Farmville Coming To iPhone and iPad

Farmville has become as one of the most talked about social/gaming apps on Facebook, and it seems that Zynga is now making the obvious move bringing the title to iPhone and iPad.

Zynga has not made any announcements as of yet, but TUAW has discovered that the domains Farmvilleiphone.com and Farmvilleipad.com have been reserved by the same company that run the officialFarmville website. We are unsure as of yet whether or not their will be official apps for the title in the App Store, these domains might be just to provide iPhone and iPad users access to the game through their browser.

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Abhinav Bindra won India’s first ever individual Olympic gold medal when he claimed the men’s 10m Air Rifle shooting title here on Monday.

Athens Games champion Zhu Qinan of China won the silver and Henri Hakkinen of Finland took the bronze at the Beijing Shooting Hall on the outskirts of the Chinese capital.

Bindra, the 25-year-old businessman from the northern city of Chandigarh, followed his world championship title two years ago to finally win a landmark gold medal for his country.

In one of the most thrilling shooting finals in Olympic history, Bindra overcame a two-point deficit against Hakkinen and one point against Zhu after the qualification rounds to annex the title.

The Indian trumped his rivals with the best finish of 104.5 in the 10-shot final as he went into the last shot level with Hakkinen on 689.7 points.

While Bindra secured his best score of 10.8 in the deciding shot, Hakkinen managed only 9.7 to concede the silver to Zhu, whose last shot was 10.5.

Bindra finished with a combined tally of 700.5, a fair distance behind Zhu’s Olympic record of 702.7 set in Athens.

Zhu came in with 699.7 this time and Hakkinen, a member of Finland’s armed forces who is taking part in his first Olympics, scored 699.4 points.

India, winners of eight field hockey gold medals, had never won an individual Olympic title before Bindra’s feat.

The previous best was trap shooter Rajyavardhan Rathore’s silver at Athens, while there were bronze medals for wrestler Khasaba Jadhav (1952), tennis star Leander Paes (1996) and woman weightlifter Karnam Malleswari (2000).

Achievements: Made a junior world record score of 597/600 in 2001 Munich World Cup and won bronze; gold in 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games; became the first Indian shooter to win a World Championship gold; Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in 2001.

Abhinav Bindra is the brightest star among a new breed of talented Indian shooters. Born on September 28, 1983, Bindra is quite often criticized for not delivering on the promise he showed as a child prodigy.

Coming from an affluent family and with the luxury of an indoor range in his backyard, Bindra proved to an early bird and, at 15, was the youngest participant at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. Bindra shot into limelight by winning a bronze in the 2001 Munich World Cup with a new junior world record score of 597/600.

In the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games, competing in his pet Air rifle event, Bindra won Gold in the Pairs event and Silver in the individual event. During a purple patch, Bindra won six gold medals at various international meets in the European Circuit in 2001. He was conferred the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award for the year 2001.

In the 2004 Athens Olympics, despite breaking the Olympic record Bindra failed to win a medal. But on July 24, 2006, Bindra became the first Indian shooter to win a World Championship gold in Zagreb. Dr. Karni Singh’s silver in 1962 was the previous best by an Indian in a World Championship meet.

Given the response to our review of Sims 3 from the other day, I decided to dig through the screenshots I’ve been collecting to give you a closer look at the some of the neat (or just pretty) things in the game.  These are all from my personal gameplay, not official promotional shots from EA.  Feel free to use them if you like, but please link back to this post!

Items like laptops and guitars can go into a sim’s inventory, so they can be taken out of the house.  Playing guitar in the park for tips is always fun.  And there’s a pre-made sim named (I kid you not) Cycl0n3 Sw0rd who sits in the park and games on his laptop constantly.

One of the games featured in the “play game” action for both computers and consoles is a skating game that looks like Tony Hawk but must be intended to be EA Skate since there’s a convenient EA logo on the screen.

Each of the different foods looks different as it’s being prepared, and much of the time you can actually pick out the individual ingredients – which are now purchased separately at the grocery store as opposed to simply generically restocking the fridge.  (Though I’m still not sure why you put the oil/dressing on the salad while it’s still on the cutting board.)

Butterflies aren’t the only things you can collect – also rocks (that can be cut into gems), seeds, fruits…  It’s rather convenient to be able to pull an apple off of a tree when you’re hungry (especially if you’re poor).  Oh, and of course, fishing!

Fishing is a new skill, and the more a sim does it, the better he gets, and the bigger fish he catches.  There are various lakes in the town, as well as the ocean, and even a pond in the graveyard that holds the super rare deathfish.  (There are also tales of a robot fish in the waters by the science center.)

It’s actually pretty entertaining just to see what pops up on the television.  I’ve even heard that if a sim gets the “handiness” skill up far enough, he can upgrade the TV to get more channels.  Of course, some of what’s on there is kind of scary.  Like this.  It’s a kid’s show.  No wonder these guys grow up so bizarre sometimes.

Rather than reading simply being “fun” reading or “skill-building” reading generally, there are lots of specific books to choose from, which you can get at the library or from a bookstore.  Even fiction has different genres, and how much a sim enjoys reading it can depend on their personality (”hopeless romantic” sims, for example, just love those trashy romances).  My personal favorite is Zombies? Zombies! (Though I’m not sure that the graveyard has the best reading light.)  Also, sims who write books can write in specific genres and pick titles – which might then show up in the library for other sims to read.

If you’ve played Sims or Sims 2, you might remember Bella Goth and her husband Mortimor.  Since the Sunset Valley neighborhood is Pleasant View before it was Pleasantview, Bella and Mortimor are children when a new neighborhood is spawned.  Here they are playing tag in the graveyard at night.  Awww.

And speaking of graveyards, ghosts in Sims 3 are endlessly fascinating.  You can find them either by going to the graveyard at night or having the remains of a dead sim on a lot.  Or there is actually a way in Sims 3 to make ghosts into playable sims – some “scientific experiment” that a sim may be randomly called upon to participate in.  Only playable ghosts are around during the day.  However, sims can interact with any ghost – and that includes making ghost babies.

In case you were wondering about the different colors on ghosts, it’s not arbitrary – it’s based on the type of death.  Red for fire, yellow for electrocution, blue for drowning, white for old age.  (And yes, I too was wondering why the ghost of a drowned girl would be interested in swimming.)  Of course, killing off sims is a favorite pasttime of many players, and unfortunately the options are more limited in Sims 3 (no falling satellites or killer flies…).  I verified that the classics still work, however.

You know, being a policeman and all, you would have thought that guy would know better than to use a cheap stove in a locked room full of potted plants.  His wife didn’t seem to bothered by the whole situation, either.

And since the previous Sims post generated some pretty interesting discussion on the subject of gay marriage and the general state of sims romance, here’s a few relevant shots.  I even managed to orchestrate a lovely same-sex wedding on the beach.

I for one think that the library is an excellent place for love to bloom, especially if you’re bonding over your love of Harry Potter while irritating a small child.

Of course, with sims as in life, romance doesn’t always end well.

And one final picture, a bird’s eye view of the town.  Hey, I can see my house from here!