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Much like the other days of the week build towards Wednesday in anticipation of the Google Play store update, so too does today’s featured Play Pick slowly swell in momentum and anxiousness towards a flashy pay-off in classic build-em-up style. Monsterama Planet, a free-to-play space colony builder by developer/publisher/fruit/bird Kiwi, takes the standard model of the [...]

Last week, we talkedalot about Evilot, a crafty new mashup of tower-based-defense and three-based-matching: guard your lanes with horrid beasties, and if you line up three in a row or a column, they become even beastlier! Well, the game’s out today for iPad, so, thanksalot, TriplePoint client Syrenaica! Today’s release puts the anti-heroic match-defense game-app [...]

Some people celebrate milestones with a splashy announcement or a party, but not TriplePoint client Appxplore. No, they’ve decided that the proper way to mark two million downloads for puzzle-app Sporos is to unleash a torrent of spores and aliens upon us all — presumably because now that they’ve achieved their success, there’s nothing more this [...]

Where in the world has this game been all my life? If I knew the answer to that, I’d be able to click on its location, and win all the points. GeoGuessr, an extraordinarily clever browser game by Anton Wallén, is a location-based game about determining a location for points. The game drops you somewhere on the [...]

Okay. Being able to solve simple problems by assembling needlessly complicated Rube Goldberg devices? That’s fairly crazy. Being able to share those devices with like-minded inventors across multiple platforms? That’s very crazy. Getting access to Crazy Machines Golden Gears via the Windows Store and being able to download the game on Windows 8 PCs digitally for just [...]

So, remember a couple of weeks ago when we checked out Puzzle & Dragons to see what was captivating the world into shelling out $2.5 million per day for the match-three-RPG-monster-collection-awesomeness game? Here’s another funny story — that number is now up to $3.75 million per day. Puzzle & Dragons, according to a story on GamesIndustry this morning, [...]

Spry Fox — they of the Triple Town and Highgrounds puzzle hits of recent times — broke the icy silence today surrounding their next project. It’s called Road Not Taken, and yes, it’s inspired somewhat by the Robert Frost poem with the diverging roads. It’s also extremely pretty to look at, so far: According to the foxes themselves, Road [...]

The newest frontier in towers, defenses, and rushing kingdoms is drawing ever closer, and TriplePoint client Armor Games has revealed two more of the daring heroes coming to Kingdom Rush Frontiers. Last week, we met Alric, a warrior with quick moves, the first of the new heroes coming to Ironhide’s sequel. This week, he was [...]

Recently on Gamasutra, BitMonster’s Lee Perry wrote a very insightful blog on an often intangible facet of game design: player feedback, that bit of game “feel” that makes a game not just fun, but injects fun into the basic actions and events on-screen. Candymeleon, a selection by Bulkypix from the ‘New and Noteworthy’ section in this [...]

I do so enjoy a name with a crafty double meaning, so I’m already inclined to like Chuck the Muck from TriplePoint client Kiz Studios. See, Muck is kind of their thing; they’re the folks behind SmashMuck Champions, and in one of their other titles, Critter Escape, the critter being referred to is a glob of Muck. [...]

Sometimes, as a developer, all the good news hits at once in a perfect storm of boast-worthy data. If you happen to be Sunstorm Games, a TriplePoint client and mobile games developer, perhaps you look forward to the day you can call yourself a perfect Sunstorm — but until then, hitting 10 Million Monthly Active [...]

Are they angry, or are they friendly? I guess the two aren’t mutually exclusive, as demonstrated in today’s featured game for the Wednesday Google Play update: Angry Birds Friends, another healthy dose of pig-smashery from the rascals at Rovio. It’s a new title that easily lends itself to a quick try, since it’s free, and it [...]