So, this is news. Probably.

In a combination that can only be compared to infectiously bedazzled chocolate meeting peanut butter that only your weird Facebook friends eat, Zynga has announced that it has teamed up with Lady Gaga to help promote her new album, "Born This Way." How? By giving her her own damn in-game farm in the company's wildly successful casual game, FarmVille, appropriately titled "GagaVille."

Players who enter this burg of Gaga-ness are given specific tasks to complete, and as they do, they will be able to listen to singles from the new record.

Though the GagaVille farm will only exist in-game until May 26, players who decide to peruse the new area will discover such Gaga-related horrors as "magical unicorns" and "sheep on motorcycles."

This isn't the first time Zynga and Gaga have combined their powers of nonsensical naming to better mankind, as they have previously worked together to raise money for Japan's earthquake disaster relief. This is...perhaps a bit more self-serving, but hey, when you can use the biggest pop star working today to help peddle your productivity-swallowing Facebook games, why not go for it, right?

It's actually a perfect match when you really think about it. FarmVille is kind of a rip-off of rival farming game, Farm Town--itself a kind of casual spin on the leisurely, plant-heavy play styles of Harvest Moon and Animal Crossing--and Gaga herself is pretty much just a hyper-modernized update of Madonna, so they've both got that whole shameless cloning thing going on. So, good for them, I guess?

And with that, this hereby concludes the only story anyone around here will be writing about FarmVille and/or Lady Gaga for the foreseeable future. You may now go on about your business, as if this nonsense never happened.

So, this is news. Probably.

In a combination that can only be compared to infectiously bedazzled chocolate meeting peanut butter that only your weird Facebook friends eat, Zynga has announced that it has teamed up with Lady Gaga to help promote her new album, "Born This Way." How? By giving her her own damn in-game farm in the company's wildly successful casual game, FarmVille, appropriately titled "GagaVille."

Players who enter this burg of Gaga-ness are given specific tasks to complete, and as they do, they will be able to listen to singles from the new record.

Though the GagaVille farm will only exist in-game until May 26, players who decide to peruse the new area will discover such Gaga-related horrors as "magical unicorns" and "sheep on motorcycles."

This isn't the first time Zynga and Gaga have combined their powers of nonsensical naming to better mankind, as they have previously worked together to raise money for Japan's earthquake disaster relief. This is...perhaps a bit more self-serving, but hey, when you can use the biggest pop star working today to help peddle your productivity-swallowing Facebook games, why not go for it, right?

It's actually a perfect match when you really think about it. FarmVille is kind of a rip-off of rival farming game, Farm Town--itself a kind of casual spin on the leisurely, plant-heavy play styles of Harvest Moon and Animal Crossing--and Gaga herself is pretty much just a hyper-modernized update of Madonna, so they've both got that whole shameless cloning thing going on. So, good for them, I guess?

And with that, this hereby concludes the only story anyone around here will be writing about FarmVille and/or Lady Gaga for the foreseeable future. You may now go on about your business, as if this nonsense never happened.

COOL AGAIN!

The end is nigh.

cool story brah

Goddamnit! Too late. Well, the end of the world is meant to be coming shortly anyway...

Lady Gaga is cool. Sometimes.

wut

And the world of gaming was furthered. 

GOTY.

Christ

Videogames Are Art.

SHIT YES

Well fuck me sideways

How does something like this get proposed without an angry mob murdering the person who came up with it?

"Players who enter this burg of Gaga-ness are given specific tasks to complete, and as they do, they will be able to listen to singles from the new record."

Evildeadron, this is one of your jokes, right?

Quick Look?

This is most certainly NOT news, Alex.  Glad to be receiving news on the regular, but you might be reaching a TEENSY bit too far on this one, old chap.   =)

Shit like this makes me sick.

I knew Alex wrote this hahaha

This is, I shit you not, the ACTUAL cover for Lady Gaga's new album. I dont have any real dislike for her music and have heard none so far from this album so this is no comment on the musical contents of this record but man. Jesus christ.

what a sell out. i remember when she was indie and was just hocking plenty of fish and boost mobile phones.

God I hope my mum doesn't play this.

I have an idea for another one. PunchInTheFaceVille. Basically you play Farmville and get punched in the face if you complete a task.
Now where's my money?

I have much more interest in Lady Gaga's music than I do Facebook games.  Not sure how I felt about her new stuff though.

I uh, well, ummm..... sooooo...

Terrible.

Being sarcastic doesn't change the fact that you wrote an article about it.

" Being sarcastic doesn't change the fact that you wrote an article about it. "

So apparently Lady Gaga is ripping off the Shiva summon from FFXIII

Finally, a reason to play Farmville!

Alex I really hope you get assigned the Gaga beat for Whiskey Media

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I'm cuckoo for cocoa puffs!!!

I know a few Farmville players, and their reaction is likely to be: "Who's Lady Gaga?"

This is a GREAT example of VERGE CULTURE that GENERATION MASHUP is SURE TO ENJOY!!!!!!!

.. hurray

Just had a real good Southwestern chicken wrap.

I just.. oh God almighty.. save us all.

MR. Navarro! This time you have gone too far! Too far I say!!

I feel like going out and getting a corn dog or hamburger at Arctic Circle. That's a Utah thing, I guess.

This has to become the most commented item on GB ever. Spread the word.

" This is a GREAT example of VERGE CULTURE that GENERATION MASHUP is SURE TO ENJOY!!!!!!! "

" This is a GREAT example of VERGE CULTURE that GENERATION MASHUP is SURE TO ENJOY!!!!!!! "