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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Sonic 4 Episode II Rolls and/or Flies Onto Console and/or PC Today and/or Tomorrow
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...R.A.W. Spells “New Video”
2. May 2012
I did not know you could spell “new video” R-A-W, but you learn something new every day. TriplePoint client Focus Home Interactive has a pretty raw new R.A.W. video, and it’s just completely full of spelling! That’s the verb you use when talking about spells, right? Anyone? The video’s over here, and the full press [...]
Continue reading...8 Reasons I Quit Playing Facebook Games
1. May 2012
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 social media and video [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading...SEGA Addresses Dead Housing Crisis on PSN
17. April 2012
Given that every single PlayStation Network user is entitled to their own PlayStation Home, you wouldn’t think there was any kind of PSN housing crisis, but SEGA knows better. Nobody gives any thought to the thousands of homeless creatures and lumbering monsters out there, but these philanthropists and TriplePoint clients have stepped in to solve [...]
Continue reading...The Time Has Come: Pokemon and Me 15 Years Later
16. April 2012
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 vengeance, which was more than [...]
Continue reading...Skyrim + Adele = Lady Game Lyric
23. March 2012
She’s back — and she’s got something to say. Or, sing, actually. Lady Game Lyric gets semi-political this week, and takes a good look at what it means to be the 99% when you live in Skyrim. Have a good long listen to her latest YouTube composition: “Age of Recession!” Age of Recession, by LadyGameLyric [...]
Continue reading...Mass Effect + Usher = Lady Game Lyric [VIDEO]
8. March 2012
![Mass Effect + Usher = Lady Game Lyric [VIDEO]](http://friskymongoose.com/wp-content/themes/newfreshnews/thumb.php?src=http://friskymongoose.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/mass-effect-3_lady-game-lyric.png&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=90)
It’s true. Mass Effect 3 has Lady Game Lyric all up in arms this week (in a songfully perfect way, as usual). Set down your controller a minute and check out her latest YouTube release: “50,000 years are up! Reapers trying to blow us all up again…” Reapers Trying to Blow Us All Up, by [...]
Continue reading...Majora’s Mask + Ke$ha = Lady Game Lyric [VIDEO]
1. March 2012
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New week, new Lady Game Lyric video. Did someone say more Zelda? Majora’s Mask themed nerdcore awaits! “Link doesn’t have much time before the ominous moon destroys the world, and Saria can’t ignore that her song makes a cameo at the end of the game.” Tik Tok on the Clock Town, by LadyGameLyric Parody of “Tik [...]
Continue reading...Orders Up for Order Up!!
28. February 2012
If you happened to order Order Up!! from an online retailer or your local games merchant, well, it’s up. Order Up!!, the game we ordered suggested you to check out a couple of weeks ago, has been launched today by TriplePoint client UTV Ignition. So come pick it up before it gets cold.
Continue reading...Jet Set Radio: Tag, You’re It
28. February 2012
I miss my Dreamcast, I really do. Yes, the disk drive was so hideously loud that you could hear a random encounter being loaded in Skies of Arcadia before it actually happened. Yes, the VMU was perpetually without batteries because it would consume them like an electrical shark. Yes, you had to accumulate a ridiculous pile [...]
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