The design is quite simple and nothing too fancy. Brothers Agarwallas created different games on the launch, not like other Facebook poker applications when they launch Texas Holdem in the beginning and set “Coming soon” for Omaha games, which are getting more and more popular among advanced players. Beginners has a nice hint in the bottom of the table, so i could call this room quite a good place ...

Zynga is the social games company which produces the biggest and huge success social games for biggest social networks. It’s main competitor is PlayFish which always try creating similar games. Zynga has FarmVille, Playfish has Country Story, Zynga – CaffeWorld, PlayFish – Restaurant City. Zynga has Texas Holdem, so PlayFish just launched new poker application called Poker Rivals . It is a nice poker room with similar features such as daily chips lottery, achievements, friend invitations and gifts etc. Flash client is much nicer than Zynga's (personal opinion). Here is the table view of PokerRivals: As you can see it has some interesting and nicely designed features. Hopefully it will become popular and good competitor to Zynga’s Texas Holdem.