Social Gaming Roundup: Valentine's, Charity, the iPad, and More

Gowalla and Loopt Use Check-Ins to Help Haiti - Last week, the roundup mentioned Loopt and its desire to promote check-ins for its location-based, mobile social network in the form of deals at real world locations. Now, every check in at Chipotle, Panera Bread, or Whole Foods will lead to a donation of $1 to the American Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders to help in the Haiti earthquake relief. In line with Loopt's charitably, another location-based app, Gowalla has also launched a check-in charity campaign dubbed "Hearts for Haiti." The event will take place on Monday, February 8th in the San Francisco Bay Area, and whenever someone checks-in at one of three specific locations (noted below), at specific times, Gowalla will donate $50 to the American Red Cross in that person's name. The goal is to raise $20,000. 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Peet’s Coffee & Tea in Emeryville at 5959 Shellmound Street, Suite 85 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Peet’s Coffee & Tea in Mill Valley at 88 Throckmorton Avenue 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Barenaked Ladies concert at Infusion Lounge AppFund To Seed iPad Apps - CNET and E! Online co-founder, Kevin Wendle has partnered with MusicNation to form the AppFund, with the sole goal to help fund entrepreneurs and startups that wish to launch applications on the new Apple iPad (or any other tablet, for that matter). The investment amount will range anywhere from $5000 to $500,000 depending on the complexity of the app. However, proposals for funding are encouraged to be made immediately in order to be part of the first wave of iPad applications this summer. [via TechCrunch] Celebrate Valentine's with Wizard101 - The free-to-play MMO, Wizard101 will be bringing some special Valentine's virtual goods to the wizarding world this month. The goods will be purchased via the game's virtual currency from a non-player character, Valentina Heartsong, but as a special promotion, the developers will be hosting a special contest that will give away some of said items for free. All players have to do is follow @Wizard101 on Twitter, and each weekday, until the 12th, a random follower will be contacted through the social network to claim their free virtual gift. Civilization on Facebook - Though it was announced in October, Sid Meier's Civilization isn't quite ready for Facebook yet. Publisher, Take Two, told Variety that it's going to still be a little while until the popular franchise makes its way onto the social network. But fear not, as they also said that the game's open beta ought to be "sometime in June." Star Trek Online Virtual Goods - The highly anticipated MMO, Star Trek Online launched with an interesting surprise: Apparently, developer Cryptic Studios and publisher Atari are bringing some very hefty virtual goods to the table. Currently, players can purchase two special races from the game's in-game "C-Store" using the virtual currency, Cryptic Points. For 240 Cryptic Points - $3.00 - players can purchase the Federation Klingons race, and for 80 Cryptic Points - $1.00 - the Federation Ferengi race. Currently, however, the virtual currency can only be purchased in increments of 500, or $6.25. TrialPay Gets in on Valentine's Day - Offers company TrialPay is running a little something special for Valentine's Day as well. Currently, the company is offering new and existing partners a $250 Amazon.com gift card. In order to qualify, new partners must complete 30 transactions via TrialPayduring the month of February, while existing partners must launch a new Valentine's Day Campaign and complete 50 transactions. Assassin's Creed II Multiplayer Coming to the iPhone - While an iPhone rendition of Assassin's Creed II has been noted to come out in early February, word is that Ubisoft is to release another, online version, Assassin's Creed II: Multiplayer. Soon, players will be able to use Wi-Fi to compete with up to three other players in a deadly game of hide-and-go-seek as each assassin tries to kill the others before being killed themselves. What is most interesting, however, is that the game will feature not only a built-in friend's list but Facebook integration as well that will allow the posting of up to 24 achievements to their social networking feed. [via Kotaku]

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