Wednesdroid: Monster Blade

Wednesdroid: Monster Blade

Imagine for a moment that Infinity Blade and Monster Hunter had a child. For starters, it would naturally be named Monster Blade, but ideally, it would also inherit the best traits of its parents, it would ...

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Thursday Appdate: Candymeleon

Thursday Appdate: Candymeleon

Recently on Gamasutra, BitMonster's Lee Perry wrote a very insightful blog on an often intangible facet of game design: player feedback, that bit of game "feel" that makes a game not just fun, but injects ...

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Waiting for Superman: The Beauty of Virality

Waiting for Superman: The Beauty of Virality

One day in October 2012, I happened across this YouTube video with a top-down view of PSY’s concert in Seoul. Over 80,000 people were in attendance, with the crowd spanning entire city blocks. Every member ...

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I Play SimCity Social for the Writing

I Play SimCity Social for the Writing

“SimCity Social?” they ask me. “Sure, it’s got the SimCity branding and all, but isn’t it just another click-and-wait Facebook game?” Though I know the look of skepticism it will produce, my reply is, “Oh, I ...

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User-Generated Content and Generating Contented Users

User-Generated Content and Generating Contented Users

We at Frisky Mongoose like to play a lot of location-based games; it’s kind of our thing. There have been a lot of them over the years, as designers and developers have tried to gamify ...

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Nothing Unusual at All is Happening Today

Nothing Unusual at All is Happening Today

Just another regular day in the games industry! Dogfighting game War Thunder has a new set of combatants, there's a new contender in the console field, and SEGA's got a new sound engine. New DLC is ...

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Goodbye, LucasArts, and Thank You

Goodbye, LucasArts, and Thank You

This is my Corley Motors keychain. Corley Motors is a fictional motorcycle manufacturer that the player, as gang leader Ben, must save from a hostile takeover in the classic LucasArts adventure Full Throttle.  Together with Grim Fandango and ...

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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, ...

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Gaming News Roundup — Wednesday, Aug. 22

22. August 2012

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Gaming News Roundup — Wednesday, Aug. 22

Tweet Read about the game development engine Unity and how it will factor into Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. “Our mission at Unity has always been to provide solutions for developers to effortlessly bring their work to as many different platforms as possible,” Unity CEO David Helgason said. In Facebook gaming news, we take [...]

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Facebook Pages App Launches & Unofficial Instant Google Maps: Social Sunday

12. September 2010

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Facebook Pages App Launches & Unofficial Instant Google Maps: Social Sunday

Tweet It seems that everyone is always trying to strengthen their online brand, whether it’s through innovative new features or a new way of having people find it. Today, we’re going to discuss the new app from Facebook that is designed to help you find new Pages to like and Unofficial Instant Google Maps and [...]

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Baking Feature Battle: Cafe World’s Design-A-Cake versus Baking Life’s Cupcake Creator

10. August 2010

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Tweet Fans of ZipZapPlay’s Baking Life would recognize Cafe World‘s newest feature, Design-A-Cake. But while Baking Life offers players a mix-and-match option for making and selling their own virtual cupcakes, Cafe World does this with cakes. After your pastry creation is ready, you’ll have the option of sharing it with one friend as a Wall [...]

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FrontierVille Cheats and Tips: Energy Guide

8. August 2010

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Tweet Energy is FrontierVille‘s most valuable and scarce resource. Fortunately we have the FrontierVille energy cheats, tips, and news to have you constantly refreshed and ready to work the land of the wild west. Energy in FrontierVille functions much like it does in Treasure Isle, that is, you need it for everything. Luckily there are [...]

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Baking Life Tips, Tricks and Ooey-Gooey Getting Started Guide

7. August 2010

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Baking Life Tips, Tricks and Ooey-Gooey Getting Started Guide

Tweet Cookies, cakes, tips and tricks… oh my! Baking Life is a Facebook game developed by ZipZapPlay that lets players open their own bakery, serving cakes and delicacies to customers, personalizing cupcakes, hiring friends to be part of your staff and run it to make it profitable making it the best bakery in town. This [...]

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Happy Island Tips, Tricks, Strategies & Cheats for Tropical Tourism Success

6. August 2010

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Happy Island Tips, Tricks, Strategies & Cheats for Tropical Tourism Success

Tweet Hey Happy Island fans, how would you like some tips, tricks and strategies for making your tourist attraction the most amazing in town? If you want to keep visitors on your island, make them happy and level up quickly, here is some info (provided by Gamezebo) that you should know about CrowdStar’s Happy Island [...]

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