• 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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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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How Not to Play Location-based Games like an Idiot

30. April 2012

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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 social media. Location-based games are [...]

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5 Apps to Make You Smile

17. April 2012

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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 you do one [...]

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What Kind of Location Gamer are You?

9. February 2011

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What Kind of Location Gamer are You?

With gamification having consumed every aspect of our lives, there is no reason for you not to transform your surroundings into a realm of competition and adventure. There’s a very good chance, in fact, that several games are being played right under your nose – on your commute, at your workplace, in your haunts and [...]

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Social Media Yearbook, 2011 Infographic Edition

8. February 2011

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Infographics: the web’s unique way of defining  our tech-heavy times, destroying our productivity levels, and giving us the giggles. Flowtown has a fun new highschool-themed shakedown of today’s social media giants. Where do you fit into the 2011 yearbook? Do note the omission of any gaming networks (i.e. Apple’s Game Center, OpenFeint or Xbox LIVE), [...]

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Foursquare Badge Fun, from Super Bowl to Subtle Snark

6. February 2011

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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 spring), now’s your shot at [...]

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EpicMix Earns You Achievements for Skiing & Earn Free Microsoft Points with Bing – Friday Web

24. September 2010

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EpicMix Earns You Achievements for Skiing & Earn Free Microsoft Points with Bing – Friday Web

For those who just can’t wait to check-in to their next venue, or to win some sweet free Microsoft Points, we’ve got some great news for you. Today, we have EpicMix, which will allow you skiing or snowboarding types to earn achievements and level-up just by doing so, and the rewards program for Bing that [...]

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5 Reasons Facebook Places Matters for Social Games

30. August 2010

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5 Reasons Facebook Places Matters for Social Games

I’ve never “played” Foursquare, but I have used it. To me, most location based check-in apps (like Foursquare & Gowalla) are more of a novelty than anything. You don’t have to look too hard to find a debate on whether or not this type of geocaching should be considered a “game” in the standard definition. [...]

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iPads Shipping Within 24 Hours & 3 Million Foursquarers – Just Checkin’ In

29. August 2010

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Whether it’s the world of iPads or the world of check-in services like Foursquare, there is seemingly an endless pool of news. Today, we have the news about Apple catching up to iPad demand by beginning to ship iPads within 24 hours and the news that Foursquare has hit 3 million users. iPads Shipping Within [...]

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Facebook’s Places Video Intro & Hot Potato Acquisition: Social Saturday

21. August 2010

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Facebook’s Places Video Intro & Hot Potato Acquisition: Social Saturday

Social media has been much abuzz this week concerning product launches and acquisitions, and I’m mainly just talking about Facebook. Today, we have the Facebook Places video introduction and the news about Facebook acquiring the developers behind the Hot Potato iPhone app. Details are below. Facebook Places Introduction Video Earlier this week, we told you [...]

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Places, People, Places! Facebook Places Launches for Mobile

19. August 2010

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Places, People, Places! Facebook Places Launches for Mobile

Facebook Places has now officially launched on the Mobile Touch site and on the official iPhone Facebook app. We have all the details following Facebook’s big announcement yesterday including all the details concerning how it works and the partners involved. One thing made very clear at yesterday’s announcement is that Facebook Places has three goals [...]

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Shopkick Launch & Fake Facebook Dislike – Social Monday

16. August 2010

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The social world is buzzing with all sorts of news concerning new social networks or rumored advancements to current popular ones. Today, we have the news that Shopkick is officially launching tomorrow in select Best Buy locations and the alert about the Facebook Dislike button that is not real. Shopkick Launching in Select Best Buy [...]

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