• 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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Celebrate a Japanese Spring with New Tiki Farm Items

17. May 2010

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Celebrate a Japanese Spring with New Tiki Farm Items

After celebrating Japan in Social City a few weeks ago, Playdom has brought the theme to another of their games – Tiki Farm. Luckily for us, Playdom has made it easy to distinguish which items in the game’s store fit in this new theme, by listing them for us when we first log into the [...]

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Receive Your Free Cow in Tiki Farm

14. May 2010

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Receive Your Free Cow in Tiki Farm

Taking a page from the playbooks of other Facebook games, Playdom has added Livestock to Tiki Farm, and has given all users a free cow, along with some alfalfa to feed it. You’ll find your cow in your gift box, and after placing it on your farm (the location is up to you), you’ll be [...]

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Tiki Farm Allows for More Countries to Celebrate Their Heritage

11. May 2010

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Tiki Farm Allows for More Countries to Celebrate Their Heritage

Playdom recently expanded the list of available country flags in Tiki Farm, bringing the total from 20 total represented countries to 30. While there is no “new” designation on items that are new to the game’s store, the total list of available country flags in the store is as follows: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, [...]

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Adopt a Momma Duck and Her Ducklings in Tiki Farm

10. May 2010

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Adopt a Momma Duck and Her Ducklings in Tiki Farm

In honor of Mother’s Day, Playdom released a Momma Duck, along with a baby duckling, as a free gift on the game’s free gifts page. If you missed its release, never fear, as the item is still available to send to friends in the game. As announced by Playdom on the game’s official fan page, [...]

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Tiki Farm Gains Three New Decorative Items

10. May 2010

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Tiki Farm Gains Three New Decorative Items

Looking to add some luxurious new items to your land in Tiki Farm? Playdom has just the answer for your virtual craving, with the release of three new items to the game’s store. The Mayan Temple is the least expensive of the three items, at 50,000 coins, but saying that it’s inexpensive isn’t really valid [...]

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Help the Narwhol Transform into a Unicorn in Tiki Farm

7. May 2010

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Help the Narwhol Transform into a Unicorn in Tiki Farm

The next time you’re tending to your Tiki Farm, be on the lookout for a new feature Playdom has added to the game in the form of a transforming Narwhol. The Narwhol will pop up randomly as a lost animal, which you can then ask your friends to adopt by clicking on the appropriate button, [...]

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