Inside FarmVille

NBC’s Kate Snow took a tour “inside FarmVille” at Zynga headquarters in San Francisco and now you can also catch a sneak peek of what goes on behind the scenes of your favorite farming game.

Want to see more? NBC will air the rest of Kate Snow’s tour and the first television interview with Zynga CEO and founder Mark Pincus since the company went public.  You can watch the profile on FarmVille and Zynga tomorrow, on Monday night, January 16th at 10 PM (EST)/ 9 PM (CST).

What do you think about this sneak peek? Are you excited to see more of NBC’s interview at FarmVille’s headquarters?

Check out a brand new Showcase Video featured by FarmVille! This Fairy Tale themed Showcase features items that we are yet to see in this release!

You may notice that there are 5 different animals that are shown!

Are you excited for these items to hit the FarmVille Market?

FarmVille Fairy Tale House

Check out this adorable little mini movie sent it to us by FarmVille Freak Gabriella! In honor of Valentine’s Day, she shows us a tiny little romantic clip between Oinko & Piglette!

If you have a special FarmVille video like this, or a story, poem or a even Valentine’s Day themed farm that you would like to show off, make sure you send us a picture at farmgoddess@farmvillefreak.com!

Check out the latest edition of the FarmVille Valentine’s Day and Lunar New Year Showcase! This video seems to be featuring all the new releases we can expect this week! What do you think of this new Showcase?

Do any of the items look like they would fit on your farm? And how have you been enjoying the Valentine’s Day and Lunar New Year themes so far?

FarmVille Broken Heart Cottage	FarmVille Barbed Heart Topiary	FarmVille Crossbones Topiary	FarmVille Broken Heart Gnome
FarmVille Chinese Pavilion	FarmVille Cow Lion Dance	FarmVille Lantern Sheep	FarmVille Kung Fu Duck
FarmVille Red Lantern Bridge	FarmVille Willows Hearts Tree	FarmVille Black Cherry Tree	FarmVille Red Gypsy Horse

The latest FarmVille Valentine’s Day and Lunar New Year Showcase video is now available. The video displays this week’s most recent Limited Edition items that were added to the FarmVille Market. You can watch the video which gives you an idea of how these items look on the farm.

FarmVille Groom Gnome

FarmVille Rose Petals

FarmVille Wedding Fence

FarmVille Heart Balloon Arch

FarmVille You Are Loved Sign

FarmVille Thank You Farmers Notice

Following the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, players of Farmville rallied to donate over US $1.5 million to the emergency food relief effort. A year later, the WFP and people across Haiti are saying thank you.

- Official FarmVille Fan Page

FarmVille Haiti School

Do you remember last year when FarmVille did a huge fundraiser for Haiti? Seems that all the generous donations from FarmVille players have finally reached their destination, and been an enormous help!

Check out this video from the World Food Program from Haiti sending out a thank you message to anyone and everyone who helped build the School for Change!

Did you help out with the donations for Haiti last year through FarmVille?

“They tried to stop. They couldn’t. They tried to put time limits on their FarmVille use, but they couldn’t succeed,” Young said, speaking in general about women who find it hard to kick the FarmVille habit.

According to the psychologist referenced above, those obsessed with playing FarmVille can lead to problems such as addiction and that players should limit themselves to how much time they spend on their virtual farms.

Their special report covers the gamers that make up the majority of FarmVille players which includes women in the over fourty age group. While this fact may be true, they also leave out a huge demographic of farmers. This article and video are definitely from an outsiders perspective by obvious non-players. We all know that you don’t normally purchase seeds with farm cash (besides Sweet Seeds for Haiti) and purchasing farm cash (with real money) for virtual goods has been around much longer than the reported “recently”.

Article: (Source: Betting the Farm: FarmVille Soars in Popularity)

Despite the many errors and non-facts that this report  includes, do you think there is any truth to problems with too much farming?

Why are we obsessed with FarmVille? Would you consider your farming a habit or addiction? Discuss the video above or add your own commentary.

We’ve all experienced the annoying “Saving Farm” errors or other loading and accessibility technical issues that sometimes prevent you from getting your farming fix. Or maybe you are sick of paying farm cash for all the “good stuff”. Perhaps you are still missing items stolen away by the Zynga gods. Like any other addiction, maybe you’ve threatened “to quit” farming, but found yourself back to harvesting in the middle of the night. Whatever the case, despite the problems and frustrations with FarmVille, Zynga has all of us FarmVille Freaks hooked!

Check out the hilarious video below of one farmer’s “Freak-Out” farming session that describes the experience of many farmers and our love-hate relationship with FarmVille.

Warning: The following video contains adult language (although it is censored out), please watch at your own discretion.

Hey FarmGoddess!

Being a FarmVilleFreak, I love your site. I made this playfully critical video about the differences between FarmVille and real farms. It stars my country-girl character, Darlene. Originally I intended it for people to post on their neighbors Facebook walls, but I wanted to send it to you too! I hope you like it, and I hope all the other FarmVille Freaks do too!

- FarmVille Freak Nick