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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Creatures of the Night Invade Zoo Paradise
Zoo Paradise has become host to a new collection of animals who are both dark and sinister, and surprisingly cute. The newest collection comes right after the addition of three albino animals, an interesting contrast for your attractions. The new Werewolf is available in limited quantities, with only 1500 left. It sells for 63 Facebook [...]
Continue reading...CrowdStar Introduces New Animal to Help Out With Oil Spill
19. June 2010
Yesterday CrowdStar launched a campaign called CrowdStar Cares, offering a new animal in Zoo Paradise for donations to the National Wildlife Foundation. 100% of the proceeds will go to NWF to aid in mobilizing volunteers and protecting the 400+ species of wildlife threatened by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The new animal, [...]
Continue reading...Crowdstar Adds a New Minigame to Zoo Paradise
17. June 2010
Zoo Paradise has a new minigame: Where’s Walter? The game is (unsurprisingly, based on the name) inspired by Where’s Waldo. Now when you log in to your zoo, you will be prompted by a pop-up to find Walter who is hiding in your park somewhere. You will have 5 minutes to search for and find [...]
Continue reading...Crowdstar Asks: What Is Your Favorite Thing About Zoo Paradise?
14. June 2010
The developers of Zoo Paradise want to know: what do you like best about the game? Crowdstar is running a contest, of sorts, over at the game’s fan page. Tell the team what you like best about Zoo Paradise in the comments for a chance to win 5,000 coins for free! How the winner(s) will [...]
Continue reading...New Zoo Paradise Items Are Out of This World!
12. June 2010
Earlier this week, Crowdstar crashed a UFO into your zoo. Now they’ve unleashed the UFO’s inhabitants, adding aliens as purchasable animals. There are a total of five new aliens, complete with a barren and cratered Alien Habitat, all of which cost Facebook credits. Four of the aliens are available in limited quantities only and are [...]
Continue reading...Send Your Friends a Free Animal Mystery Gift Box in Zoo Paradise
11. June 2010
Want to give your friends free animals in Zoo Paradise? Now you can with the new Animal Mystery Gift box. The Animal Mystery Gift box functions in the same way as the Mystery Decoration gift box, in that neither you or the friend you send the box to will know what’s inside until they receive [...]
Continue reading...Zoo Paradise Adds World Cup Animals and Flags
7. June 2010
If you’re a World Cup fan that also happens to play CrowdStar’s Zoo Paradise, you’ll be happy to know that the developer has released quite a few new items to their zoo tycoon game in celebration of the World Cup. Mostly, this item release consists of flags, which cost 10 Facebook Credits each ($1 US), [...]
Continue reading...Get the Limited Edition Golden Throne in Zoo Paradise
6. June 2010
A new item has been added to Crowdstar’s Zoo Paradise on Facebook. This time the addition is the Golden Throne, a golden (you guessed it) toilet. You will have to clcean the Golden Throne every 8 hours, but here’s the best part: the toilet attracts an infinite amount of visitors, meaning you will never have [...]
Continue reading...Travel To Wonderland With Zoo Paradise New Animals
30. May 2010
The Wonderland theme has finally come to CrowdStar’s Zoo Paradise in the form of three new animals: Magic Caterpillar, Cheshire Cat, and White Rabbit. All three are purchasable by Facebook credits only and are limited quantity. Animals and their characteristics are detailed below. Magic Caterpillar A green caterpillar with orange hookah. Costs: 72 Facebook Credits [...]
Continue reading...Zoo Paradise Offers Idol That Halves Upgrade Times
29. May 2010
CrowdStar has added a new item to the shop in Zoo Paradise. The Upgrade Idol can be found in the Decorations section and has a special effect on your zoo: it cuts upgrade times in half forever. This is great news for players since some of the more advanced upgrades can take hours or days [...]
Continue reading...RockYou Announces Eventual Changes to Collecting Profits in Zoo World
26. May 2010
Over on the official Zoo World website, RockYou has announced that the way we collect our daily profits from our zoos will change in the near future. First, the ticket price feature will be removed entirely, and the amount of funds you receive will be dependent on your zoo’s overall value. Next, Zoo Days will [...]
Continue reading...RockYou to Introduce New Island Feature to Zoo World
21. May 2010
A new feature is coming to Zoo World in the near future, as developer RockYou has announced (via the game’s forums) that you’ll soon be able to unlock full islands with the help of your Zoomates, rather than just unlocking sections of islands by species. The island limit for each user will remain at 10 [...]
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