Although these GagaVille items are featured in the FarmVille iPhone Market, you cannot actually purchase them or if you are able to purchase them you will promptly get OOS (Out of Sync) error when trying to place on your farm.

These new Market items appear to be momentarily broken. Don’t freak out just yet because it seems highly unlikely for all of these new items to be iPhone exclusives.

Here is the list of GagVille items (broken) that were added to the iPhone Market:

• FarmVille Mohawk Cow – 22 Farm Cash
• FarmVille Biker Goat – 14 Farm Cash
• FarmVille Crystal Castle – 40 Farm Cash
• FarmVille Lady Gaga Sign – 50,000 Farm Coins
• FarmVille Unicorn Topiary – 20,000 Farm Coins
• FarmVille Glitter – 4,000 Farm Coins
• FarmVille Crystal Fence – 8,000 Farm Coins
• FarmVille Giant Crystal Lake – 20 Farm Cash
• FarmVille Enchanted Tree II – 1 Farm Cash
• FarmVille Crystal Garden – 200,000 Farm Cash
• FarmVille Jewel Tree – 7 Farm Cash
• FarmVille Giant Jewel Tree – 12 Farm Cash
• FarmVille Pink Gem Tree – 7 Farm Cash
• FarmVille Giant Pink Gem Tree – 12 Farm Cash

FarmVille Biker Goat	FarmVille Mohawk Cow	FarmVille Crystal Castle	FarmVille Lady Gaga Sign
FarmVille Unicorn Topiary	FarmVille Glitter	FarmVille Crystal Fence	FarmVille Giant Crystal Lake
FarmVille Enchanted Tree II	FarmVille Crystal Garden	FarmVille Jewel Tree	FarmVille Giant Jewel Tree
FarmVille Pink Gem Tree	FarmVille Giant Pink Gem Tree

FarmVille iPhone Exclusive: Cube Green House

There is a new Cube Green House iPhone (iPad, iPod, iDevice) exclusive item accessible only via the FarmVille Market through your iPhone and other Apple devices.

This decorative building costs 25,000 Farm Coins and will reward you with 250 XP at the time of purchase.

FarmVille Cube Green House

Will you be using your iPhone to get your own Cube Green House?

FarmVille ChristianWho's Cube Green House

FarmVille Holiday Cat

FarmVille Elf Leopard

Thank you to FarmVille Freak Moo- for giving us a heads up about this update!

Two new animals have been added to the FarmVille iPhone Market recently. The Holiday Cat and Elf Leopard are now available for purchase to everyone that has the FarmVille app on their iPhones.

• Holiday Cat – 50,000 Coins
• Elf Leopard – 50,000 Coins

FarmVille Holiday Cat (iPhone Exclusive)

FarmVille Elf Leopard (iPhone Exclusive)

Will the iPhone owners be buying these festive new animals for Christmas?

FarmVille Thanskgiving Cart iPhone

There is a new iPhone exclusive item, a Thanksgiving Cart now available.

You can purchase the Thanksgiving Cart for 50,000 coins when visiting the FarmVille Market via your iPhone, iPad, or other iDevice.

This decoration will only be in the market for the next 6 days, so for those of you iPhone farmers that can, make sure to scoop yours up while its available.

FarmVille Thankgiving Cart (iPhone Only)

FarmVille Thanksgiving Cart Preview

You can download the update for free via iTunes or the App Store.

The current updated version includes:

• Higher resolution for iPad users
• Better access to tools and menus on the iPad
• Access to use Super Combines
• Improved load times and bug fixes

FarmVille iPhone App Update v1.09

You can download the update for free via iTunes.

The current updated version includes:

• Supports Game Center.
• You can view the progress of Ribbon Achievements.
• Start new mobile only (exclusive) Achievements.
• Track your ranking on a Level and Crop Mastery Leaderboard.

FarmVille iPhone App Update V.1.06

What do you think about this new update? Are you utilizing and enjoying the new features?

The September 1st 2010 update, version 1.05, includes fixes for the following:

• Fixed loading issues and crashes for large farms.
• Fixed “Out of Sync” error when sending iPhone exclusive gifts.
• Fixed crash when ignoring pending gifts.
• Fixed crash when visiting multiple neighbors.

FarmVille iPhone App Update v.1.05

Have you noticed an improvement with your mobile farming with this update?

Thanks FarmVille Freak Craig Horikawa for the email!

This week’s official FarmVille Podcast is hosted by Lexilicious.

Some exciting news featured in this week’s podcast includes Nursery Barn expansion and a new feature that will allow farmers to collect XP and coins by helping out on their neighbors farms!

You can listen to the video above, read the FarmVille Freak Summary below or read the entire transcript provided by Zynga at the bottom of the post.

FarmVille Freak Podcast Summary – August 27th 2010

Pigpens Released

• Constructible building.
• Stores up to 20 Pigs.
• Only one Pigpen per farm.
• To read more details about Pigpens read on FarmVille Freak by clicking here.

Crafting Recipe Mastery

• Gain XP, Coin Rewards, and Crafting Mastery Signs for your farm.
• Do not have to “do anything” to start, just continue making Goods.
• Crafting Mastery is retroactive meaning you will be rewarded for your progress thus far before the release.
• Mastery Signs can be found in your Gift Box.
• To read more details about Crafting Mastery visit our FarmVille Freak Guide by clicking here.

LE Wild West Theme

• New theme released this week.
• More items will be coming next week.

Where do you mobile farm, Photo Constest?

• Win up to 500 FV$ farm cash.
• Ends at 11:59 PM on August 31st 2010.
• Take a picture of yourself playing your FarmVille on your mobile device.
• Visit the FarmVille Mobile Forums (zynga.com) for more details.

Coming Soon to FarmVille

• Nursery Barn expansion will be debuting in the coming weeks.
• Wild West themed Mystery Game.
• More LE Wild West theme.
• Improved neighbor visit. This new feature will allow you to complete functions on your neihgbors’ farms, you can harvest their trees, collect from their animals, and plow fallow land. Not only will you be rewarded XP and Coins for helping out on their farm, so will your neighbor. (Similar to neighbor visits on FrontierVille).

Official FarmVille Podcast Transcript click here.

What was your favorite piece of news from this podcast? FarmVille Freak is interested in the new neighbor function! This is where having good FarmVille neighbors could really pay off! Although some workaholic (or click-a-holic) farmers may not like their animal and tree harvests done for them. What do you think? Do you like having extra help on the farm? Discuss!

Zynga FarmVille

About ten days ago FarmVille was quietly pulled from MSN Games, as reported by Inside Social Games.

In a partnership between Zynga and MSN dating back to February, FarmVille was made available to play via MSN Games. The idea was that having FarmVille accessible through other portals besides FaceBook, would drive hits for both MSN and increase exposure for Zynga.  It is unsure how successful this partnership was and whether or not it was worth it for Zynga’s investment.

So why did Zynga leave? While Zynga has failed to make an official statement concerning the end of farming on MSN, it is no secret that Zynga recently entered into a partnership with MSN competitor Google, who has invested millions in the social gaming company. Could this partnership have something to do with it? According to Inside Social Gaming, ” Zynga didn’t find the traffic MSN produced meaningful enough to continue running FarmVille on the Microsoft platform”.

As access portals other than FaceBook seem to be of particular interest to social gaming companies like Zynga, “Zynga’s departure suggests the traffic other social developers are hoping to find off of Facebook may be more difficult to find than expected”. Despite FarmVille’s “lackluster performance” on MSN, Zynga continues to seek other avenues of social expansion, including investments in mobile apps, like FarmVille for iPhone as well as seeking access for its games in international markets such as Japan and China. With investments like Google’s in Zynga, rumored to be of up to $200 million, the future of Zynga games in the US market seems to be more than hopeful especially with the launch of the much anticipated Google Games. For now, the big question remains unanswered. . . do social gaming companies like Zynga need FaceBook or does FaceBook need them?

What do you think? What does the future of Zynga’s games like FarmVille outside the realm of FaceBook?

Updates for the FarmVille app include fixes for the following issues:

• Optimization to allow large farms to load better.
• Fixes for users having issues loading their farm.
• Performance improvement for older devices.
• Support for multitasking (for iOS 4.0 users).
• Better organized gift area.
• Bug fixing.

FarmVille Freak Craig's FarmVille App Update

Have you noticed any improvements with your iPhone farming?