This isn’t CityVille, folks. When making the decision between reporting on which Facebook games our readers should be checking out and which ones are the generic hoo-ha, I tend to ask myself the following question: Is this game innovative in a way that really changes how the social gaming space is being used? The answer is yes.Dexter: Slice of Life(DSoL) is a social game on Facebook based on the hit Showtime series, Dexter, and is launching alongside the premiere of the show’s sixth season....

The past year has seen a number of iPad apps aimed at transforming news discovery. Flipboard and Pulse are two of the best known, and aiming to join them isHitpad, a new release from an Israeli team. Launching at the Techonomy conference in Tel Aviv today, the app is designed to give users way to stay up to date with the latest news quickly and with minimal effort. Analysing trending topics across the web on trusted news sources as well as social platforms such as Twitter, Hitpad displays the current top news stories across a range of categories, from current affairs, to technology, to entertainment....

Weintroducedyou toHitpadwhen it launched at theTechonomy3conference in Israel earlier this year. Now the app, which is designed to give you a smartly auto-curated overview of current news stories, has been updated with new features to make it more personal to you. Hitpad works by identifying current ‘trending’ news stories across a number of topics. You can then view written stories, photographs, videos and social content for each story. Previously, you’ve had to rely on Hitpad’s automatically generated decisions on what news makes it into the app, but not any more....

Anyone who has been following the popular uprising in Syria is probably familiar with the name Amina. If you missed the story, Amina was thought to be a Syrian gay blogger, who’s story had received significant attention, particularly after a post went up on her blog claiming she had beenarrested by Syrian authorities. I talk about Amina in the past tense, not because she died at the hands of these Syrian authorities, but because she never existed....

Hoefler & Frere-Jones, arguably the most-loved type foundry among designers, today released a new typeface,Ideal Sans. Ideal Sans is an effort to restore some of the humanist design qualities often lacking in modern sans-serif typefaces. As the company says: Setting aside the easy pursuit of digital perfection, Ideal Sans favors handmade forms that help it achieve different goals: warmth, craftsmanship, and humanity. Because of the amount of research and development that the foundry puts into each font, new releases aren’t as frequent as one would expect from less detail-oriented foundries....