Tonight Zynga celebrates a 1 year birthday! With the introduction of a cool new birthday crop Cupcakes a free 1-Year Balloon and a strange new Japanese theme, what better way to end a Thursday?!

One Year Balloon:

It's Party Time!

Today, FarmVille Celebrates 1 year of farming! To thank you all for playing, we’d like to give you a special present. Check your Gift Box!

Once you look inside you see you should see:

1-Year Balloon In Gift Box

1-Year Balloon on the Farm

FarmVille Birthday:

FarmVille's B-Day Sign and Cupcakes Crop!

The Cupcakes ARE masterable. Cupcakes cost 25 coins to purchase, 8 hours to grow and yield 60 coins and 1xp when harvested for a profit of 20 coins.

New Market Items:

Cherrywood Wall, Japanese Trellis, Japanese Fence, Active Volcano, Tiki Surfboard, Onigiri Statue, Sushi Shop and Japanese Gazebo

Hot Spring, Koi Fish Pond II, Falling Blossom

New Flags:

• England Flag – 16 Farm Cash
• Cameroon Flag – 16 Farm Cash
• Belgium Flag – 16 Farm cash
• Ghana Flag – 16 Farm Cash
• South Korea Flag – 16 Farm Cash
• Netherlands Flag – 16 Farm Cash
• Nigeria Flag – 16 Farm Cash

New Gifts:

Stripe Surfboard and Double Surfboards

Party Pig

New Adoptable:

Lost Party Duck

New Limited Time Co-Op:

New Job: FarmVille's Birthday! Birthday Sheep Reward

Seed and Harvest 600 Cupcakes

The following items have been removed from the free gifts page:

• Kensington Bench
• Sprouting bush
• Blue Star hay
• Red Star Hay
• Starfruit Tree – FV.com
• Passionfruit Tree – FV.com
• Short Cactus
• Red Rock
• Round Haybale
• Durian Tree – FV.com
• Star Haybale
• Apricot Tree – FV.com
• Hanging Tomato
• Orange Star Hay

The Wheat crop has been changed:

Wheat
Hours: 12
XP: 1
Cost: 13
Yield: 61
Mastery: 500, 1500, 3000

Questions: Are you excited about a Japanese Theme? Will you be getting the Cupcakes Mastery?

In a cool surprise update tonight, we finally see one of the most requested features EVER on FarmVille finally released. A lot of the current and past buildings are rotatable!

As always this is a BRAND NEW FEATURE. What this means is that there are SURE to be issues and bugs.

Game Changes:

• When you send Tuscan Wedding gifts, your neighbors will now receive 2 of the ingredient
• Tuscan Wedding rewards now COST LESS
• Dogs sent to harvest should now come back to where they were when sent out

Buildings Rotatable:

Rotatable Buildings are Here!

To rotate a building you just click on it and select “rotate” from the menu that drops down. Some of the buildings in the game however can NOT be rotated the complete list is below.

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A new Sponsored Link for Toy Story 3 opening June 18th now shows up under your FarmVille game as a sponsored link.

Look for this below your FarmVille game:

Toy Story 3 FarmVille Sponsored Ad

Once you click it you can watch the Toy Story 3 trailer and answer the question, “What was your favorite toy as a kid?” you will then see at the top right of the box a “You’ve earner your Farm Cash” notice.

Farm Cash Earned (Click image for larger version)

Its a pretty simple and worthwhile way to get 2 free Farm Cash. So go get it done!

Question: Do you like it when FarmVille has these Sponsored Links or does it annoy you? What WAS your favorite toy as a kid?