• 8 Reasons I Quit Playing Facebook Games

    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 ...

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  • How Not to Play Location-based Games like an Idiot

    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 ...

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  • Abandoning Facebook: CrowdStar Joins OMGPOP, Kabam, Funzio in Mobile

    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 ...

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  • Don’t Be a Cheapskate: 4 Reasons Pay-What-You-Like Backfires

    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 ...

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  • Cats Wearing GUNNARS: Zooey

    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 ...

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  • Hardcore and Back Again: Video Games in a Nutshell

    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 ...

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  • 5 Apps to Make You Smile

    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 ...

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  • The Time Has Come: Pokemon and Me 15 Years Later

    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

15. May 2012

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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 [...]

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Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown Has Long Name and Short Time Until Release

14. May 2012

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Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown Has Long Name and Short Time Until Release

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 [...]

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8 Reasons I Quit Playing Facebook Games

1. May 2012

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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 [...]

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Mass Effect + Usher = Lady Game Lyric [VIDEO]

8. March 2012

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Mass Effect + Usher = Lady Game Lyric [VIDEO]

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 [...]

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Jet Set Radio: Tag, You’re It

28. February 2012

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Jet Set Radio: Tag, You’re It

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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Xbox LIVE Becomes More Quarrelsome

25. January 2012

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Xbox LIVE Becomes More Quarrelsome

Liquor tours anew! Er, excuse me. Quarrel is out now! I always get those two things mixed up. Which is good, because my word-mixing will need to be in top form to compete in Quarrel, newly released for Xbox LIVE Arcade by TriplePoint client UTV Ignition. Quarrel players are presented with an 8-letter anagram, and challenged to come up [...]

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R.A.W. Video is Actually Full of Post-Production

18. January 2012

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R.A.W. Video is Actually Full of Post-Production

This isn’t raw video at all! I feel deceived. Granted, it’s a very nice video, with all kinds of action-y role-playing-y fantasy going on, and it looks like a lot of fun, but it’s clearly not a raw video. There are logos, and edits, and all of the earmarks of post-production. Still, don’t let that stop you [...]

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UTV Ignition Starts Quarreling with Xbox

17. January 2012

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UTV Ignition Starts Quarreling with Xbox

Xbox gamers! Always fighting, always shooting, always resorting to violence to solve their quarrels. Solve your problems like adults — use your words! That’s the very mature advice being given by TriplePoint client UTV Ignition, who is preparing to release Quarrel on Xbox LIVE later this month. Quarrel, a much more sensible dispute resolution simulator developed by [...]

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Elementary! The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Revealed with Screenshots

18. February 2011

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Focus Home Interactive is bringing The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Testament of Sherlock to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC with this new mystery adventure.

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Sega Provides Aliens, Predators, and Witches on Demand

15. February 2011

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Sega Provides Aliens, Predators, and Witches on Demand

Visiting distant worlds through the narrative magic of video games is always a delight, but isn’t there a way we can make these epic journeys without having to schlep all the way to the store? Worry not, couch jockeys, for TriplePoint client Sega is adding two hit titles to Xbox Live’s Games on Demand service, [...]

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EpicMix Earns You Achievements for Skiing & Earn Free Microsoft Points with Bing – Friday Web

24. September 2010

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EpicMix Earns You Achievements for Skiing & Earn Free Microsoft Points with Bing – Friday Web

For those who just can’t wait to check-in to their next venue, or to win some sweet free Microsoft Points, we’ve got some great news for you. Today, we have EpicMix, which will allow you skiing or snowboarding types to earn achievements and level-up just by doing so, and the rewards program for Bing that [...]

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Dr. Seuss Apps 50% Off, Atari Announces The UnderGarden – Casual Round-Up

15. September 2010

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Dr. Seuss Apps 50% Off, Atari Announces The UnderGarden – Casual Round-Up

There have been quite a few stories in the world of casual console and iPhone games, with two stories offering particular interest to us here at Frisky Mongoose. The first sees a franchise-wide sale on all Dr. Seuss iPhone/iPad apps, while the other sees Atari announcing a new “zen” title for console and PC. Dr. [...]

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