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Pet Society from Playfish added an extensive set of Wild West updates to their already eclectic shops, earlier today. This is hot on the heels of the Wild West theme added to another Playfish title, oddly enough – Restaurant City.

The update is extensive, with additions to the clothing, Garden, D.I.Y, Furniture, and Premium shops. Additions include (but are not limited to) cowboy and cowgirl outfits, a Saloon door, wooden walls and floors, a lasso rope, a cactus, and a coyote petling. The crown jewel of this Wild West theme, in my opinion, is the gigantic red stagecoach. It’s for sale for an impressive 5,000 coins in the specialty shop.

Best of all? All or nearly all the items are available to purchase with coins. Thanks, Playfish!

The “lost animals” that have swept through Facebook games just keep getting more and more cute (and helpless), don’t they? I think Facebook game developers have figured out that if players feel bad for the little things when they show up in their game, they will be more likely to create a news feed item to try and find the virtual pet a home.

Happy Aquarium developer Crowdstar announced today that a Baby Platypus can now be found and put up for adoption. How can you say no to those big eyes? And he was lost playing hide and seek, no less. Like other lost animals, the Platypus shows up randomly, and you can’t adopt him for yourself. Your only option is to create a feed item, which gives your friends the opportunity to adopt.

Happy Pets developer Crowdstar jumped on the “limited time only” bandwagon in an update earlier today, but did so in a little bit of a strange way. This is nothing new – by now I have figured out that Crowdstar marches to the beat of their own drum, most of the time.

A new, gifta-only set of items were added to the game, available for a limited-time. And what are they? …Plates. Yes, plates. Like the kind you eat off of. Or you decorate your wall with, apparently. The set of six feature three dog pictures and three cat pictures. Crowdstar did emphasize that this item set wouldn’t be around forever, but didn’t specify how long Happy Pets players have to collect them all. Suspenseful!

Cafe World developer first hinted at it, and then officially teased it, and over the weekend, it arrived: The Spice Rack!

Getting one works in a very similar manner to getting a horse stable in Zynga’s Farmville (or the Chop Shop in Zynga’s Mafia Wars, come to think of it). It isn’t hard to do, but you will need lots of help from your friends.

When you begin construction on your Spice Rack, you’ll see a list of items you still need. In total, construction requires 5 shelves, 5 small, medium, and large jars, and 15 lids. To get these items, you can post a Facebook news feed update. Any friend that clicks on it will send you one of your needed items.

The Spice Rack parts can also be sent and received as standard Cafe World gifts. But, every player only has two of the ingredients available to send (chosen at random), so you may need to ask around to find someone that can send you the specific part you need.

So… after it is finished, what does the Spice Rack do? It allows players to add a variety of “spices” to their food that gives the dishes special properties, such as shortening cook times, reversing spoilage, producing more servings, and other special effects. In addition to spicing up one’s own food, players will be able to visit their neighbors and add a little spice to their dishes, as well.

Man… when Petville developer Zynga adds items, they really go all-out. At least lately. Wednesday it was the addition of a gigantic set of office items. Yesterday, Zynga continued this trend by adding an extensive set of exercise items and zen garden items.

Exercise machines now availavle for purchase include a stationary bike, stair machine, treadmill, weight machine, yoga mat, and more. Don’t worry about the pink color in all the screenshots – all the pieces of equipment are sold in a variety of colors.

The zen garden additions include a bamboo plant, a steam room, a bamboo mat, a sand pit + rake, a teapot, and several other additions.

Virtually every piece of exercise equipment is for sale for Coins, which is nice. The Zen Garden items are a more even mix of coins, and PV$.