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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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Happy Island on Android, Playdom Passes CrowdStar in Userbase
Just yesterday, we brought you the news that Playdom has brought Social City to the Android, and today we can add another Facebook title to that list. In other Facebook news, we see that Playdom has now passed CrowdStar in terms of overall user numbers. Happy Island Now Available on Android Back in early July, [...]
Continue reading...Install the CrowdStar Gamebar, Receive Rewards in Happy Pets, Happy Aquarium & More!
17. August 2010
While the CrowdStar Gamebar has been available for some time, there was never really any incentive for players to install it, that is, until now, as CrowdStar has updated the bar to offer rewards to players in four different games, should they choose to download it. In Happy Pets, players will receive the CrowdStar Cat, [...]
Continue reading...Medieval/Lord of the Rings Items, Back to School Sale in Happy Island
14. August 2010
In celebration of the back-to-school season, CrowdStar is holding a big sale on coin purchases in Happy Island. If you’ve been saving some of your Facebook Credits for a great chance at transforming them to in-game coins, here’s your chance! In addition new Medieval themed items will have your tourists thinking they’ve traveled back in [...]
Continue reading...Happy Island Tips, Tricks, Strategies & Cheats for Tropical Tourism Success
6. August 2010
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 on [...]
Continue reading...175 Free Facebook Credits, Gingerbread House, Open A Locked Lantern – Escape With Happy Island Updates!
3. August 2010
If you haven’t played Happy Island in a few days, the next time you do so, you’ll be met with quite a few updates. First, CrowdStar is now offering all users a new opportunity to earn 175 Free Facebook Credits via a cross-promotion with Shoebuy.com, or you can spend some of your hard earned coins [...]
Continue reading...Happy Island Updates: New Attractions, Decorations, and Limited Edition Item Bundles
23. July 2010
CrowdStar has been busy updating Happy Island this week, with new attractions, new decorations, and even new limited edition item bundles. The item bundles can be found as soon as you login to the game, via a pop-up and icon on the right-hand side of the gameplay area, while the new attractions and decorations can [...]
Continue reading...CrowdStar Gaming Updates: Happy Island Adds Picnic Tables, Win Coins in Zoo Paradise Contest, & Upgrade Your Piggy Bank in Happy Pets
13. July 2010
CrowdStar has updated three of their games this week. In Happy Island, we’ve seen the release of quite a few new picnic table decorative items, while Happy Pets has seen an update to their Piggy Bank / daily prize feature. Finally, for those users playing Zoo Paradise, you can now enter a very simple contest [...]
Continue reading...Create the Great Wall of China on Your Happy Island
8. July 2010
To go along with the recent release of Asian themed items in Happy Island, CrowdStar has released a series of “Great Wall” decorations, that will allow you to – you guessed it – build your very own Great Wall of China on your Happy Island. The wall can be built in three sections – the [...]
Continue reading...New Happy Island Attractions Give Nod to the Last Airbender
8. July 2010
CrowdStar must be excited about the new film The Last Airbender, as they have released a full set of items in the game in honor of the film’s release. The four attractions are Elemental Temples, and they come in the form of a Fiery Shrine, a Frozen Shrine, a Geo Shrine and a Breezy Shrine. [...]
Continue reading...New Happy Island Decorations Offer Nod to Summer and… Tetris?
5. July 2010
CrowdStar has added a series of new decorations to Happy Island, and what an interesting mix they are. Items like “King’s Kite,” “JR’s Kite,” and the BBQ Pit are easy enough to explain, as we’ve now officially entered summer, and the developer apparently wants you to be able to decorate for it. The… interesting items [...]
Continue reading...Pick Up A Happy Island Item Bundle On A Serious Discount
5. July 2010
If you’ve got five Facebook Credits on hand, and you play CrowdStar’s Happy Island, the developer is hoping that you’ll be willing to spend those credits on one of four discounted packages, one for 50,000 coins, and the other three for some seriously discounted limited edition item bundles. First things first – all of the [...]
Continue reading...Happy Island LE Now Available on iPhone
2. July 2010
Back in May, we brought you the news that CrowdStar and Sibblingz would be bringing Faebook gaming hit Happy Island to the iPhone. That day has arrived, with the app now being available on the iPhone App Store for 99 cents. While there had been a bit of confusion as to whether or not Facebook [...]
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