Tweet The last time we checked up on runaway mobile hit Puzzle & Dragons, we mentioned the game was raking in over $3.7 million every day. That’s an amazing figure, mind you, and impressive for any game, but here’s something you need to understand — that amount is based on P&D‘s audiences in Japan and the United [...]
Continue reading...7. May 2013
Tweet About a month ago, we told you that TriplePoint client PowerCloud Systems intended to kickstart a new way to manage your Wi-Fi networks at home and abroad. We asked that you look into kicking in to said Kickstarter, and as of today, it would appear that you listened, since the funding goal of $75K [...]
Continue reading...9. April 2013
Tweet Two things you need to know right away about Skydog: first, their logo is a dog wearing a cape. Check it out. Secondly, it’s a new router/network-management/child-upsetting system that gives you the following superpowers: Set up and control your Wi-Fi network from anywhere, including outside of your Wi-Fi network Get a detailed log of [...]
Continue reading...31. August 2012
Tweet Back when OnLive was first announced, I remember reading the editorials in PC Gamer magazine and the skeptical, sometimes frustrated comments on the forums. The community asked a question: “Of what use is my big, expensive gaming PC or console if all I need to play high-quality games is some off-site server?” That’s the [...]
Continue reading...8. August 2012
Tweet If you’ve ever been remotely interested in learning about your family history, Family Village may be the game for you. By incorporating partnerships with AncestorSync and NewspaperArchive.com, this Facebook game is as ambitious as it is unique. The game’s developer Funium, the Provo-based game startup has raised $1.8 million in seed funding to add [...]
Continue reading...8. August 2012
Tweet Gamemaker Her Interactive needs players’ help to bring its flagship Nancy Drew franchise to smartphones and tablets. Yesterday the Bellevue, WA company launched a Kickstarter campaign with the goal of raising $250,000. The Nancy Drew games feature the “original girl detective,” created by children’s author Edward Stratemeyer back in 1930. Nancy Drew appeared in [...]
Continue reading...3. August 2012
Tweet How about some more zombie news? The Playforge, developer of the iOS hit Zombie Farm—not to be confused with PopCap’s Plants vs. Zombies—has been acquired for an undisclosed price by the transmedia investment company Saban Brands. Dan Silberberger, vice president of digital at Saban Brands gave his thoughts in the firm’s press release: “Mobile [...]
Continue reading...2. August 2012
Tweet Yesterday, Electronic Arts’ chief operating officer, Peter Moore, made it clear that revenue growth in social games is slowing down for the company, but the mobile market is as hot as ever. The trend of mobile growth versus social gaming is still a highly contested one, as not all companies may see eye to eye with [...]
Continue reading...12. July 2012
Tweet A point of clarification: when the press release’s headline reads “Red Fly Studio and RAW Studios Launch Bad Planet Kickstarter Campaign,” they are not involved in a bad campaign to kickstart the planet. I was confused at first, too; it’s okay. Instead, TriplePoint client Red Fly Studio is running a Kickstarter for a game based on [...]
Continue reading...20. June 2012
Tweet If you’re unfamiliar with Beintoo, then you are an increasingly rare sort of person in today’s mobile marketplace. According to a press release, TriplePoint client Beintoo now reaches 100 million mobile devices, and has managed this feat in under a year. Beintoo works like this: Play a whole bunch of, say, Fruit Ninja, and you [...]
Continue reading...4. May 2012
Tweet 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 [...]
Continue reading...2. May 2012
Tweet 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 [...]
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17. June 2013
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