• 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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Super Bowl Sneak Peek: Angry Birds Rio Level Revealed

4. February 2011

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Super Bowl Sneak Peek: Angry Birds Rio Level Revealed

Wonder no more – here’s a sneak peek at the new Angry Birds “Rio” level, courtesy of an Entertainment Weekly exclusive screenshot. The image name suggests this will actually be a Golden Egg level, little to anyone’s surprise. The hidden Angry Birds level will be accessible to players via an embed code in the “Rio” [...]

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Angry Birds Super Bowl Ad’s Got Game

3. February 2011

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Angry Birds Super Bowl Ad’s Got Game

Angry Bird players are set for a special bonus this Super Bowl Sunday. The iPhone game’s upcoming 30-second commercial is all the buzz today – apparently, it will feature an embedded code to unlock a secret new level. According to AdAge, “the spot will be the first Super Bowl ad that requires viewers to pause [...]

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Goal! Earn Free WeCash in the Fantasy Football Manager Open Beta

25. August 2010

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Goal! Earn Free WeCash in the Fantasy Football Manager Open Beta

Like fantasy sports? What about free WeCash? Good news then – WeMade Entertainment (a TriplePoint client) today announced that its free-to-play online fantasy soccer experience Fantasy Football Manager is now in open beta for the 2010-11 English Premier League season. Players are being invited to provide feedback in exchange for WeCash, WeMade’s virtual currency, to [...]

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Fantasy Football Hits Facebook, Courtesy of Sports Illustrated

7. August 2010

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In May, Sports Illustrated and Kabam (formerly known as Watercooler) announced that they were bringing one of the most popular real-life social games to Facebook — fantasy football. Now, right before the 2010 football season kicks off, SI Fantasy Football arrives on Facebook. Much like the other fantasy football apps/sites out there, SI Fantasy Football [...]

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Top World Cup Players on Facebook: a Visual Aid

10. July 2010

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Top World Cup Players on Facebook: a Visual Aid

The World Cup has captured the hearts, minds, and Facebook posts of millions of people around the world. Whether it be poor plays, current matches or just plain favorites, individual players have been praised, scorned and mentioned in passing on Facebook for weeks. Ever wondered who was mentioned the most when? The New York Times [...]

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FIFA Superstars Players Make 3.3 Million World Cup Predictions

20. June 2010

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FIFA Superstars Players Make 3.3 Million World Cup Predictions

Playfish, now a division of Electronic Arts, released their first branded title a few weeks ago with FIFA Superstars on Facebook. The game is the first title to come out of the $400 million acquisition of Playfish by EA last fall. Since its launch, the game has gained 1.7 million monthly active users who have [...]

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E3 2010: A Look At Shaun White Skateboarding (Multi-platform)

16. June 2010

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E3 2010: A Look At Shaun White Skateboarding (Multi-platform)

At this year’s E3, Shaun White was on hand at the Ubisoft press conference to show off his new video game, Shaun White Skateboarding. The team at Frisky Mongoose was luck enough to be on hand for the demo, and we’ve got all the details for you here. Before you start thinking that Shaun White [...]

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EA/Playfish Launch EA Sports FIFA Superstars on Facebook

26. May 2010

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EA/Playfish Launch EA Sports FIFA Superstars on Facebook

As we told you earlier this month, Playfish has been hard at work developer EA Sports FIFA Superstars for Facebook. Well, the time has come for the game to launch, and we here at Frisky Mongoose jumped right in to bring you everything you need to know to get started. Your first step in the [...]

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Facebook Sports Games Leave the Field Wide Open for FIFA Superstars, Madden

22. May 2010

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Facebook Sports Games Leave the Field Wide Open for FIFA Superstars, Madden

On Facebook, anyone can virtually raise pets, run theme parks, own restaurants, plow farms, head up a gang, and, well, if you think of it — there’s probably a game for it. However, there is one huge game genre that Facebook game developers seem to have difficulty tackling — sports. We’ve seen merely a handful [...]

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