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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Cats Wearing GUNNARS: Zooey

19. April 2012

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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 shorthair” or just [...]

Hardcore and Back Again: Video Games in a Nutshell

18. April 2012

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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 games that dared deal [...]

5 Apps to Make You Smile

17. April 2012

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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 [...]

Dogs Wearing GUNNARS: Tater

12. April 2012

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Meet Tater Lollar. She’s sporting a pair of GUNNAR Optik’s MLG Legend glasses (in Onyx, to compliment her springtime sweater). Tater may be one of the world’s biggest hams, but she is not accustomed to accessories with such high-definition side effects. Currently residing in the sunny city of Santa Monica, Tater appreciates good tinted eyewear when she [...]

Dogs Wearing GUNNARS: Alphie

6. April 2012

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Meet Alphie Wageman. He’s sporting a pair of GUNNAR Optik’s Anime glasses (in Onyx, to match his stylish fur coat). Alphie recently relocated from LA to San Francisco, but he still wears sunglasses indoors and at night whenever possible. And at the very least, you’ll find him in tinted computer eyewear whenever he’s supervising humans at work. Alphie [...]

Bumping Bears is Safer on iOS than Real Life

4. April 2012

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Bumping Bears is Safer on iOS than Real Life

Here at Frisky Mongoose, we’re all about public health and safety. So, consider this a bit of friendly advice: If you would like to approach a bear cub, dress it in one of several adorable outfits, tickle it, and then enter it in a contest of luck or skill, that’s fine — so long as [...]

Join the Fitocratic Party

29. March 2012

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Our society is now a truly free and open Fitocracy! That is the glorious news from TriplePoint client Fitocracy, thanks to the official launch of the Fitocracy app for iOS. Now, every citizen has the right — nay, the privilege – to track their personal fitness using game mechanics, and level up every muscle in their [...]

Blurtt is Worth a Thousand Words

21. March 2012

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Let’s assume a picture is worth a thousand words — and that the average word is 6 characters long. Blurtt, a TriplePoint client which allows you to easily add images to your messages — and captions to those images — has essentially given you the power to compose a 6,000 character tweet. Not too shabby. [...]

Grantoo Will Grant You a Thing or Two

21. March 2012

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Welcome to college! Congratulations on joining the adult world, and possibly owning your first computer. Now you can see how the rest of our mature society lives: by playing online games non-stop when you should really be working. This is actually more responsible than it sounds — playing these games can win you some cash [...]

Troops That Should Really Be in Evony (But Probably Not)

7. March 2012

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Troops That Should Really Be in Evony (But Probably Not)

Every completely connected conqueror in Evony (A TriplePoint client) knows their way around ridiculously massive armies, and the troops that make them up. If you’re going to unite the lands of your server under your own flag, you’re going to need a whole bunch of soldiers, and you’ll need a whole bunch of kinds of [...]

He Say You CodeRunner!

28. February 2012

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How is a CodeRunner like a Blade Runner? Well… they both run, I guess? In CodeRunner, though, you won’t be running around a bleak, over-industrialized, dystopian future. You’ll be running around your own bleak, over-commercialized, dystopian hometown. And instead of tracking down scary replicants, you’ll be tracking down a conspiracy told through the secret emails, text messages, [...]

Sonic and Amy + Adele = Lady Game Lyric [VIDEO]

24. February 2012

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Sonic the Hedgehog: awesome. Adele: also awesome. Another week, another Lady Game Lyric gem, for the geese! This time, “Sonic and Amy grapple with their feelings or lack thereof for each other.” Someone Like Sonic and Amy, by LadyGameLyric Parody of “Someone Like You” by Adele I heard that your new game is “wow” That [...]

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Don’t Be a Cheapskate: 4 Reasons Pay-What-You-Like Backfires

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Hardcore and Back Again: Video Games in a Nutshell

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The Time Has Come: Pokemon and Me 15 Years Later

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Cats Wearing GUNNARS: Zooey

Hardcore and Back Again: Video Games in a Nutshell

5 Apps to Make You Smile

Dogs Wearing GUNNARS: Tater

Dogs Wearing GUNNARS: Alphie

Bumping Bears is Safer on iOS than Real Life

Join the Fitocratic Party

Blurtt is Worth a Thousand Words

Grantoo Will Grant You a Thing or Two

Troops That Should Really Be in Evony (But Probably Not)

He Say You CodeRunner!

Sonic and Amy + Adele = Lady Game Lyric [VIDEO]

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