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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App Store to Rock a Rocka Bowling Release on May 22
Sometimes TriplePoint’s clients can have strange or obtuse names. This is not the case with Best Cool Fun Games. Honestly, that may be the best “exactly what it says on the tin” company name ever. Their games are the best at being cool and fun! End of lesson. Such is the case, we’re told, with [...]
Continue reading...Big Win Hockey is on Google Play
17. May 2012
Did you grow your hockey beard? Hothead Games is extending their hockey shenanigans to Android devices today, releasing Big Win Hockey onto Google Play, so now anyone can enjoy free-to-play fantasy puckery. Go get it! From the press release: Hockey fans with Android devices can now create and customize their own team and then hit the [...]
Continue reading...Sonic 4 Episode II Rolls and/or Flies Onto Console and/or PC Today and/or Tomorrow
15. May 2012
Okay! So, Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II is happening, and there are many adorable furry characters to keep track of across many potential platforms for their exploits. Let’s see if we can list the salient points along with TriplePoint client SEGA: Sonic is back Sonic is still a hedgehog who runs quickly and rolls into [...]
Continue reading...Robot-Themed Phone Unsurprisingly Gets Robot-Themed Game: Machinarium on Android
15. May 2012
Machinarium is a completely adorable and clever game by Amanita Design about robot-type folks who inhabit a robot-style world and have to cope with robotic problems. An Android is defined as “a robot resembling a human being.” I don’t think putting these two things together is exactly a stretch, and neither does TriplePoint client Hothead Games, [...]
Continue reading...Atari Gets a Whole Bunch of Downloads
10. May 2012
I don’t necessarily think it’s surprising that people enjoy Breakout and Asteroids. We’ve known this for a while. Still, for those games and a few others in Atari’s catalog to rack up over 10 million downloads in a single year… okay, that’s impressive. I’ll give you that. TriplePoint client Atari may now safely boast, with that figure [...]
Continue reading...Team Meat is Not On Team Freemium
7. May 2012
Freemium games may not be a business plan that’s for everybody, but it’s definitely not a plan that works for Edmund McMillen of Team Meat — they of the epic carnage-driven platformer that is Super Meat Boy. The Meating folks are working on a mobile version of SMB, and would like to let the world know that [...]
Continue reading...Here’s the Stori of a Lovely Platform
2. May 2012
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 [...]
Continue reading...8 Reasons I Quit Playing Facebook Games
1. May 2012
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 social media and video [...]
Continue reading...Magic: The Gathering Creator is Making Location-Based Game, Map Monsters
30. April 2012
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 [...]
Continue reading...5 Apps to Make You Smile
17. April 2012
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 you do one [...]
Continue reading...Sonic Math: 1 + 2 = Metal
10. April 2012
I think, by now, that we all know our friend Sonic the Hedgehog has gotten through life based on his athletic skills (and his iconic attitude has certainly helped), so we can forgive him for being a little fuzzy on some other skills, like mathematics. We should be willing to forgive him for being fuzzy [...]
Continue reading...Robots Are Attacking Every Platform You Have
29. March 2012
Well, that’s it. TriplePoint client Sollmo has doomed us all. By plotting to launch their latest game, Operation CrossCounter, on multiple platforms with cross-platform play, they’ve basically given the terrifying robot hordes a wealth of new avenues to attack and annihilate humanity. Thanks for that, guys. So now, even if we had managed to fight off [...]
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