You’re the (Nexus) One That I Want: Confessions of an iPhone Lover Gone Astray

You’re the (Nexus) One That I Want: Confessions of an iPhone Lover Gone Astray

To protect the innocent, names have been changed. In this publication, a once-faithful iPhone lover will be referred to with a fictional Twitter name: @madluv4iPhn. A recent tweet: @madluv4iPhn Dear iPhone - I've met someone new named the Nexus One. I'm strangely attracted to her and need a few days to figure ...

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What SOPA Means for Gaming PR

What SOPA Means for Gaming PR

SOPA. It's much ado about pirates. Not the cool kind of pirates who wear eye patches, sail ships, bury treasure and say stuff like yo-ho-ho. No, SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act) is about the kind of pirates that suck. SOPA what? If all the cool kids weighed in, would you ...

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SpotON Radio is Spotted on the App Store

Remember how we said that SpotON Radio was a new Spotify app that was going to come out on January 9th? Well, it is, and it did. We also mentioned it was going to be free, and guess what? It is! Man, we were right on the money with that story. See for ...

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Casual Connect 2011: Games Industry Fishbowl?

Casual Connect 2011: Games Industry Fishbowl?

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 ...

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Foursquare Badge Fun, from Super Bowl to Subtle Snark

Foursquare Badge Fun, from Super Bowl to Subtle Snark

Beginning at kickoff today (6:30pm ET on FOX), Foursquare will open up a special edition check-in point globally to all users - look for the promoted trending venue, "Super Bowl Sunday". If you missed out on the "PA Groundhog Day" badge earlier this week (when Punxsutawney Phil predicted an early ...

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Angry Birds Super Bowl Ad's Got Game

Angry Birds Super Bowl Ad's Got Game

Angry Bird players are set for a special bonus this Super Bowl Sunday. The iPhone game's upcoming 30-second commercial is all the buzz today - apparently, it will feature an embedded code to unlock a secret new level. According to AdAge, "the spot will be the first Super Bowl ad ...

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Refunding a Free Admission: Taking Care of Customers in F2P

Refunding a Free Admission: Taking Care of Customers in F2P

Last week, on the TriplePoint blog, I wrote a short piece about taking care of angry customers when the service has been poor. I advised providers to be forthright, humble, and to make an immediate reparatory gesture for best results. Karma, it seems, is a real kick in the teeth ...

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Snarky Facebook RPG Fantasy University Now Open to All

Snarky Facebook RPG Fantasy University Now Open to All

Fantasy University, the pop-culture referencing, snarktastic, Facebook-based roleplaying game from TriplePoint client Simutronics (which we previewed), entered open beta today - meaning, unlike before, anyone with a Facebook account can get in on the Harry-Potter-on-acid antics. Here's the press release: ELANTHIA - October 20, 2010 Fantasy University, the premier fallback institution for ...

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Wake Up, Pygmies; Time to Die

2. February 2012

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Wake Up, Pygmies; Time to Die

Having time-travel powers, as movies and books have taught us, would be pretty fantastic. You could go back into the past and hunt dinosaurs, or go to the future and learn the results of sporting events, and nothing could possibly go wrong. Unless you’re a Pocket God pygmy, in which case everything will always go wrong, [...]

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Androids Can Now Save Yello

2. February 2012

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Androids Can Now Save Yello

Androids. Yes, they’re heartless machines masquerading as people, and they will probably some day enslave our planet. But even a cold, unfeeling Android wouldn’t turn its back on a helpless goldfish, removed from its bowl and in desperate need of rescue. Worry not, future machine overlords — Saving Yello has been released for Android phones by [...]

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Pocket God’s Tragic Comics are the Best Ever

1. February 2012

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Pocket God’s Tragic Comics are the Best Ever

Frisky Mongoose may have a touch of bias when we tell you that the Pocket God Comics app, which allows you to read hilariously malicious comics from TriplePoint client Bolt Creative, is the best comic app ever. So, it gives us tremendous pleasure to be able to say that with independent, external validation. Pocket God Comics was just [...]

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Conquer Online Gets in the Zone

25. January 2012

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Conquer Online Gets in the Zone

So you say you’ve gone online and conquered all there is to conquer online in Conquer Online. Well, the conquering heroes at NetDragon, a TriplePoint client, have added a bunch of new stuff that nobody has conquered quite yet. That’s right — there are new things in the game that are not yet firmly under your [...]

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Save Yello, Save Money

24. January 2012

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Save Yello, Save Money

The new release from dreamfab, Saving Yello Lite, is not a game about hanging on to your very last colored lightbulb in order to have the best holiday decorations ever. That would be an awesome game, though. No, Saving Yello Lite is a free “sampler” version of Saving Yello, the hit app from the TriplePoint client and fish-sympathizing [...]

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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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Atari’s Breakout Boost Gets Even Boostier

24. January 2012

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Atari’s Breakout Boost Gets Even Boostier

Atari, legendary game company and TriplePoint client, decided to give a little boost to one of their breakout titles, Breakout: Boost. A free-to-play iOS take on an enduring classic, Breakout: Boost came out a little while ago and put a few new spins on the original brick-hating gameplay. But that clearly wasn’t enough, because now there’s an [...]

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Bumping Bears Bear Bumping from 148Apps

23. January 2012

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Bumping Bears Bear Bumping from 148Apps

TriplePoint client LoadComplete is getting a little love this morning with a bump over on 148Apps. Thankfully, they have developed a hardy breed of adorable bears, specifically bred to withstand bumping. Bumping Bears, the developer’s new iOS social title, is getting a nod of approval, thanks to the bears’ adorable features, the fact that they inhabit [...]

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What SOPA Means for Gaming PR

13. January 2012

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What SOPA Means for Gaming PR

SOPA. It’s much ado about pirates. Not the cool kind of pirates who wear eye patches, sail ships, bury treasure and say stuff like yo-ho-ho. No, SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act) is about the kind of pirates that suck. SOPA what? If all the cool kids weighed in, would you weigh in too? Why [...]

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Piracy Runs Rampant in Conquer Online

12. January 2012

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Piracy Runs Rampant in Conquer Online

When you get as popular and successful as Conquer Online has, you’re bound to start attracting pirates. Things are so bad for the iPad MMO from TriplePoint client NetDragon, that the pirates are actually showing up inside the game itself, utterly dominating the new expansion that launched today. Players can even make characters in an all-new [...]

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Go to School, School Others on the Go with Hero Academy

11. January 2012

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Go to School, School Others on the Go with Hero Academy

What makes a hero? We can finally put that question to rest — it’s not bravery, or selflessness, or any of that saccharine nonsense. To be a hero, you clearly need to have attended Hero Academy, gotten at least an undergraduate degree, and continue to support the Hero Academy NCAA team. At that point, you will [...]

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SpotON Radio is Spotted on the App Store

9. January 2012

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SpotON Radio is Spotted on the App Store

Remember how we said that SpotON Radio was a new Spotify app that was going to come out on January 9th? Well, it is, and it did. We also mentioned it was going to be free, and guess what? It is! Man, we were right on the money with that story. See for yourself: SpotON Radio is [...]

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