Dan O'Halloran

Last week I rolled out my new Mobile MMO column. This week I debut the new bi-monthly Facebook MMO column at Massively. I was going to kick off Facebook MMOgraphy with the vampire MMO City of Eternals, but SOE surprised us with a Facebook MMO based on their upcoming spy-themed MMORPG, The Agency. I got a look at The Agency two years ago at E3 and have been waiting for the roll out of the game. This new gaming app is a great way to tide me over until SOE is ready with the bigger title.

The Agency: Covert Ops combines some Farmville, some Mafia Wars and a lot of mini-games to draw people into their James Bond world. The Facebook gaming application isn't an MMO itself as there is no real time interaction among players, but if you like Facebook games, you'll enjoy this slick, entertaining app. You can read my first impressions piece at Massively.

Big shout out to my old boss at Massively, Barb Dybwad over at Mashable who got the exclusive on this story.

Today over at Massively, a site dedicated to news coverage of massively multiplayer online games, I debuted a new bi-monthly column covering Mobile MMOs called Massively Mobile. The first column covers the recent updates to the excellent action 3-D MMO Pocket Legends. Upcoming columns will look into other MMOs in the emerging mobile gaming app field including Anrufen Online, IMO and Outer Empires.

The other two weeks out of the month will see another new column I'm starting there, Facebook MMOgraphy. This will cover MMOs showing up on Facebook. This one is a harder call as to what constitutes an MMO since all Facebook games are social and multiplayer. I'm starting with City of Eternals from ohai for the debut of this column. Yes, I'm getting paid to play a vampire MMO. On Facebook. Don't hate.