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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Bigpoint and Square Enix Spin Up Gameglobe
If there’s ever been something missing from action-adventure games, it’s… well, I don’t honestly know. But now, if I ever figure out what that is, I can put it there. By way of MMOBomb, we’ve received news that publishers Bigpoint and Square Enix have teamed up to unveil Gameglobe – a browser-based action-adventure game that comes [...]
Continue reading...Zombies <3 PlayStation <3 Canada
8. May 2012
Oh, Canada! Our home and native land! Zombies are here, it’s time to make a stand. Everybody loves Canada (and why wouldn’t they?), and several groups made it official at today’s first-ever “PlayStation <3 Canada” event. First among them, obviously, was Sony and the PlayStation team, but TriplePoint client Frima Studio was right up there with [...]
Continue reading...Team Meat is Not On Team Freemium
7. May 2012
Freemium games may not be a business plan that’s for everybody, but it’s definitely not a plan that works for Edmund McMillen of Team Meat — they of the epic carnage-driven platformer that is Super Meat Boy. The Meating folks are working on a mobile version of SMB, and would like to let the world know that [...]
Continue reading...Grantoo is Now at Your College, Too
7. May 2012
Remember when we mentioned Grantoo to Grant-you? The socially positive social gaming platform for sociable college students (and clients of the very social folks at TriplePoint) had previously offered its tuition-based prizes to players on a select number of campuses, but now they’re done with all of that selectivity and restriction. Social gaming for charity is no [...]
Continue reading...Kickstarter Game Backers: Better or Bust
4. May 2012
In a world where start-up investors outnumber the staffs they fund, it seems we, the people have taken back the power. Actually, for video games, Kickstarter (and its crowd-sourced funding service brethren) are giving “we the people” the first real power or say-so we’ve ever had, during the development process, before games are too far along for [...]
Continue reading...SEGA Releases All-Star Games and All-Star Characters
3. May 2012
The news from TriplePoint client SEGA is doubly classic today, with the long-time game publisher digging through their library of classics and unleashing old favorites in multiple forms. Firstly, SEGA has published the latest installment in their Mega Drive Classics Collection, releasing volume 5 for PC nostalgists with titles like Streets of Rage III and Phantasy Star numbers [...]
Continue reading...Syncopate and NEXON Conduct Arms Deal
3. May 2012
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...Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Kick Starters
2. May 2012
Saving the kingdom from peril, defeating zombie pirates, surviving hostile alien worlds… these were the pursuits that defined the games of our youth. Oh, and cruising the sleazy streets in the hopes of getting laid. It’s that last one which we’ve all apparently remained nostalgic for, if the latest successful gaming Kickstarter is any indication: [...]
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...Restaurant City is Closing Down the Kitchen
1. May 2012
Back in the day, we here at Frisky Mongoose were big fans of Restaurant City, one of Playfish’s early Facebook offerings. The title was one of many in the company’s portfolio that ultimately led to their acquisition by EA, and kept us all going with its ingredient-swapping, dish-cooking, decor-placing, bathroom-mopping antics. So, it is with some [...]
Continue reading...You May Go to Hell
1. May 2012
It’s May! The weather has turned especially lovely and spring is in full swing. What better time to go directly to hell? TriplePoint client Redbana certainly agrees, and would like you to know that Spring Break in Hellgate Global makes for a delightful holiday, thanks to another monthly lineup of demon-hunting events. Protip: Do not [...]
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