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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Atari Gets a Whole Bunch of Downloads
I don’t necessarily think it’s surprising that people enjoy Breakout and Asteroids. We’ve known this for a while. Still, for those games and a few others in Atari’s catalog to rack up over 10 million downloads in a single year… okay, that’s impressive. I’ll give you that. TriplePoint client Atari may now safely boast, with that figure [...]
Continue reading...Epic Celebrates Epic Anniversary with Epic Music
9. May 2012
I hope you like game music and nostalgia, because I’m about to make your day pretty epic. Epic Games is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and as a swell gift for all of their supporters past and present, they’re giving out 20 music tracks from their vast library of hits — completely free. Anybody old enough [...]
Continue reading...Nokia Loses Top Mobile Spot to Samsung
27. April 2012
The king of mobile is dead — long live the king of mobile. A report published by market research firm iSuppli (by way of GigaOM) has declared an upset in the world of mobile sales: For the first time in 14 years, Nokia is not the number one seller of cellphones (or, the number one celler?). [...]
Continue reading...Unreal University Will Give You an Epic Schooling
12. April 2012
Want to learn to use Unreal Engine 3? Are you finding that your present academic career is falling short in the UE3 department? Do your current classes not spend enough time teaching you about popular game middleware, preferring to waste your time on things like art history or biochemistry? The answer is Unreal University, which [...]
Continue reading...Listen to Every Gamification Summit Speaker for an Achievement
11. April 2012
There seriously is an achievement for attending the Gamification Summit in June, and listening to its impressive lineup of speakers — which today has been announced to include such industry visionaries as Jeffrey Ma and Richard Bartle. If you participate in the GSummit Gamification Workshops with these and other presenters, you can receive “a certification [...]
Continue reading...East Coast Game Conference Lists Conferrers
27. March 2012
Curious why you ought to go all the way to the East Coast to hear people tell you what they know about games? Well, maybe if we tell you that those people are from Zynga and BioWare, that would be adequate incentive. The organizers of ECGC (a TriplePoint client) have announced the keynote speakers for [...]
Continue reading...Me & Papo & Yo
9. March 2012
TriplePoint is playing host to a number of clients during GDC this week, but the majority of what I’ve been seeing consists of Minority, since they’re actually here at the new TriplePoint office. Minority has been giving demos of Papo & Yo, their debut game which is heading to PSN, and every time I’ve walked [...]
Continue reading...Le Game est Très Fantastique
6. March 2012
Le Game? Trés bien! The good people of France would kindly like to draw your attention to the fact that they are valuable members of the games industry, and are doing so under a new brand: Le Game. This new banner promises to combine “the natural chutzpah of the French” with — wait. Chutzpah? Your first [...]
Continue reading...Atari Wants You to Bounce Some Ideas Off of Them
29. February 2012
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 [...]
Continue reading...Anagram Game Nominated for Acronym Award
23. February 2012
There’s news today that Quarrel, the letter-scrambling game from TriplePoint client UTV Ignition Games, has been nominated for an award by BAFTA, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Unfortunately, there’s only five letters in BAFTA, so it’s hard to spell things with it. I guess you could say “FAT AB,” but that’s not too [...]
Continue reading...COD LAN FTW with GUNNAR
7. February 2012
GUNNAR Optiks is hosting a Call of Duty Local Area Network event, which will almost certainly make you say “Oh, my God!” and will be fun enough to let you laugh out loud. And now, the short version: COD LAN? OMG LOL! TriplePoint client GUNNAR Optiks, the folks behind the Modern Warfare 3 Gaming Eyewear, are putting [...]
Continue reading...East Coast Game Conference is Happening in April
31. January 2012
Triangle Game, Triangle Game. Triangle Game hates Particle Game. They have a conference; Triangle wins, by hosting their own huge industry conference on the East Coast. And Particle Game isn’t invited. But you are, thankfully: Triangle Game Initiative, a TriplePoint client, today confirmed the dates for the 4th annual East Coast Game Conference, occurring in Raleigh, [...]
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