There was a time when MySpace trumped Facebook. MySpace allowed a lot more freedom by letting users customize their pages and import graphics from all over the web. All that freedom led to a messy service that was ripe with spam and terrible design choices by its users. Facebook was more like Apple. Its interface was bright, clean and inviting. As time went on, MySpace numbers plummeted. Those decreased numbers have also led game developers to abandon MySpace in favor of Facebook.

Disney isn’t wasting any time making use of its newly acquired property. Disney purchased Playdom last month for $563 million but will pay an additional $200 million based on Playdom’s future financial success. Playdom is currently starting its first project based in the Marvel Universe which is considered to be a social game.

In the past, one of the biggest things you had to worry about on social networking sites is that your boss may read your Tweet that you’re at the beach when you called in sick for the day. These days, you also have to be concerned about divorce lawyers scanning your Facebook or Twitter page for anything they can use in court against you.

While E3 is a time for the major companies to make their important announcements, lesser known and independent developers and publishers also use the event to publicise their latest endeavors. Simple Lifeforms is one of those companies, and it’s chosen E3 2009 to announce it’s casual, free online game Spell Souls. Not only that, but the company is hoping to attract people interested in becoming beta testers for the game. Hopefully, by Summer 2009, Spell Souls will be available on social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace.

Spell Souls is a turn-based, magic dueling game. All players are wizards, sorcerers or shamans. The goal is to see who’s the strongest and most cunning. This is done in two ways. First is a strategic sort of game, where players can use their “friends” as warriors in battles. The second manner is in duels against other Spell Souls users, where you take turns trading blows.

If you want to register to be a potential beta tester…

The MySpace invasion continues to expand throughout our society. The latest bandwagon hopper is Konami, which has created a special Konami Music Revolution page on MySpace.com. The new site has information on Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party 2 (Wii), Dance Dance Revolution X (PS2), Dance Dance Revolution Universe 3 (Xbox 360), Rock Revolution (Xbox 360) and Karaoke Revolution Presents American Idol Encore 2 (Wii). It also has a Rock Revolution Rock the Revolution Song Contest and a DanceDanceRevolution webgame embedded into the page.

The Rock Revolution contest is for bands, and involves getting your group’s song included as Rock Revolution downloadable content…

Marc Silvestri, the owner of Top Cow Comics confirmed last week on his MySpace page that Top Cow’s popular heroine Witchblade is coming to the big screen in 2009.

Filming for the comic-to-film adaption of Witchblade is scheduled to begin September 2008. So far, Platinum Studios the developers of the film are planning for a 2009 release. A cast has not yet been announced yet but it looks like…