8 Reasons I Quit Playing Facebook Games
Two years ago, I ranted about the need for more challenge and chance in social games. Since then, the entire gaming industry has drastically changed. If I sound like a broken record on that note, it’s because in a fast-paced, high-tech market, it’s always true (and thus worth reiteration). It seems ...
How Not to Play Location-based Games like an Idiot
Welcome to the wonderful world of location-based games! I see you’ve just downloaded a copy of Traveler’s Quest, or Dokobots, or CodeRunner, or perhaps you’ve got yourself on foursquare for the first time. That’s great! You’re about to discover what geotagging and GPS-enabled mobile devices can add to gaming and ...
Abandoning Facebook: CrowdStar Joins OMGPOP, Kabam, Funzio in Mobile
CrowdStar, developer of popular Facebook games like Happy Aquarium and the "Girl" series (Modern Girl, Social Girl, Top Girl and It Girl), announced today that they will stop developing games for Facebook, according to an interview with All Things Digital. Peter Relan predicts that 90% of Crowdstar’s revenue will come ...
Don’t Be a Cheapskate: 4 Reasons Pay-What-You-Like Backfires
Pay-What-You-Like. You’ve sometimes seen it called Pay-What-You-Want. You’ve seen it while leaving your local museum or hippy café as a big box that says “Donations.” You’ve also seen it for Radiohead’s In Rainbows or with Humble Bundle, the collection of indie games offered for however much you’d like to pay ...
Cats Wearing GUNNARS: Zooey
Meet Zooey O'Leary. Zooey is sporting a pair of GUNNAR Optik's Attache Phenom glasses, and looking good doing it. If you've been following our Dogs Wearing GUNNARS series, you may notice something a bit off this week. Zooey is a frisky first - special edition feline! You can call her a "domestic ...
Hardcore and Back Again: Video Games in a Nutshell
The SNES was a young kid's dream (in the early 90's). Every game felt brand-spanking new, because it was. When video games first came along, "copycats" were neither a logical thing to consider, nor an option. Video games were casual. They were made for mainstream audiences. And back then, even the ...
5 Apps to Make You Smile
These are a few of my favorite digital things... This list is hardly comprehensive, nor is it in any particular order. Enjoy! 1. Timehop - This gets top billing because too few people know about it (and more should - it's neat). Basically, Timehop answers one question, every day, via email. "What did ...
The Time Has Come: Pokemon and Me 15 Years Later
Last year, when my mind was busy with summer vacation, I came home to an unsettling sight. Roxy's tumor had grown exponentially. Her arm was swelling up to a point where she couldn't even lift it. All attempts to remove the tumor would only make it grow back with a ...
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Atari Releases New Free Clown-Hurting Simulator
Man! TriplePoint client Atari just keeps the re-imagined classics coming. Between Asteroids, Breakout, and the ongoing contest for Pong, it’s like a regular Atari circus on mobile devices. Well, maybe that’s unfair. I don’t really mean there’s an Atari circus; it’s not like there’s clowns or a big top or anything. So let’s see what the latest [...]
Continue reading...Jetpack Joyride is on Facebook; See You Tomorrow
16. May 2012
Here’s how this is going to work: I’m going to tell you that Jetpack Joyride, the incredibly addictive, hugely charming winner of pretty much every award that Pocket Gamer has to offer, is now on Facebook in a free, perfect replication of its iOS version. Then, you’re going to go check it out for yourself. Then [...]
Continue reading...Sonic 4 Episode II Rolls and/or Flies Onto Console and/or PC Today and/or Tomorrow
15. May 2012
Okay! So, Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II is happening, and there are many adorable furry characters to keep track of across many potential platforms for their exploits. Let’s see if we can list the salient points along with TriplePoint client SEGA: Sonic is back Sonic is still a hedgehog who runs quickly and rolls into [...]
Continue reading...Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown Has Long Name and Short Time Until Release
14. May 2012
Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown! It’s five words and ten syllables of concentrated face-punching goodness, and TriplePoint client SEGA would like you to know that you may have it on June 5th, 2012. That’s when it comes out for PSN, followed by XBLA on the 6th, and it’ll run you $14.99. That’s a deal — it’s [...]
Continue reading...Atari Gets a Whole Bunch of Downloads
10. May 2012
I don’t necessarily think it’s surprising that people enjoy Breakout and Asteroids. We’ve known this for a while. Still, for those games and a few others in Atari’s catalog to rack up over 10 million downloads in a single year… okay, that’s impressive. I’ll give you that. TriplePoint client Atari may now safely boast, with that figure [...]
Continue reading...Van Helsing to Have Some Incredible Adventures
9. May 2012
As if we expected his adventures to be any other kind of adventures, legendary monster hunter-killer-discusser Van Helsing is slated to have some incredible adventures soon in The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, coming from TriplePoint client NeocoreGames. While we’re certainly used to Mr. Van Helsing going up against the likes of Dracula and his ilk, [...]
Continue reading...Facebook + NBA Jam = …Bubble Safari?
8. May 2012
Okay. So, Mark Turmell, the guy behind legendarily awesome sports-mayhem-game NBA Jam, just put together a Facebook game for Zynga. Everyone who predicted the game to have nothing to do with either sports or farming, but to instead be a new take on match-three bubble shooters, raise your hand. None of you? Well, me neither, but [...]
Continue reading...Team Meat is Not On Team Freemium
7. May 2012
Freemium games may not be a business plan that’s for everybody, but it’s definitely not a plan that works for Edmund McMillen of Team Meat — they of the epic carnage-driven platformer that is Super Meat Boy. The Meating folks are working on a mobile version of SMB, and would like to let the world know that [...]
Continue reading...Tango Chase is Free, Available, and Contains a Monkey
26. April 2012
Honestly, the headline should tell you everything you need to know to inform your decision to download Tango Chase, the newly released iOS game from TriplePoint client Herotainment. But, in case you’re still on the fence for some reason, here is a trailer. So go get it!
Continue reading...Ninja Fishing Has All the Players But Would Like More
23. April 2012
So, have you played Ninja Fishing from TriplePoint client Gamenauts, yet? Apparently it’s becoming more and more likely that you have, since over 4 million players have reportedly done a little bit of fishing and aerial sushi preparation on their iPhones and iPads. As with all ninja hordes, though, 4 million is not nearly enough, so, [...]
Continue reading...Tango Chase Dances Towards Release
19. April 2012
The great thing about Tango Chase is that it has very nearly the same name as Tango & Cash, if you let the “e” stand in for an ampersand. Heck, if TriplePoint client Herotainment can get Messrs. Russell or Stallone to fill the role of Tango, the simian star of the upcoming game, then I’m sold. In [...]
Continue reading...Hardcore and Back Again: Video Games in a Nutshell
18. April 2012
The SNES was a young kid’s dream (in the early 90′s). Every game felt brand-spanking new, because it was. When video games first came along, “copycats” were neither a logical thing to consider, nor an option. Video games were casual. They were made for mainstream audiences. And back then, even the games that dared deal [...]
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