Tweet Spring is here, and Summer isn’t far behind. It’s great time to be outdoors — ideal weather for, say, emerging from demonic portals for a stroll across the plains to destroy the sacred worlds of Yggdrasil. Well, Thor is here to put a stop to that with a few Spring storms, and he’s brought [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 20, 2013
Tweet Diner Dash is a game all about starting out small and manageable, and then growing and growing until your restaurant empire is unstoppable. It seems like the publisher, TriplePoint client PlayFirst, subscribes to the ‘write what you know’ school of design, because the same thing has happened to Diner Dash itself, which started out as [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Tweet 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 [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 13, 2013
Tweet 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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Tweet So, here’s a funny story: I was checking out the titles on offer in today’s Google Play update, and one of the titles leapt out at me: Puzzle & Dragons. Yes, it’s very true that I love puzzles and I’m reasonably fond of dragons, but the title seemed familiar somehow. Probably because of all those [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 26, 2013
Tweet Green Throttle is a thing that’s happening now for Android users, and it’s a thing that’s getting better all the time as more games start getting Green Throttle-enabled. Let me clarify: the “thing” I’m referring to is the Green Throttle Atlas Controller, a full-sized console-style gamepad that pairs to existing Android devices — smartphones, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 4, 2013
Tweet The thing about holding a vendetta is that it consumes your life. When your hostility is that deep-seated, it’s never far from your thoughts, and you do everything in your power to pursue the target of your hatred, relentlessly. So, when you publish an MMO called Vendetta Online, it’s only natural that you’d want your [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 25, 2013
Tweet I’m not going to insult you by attempting to explain who PAC-MAN is, or his appeal, or make some joke about his appetite. Let’s cut right to the chase: the world’s leading consumer of dots is going free-to-play in a new mobile iteration, called PAC-MAN +Tournaments, and it’s out now on Google Play. If you’ve [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Tweet I realize there’s a significant problem with stolen apps and jailbroken phones and pirated software, and so I don’t lightly make the suggestion that more piracy on the Android is a good thing. If it’s just the mechanical Raft Pirates, though, the mobile MMO miscreants we told you about a while ago, I figure it’s [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 11, 2013
Tweet Imagine, if you will, that you’re a social app developer, and you’re attending a social event where app developers socialize and discuss the best practices for developing social apps. Now, imagine that this social app social event can be tracked and followed using a social app. That’s the recursive-yet-helpful idea behind DoubleDutch Events, an app provided [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 21, 2013
Tweet So, last week, we told you about a little game called Zombies & Trains by TriplePoint client Dragonhead Games. This week, the Norwegian indie studio has released their corpse transit title onto Android devices, ensuring that nobody will have to miss their train to the afterlife. Thought you’d like to know. Check it out!
Continue reading...Thursday, September 6, 2012
Tweet The Frimarathon continues, as promised, with TriplePoint client Frima Studio putting out their second release: CosmoCamp, a self-described edutainment “cosmic ball of cuteness” that promotes literacy and bears. Seems like an obvious pairing to me! Your kids can read, listen, and color on your iPad or Android tablet, all without leaving permanent marker on the [...]
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