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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Syncopate and NEXON Conduct Arms Deal
You wouldn’t think Frisky Mongoose would be the sort of site to warn you about an arms deal between Russians and Koreans, but there you go. NEXON Corporation, a game publisher founded in Korea and currently operating in the Japanese theater, and Syncopate, a Russian publisher and client of nefarious gun-runner TriplePoint, have come to [...]
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...Hothead Wants to See Your Bigbeard
11. April 2012
Hockey playoff beards start today! Is your chin adequately covered? The fine facial hair aficionados at Hothead Games would like to know. As game developers, publishers, beardcombers, and TriplePoint clients, the folks at Hothead want to ensure that America is prepared for the 2012 NHL Playoffs, both spiritually and… hair-fully. To that end, they’ve just [...]
Continue reading...Bumping Bears is Safer on iOS than Real Life
4. April 2012
Here at Frisky Mongoose, we’re all about public health and safety. So, consider this a bit of friendly advice: If you would like to approach a bear cub, dress it in one of several adorable outfits, tickle it, and then enter it in a contest of luck or skill, that’s fine — so long as [...]
Continue reading...Temple Run Runs on Androids Now
27. March 2012
I’m not saying that Temple Run is the best mobile game in history. I am saying, however, that every time we mention it in polite conversation, people respond with “Man, Temple Run is the best mobile game in history. I just wish it were available on Android.” So, I feel like I ought to mention that Temple [...]
Continue reading...Troops That Should Really Be in Evony (But Probably Not)
7. March 2012
Every completely connected conqueror in Evony (A TriplePoint client) knows their way around ridiculously massive armies, and the troops that make them up. If you’re going to unite the lands of your server under your own flag, you’re going to need a whole bunch of soldiers, and you’ll need a whole bunch of kinds of [...]
Continue reading...Poke Around the Pokki Winners
6. March 2012
SweetLabs, a TriplePoint client and official arch-enemy of all your free time, have unleashed the winners of the Pokki 1UP Game Developer Contest, and would like you to play them for the next several thousand hours. SweetLabs, you see, are creators of Pokki, a handy little system that lets developers build their games and applications into [...]
Continue reading...Run Temple Run on Androids
6. March 2012
So many running puns… can’t include them all… jokes to be made about running Android OS… having games on hand in case you’re caught with a case of the runs… Look. The point is, Temple Run is coming to Android phones at the end of the month, and TriplePoint client Imangi Studios is giving it away [...]
Continue reading...Play Big Win Soccer on Your iPhone, Not With Your iPhone
2. March 2012
Even though Big Win Soccer is an iPhone game, and it comes from TriplePoint client Hothead Games, it would be too hotheaded to actually play soccer with the iPhone itself. I’m pretty sure your warranty does not cover that. Instead, according to an announcement made today, you can download an app for free that’ll let you watch [...]
Continue reading...Don’t Fry the Frog, Do Download the Game
23. February 2012
I believe we discussed the health concerns regarding frog-frying, but as it turns out, it’s free, so who cares about health? Free game! Free frogs! Free flies! One can’t really go wrong. The game is out today, according to TriplePoint client Blacktorch Games. Don’t Fry the Frog is available on the App Store right this very [...]
Continue reading...Breakout: Boost Sends Valentines to Players, Players Smash Them
7. February 2012
You guys are just plain cruel, you know that? I thought it was a very nice gesture from TriplePoint client Atari to offer a new Valentine’s Day level pack to players of Breakout: Boost, and for only 99 cents at that. Here they are, pouring their hearts out to you in level form, doing stuff [...]
Continue reading...The Ryzing of Facebook Bingo
30. January 2012
The engineers at TriplePoint client RockYou have done the unthinkable: Crafted a way to play bingo, online, with all of the swell money and prizes inherent to the game, and without the overpowering presence of topical cream and despair. Bingo by Ryzing, which is played without having to rise in any way from your computer, was [...]
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