• 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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Jetpack Joyride is on Facebook; See You Tomorrow

16. May 2012

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Jetpack Joyride is on Facebook; See You Tomorrow

Here’s how this is going to work: I’m going to tell you that Jetpack Joyride, the incredibly addictive, hugely charming winner of pretty much every award that Pocket Gamer has to offer, is now on Facebook in a free, perfect replication of its iOS version. Then, you’re going to go check it out for yourself. Then [...]

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Sonic 4 Episode II Rolls and/or Flies Onto Console and/or PC Today and/or Tomorrow

15. May 2012

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Sonic 4 Episode II Rolls and/or Flies Onto Console and/or PC Today and/or Tomorrow

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 [...]

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Defender Chronicles II: The Defendening

10. May 2012

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Defender Chronicles II: The Defendening

The stalwart defenders of the tower defense genre are defending their position on the charts! TriplePoint client Gimka Entertainment, the folks behind Defender Chronicles, have a new entry on the way in their uniquely vertical TD series. It is entitled, not surprisingly, Defender Chronicles II. Not sure how a vertical tower defense game works? Here’s a [...]

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Make Flipbooks Without Ruining Actual Books with FlipBook HD

10. May 2012

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Make Flipbooks Without Ruining Actual Books with FlipBook HD

After my freshman year of high school, I was denied the school’s offer to buy back my textbooks for a small portion of what I’d originally paid. They reasoned that I had permanently defaced my books by drawing hilariously violent flipbooks in each one. We both knew, of course, that my art had only enhanced the [...]

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Atari Gets a Whole Bunch of Downloads

10. May 2012

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Atari Gets a Whole Bunch of Downloads

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 [...]

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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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SEGA Releases All-Star Games and All-Star Characters

3. May 2012

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SEGA Releases All-Star Games and All-Star Characters

The news from TriplePoint client SEGA is doubly classic today, with the long-time game publisher digging through their library of classics and unleashing old favorites in multiple forms. Firstly, SEGA has published the latest installment in their Mega Drive Classics Collection, releasing volume 5 for PC nostalgists with titles like Streets of Rage III and Phantasy Star numbers [...]

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Makers of Game-Making Game Made Happy by Making it to 2,000 Games Made

3. May 2012

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Remember Sketch Nation Studio? I would hope so; the game-creation app only debuted a couple of weeks ago. In that short time, however, over 2,000 user-created games have been made freely available within the app itself — and reportedly dozens more are coming soon for actual 99-cent purchase on the App Store. That’s the news this [...]

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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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8 Reasons I Quit Playing Facebook Games

1. May 2012

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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 [...]

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Pong Indie Developer Challenge is Down to 20 Pong Purveyors

1. May 2012

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Pong Indie Developer Challenge is Down to 20 Pong Purveyors

So, that Pong Indie Developer Challenge we told you about got a fair amount of entries. TriplePoint client Atari reports that 87 submissions got bounced their way, and despite their frantic paddle-moving skills, 20 of them managed to get past their best players. So, those 20 studios have now advanced to the semi-final round, where each [...]

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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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