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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Pokki on Refrigerated Toast
With the recent reference to the Windows 8 operating system being likened to a “Toaster-Fridge” by Apple CEO Tim Cook, the internet memes and jokes have come out to play. The discussion of whether the operating system is moving in the right direction or not has had journalists and technologists sharing their opinions from both [...]
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...Abandoning Facebook: CrowdStar Joins OMGPOP, Kabam, Funzio in Mobile
25. April 2012
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 from mobile next year, even [...]
Continue reading...Don’t Be a Cheapskate: 4 Reasons Pay-What-You-Like Backfires
24. April 2012
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 [...]
Continue reading...Hardcore and Back Again: Video Games in a Nutshell
18. April 2012
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 games that dared deal [...]
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...Nyko Develops New Accessories for Its Accessories: Patents
6. April 2012
Remember how we mentioned a few days ago how Nyko had a patent on being really great at making accessories for your game hardware? It turns out they’ve patented that, too — getting patents, that is. According to a bit of news yesterday, TriplePoint client Nyko has been awarded another patent; this one is for [...]
Continue reading...Frima Studio Values Families Despite Working in Video Games
4. April 2012
We’re all keenly aware that video games are the sole threat facing the American family, and the moral structure of our society, and the precious children that are our future. As such, it’s highly suspect to hear that Frima Studio, a TriplePoint client and self-admitted game developer, has been awarded certification from the Bureau de normalisation du [...]
Continue reading...Nyko Patents its Particular Brand of Awesomeness
3. April 2012
It’s been a good year for TriplePoint client Nyko: According to the NPD Group, Nyko’s Zoom for Kinect accessory was the bestselling Kinect add-on for 2011, and Nyko itself was the #1 console accessory manufacturer for the year. All of this is no doubt due to Nyko’s patented style and general fantastic-ness. That’s not just [...]
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...Rhode Island has Better Broadband Than You
26. March 2012
Pando Networks, a TriplePoint client with some serious connections, has issued a new report on the state of American broadband speeds in 2011. The main takeaway is thus: If you don’t live in Rhode Island, your download speeds just aren’t the best. You’ll just have to live with that knowledge, and any inferiority complexes it [...]
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