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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, ...Archive | Beta RSS feed for this section
Dragons and Titans Let Wyrms Bite Your Facebook Off
Tweet I hope you enjoyed your last few weeks of not being on fire! As we warned you a while ago, TriplePoint client Wyrmbyte is bringing some high-quality dragons to your Facebook page in a Unity-powered MOBA title called Dragons and Titans. Today, that game is in open beta, meaning any of your friends can climb [...]
Continue reading...More Plants vs. Further Zombies
26. March 2013
Tweet A double dose of undead defense news sprouted up today from PopCap Games — their iconic lawn-defense title, Plants vs. Zombies, is coming back in two distinct forms. For starters, the game’s going social, coming soon to Facebook as Plants vs. Zombies Adventures, promising that the game is “expanding with endless waves of new characters, strategies, [...]
Continue reading...SmashMuck SteamPAX BetaLunacy
6. March 2013
Tweet If you follow the MOBA genre, you’ll be familiar with a broad variety of heroes, or champions, or whatever a specific game chooses to call its roster of playable characters — eclectic combatants designed to look and play differently, allowing teams to match up complementary powers and let players develop personal play styles. SmashMuck Champions, [...]
Continue reading...MechWarrior Online Brings the Pain
17. August 2012
Tweet Is this perhaps the most beautiful MMO games you’ve ever seen? MechWarrior Online is powered by CryENGINE 3, includes giants robots, and is almost here. Though the final release of the game will be free to play, customers can currently purchase a “Founders Pack” in order to receive one-month, two-month or three-month access to [...]
Continue reading...Gaming News Roundup—Wednesday, August 08
8. August 2012
Tweet Zynga COO John Schappert has resigned amid the company’s financial troubles. Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli goes on record and says tablets will overtake consoles in popularity. The Verge takes an in-depth look at the impact of piracy on the now-F2P game Dead Trigger. Developers try to bring Epic Skater to mobile devices, Jump Games launches a [...]
Continue reading...Ultima Forever F2P Online RPG Heading to PC and iPad
6. August 2012
Tweet Ultima Online has enjoyed a storied history since its release in 1997. It was the first MMORPG to reach the 100,000 subscriber base. It may be hard to view that statistic as impressive when MMO subscriptions these days reach into the millions, but keep in mind that Ultima Online was released back when you [...]
Continue reading...Snail Games is Not Slowing Down
23. May 2012
Tweet For a company named after a sluggish critter, TriplePoint client Snail Games USA is kind of speeding up their routine. They’re going to E3 for the first time this year, and while they’re there, they’ll be showing off five different MMOs, ranging from Wushu to penguins. Guys, have snails taught you nothing? Slow and [...]
Continue reading...Snarky Facebook RPG Fantasy University Now Open to All
21. October 2010
Tweet Fantasy University, the pop-culture referencing, snarktastic, Facebook-based roleplaying game from TriplePoint client Simutronics (which we previewed), entered open beta today – meaning, unlike before, anyone with a Facebook account can get in on the Harry-Potter-on-acid antics. Here’s the press release: ELANTHIA – October 20, 2010 Fantasy University, the premier fallback institution for students rejected [...]
Continue reading...Céiron Wars Open Beta Launch Date Announced
24. September 2010
Tweet Céidot Game Studios is happy to announce an official open beta launch date with a mini-movie for Céiron Wars, which is an RPG-Strategy game based on a dark atmosphere of Céiron universe. Before the open beta, players whose commanders are created via our pre-registration tool will be able start the game with special bonuses. [...]
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