City of Wonder Halloween Items: Have Dracula scare your villagers

While City of Wonder may not immediately jump out as a game that should be celebrating Halloween, the folks at Playdom have thrown caution (and perhaps realism) to the wind, releasing a whole Transylvanian set of items (comprised of spooky free gifts), along with some basic Halloween or otherwise terrifying new decorations and buildings to scare your villagers this holiday.

For a complete rundown of the available items, meet us after the break.

For starters, there are three limited edition buildings / decorations available to purchase from the in-game Bulletin that appears when you first launch the game. These items are a Headless Rider decoration, an Insane Asylum building and a Witch's Hut. The prices on these items range from 25-35 Gold, so I hope you have enough saved up to afford them.

Meanwhile, if you'd like to create your over version of Transylvania in your world, you can do so by constructing the Dracula's Castle marvel. You will need to have learned Religion and Masonry to begin construction on the project, and once the base is placed, you'll need 12 friends to help you build it. If you don't want to wait, you can also purchase the Castle for 40 Gold.

Other Dracula items are those that you can receive as gifts from friends. This event appears to be set up to allow one themed item to be present on the game's free gifts menu at a time, with the current offering being the Sanctuary of Dracula (apparently even evil beings need a place to relax). This building adds 10 culture and 100 Happiness Points to your town.

Finally, the in-game store also offers some Halloween items, like a Halloween Party, Candy Shop, and Graveyard. With items like these all costing varying amounts of coins, it guarantees that all users can get in on the fun, even if they don't want to shell out Gold or wait for friends to send them items.

FrontierVille Horrors Part II: Headless Horseman glitches "fixed," but are they really?

Yesterday, we commented on the growing number of users that were finding FrontierVille practically impossible to play after the Headless Horseman missions stopped functioning, due either to game crashes, missing Horsemen or overall game slowdowns.

While Zynga had yet to comment on the situation then, they have made their voice heard now, via the official FrontierVille forums. According to a Bug Update thread posted yesterday evening, the following errors have been fixed:

    The inability to click on the Horseman on your own Homestead
    The disappearance of the Horseman from your neighbors' Homesteads
    The error when collecting the Cannonball, which would cause the game to reset and the Cannonball to disappear
    The inability to find ghost varmints


According to Zynga, the only remaining problem is the frequent occurrence of flash crashes for players (that being the kind of crash that shows a black screen or broken image with the game disappearing altogether).

However, with the fix of one or even four problems, we seem to have come across another, as users are reporting that now, when attempting to complete the final Headless Horseman mission, the game fails when clicking on Fanny Wildcat. Users click on her to hear what she has to say, are told that the game has lost its connection and must refresh. Upon refreshing and clicking on her a second time, the game "loses its connection" yet again, creating an unbreakable cycle (as you can't continue gameplay until you talk to Miss Wildcat).

Are you still experiencing any issues with the Halloween or Headless Horseman quests? If you are, Zynga asks that you post bug reports on this official thread to let them know which "fix" didn't work for you.