• 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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The World is Drawing a Lot Less of Something

9. May 2012

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The World is Drawing a Lot Less of Something

How many idle games do you have clogging up your Draw Something queue? According to the app’s data on AppData (by way of Kotaku), I’d guess about a third of your games are sitting idle. In the last month, roughly 5 million players (about a third of its nearly 15 million users a month ago) have [...]

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Facebook + NBA Jam = …Bubble Safari?

8. May 2012

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Facebook + NBA Jam = …Bubble Safari?

Okay. So, Mark Turmell, the guy behind legendarily awesome sports-mayhem-game NBA Jam, just put together a Facebook game for Zynga. Everyone who predicted the game to have nothing to do with either sports or farming, but to instead be a new take on match-three bubble shooters, raise your hand. None of you? Well, me neither, but [...]

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Hardcore and Back Again: Video Games in a Nutshell

18. April 2012

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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 [...]

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East Coast Game Conference Lists Conferrers

27. March 2012

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East Coast Game Conference Lists Conferrers

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 [...]

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PopCap CEO Calls Out Zynga, IGC Deadline Coming Up – Industry News

28. September 2010

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PopCap CEO Calls Out Zynga, IGC Deadline Coming Up – Industry News

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 [...]

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Zynga Reveals Growth Statistics, Acquires Gaming Company Dextrose

25. September 2010

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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 [...]

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Celebrate Cafe World’s Anniversary With Sales & New Catering Job!

25. September 2010

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Celebrate Cafe World’s Anniversary With Sales & New Catering Job!

It’s Cafe World’s one year anniversary, and to help celebrate, Zynga is offering discounts on tons of items both inside the game and out, as well as offering an entirely new Catering Business mission that will have you working to earn (and keep) a series of limited edition recipes. Last but not least, a “one [...]

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Free Property Upgrade, Free Item With Game Card Purchase – Mafia Wars Updates

10. September 2010

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Free Property Upgrade, Free Item With Game Card Purchase – Mafia Wars Updates

“Free” is the operative word in Mafia Wars this week, as users are being given free items at every turn. There are two particular areas of interest where users can score some free loot. One is triggered by purchasing a Mafia Wars Game Card, while the other is achieved for simply clicking on a few [...]

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Zynga Moves to Facebook Credit Exclusivity

10. September 2010

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Earlier this year, Facebook and Zynga signed a five-year partnership that would see the developer’s games remaining on the social networking site throughout that period, and has now seen the developer transition to using Facebook Credits exclusively in the vast majority of their titles. As reported by our friends at Gamezebo, both Facebook and Zynga [...]

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Install the FrontierVille Game Bar, Receive 20 (or 35) Free Horseshoes

6. September 2010

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Install the FrontierVille Game Bar, Receive 20 (or 35) Free Horseshoes

Attention FrontierVille players! Are you looking for a way to earn a whole slew of free Horseshoes for doing little more than clicking a few buttons? You’re in luck, as Zynga has officially released the FrontierVille toolbar, as part of their ongoing Tool or Game Bar support for their most popular Facebook games. The FrontierVille [...]

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Enter the Romantic Era in YoVille With New Furniture & Clothing

4. September 2010

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Enter the Romantic Era in YoVille With New Furniture & Clothing

It appears as though the Camp Yo theme has finally come to an end in YoVille, as the game’s Furniture Store is now being stocked with items in a “New Romantic” theme. This theme looks to contains a lot of over-the-top, classical furniture, with bright and busy patterns and interesting lines. So far, only the [...]

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Happy Island on Android, Playdom Passes CrowdStar in Userbase

1. September 2010

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Just yesterday, we brought you the news that Playdom has brought Social City to the Android, and today we can add another Facebook title to that list. In other Facebook news, we see that Playdom has now passed CrowdStar in terms of overall user numbers. Happy Island Now Available on Android Back in early July, [...]

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