• 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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Playdom Offers Sneak Peak of New Tiki Resort Charm

8. June 2010

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Playdom Offers Sneak Peak of New Tiki Resort Charm

Over on the Tiki Resort fan page, Playdom released a sneak peak of a new Charm that will soon be released in full in the game, and is offering all users a chance at receiving one simply for clicking on a link on their page. The new Charm is a Shoe Charm, and when added [...]

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New Tiki Resort Charms Will Boost Your Island’s Tourist Count

4. June 2010

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New Tiki Resort Charms Will Boost Your Island’s Tourist Count

Tiki Resort developer Playdom has released two new charms in the island resort tycoon game, both with the specific purpose of adding more tourists to your island. The first charm is the Airship Charm, which will deliver 25 tourists to your resort’s airstrip. It can be send to friends as a free gift on the [...]

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Thursday Throwdown Results: Fans Put Tiki Resort on Top of Happy Island [UPDATE]

3. June 2010

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Last week, we took a look at Playdom’s Tiki Resort and CrowdStar’s Happy Island in our Thursday Throwdown. While the two games have less than 10 million users each, that didn’t stop you guys from coming out in force, as more than 11,000 readers voted in this week’s poll, which asked you guys to choose [...]

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New Tiki Resort Attraction: Rainbow Unicorn Ride

31. May 2010

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New Tiki Resort Attraction: Rainbow Unicorn Ride

Tiki Resort developer Playdom continues to roll out the limited edition attractions in the game, and this week we have a new one to share with you. It comes in the form of a Rainbow Unicorn Ride, which, as you might expect, will allow your tourists to ride on mechanical rainbow unicorns. As a limited [...]

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Here are Some Free Pineapple Charms for Tiki Resort

28. May 2010

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Here are Some Free Pineapple Charms for Tiki Resort

Tiki Resort developer Playdom has announced that they’ve changed the amount of Pineapple Charms necessary to upgrade attractions that require Pineapples to upgrade in the first place. This means that you’ll be able to show your tourists some love with new, upgraded attractions for a much cheaper cost! To celebrate this change, Playdom is offering [...]

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Thursday Throwdown: Tiki Resort or Happy Island? You Decide

27. May 2010

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Thursday Throwdown: Tiki Resort or Happy Island? You Decide

Welcome to another installment of the Thursday Throwdown here on Frisky Mongoose! For those who are just joining us, the Thursday Throwdown sees us comparing two or more similarly themed Facebook games and leaving the final decision up to you, the loyal readers, as to which game is best. Last week, we took a look [...]

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