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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Eric Clapton + An Inability to Play Diablo III = Lady Game Lyric
There’s not a lot that can dampen the spirit of our good friend LadyGameLyric, but apparently being blocked from a single-player game that resides almost entirely on one’s own computer due to a poor connection is one of them. Yes, even the mighty Lady was afflicted by the horrors of Error 37 when she tried [...]
Continue reading...App Store to Rock a Rocka Bowling Release on May 22
18. May 2012
Sometimes TriplePoint’s clients can have strange or obtuse names. This is not the case with Best Cool Fun Games. Honestly, that may be the best “exactly what it says on the tin” company name ever. Their games are the best at being cool and fun! End of lesson. Such is the case, we’re told, with [...]
Continue reading...Big Win Hockey is on Google Play
17. May 2012
Did you grow your hockey beard? Hothead Games is extending their hockey shenanigans to Android devices today, releasing Big Win Hockey onto Google Play, so now anyone can enjoy free-to-play fantasy puckery. Go get it! From the press release: Hockey fans with Android devices can now create and customize their own team and then hit the [...]
Continue reading...Protect Your Eyes from Future Soldiers
17. May 2012
In the future, military technology will advance to the point that soldiers are difficult to look at. Really, trying to see through their stealth camo tech and looking at all of the explosions they cause will be a terrible strain on your eyes. Thankfully, TriplePoint client GUNNAR Optiks has the solution! Introducing a new line [...]
Continue reading...Atari Releases New Free Clown-Hurting Simulator
17. May 2012
Man! TriplePoint client Atari just keeps the re-imagined classics coming. Between Asteroids, Breakout, and the ongoing contest for Pong, it’s like a regular Atari circus on mobile devices. Well, maybe that’s unfair. I don’t really mean there’s an Atari circus; it’s not like there’s clowns or a big top or anything. So let’s see what the latest [...]
Continue reading...Jetpack Joyride is on Facebook; See You Tomorrow
16. May 2012
Here’s how this is going to work: I’m going to tell you that Jetpack Joyride, the incredibly addictive, hugely charming winner of pretty much every award that Pocket Gamer has to offer, is now on Facebook in a free, perfect replication of its iOS version. Then, you’re going to go check it out for yourself. Then [...]
Continue reading...Fray + Beta = Frayta
16. May 2012
Remember Fray? The turn-based real-time squad-based many-hyphened game from Triplepoint client Brain Candy? We told you a little while ago it had gone into alpha, but that’s so two months ago. The new hotness is beta, and that’s happening now in Fray. Now would be a lovely time to get into the Fray, and experience several new features. For [...]
Continue reading...Robot-Themed Phone Unsurprisingly Gets Robot-Themed Game: Machinarium on Android
15. May 2012
Machinarium is a completely adorable and clever game by Amanita Design about robot-type folks who inhabit a robot-style world and have to cope with robotic problems. An Android is defined as “a robot resembling a human being.” I don’t think putting these two things together is exactly a stretch, and neither does TriplePoint client Hothead Games, [...]
Continue reading...Make Flipbooks Without Ruining Actual Books with FlipBook HD
10. May 2012
After my freshman year of high school, I was denied the school’s offer to buy back my textbooks for a small portion of what I’d originally paid. They reasoned that I had permanently defaced my books by drawing hilariously violent flipbooks in each one. We both knew, of course, that my art had only enhanced the [...]
Continue reading...Epic Celebrates Epic Anniversary with Epic Music
9. May 2012
I hope you like game music and nostalgia, because I’m about to make your day pretty epic. Epic Games is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and as a swell gift for all of their supporters past and present, they’re giving out 20 music tracks from their vast library of hits — completely free. Anybody old enough [...]
Continue reading...Van Helsing to Have Some Incredible Adventures
9. May 2012
As if we expected his adventures to be any other kind of adventures, legendary monster hunter-killer-discusser Van Helsing is slated to have some incredible adventures soon in The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, coming from TriplePoint client NeocoreGames. While we’re certainly used to Mr. Van Helsing going up against the likes of Dracula and his ilk, [...]
Continue reading...Facebook + NBA Jam = …Bubble Safari?
8. May 2012
Okay. So, Mark Turmell, the guy behind legendarily awesome sports-mayhem-game NBA Jam, just put together a Facebook game for Zynga. Everyone who predicted the game to have nothing to do with either sports or farming, but to instead be a new take on match-three bubble shooters, raise your hand. None of you? Well, me neither, but [...]
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