• 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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Your Rock Band 3 Peripherals Are …

13. June 2010

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Your Rock Band 3 Peripherals Are …

The peripherals for Rock Band 3 have finally been confirmed, just in time for next week’s E3. Mad Catz will be selling the new instruments for some pretty hefty price tags, announced on Friday. Early rumors had speculated that the new keyboard instrument would actually be a keytar, a rumor that appears to be both [...]

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Where It’s At – DJ Hero 2 With Two Turntables and a Microphone

12. June 2010

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Where It’s At – DJ Hero 2 With Two Turntables and a Microphone

Details on Activision’s DJ Hero 2 have been officially announced, including new songs, modes, and peripherals. The game, a sequel to the 2009 DJ Hero, is scheduled to come out this fall in time for the 2010 holiday season. Whereas the first DJ Hero came with only one turntable controller, the sequel will sport two [...]

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Green Day: Rock Band Now Available in Stores

8. June 2010

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Green Day: Rock Band Now Available in Stores

As a friendly reminder to all of your Green Day fans out there, Harmonix and MTV Games today have launched Green Day: Rock Band to both brick-and-mortar and online retailers nationwide. For our friends overseas, the game will hit stores on June 11. Green Day: Rock Band follows the group through their career from their [...]

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Redbana Launches Audition Spotlight Facebook App

8. June 2010

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Redbana Launches Audition Spotlight Facebook App

TriplePoint client Redbana US has announced the launch of a Facebook app that will link players’ Audition Online game accounts and their Facebook accounts. The app is called Audition Spotlight, or Spotlight for short, it will allow players (who have linked their accounts – that much is mandatory) to play games, earn achievements and badges [...]

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Is the New Rock Band 3 Instrument a Keytar?

29. May 2010

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Is the New Rock Band 3 Instrument a Keytar?

A source at Ars Technica has started the as-yet unconfirmed rumor that the new Rock Band 3 instrument is not a piano-type attachment, but rather a keytar. If you are not familiar with a keytar, it’s pretty much what it sounds: a keyboard with a strap, held like a guitar. The attachment will most likely [...]

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Unannounced Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock Leaked

27. May 2010

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Unannounced Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock Leaked

We all knew Guitar Hero 6 was coming, that was never even a question in any gamer’s mind. What we didn’t know is that it could have the subtitles “Warriors of Rock”. The possible subtitle was noticed a few days ago by Siliconera on Amazon. The leaked listing showed the title would be for Xbox [...]

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Green Day: Rock Band Demo Now Available on 360 and PS3

26. May 2010

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Yesterday, Harmonix and MTV Games announced that the demo for Green Day: Rock Band is now available to download on both Xbox Live Marketplace and on the PlayStation Network. Both 360 and PS3 users will be able to play through the same two songs included in the demo: “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” and “Welcome to [...]

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And the Next Rock Band/T-Mobile Artist of the Month is…

25. May 2010

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It doesn’t seem like a second month has gone by in T-Mobile and Rock Band’s Artist of the Month contest, but indeed it has, as the two companies have announced the winner, and therefore Artist of the Month for May – The Main Drag. The Main Drag are an indie-pop group from Boston, who are [...]

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Skelanimals Dance Party Announced for iPhone

21. May 2010

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Skelanimals Dance Party Announced for iPhone

TriplePoint client Flying Penguin is set to bring the world of Skelanimals to the iPhone and iPod Touch with the franchise’s first video game, Skelanimals Dance Party. What are Skelanimals, you ask? If you don’t have a pre-teen girl around to answer that question, Skelanimals (a combination of “skeleton” and “animals”) is a line of [...]

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Rock Out in Rocktropia, New Virtual World for Music Lovers

16. May 2010

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Rock Out in Rocktropia, New Virtual World for Music Lovers

Tuesday saw the debut of a new virtual world for rock music lovers, Rocktropia. Created by Jon Jacobs, the 3D “theme park” world allows players to dress up like rock stars, immerse themselves in rock lore, explore a rock-inspired landscape and listen to live events. Jacobs believes that 3D worlds will be the next big [...]

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Guitar Hero World Tour Now Available on Android, Blackberry

15. May 2010

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Guitar Hero World Tour Now Available on Android, Blackberry

The newest entry in the Guitar Hero series is now available on the Android Market and Blackberry App World. The title is called Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile: Backstage Pass, quite a mouthful, and was created by Hands-On Mobile, Inc. in partnership with Activision Publishing, Inc. After being kicked out of a band just before [...]

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Miyamoto: Wii Music 2 Is a Possibility

12. May 2010

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Miyamoto: Wii Music 2 Is a Possibility

While Wii Music was not the blockbuster hit everyone at Nintendo had hoped it would be, they likely aren’t taking it lying it down. Nintendo is possibly planning a sequel to Wii Music at some point. Edge Magazine had an interview with Nintendo developer extraordinaire about his feeling of the family music game he helped [...]

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