• 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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Kickstarter Game Backers: Better or Bust

4. May 2012

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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 [...]

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Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Kick Starters

2. May 2012

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Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Kick Starters

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: [...]

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Here’s the Stori of a Lovely Platform

2. May 2012

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Here’s the Stori of a Lovely Platform

Years from now, when your mobile app has sold its billionth copy, your friends will say, “Oh, man. That’s awesome, but how did you ever get started? Where did you come up with the money?” And you’ll be all, “It was AppStori.” And then they’ll say, “App Store-y? Like, it was similar to the App [...]

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Magic: The Gathering Creator is Making Location-Based Game, Map Monsters

30. April 2012

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Magic: The Gathering Creator is Making Location-Based Game, Map Monsters

Via Kickstarter, we’ve learned that Richard Garfield, the creator of famed allowance-eater Magic: The Gathering is working on “a free-to-play location-based adventure game.” Entitled Map Monsters, the upcoming title attempts to use location gaming as a secondary mechanic, rather than a primary one: players will not be obligated to actually go anywhere to catch the many monsters [...]

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Don’t Be a Cheapskate: 4 Reasons Pay-What-You-Like Backfires

24. April 2012

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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 for it.  Originally a big [...]

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Hunger Games: Your Startup’s Fight to Survive

23. March 2012

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Hunger Games: Your Startup’s Fight to Survive

Are you going to see The Hunger Games tonight? You might want to think about it — apparently it’s a pretty epic saga of a young lady who fights almost as hard as you do to get funding and press for your company. I haven’t read the book or seen the movie yet, but TriplePoint’s Ashley [...]

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OneSchool Shows Up at Eight Schools

24. January 2012

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OneSchool Shows Up at Eight Schools

You can learn a lot at just one school. It would be extremely inconvenient if you had to go to separate institutions for communications, business, gastronomy, and cartography. Thankfully, there’s just OneSchool for all of that. OneSchool, a TriplePoint client you could learn from, just closed a $750,000 seed round and launched the OneSchool app [...]

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PerBlue Raises New $800K Round of Funding

21. September 2010

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PerBlue Raises New $800K Round of Funding

PerBlue, a mobile and social gaming company, announced today a new round of funding per the Golden Angels of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This comes along with additional investment from groups out of Seattle and San Francisco. “PerBlue has differentiated itself by making deeper and more innovative games than many of our competitors,” PerBlue CEO Justin Beck [...]

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Google Invests $100 Million in Zynga, Google Games Launching Soon

11. July 2010

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Google Invests $100 Million in Zynga, Google Games Launching Soon

Yesterday heralded the arrival of an unconfirmed (at least by the parties in question) rumor that Google has invested at least $100 million in social gaming giant Zynga. This investment would bring the total amount of venture capital raised by Zynga in the past year to around half a billion dollars. According to TechCrunch, the [...]

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Glu Mobile Raises $13.5 Million

10. July 2010

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Glu Mobile Raises $13.5 Million

On Wednesday, mobile game publisher Glu Mobile announced that it has entered into an agreement for the sale of common stock, resulting in a substantial chunk of money via private placement of its shares: $13.5 million. The money is coming from ten existing and ten new investors, including Greenway Capital, GGV Capital, and New Enterprise [...]

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Coveroo Raises New Funding for Engraved Mobile Cases

8. July 2010

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Coveroo Raises New Funding for Engraved Mobile Cases

You may not have heard of Coveroo, a mobile phone accessory company, but they’re what’s left of Wallop, a now-defunct social network, that, once dissolved, triggered CEO Karl Jacob to put his money into a new aspect of personalization – that being to personalize the devices we all carry around everyday. From that came Coveroo, [...]

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Sony Online Entertainment Awards $10,000 Scholarship

13. June 2010

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Sony Online Entertainment Awards $10,000 Scholarship

Sony Online Entertainment’s Gamers In Real Life (G.I.R.L.) competition has been won by student Sylvia Liu. She has been awarded a $10,000 scholarship and a 10-week paid internship. G.I.R.L. aims to bring more women into the industry and overall encourage the creation of more women-friendly games. Liu, who is a student at Art Center College [...]

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