Forget Farmville, Playboy is Making Poisonville
Grand Theft Auto: fictional U.S. city.
Facebook gets lots of playtime thanks to Zynga's Farmville, Mafia Wars and other games; Playboy is hoping to replicate some of the success by getting some online games of its own for its website.
Playboy announced it will launch a new video game label in late 2010, in partner with Bigpoint, known also for working on Battlestar Galactica Online.
The first project from Playboy and Bigpoint will be Poisonville, which is essentially a Grand Theft Auto type of game with hot women.
The press release describes it:
Poisonville is an action-oriented, Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) that puts gamers into a fictional U.S. city where crime and corruption rule the streets. Players must complete a series of missions in order to counteract corruption, regain respect, and rebuild their reputations. Throughout the game, players will be encounter beautiful, Playboy-caliber women. In full-3D, players can drive a variety of vehicles, engage in player vs. player combat, and compete in ongoing competitions designed to stimulate gang warfare – all through a standard web browser.
"We're excited to expand our global partnership with Playboy and introduce Poisonville to U.S. gamers," said Heiko Hubertz, founder and CEO, Bigpoint. "Launching this new game through Playboy.com will allow us to directly tap into our ideal gaming audience – avid, online men between the ages of 18-35. We look forward to engaging gamers in new and exciting ways through Playboy's network of high-traffic websites."
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Looks kinda... LAME....
The A-Team van with a paint job...lol
Looks dumb, but it's through a browser... let's hope there's 'free to play'.
There's a Battlestar Galactica Online?
giggity
did Hef hit his head or just used up all his testosterone to come up with this?
After being disappointed at the low quality of the 3d bewbz in GTA:IV I am interested in seeing where they are going with this genre... A good GTA-like online experience is something no one has quite yet perfected (especially not the actual GTA devs)...
FAIL
There's a Battlestar Galactica Online?
knock it all you want, but you WILL play it at least once. guns, boobs, playboy... what more can a guy want??
knock it all you want, but you WILL play it at least once. guns, boobs, playboy... what more can a guy want??
I'll assume that you've seen at least one set of tits before or enough to not have to resort to a retarded looking game.
Sounds awful, but I'm sure it will be a hell of a lot better than Farmville.
Poisonville - See even they know all this smut is sinful and harmful to the soul. Even though they tell people that, folks still pay money for it like it's necessary.
This game reminds me of APB. I'm curious how well it can run something like this through a browser.
Farmville sucks !!!!
Farmville is responsible for wasting so many work hours of people around the world despite being seriously lame.
Poisonville seems to be lot cooler than farmville's moving pixelated artwork.
Now that I know this game is coming out, I'm going to invest in kleenex and vasiline heavilly. This is gonna make their stock prices skyrocket.
Now that I know this game is coming out, I'm going to invest in kleenex and vasiline heavilly. This is gonna make their stock prices skyrocket.
IS the company that makes the fleshlight publicly traded?
Poisonville - See even they know all this smut is sinful and harmful to the soul. Even though they tell people that, folks still pay money for it like it's necessary.
I know. I can't believe people actually pay for it. There is plenty of free stuff.
....folks still pay money for it like it's necessary.
If my life involved dozens of smoking hot models pleasing me on a daily basis, then... ah who am I kidding, I'd still watch porn.
It's 2010. I wonder what form of cheese they can come up with, next? Oh crap, I had to ask.
ooooh my!!! companies are making some really big turns! imagine playboy making processors!!
haha reminds me of Trailer park boys - rub n tug episode when the girls roll into the park!
I am actually interested to see how this ACTUALLY plays.
Looks promising for a free-to-play game.
I am holding all opinions till I get to play it
ooooh my!!! companies are making some really big turns! imagine playboy making processors!!
they have the money to do so
poisonville is a trademark copyright infringement. just wait for it, they will file a lawsuit. dont
Poisonville - See even they know all this smut is sinful and harmful to the soul. Even though they tell people that, folks still pay money for it like it's necessary.
Yeppers
Love the type about how it's going to "stimulate" rather than "simulate" gang warfare. I'm not sure but I think the gangs have all the stimulation they need.
These people need to stop relying in electronic spell checkers.
Hate not being able to edit my comments.
Yes, that should have been "typo" in the above comment I made. My bad.
Yay, a GTA ripoff. Just when you thought the goose was out of eggs, along comes a pickled one.
The game is now out of open beta. But don't bother, it's complete crap.
There is no amount of money you could possibly pay me to play more than a few minutes of this game. The graphics are "back to 1995", the physics engine is worse than what my friend could whip up in an hour with a few lines of Python, and they're using fricken' JAVA, for cryin' out loud.
Just try the game, stand in the middle of the road and just try to get hit by a car. When that's unsuccessful (because cars just pass right "under" you because you "pop" up), find a car that's stopped (cause shooting at 'em doesn't stop them, scare them, or kill the driver even if you blow it up), enter it and just TRY to drive.
Then look for red dots on the map and go up a level shooting at gang members that take about a minute to react, and shoot at you like my mother's retard friend would with a super soaker.
There's a name for this kind of game: PIECE OF SH|T.