• 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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Bejeweled Turns 10, Continues to Be Awesome

11. February 2010

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Bejeweled Turns 10, Continues to Be Awesome

After being on the market in one form or another for the past ten years, PopCap is celebrating the launch of Bejeweled by releasing a staggering sales figure for a casual game – over 50 million units sold, across countless platforms and franchise releases. PopCap looks to keep Bejeweled alive and well in the hearts [...]

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PopCap Apologizes for Bejeweled Blitz Glitches with 50,000 Free Coins

8. February 2010

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PopCap Apologizes for Bejeweled Blitz Glitches with 50,000 Free Coins

If you’re an avid player of Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook, you might have noticed a few… odd happenings in the game after it was updated on January 26. Leaderboards were glitched, causing players to randomly appear and disappear from the lineup, while some players reported difficulty loading the game. According to Games.com, PopCap acknowledged the [...]

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Bejeweled Blitz Apologizes for Downtime with 50% Off Bejeweled 2

26. January 2010

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Bejeweled Blitz Apologizes for Downtime with 50% Off Bejeweled 2

The new features we previewed last week for Bejeweled Blitz are scheduled to go live today! Only… they’re not quite ready yet. Popcap’s insanely addictive Facebook game is temporarily down while the new features are being added to the regular game, and Popcap is doubtlessly seeing a lot of us eagerly mashing the “refresh” button [...]

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Games.com Names 2009′s Top 5 Facebook Games

6. January 2010

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Games.com Names 2009′s Top 5 Facebook Games

The Facebook game bloggers at Games.com have given their picks for the year’s 5 most addictive titles on the social network. By now, I’m sure you’ve deduced our ultimate plan: Once we have enough end-of-the-year lists, we’re going to compile our own Top “Lists of 2009″ of 2010 List. Ingenious! Coming in as Games.com’s top [...]

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Bejeweled Blitz Wins IGN’s Best Facebook Game of 2009

6. January 2010

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Bejeweled Blitz Wins IGN’s Best Facebook Game of 2009

Bejeweled Blitz, the maddeningly fast-paced Facebook version of PopCap’s quintessential match-three game, has been named “Best Facebook Game” in IGN’s Best of 2009 awards. Citing the game’s bite-sized time limit and the competition engendered by its weekly leaderboards, IGN’s praise for the game includes a perfectly eloquent three-word highlight: “Addictive as hell.” One has to [...]

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Are Bejeweled Blitz High Score Notifications High Enough?

10. December 2009

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Are Bejeweled Blitz High Score Notifications High Enough?

439,600 That’s my high score this week in Bejeweled Blitz, the speedy social match-3 game from PopCap. That’s a pretty hot high score, and so I published the Star Medal notification to alert my Facebook friends of this puzzle gaming success… Herein lies my qualm: If players are regularly scoring upwards of 300,000 in the [...]

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5 Social Games You Oughtta Try This Weekend

28. November 2009

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5 Social Games You Oughtta Try This Weekend

Between all the turkey leftovers and shopping this weekend, here’s a Frisky Mongoose social game selection worth perusing – 5 fun Facebook games you should play this weekend: 1. Bejeweled Blitz (by PopCap): http://apps.facebook.com/bejeweledblitz Face the popular one-minute gem-matching challenge (match 3); also on iPhone

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Bejeweled Blitz Goes Mobile with Facebook Connect

12. November 2009

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Could it be? Until now you could only compete with friends in Bejewled Blitz while tethered to your computer and logged into Facebook, but PopCap’s announcement this week changes the game. For a Bejeweled-Blitzing, iPhone-owning social gamer, PopCap has delivered in a BIG way, offering seamless Facebook Connect integration. Will scores increase? Will non-iPhone users [...]

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The Taunts of Bejeweled Blitz

11. November 2009

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The Taunts of Bejeweled Blitz

Sometimes my Bejewelled Blitz biorhythms just aren’t going to be there. I can’t bring my A game every game. Do I not want it badly enough? Bejewelled Blitz sure thinks so.  A holder of many a 250k+ medal but, human, all too human.  Whoops! This is a delicate nudge to give the causal game player, [...]

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