Blog Archives for the tag Game

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Behind-The-Scenes Look at the Next Transformers Game

We tend to play some video games here at The Next Web. We also dig robots quite a bit. Put those two together and this video blew our minds. The…

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Google's Search Trivia Game Gets More Social

If you’re a master Googler, then you’ve probably heard of the trivia game called “A Google a Day“. It’s a trivia game where using the search service isn’t banned, it’s…

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Facebook's Highlight Feature Lets you Pay to Play

As reported by TechCrunch, Facebook is tinkering with a new feature called “Highlight” that allows you to pay actual money to make sure that more of your friends see your…

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This App Turns "Slide To Unlock" Into a Game

If you use an iDevice, you’re aware of the slide to unlock functionality that Apple brought to the world. Sure, it’s a feature that you’ll find on most smartphones, but…

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Original iOS Rock Band App Being Shut Down May 31st

See the update at the bottom of the post. It’s common for a popular app to no longer be supported once a new version comes out, but rarely do we…

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Temple Run is Coming to Android

Temple Run is easily one of the most fun and addictive games you can download for your iDevice. Since launching in August of last year, it has already been downloaded…

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Social Break Turns Tweets Into a Game

Let’s face it, even though I’m sure that everyone that you follow on Twitter is a truly interesting person, not everything that they tweet is pure gold. That can make…

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Kiip Opens Up Rewards Platform To All Developers

Creating a sticky game that keeps players coming back for more is trick in and of itself. Once you’ve made the app and released it into the wild, finding a…

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Atari Announces Pong Indie Developer Challenge

Anyone who has ever played a video game is bound to know about the legend of the game “Pong”, which was the first game developed by the iconic gaming company…

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Create Your Own Text-Based Game With Playfic

In the age of evolving technology, video games are starting to look more and more like movies. The last game I picked up for Xbox had a ten minute theatrical…

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Test Your Space Knowledge With NASA's Facebook Game

NASA might not be the first thing you think of when it comes to playing games on Facebook, but the space agency has dipped its toe into uncharted territory yet…

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Wikia is Growing, Adds two IGN Editors

Wikia is a popular content sharing site that lets its community create Wiki’s on any topic for free. What you might not know about Wikia is that it has quickly…

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Top 10 Games on Facebook in 2011

Facebook has released its top 10 most popular games of 2011, and shockingly Zynga didn’t take the top prize. The list was assembled using data based on which game had…

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Some Zynga Users Spend 10,000 A Month

Zynga went public today as you might have heard, raising one billion dollars in its public offering. There are mixed reviews on how trading is playing out for Zynga at…

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Name That Tune With Song Mix

Music discovery is a mixed bag on the Internet. We can go by what’s hot on iTunes or Spotify, listen to random tracks on a Pandora radio station, or wait…