• 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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What Kind of Facebook Gamer Are You?

18. February 2011

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What Kind of Facebook Gamer Are You?

Facebook! It is everywhere and everything, and it consumes us all. I would bet ten dollars that, as you read this, you’ve got Facebook open right now in another tab or window. It is also home to several thousand games, with more arriving every day, appealing to audiences from every walk of life. So, how [...]

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Rixty Offering Free Facebook Credits Promotion at Coinstar

9. August 2010

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Rixty Offering Free Facebook Credits Promotion at Coinstar

Here’s a back-to-school deal to get your virtual good on – free Facebook Credits anyone? Today (August 9) through September 7, TriplePoint client Rixty is teaming up with Coinstar to give 10 free Facebook Credits to new users who convert their coins into Rixty credits, redeemable in a variety of online games and apps. Rixty [...]

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Bejeweled Blitz Updates: Free Game Tips, New Daily Spin Feature

26. July 2010

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Bejeweled Blitz Updates: Free Game Tips, New Daily Spin Feature

It’s not often that we have Bejeweled Blitz news to share with you – even less often do we have not one, but two pieces of news to share concerning PopCap’s first foray into the “Blitz” genre. Today is an exception, however, as both the Facebook version of the game, and the PC download version [...]

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Purchase Bejeweled Blitz, Get a Free Strategy Guide

29. June 2010

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Purchase Bejeweled Blitz, Get a Free Strategy Guide

If you’ve yet to make the jump from playing Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook to playing the paid downloadable game proper, listen to this new offer that PopCap has for you. If you pay for and download the full PC version of Bejeweled Blitz, you’ll receive a free strategy guide of sorts, complete with tips and [...]

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Get All Bejeweled Games At Once, Save Some Dough

19. May 2010

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PopCap has announced their latest promotion for all of you awesome puzzle game fans out there. Bejeweled is quite possibly their most popular game and for right now, you can score an excellent deal when buying all three versions of it at once. The offer is called “The Bejeweled Bundle” and includes Bejeweled 2, Bejeweled [...]

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PopCap and Nexon Utilizing Sometrics for Free In-Game Currency

13. May 2010

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PopCap and Nexon Utilizing Sometrics for Free In-Game Currency

PopCap Games and Nexon, two prominent players in the casual free-to-play world have announced a partnership with Sometrics to use their system in order to offer players possible free currency and robust payment system in at least a few of their titles. Using Sometrics, players can complete targeted offer to earn virtual currency in many [...]

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Popcap Says New Blitz Game Coming Soon

17. April 2010

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Popcap Says New Blitz Game Coming Soon

According to games.com, Popcap has confirmed that there are more ‘Blitz’ games on the way. Says Popcap CEO and co-founder John Vechey: “We’re definitely doing another ‘Blitz’ game, but we’re also doing some pretty experimental games.” The new ‘Blitz’ game is not a Bejeweled Blitz sequel, but an existing Popcap franchise adapted to fit the [...]

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Download Bejeweled Blitz, Receive Free Coins

16. April 2010

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Download Bejeweled Blitz, Receive Free Coins

The newest edition of the Fizz, PopCap’s email newsletter, has announced a new promotion and incentive for users to try the full PC downloadable version of their insanely popular Bejeweled Blitz. The promotion sees PopCap giving out 50,000 free coins for use in Bejeweled Blitz just for trying the game. There is no obligation to [...]

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Bejeweled Blitz Now Available as Stand-Alone PC Game

8. April 2010

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Today, PopCap announced the release of Bejeweled Blitz on the PC. What started as a casual title on Facebook has exploded into one of the site’s most popular apps, challenging users to get as high a score as possible within each 60 second gameplay window. Bejeweled Blitz on the PC takes the Facebook version and [...]

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Reminder: Play Bejeweled Blitz This Week for a Chance to Win a Mazda!

25. March 2010

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Reminder: Play Bejeweled Blitz This Week for a Chance to Win a Mazda!

Here’s a friendly reminder for you Bejeweled Blitz fans out there – as we reported earlier in the month, PopCap has changed the prizes for Bejeweled Blitz to coincide with their own take on March Madness. If you didn’t win the previously available iPod Touches or Garmin GPS Units, never fear, as the month’s biggest [...]

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March Madness Has Hit the Contest Area of Bejeweled Blitz!

4. March 2010

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March Madness Has Hit the Contest Area of Bejeweled Blitz!

Considering how addictive Bejeweled Blitz is on its own, I doubt that there are many people who play the game specifically because of the contest that’s held every week, giving away PopCap games or a laptop, among other items. However, this Month, PopCap is set to make the contest a bit more interesting – perhaps to [...]

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Social, Casual or Both? PopCap Sells Cows, Gives Away Free Milk

17. February 2010

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Social, Casual or Both? PopCap Sells Cows, Gives Away Free Milk

In terms of wide-sweeping brand recognition, Popcap is to casual gaming what Nintendo is to gaming in general.  Your Grandma knows about Nintendo, but your Mom might know a PopCap game or two.  Founded a decade ago, the company does a spectacular job of keeping their games in the public eye and maintaining a friendly, [...]

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