• 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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Nyko is Tired of Vitas Being So Portable

24. April 2012

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Nyko is Tired of Vitas Being So Portable

Damned PlayStation Vitas. They’re rotting our brains wherever we are, by delivering “console-caliber gameplay on the go,” and it’s about time somebody did something about it. Thankfully, TriplePoint client Nyko is here with a solution: the Speaker Stand for PS Vita, a helpful anchor that ensures your Vita will have to stay in one place. [...]

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Tango Chase Dances Towards Release

19. April 2012

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Tango Chase Dances Towards Release

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 [...]

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The Time Has Come: Pokemon and Me 15 Years Later

16. April 2012

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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 vengeance, which was more than [...]

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Robots Are Attacking Every Platform You Have

29. March 2012

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Robots Are Attacking Every Platform You Have

Well, that’s it. TriplePoint client Sollmo has doomed us all. By plotting to launch their latest game, Operation CrossCounter, on multiple platforms with cross-platform play, they’ve basically given the terrifying robot hordes a wealth of new avenues to attack and annihilate humanity. Thanks for that, guys. So now, even if we had managed to fight off [...]

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The Lost Shapes Finds Itself on the App Store

8. March 2012

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The Lost Shapes Finds Itself on the App Store

Found ‘em! I found those Lost Shapes, you guys. It turns out they were on the App Store the whole time. Well, maybe not the whole time; apparently they just turned up there today. What I’m saying is that The Lost Shapes is now for sale on the App Store by TriplePoint client dreamfab. It just took a [...]

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Atari Wants You to Bounce Some Ideas Off of Them

29. February 2012

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Atari Wants You to Bounce Some Ideas Off of Them

Do you remember when Pong came out? If you do, can you use your senior’s discount to buy me movie tickets? Okay, maybe you’re not quite that old yet, but seeing as Pong is celebrating its 40th anniversary, you’re definitely getting up there. Atari, a TriplePoint client who is also pushing 40, is celebrating the classic console [...]

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See Sea Stars’ Stars on Android

23. February 2012

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See Sea Stars’ Stars on Android

Sea Stars. You know ‘em. You love ‘em. But if you’ve got an Android instead of an iPhone, how can you play ‘em? By waiting until today, that’s how. Hothead Games, an equal-opportunity TriplePoint client, has got you covered over on the Android Market — not to mention in Chinese, Korean, and Swedish, all languages which [...]

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Shadow Government: Play the News, Rule the World

21. February 2012

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Shadow Government: Play the News, Rule the World

Shadow Government. It’s coming, it’s close to my heart and it’s going to be awesome. It’s a reality-based social game for iOS – a “nation builder” if you will. The title has been in the news for a while, but was officially announced this morning, in preparation for preview demos and a fancy public debut [...]

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Sea Stars are Free Stars

7. February 2012

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Sea Stars are Free Stars

The tricky thing about putting out a huge update for a game is that only people who already have the game get to benefit from your generosity. Clearly, according to TriplePoint client Hothead Games, the answer is to amplify your generosity tenfold. Sea Stars, which is seeing a sea of seaworthy updates today, is offering to [...]

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dreamfab Loves You, Not Your Money

7. February 2012

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dreamfab Loves You, Not Your Money

dreamfab just wants you to be happy (and also visit some hills). They don’t care if you can pay for their iPhone physics puzzle game or not. To prove their love to you this Valentine’s Day, the selfless TriplePoint client has put out a free version of Happy Hills, appropriately named Happy Hills Free. Read for [...]

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Wake Up, Pygmies; Time to Die

2. February 2012

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Wake Up, Pygmies; Time to Die

Having time-travel powers, as movies and books have taught us, would be pretty fantastic. You could go back into the past and hunt dinosaurs, or go to the future and learn the results of sporting events, and nothing could possibly go wrong. Unless you’re a Pocket God pygmy, in which case everything will always go wrong, [...]

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