While Facebook is busy preparing its own virtual currency, Facebook Credits, Offerpal Media went ahead and rolled out its own virtual currency system complete with its own website – Gamepoints.com.
Basically, what Gamepoints lets you do is to  accumulate Gamepoints credit as much as you want to. You can then exchange these gamepoints for  virtual currency which you can spend on Facebook games.
To earn game points, you can do the following  activities:
- Watch a short video
- Buy music MP3s from iTunes or tickets to popular movies in theaters today
- Shop online at your favorite stores, including great deals with discount coupons
- Trade-in used electronics or unused gift cards
- Complete a survey
- Subscribe to magazines
After earning enough game points, you can then use them on Facebook games as virtual currency  on various social networking sites such as – FarmVille, Zynga Poker, Mafia Wars, Cafe Worl and more.
If you don’t have the time to do the ways by which you can earn game points, Gamepoints.com also lets you directly buy those game points so that you can use them immediately on your favorite social networking site which support virtual currencies.
The list of social games where you can use GamePoints include Zynga’s FarmVille, YoVille, Zynga Poker, Mafia Wars, Café World, PetVille, FishVille, Vampire Wars and others; Playdom’s Mobsters, Sorority Life, Social City, Tiki Resort and others; Digital Chocolate’s MMA Pro Fighter; HitGrab’s Mousehunt; TheBroth’s Barn Buddy; Tall Tree Game’s Fish World; K-Factor Media’s Castle Age; Tree Room’s My Town; Apps-O-Rama’s Car Madness; Offbeat Creations’ Be a Tycoon; BitRhymes’ The Warlords; Five Minutes’ Happy Farm; and many others.
Originally posted on May 4, 2010 @ 10:52 am