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Wednesdroid: Monster Blade

Imagine for a moment that Infinity Blade and Monster Hunter had a child. For starters, it would naturally be named Monster Blade, but ideally, it would also inherit the best traits of its parents, it would ...

Thursday Appdate: Candymeleon

Recently on Gamasutra, BitMonster's Lee Perry wrote a very insightful blog on an often intangible facet of game design: player feedback, that bit of game "feel" that makes a game not just fun, but injects ...

Waiting for Superman: The Beauty of Virality

One day in October 2012, I happened across this YouTube video with a top-down view of PSY’s concert in Seoul. Over 80,000 people were in attendance, with the crowd spanning entire city blocks. Every member ...

I Play SimCity Social for the Writing

“SimCity Social?” they ask me. “Sure, it’s got the SimCity branding and all, but isn’t it just another click-and-wait Facebook game?” Though I know the look of skepticism it will produce, my reply is, “Oh, I ...

User-Generated Content and Generating Contented Users

We at Frisky Mongoose like to play a lot of location-based games; it’s kind of our thing. There have been a lot of them over the years, as designers and developers have tried to gamify ...

Nothing Unusual at All is Happening Today

Just another regular day in the games industry! Dogfighting game War Thunder has a new set of combatants, there's a new contender in the console field, and SEGA's got a new sound engine. New DLC is ...

Goodbye, LucasArts, and Thank You

This is my Corley Motors keychain. Corley Motors is a fictional motorcycle manufacturer that the player, as gang leader Ben, must save from a hostile takeover in the classic LucasArts adventure Full Throttle. Together with Grim Fandango and ...

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, ...

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Wednesdroid: Monster Blade

19. June 2013

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Tweet Imagine for a moment that Infinity Blade and Monster Hunter had a child. For starters, it would naturally be named Monster Blade, but ideally, it would also inherit the best traits of its parents, it would be free-to-play, and it would be the Play Pick by Nubee featured in this week’s look at the Google Play [...]

PlayFirst Adds Another Dash of Fun to Google Play

17. June 2013

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Tweet Everybody loves to eat, and everybody loves a good success story, so it seemed fitting that Android users should be included in the audience for the mega-hit game Diner Dash from PlayFirst (a TriplePoint client). That happened last month, though, which makes the latest news seem a bit out of order: Cooking Dash has made its [...]

Atypical Games Wins Pretty Straightforward Award at WWDC

14. June 2013

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Atypical Games Wins Pretty Straightforward Award at WWDC

Tweet There are some quirky awards to be won out there in the wide world of games — best action sequence, best British game, loudest explosion — but it’s the ordinary awards that seem to go to the least ordinary titles. After all, if you’re going to win something like ‘Best Design,’ you need to [...]

Pinball Rocks Rolls Out

13. June 2013

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Tweet Once again, a thing that we promised was going to happen has happened. Pinball Rocks HD, the new pinball title/music delivery and discovery mechanism from Sony Music Entertainment (a TriplePoint client), is out now, and is flipping, bumping, and scoring to the sounds of “Richie Kotzen, Chevelle, The Sword, Filter, Red, All That Remains, Hatebreed [...]

Unlock the Terrible Secret of Space on a Bucketz Ride

13. June 2013

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Unlock the Terrible Secret of Space on a Bucketz Ride

Tweet Space has a terrible secret; this we have known for a while. Now, finally, a brave team has stepped up to uncover this secret the only logical way possible: riding a rocket-powered platform clear from the earth’s core to the distant reaches of space, all while stashing a variety of objects inside their heads [...]

Blue Throttle: Sonic the Hedgehog Comes to Atlas Controller

12. June 2013

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Blue Throttle: Sonic the Hedgehog Comes to Atlas Controller

Tweet Sometimes, it takes an iconic console character and game to show just how perfect of a marriage there is to be had between Android games and the Green Throttle Atlas Controller — a console experience adapted to a mobile platform which then supports a console controller for a mobile console game! …I think! What’s [...]

Flipping Out over In-game Music: Pinball Rocks HD

7. June 2013

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Flipping Out over In-game Music: Pinball Rocks HD

Tweet How many times have you been playing a game, heard a great song inside that game, and then decided you wanted to have the song from that game? I do this too often to keep track, though I’m fairly sure it started back when “Superman” by Goldfinger was included in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater in [...]

LIMBO Got on the Vita, Baby

4. June 2013

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Tweet We’ve been fans of LIMBO since its time on Xbox LIVE Arcade. Maybe it’s the art, maybe it’s the tone, maybe it’s the clever, diabolical puzzles and traps, but as haunting realms go, LIMBO from TriplePoint client Playdead is among the best to be trapped in. Now, thanks to the game’s release for the [...]

PvZ2 F2P? OK

3. June 2013

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Tweet As much fun as we’ve had with the new Facebook iteration of horticultural tower defense game Plants vs. Zombies — namely, Plants vs. Zombies Adventures — we’ve continued to hungrily desire the full-fledged sequel that PopCap announced a while back. It’s the sort of game we could easily see ourselves shuffling across a crowded lawn to [...]

Thursday Appdate: Tetris Blitz

30. May 2013

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Tweet One could start this examination with a brief look back at the ubiquity of Tetris, but anecdotal experiments are much more fun: start humming Korobeiniki right now, wherever you are. See how many people either join in, or ask why you’re humming the Tetris music. Bonus points for you, by the way, if you knew the [...]

After Earth Game Comes Out Before Movie After All

30. May 2013

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Tweet We weren’t initially sure before whether After Earth the mobile game was going to come out after After Earth the movie, but it’s out today, before tomorrow’s movie release, so After Earth is out before After Earth. You’re welcome to play After Earth before or after you see After Earth, but you may be kicked out if it’s during After [...]

Wednesdroid: Fast & Furious 6: The Game

29. May 2013

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Tweet With last Friday seeing the arrival of Fast & Furious 6 in theaters across America, it’s only natural for related popular media to see an uptick in fastness, furiosity, and appreciation of Vin Diesel. The Google Play store is no exception, and with the free-to-play Fast & Furious 6: The Game featured as a Play Pick [...]

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Wednesdroid: Monster Blade

PlayFirst Adds Another Dash of Fun to Google Play

Atypical Games Wins Pretty Straightforward Award at WWDC

Pinball Rocks Rolls Out

Unlock the Terrible Secret of Space on a Bucketz Ride

Blue Throttle: Sonic the Hedgehog Comes to Atlas Controller

Flipping Out over In-game Music: Pinball Rocks HD

LIMBO Got on the Vita, Baby

PvZ2 F2P? OK

Thursday Appdate: Tetris Blitz

After Earth Game Comes Out Before Movie After All

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