Blog Archives for the tag games

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Kiip Extends Developer Fund Application Deadline

At the beginning of March, we told you about a new $100k developer fund from real-life rewards platform Kiip, and so far the response has been amazing. The excitement about…

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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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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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HTML5 vs. Flash for Games [infographic]

Most gamers aren’t thinking about the technology behind the games that they’re playing online, all they care about is whether it works or not. Thanks to HTML5 bundled with either…

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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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Kiip's key to Success Could be Happiness

$4.3M in funding, 20 employees, and 70 apps using its platform. What’s the key to Kiip‘s success? Happiness, says founder Brian Wong. I sat down with Kiip’s founder and CEO…

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GamePad for iOS Turns Your iPad Into a Gaming Console

There are quite a few games for iOS that make your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad feel like a pretty hip version of a Game Boy. You don’t play them…

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Paprika Lab: An Unusually Global Korean Startup

Paprika Lab is a South Korean gaming startup which has developed several mobile and social games over the past four years. The firm has targeted the global market right from…

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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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Tight Lines Fishing Game Wins Award in Germany

The 7th annual German Game Developer Awards have recently concluded in Düsseldorf, Germany, and Vienna based Socialspiel’s Tight Lines Fishing has walked away with the Best Social Game 2011 award….

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Play Ludwig Teaches Students Physics with a Game

Let’s be frank; 99% of the education games out there suck. Either the graphics are sub-par, the game play is lackluster, or it’s simply a matter of multiple choice pointlessness….

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Instamory remembers the game memory

Remember the memory game you might have played with your parents? A bunch of cards were placed face down, shuffled up, and you’d have to flip them over two at…

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Can Apple remain magic? Maybe

Apple has been a runaway train since its release of the iPod. People from 10-70 years old are carrying some sort of Apple device in their pockets these days. Remember…

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Stickery is reinventing mobile gaming an

Stickery, a company that is building a mobile learning platform focused on games for kids, generates progress reports for teachers and parents, using curriculums that are approved by educators. The…