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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RockYou Launches Official Zoo World Blog, Gives Away Free Vitamins!
RockYou has made some major strides recently in attempting to connect more their community, namely, in the launch of an official blog for their most popular Facebook game, Zoo World, which currently sits at around 9 million monthly active users. The Zoo World blog functions much in the same way as a traditional Facebook fan [...]
Continue reading...Thursday Throwdown: Zoo World or Zoo Paradise? You Decide!
9. September 2010
Welcome to another edition of the Thursday Throwdown here on Frisky Mongoose. This week, we jump back into the world of Facebook gaming by taking a look at two zoo games, CrowdStar’s Zoo Paradise, and RockYou!’s Zoo World. Before we do that, though, let’s take a second to recap last week’s events. Last week, we [...]
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...Frisky Hands-On: Zoo Paradise for iPhone
29. July 2010
While Zynga’s FarmVille and Playdom’s Social City may receive most of the attention when it comes to Facebook games that have made the transition to iPhone titles, CrowdStar’s Zoo Paradise has also made the leap, thanks to YouWeb. Unlike another of CrowdStar’s iPhone games, Happy Island, Zoo Paradise instantly connects to your Facebook account, letting [...]
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...Attract Birds to Your Zoo Paradise With Free Bird Feeder
11. July 2010
Zoo Paradise has gone to the birds! No, no, I don’t mean it in a bad way. I’m talking about CrowdStar’s newly released collection: the bird collection. Just like the butterfly collection, you’ll need to purchase a Bird Feeder to attract birds to your zoo. No worries though; the Bird Feeder is entirely free and [...]
Continue reading...Won’t You Help the Zoo Paradise Trapped Animal?
8. July 2010
In keeping with the tradition found in most CrowdStar games, the developer has released a new “locked box” item in Zoo Paradise. The locked box can be found inside your zoo. Clicking on it will show you that a poor creature is trapped inside the box, which is locked with four locks. You’ll need the [...]
Continue reading...Enter Zoo Paradise Contest for A Chance at 5,000 Coins
6. July 2010
CrowdStar is holding a contest in Zoo Paradise that doubles as a fan survey. They are asking users to make a comment in one particular post on the game’s official fan page on Facebook, answering a simple, two part, question – “What is your favorite Zoo Paradise Habitat and why?” Simply write a comment on [...]
Continue reading...Rainbow Fantasy Items Come to Zoo Paradise
5. July 2010
CrowdStar has released a new item theme in Zoo Paradise, and it comes in the form of “Rainbow Fantasy.” This theme contains multiple rainbow-themed animals, like the “My Little Unicorn,” a white unicorn with rainbow colored hair, a Rainbow Zebra and Tiger, both with multi-colored stripes, a Rainbow Toucan with a rainbow beak, and a [...]
Continue reading...New July 4th Items in Zoo Paradise
4. July 2010
Your zoo is looking a little drab. I didn’t want to be the one to say it, but, it’s the 4th of July! Have some holiday spirit. Where are the fireworks? The excessive use of red, white, and blue? Don’t worry, CrowdStar has come to the rescue with the new Fireworks Stand. Patterned in red, [...]
Continue reading...New Limited Edition Golden Dragon in Zoo Paradise
3. July 2010
A Golden Dragon has been found by Midas Expeditions and they really want you to take it off their hands in Zoo Paradise. There’s just one catch: you’ll have to buy the Midas Expeditions Idol first. The Idol costs a whopping 90 Facebook Credits and is placed in your zoo. Every day for 14 days [...]
Continue reading...Celebrate the 4th of July in Zoo World
30. June 2010
Are you ready to celebrate the Fourth of July in Zoo World? I hope so, because whether you’re ready or not, the celebration has begun, with the game’s boat (found at the entrance of your zoo) being entirely themed in red, white, and blue, for the Independence Day celebration. The “Happy 4th of July” event [...]
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