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You’re the (Nexus) One That I Want: Confessions of an iPhone Lover Gone Astray
To protect the innocent, names have been changed. In this publication, a once-faithful iPhone lover will be referred to with a fictional Twitter name: @madluv4iPhn. A recent tweet: @madluv4iPhn Dear iPhone - I've met someone new named the Nexus One. I'm strangely attracted to her and need a few days to figure ...)
What SOPA Means for Gaming PR
SOPA. It's much ado about pirates. Not the cool kind of pirates who wear eye patches, sail ships, bury treasure and say stuff like yo-ho-ho. No, SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act) is about the kind of pirates that suck. SOPA what? If all the cool kids weighed in, would you ...)
Casual Connect 2011: Games Industry Fishbowl?
With Casual Connect, the fish analogy is easy. You're gathered in Seattle, surrounded by the sea, partying in aquariums, and hell, I even roomed with a finned friend this year. Our hotel pet (affectionately and temporarily named Sarah) stayed in her fishbowl out of necessity. But will the casual gaming ...)
Foursquare Badge Fun, from Super Bowl to Subtle Snark
Beginning at kickoff today (6:30pm ET on FOX), Foursquare will open up a special edition check-in point globally to all users - look for the promoted trending venue, "Super Bowl Sunday". If you missed out on the "PA Groundhog Day" badge earlier this week (when Punxsutawney Phil predicted an early ...)
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 ...)
Refunding a Free Admission: Taking Care of Customers in F2P
Last week, on the TriplePoint blog, I wrote a short piece about taking care of angry customers when the service has been poor. I advised providers to be forthright, humble, and to make an immediate reparatory gesture for best results. Karma, it seems, is a real kick in the teeth ...)
Snarky Facebook RPG Fantasy University Now Open to All
Fantasy University, the pop-culture referencing, snarktastic, Facebook-based roleplaying game from TriplePoint client Simutronics (which we previewed), entered open beta today - meaning, unlike before, anyone with a Facebook account can get in on the Harry-Potter-on-acid antics. Here's the press release: ELANTHIA - October 20, 2010 Fantasy University, the premier fallback institution for ...Archive | Frisky Misc RSS feed for this section
Focus Home Launches a Pair of Sites with a Bunch of Screens
I did not just call beloved TriplePoint client Focus Home Interactive “parasites.” I said they just opened a pair of sites. Websites. Pages where you can read about a couple of new games they’ve got coming up. I don’t even get how you misunderstood me; this is a text-based medium. I literally spelled out what I meant for [...]
Wargame: European Escalation Has Even More Too Many Units
2. February 2012
Remember, last week, when we openly chastised Wargame: European Escalation for trying to have over 360 in-game units? They clearly haven’t learned their lesson. In fact, today, TriplePoint client Focus Home Interactive released even more screenshots with even more units, which is just making us even more upset that they could be so reckless. Still, if you’d like [...]
Wake Up, Pygmies; Time to Die
2. February 2012
Having time-travel powers, as movies and books have taught us, would be pretty fantastic. You could go back into the past and hunt dinosaurs, or go to the future and learn the results of sporting events, and nothing could possibly go wrong. Unless you’re a Pocket God pygmy, in which case everything will always go wrong, [...]
Mythos Global Now in Open Beta
2. February 2012
The legends are true! Myth confirmed! If you’ve been waiting for a chance to play Mythos Global, a new MMORPG full of satyrs, cyclops, and dungeon-crawls, well, you can stop thinking of the game as some far-fetched fairy tale. TriplePoint client Redbana shared the news today that Mythos Global has gone into Open Beta Test, so now [...]
Pocket God’s Tragic Comics are the Best Ever
1. February 2012
Frisky Mongoose may have a touch of bias when we tell you that the Pocket God Comics app, which allows you to read hilariously malicious comics from TriplePoint client Bolt Creative, is the best comic app ever. So, it gives us tremendous pleasure to be able to say that with independent, external validation. Pocket God Comics was just [...]
Leap Years are Especially Hellish
1. February 2012
29 days in February? Despite still being the shortest month of the year, that’s far, far too long for anybody to sit through. Thankfully, Hellgate Global players have plenty to do this month, as TriplePoint client Redbana promises more monthly in-game events than ever before. Good thing, too, since I don’t know how anybody is supposed [...]
East Coast Game Conference is Happening in April
31. January 2012
Triangle Game, Triangle Game. Triangle Game hates Particle Game. They have a conference; Triangle wins, by hosting their own huge industry conference on the East Coast. And Particle Game isn’t invited. But you are, thankfully: Triangle Game Initiative, a TriplePoint client, today confirmed the dates for the 4th annual East Coast Game Conference, occurring in Raleigh, [...]
The Ryzing of Facebook Bingo
30. January 2012
The engineers at TriplePoint client RockYou have done the unthinkable: Crafted a way to play bingo, online, with all of the swell money and prizes inherent to the game, and without the overpowering presence of topical cream and despair. Bingo by Ryzing, which is played without having to rise in any way from your computer, was [...]
Wargame: European Escalation Has Too Many Units
26. January 2012
Seriously, Wargame: European Escalation. What are you even going to do with over 360 units in your game? That’s lunacy. If you were a board game, you would have to be shipped in three separate boxes. And you say you’ve taken the time to faithfully research and model these hundreds of vehicles and fighting forces? Don’t [...]
Yesterday Releases New Screens Today
25. January 2012
Yesterday has some new screenshots out. They weren’t out yesterday, though. They came out today. TriplePoint clients Focus Home Interactive, publishers of the entertainment of tomorrow, today released new screens from Yesterday. You can see them all right here, today. We’ll discuss this more another day. Maybe tomorrow. Share and Enjoy:
Conquer Online Gets in the Zone
25. January 2012
So you say you’ve gone online and conquered all there is to conquer online in Conquer Online. Well, the conquering heroes at NetDragon, a TriplePoint client, have added a bunch of new stuff that nobody has conquered quite yet. That’s right — there are new things in the game that are not yet firmly under your [...]
Save Yello, Save Money
24. January 2012
The new release from dreamfab, Saving Yello Lite, is not a game about hanging on to your very last colored lightbulb in order to have the best holiday decorations ever. That would be an awesome game, though. No, Saving Yello Lite is a free “sampler” version of Saving Yello, the hit app from the TriplePoint client and fish-sympathizing [...]
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