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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SoftKinetic is Not SoftSpoken
Earlier this month, at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, many new advances were revealed in the field of gesture recognition technology. While engineers are still working on an automated system to cut you off after you drunkenly expose yourself to a slot machine, TriplePoint client SoftKinetic had some actual new tech to show [...]
Continue reading...Yo Nyko Nyko!
10. January 2012
Normally, when you’re in Las Vegas and you wake up next to a strange, overly affectionate creature, it means you had a really interesting evening. Thankfully, TriplePoint client Nyko is in Las Vegas right now at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, helping to make your mornings a little less unsavory — and your gaming a [...]
Continue reading...Casual Connect 2011: Games Industry Fishbowl?
24. July 2011
With Casual Connect, the fish analogy is easy. You’re gathered in Seattle, surrounded by the sea, partying in aquariums, and hell, I even roomed with a finned friend this year. Our hotel pet (affectionately and temporarily named Sarah) stayed in her fishbowl out of necessity. But will the casual gaming industry do the same? Are [...]
Continue reading...Nintendo 3DS Launch Details & Games Revealed!
29. September 2010
Nintendo has finally opened the curtain on their latest invention, the Nintendo 3DS. First revealed back in March and shown extensively back in June at E3 2010, the 3DS has still remained a mystery in terms of real game content, pricing and availability. At a conference last night, Nintendo set the record straight by answering [...]
Continue reading...PopCap CEO Calls Out Zynga, IGC Deadline Coming Up – Industry News
28. September 2010
In the world of the internet, it’s sometimes easy to forget about the services that power just about everything we do, but also the audience that can use them. Today, we’re going to discuss the CEO of PopCap Games calling out Zynga on its strategies, along with the deadline of the Indie Game Challenge coming [...]
Continue reading...Zynga Reveals Growth Statistics, Acquires Gaming Company Dextrose
25. September 2010
This past week, Zynga has been very busy in not only updating their games, but discussing growth in them as well as expanding with their latest acquisition. At the Oracle OpenWorld Conference, Cadir Lee, CTO at Zynga revealed some interesting statistics concerning Zynga’s growth along with server sizes, employee numbers and data transfer levels from [...]
Continue reading...Dolphins Join Ultimate Fan on Facebook, GDC Online Awards Fan Voting – Social News
23. September 2010
In this week’s social news, two particularly interesting stories have caught our eye. First, the Miami Dolphins have joined with the New York Jets in their partnership with developer Arkadium on the Facebook app Ultimate Fan, and second, the First Annual Game Developers Choice Online Awards have released their list of official nominees, and have [...]
Continue reading...Google Instant Search Launches, Mozilla’s Browser Games –
8. September 2010
Whether it’s the launch of a new service, or simply the launch of a new feature or initiative, we’ve got you covered in the web gaming space. Today, we discuss the launch of Google’s Instant Search and the initiative from Mozilla for developers to focus on making games for the browser. Google Instant Search Goes [...]
Continue reading...LEGO Universe Gold! PAX Screenshots Gallery
3. September 2010
LEGO brick heads, listen up – Our frisky favorite in the upcoming MMOG category (and a TriplePoint client), LEGO Universe has officially gone gold! That’s developer speak to say that the game is definitely shipping to shelves this October 26th (and LEGO channels beginning October 8th), for PC and Mac. If I were you, I’d [...]
Continue reading...New iPods, Game Center, iOS 4.1: Apple September Event Round-Up
1. September 2010
Apple hosted their annual music event today in sunny San Francisco and they certainly brought out the big guns for this event, holding nothing back and unveiling a ton of new products and services. iOS 4.1 Releases Next Week, Includes Game Center The first new announcement of the day was when Apple CEO Steve Jobs [...]
Continue reading...From E3 to Casual Connect: When Hardcore Meets Social Gaming
31. August 2010
Are core and casual games at a crossroads? Gen Katz, industry veteran and editor of Games4Girls/Games4Women, seems to think so. She’s graciously given the ‘Goose permission to share her latest gaming newsletter, which discusses some new and old revelations from Casual Connect 2010. Bopping from E3 (in LA) to Casual Connect, July 20-24 in Seattle, [...]
Continue reading...New Facebook Life at 50, King.com’s Partner Roles: Industry News
30. August 2010
In the world of the internet, it’s sometimes easy to forget about the services that power just about everything we do, but also the audience that can use them. Today, we’re taking a look at the Power of Facebook for those over 50 and King.com’s roles with several different media companies. Facebook Serves Millions of [...]
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