Alright, this writer has had it. Look, electronics, appliance and software creators/manufacturers: You all need to form some sort of Angry Birds alliance to get the damned games on all of your platforms/products at once. That way, we can simply write one more headline and be done with it: "Angry Birds is everywhere. Literally." At any rate, Angry Birds is coming to Samsung's HDTVs.
Rovio and Samsung made the announcement at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, going on as of this writing. The lot of Angry Birds games will be made available for Internet-connected Samsung HDTVs as downloadable apps in the near future. Better yet, Samsung Smart TVs will get an Angry Birds channel through which Rovio will release animated shorts featuring the mobile game series' lovable characters.
This marks a first step for Rovio into a new, potentially money-printing segment: kids cartoons. Of course, it will also give Rovio's animators plenty of practice for the Angry Birds feature film that's supposed to hit in 2014. Rovio's interactive mint actually just hit another Samsung device, the Wave 3. (And this is far from Samsung's first foray into connected-TV gaming.) In short, Angry Birds fever is stronger than ever, and we're still left with little to no explanation as to how.
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OK! Magazine teams with TeePee to gossip about next big social game
"You mean you haven't heard about that new Facebook game that's out from OK!?" That's not exactly what you'd expect readers of the UK gossip magazine to gush about to one another, but could it be in the future? Maybe, just maybe, as social games discovery engine TeePee Games and OK! have launched the latter's own social gaming portal, OK! Games, that recommends new games to its readers.
The duo's Facebook app is now live--along with one for Android devices--that suggests social games for its largely female audience to play. The predominantly middle-aged mother player base of social games appears to be the inspiration for the partnership. The magazine's readers can reach OK! Games through its Facebook fan page to interact with their friends, share games and see what games their fellow OK! readers are playing.
"This is a great venture for TeePee Games and it really shows off our proprietary technology and how this can be used by huge consumer brands to engage, on another level, with their audience," TeePee CEO Tony Pearce said in a release. "We're delighted to be partnering with OK! Magazine to launch something truly exciting for their readers. OK! Games will keep their online audience extremely engaged with the brand, and will keep them coming back for more."
We imagine some semblance of TeePee's Geronimo engine, which learns a social gamer's tastes as the player uses the app more often, has taken shape within the OK! Games Facebook app. We'll see whether the same folks who read OK! are the same who enjoy a bit of FarmVille every now and again.
OK! Games app
The duo's Facebook app is now live--along with one for Android devices--that suggests social games for its largely female audience to play. The predominantly middle-aged mother player base of social games appears to be the inspiration for the partnership. The magazine's readers can reach OK! Games through its Facebook fan page to interact with their friends, share games and see what games their fellow OK! readers are playing.
"This is a great venture for TeePee Games and it really shows off our proprietary technology and how this can be used by huge consumer brands to engage, on another level, with their audience," TeePee CEO Tony Pearce said in a release. "We're delighted to be partnering with OK! Magazine to launch something truly exciting for their readers. OK! Games will keep their online audience extremely engaged with the brand, and will keep them coming back for more."
We imagine some semblance of TeePee's Geronimo engine, which learns a social gamer's tastes as the player uses the app more often, has taken shape within the OK! Games Facebook app. We'll see whether the same folks who read OK! are the same who enjoy a bit of FarmVille every now and again.
OK! Games app
Mobile MMO Parallel Kingdom takes a breather on Facebook
Long known as an MMO (massively multiplayer online game) on phones that got players to explore the world around them, Parallel Kingdom has launched on Facebook. And frankly, that allure of exploring the world around you through the lens of a video game is now gone (and has been since the game hit the web), leaving nothing but icons to click depicting trolls and dragons over Google's map of New York City and your own, real-life locations. So, why trivialize what made Parallel Kingdom, well, interesting?
"People want to play games in the environment they are most comfortable with, be that mobile, the Web, Kongregate, or Facebook," Justin Beck, co-founder and CEO of Parallel Kingdom developer PerBlue, told All Facebook. "We don't want to make people jump over fences to enjoy Parallel Kingdom, and that means meeting our players where they are. Thousands of users have already joined during beta, and since launching on these new platforms, the community is growing quickly."
Parallel Kingdom uses Google Maps to allow players to turn their local hang outs all over the world into battlefields to wage war on and territories to conquer. Based on our brief experience, there's not much to get pumped about with this release now that the charm of actually taking over your own stomping grounds, while really stomping on them (on the go), is still absent. However, this version of Parallel Kingdom does bring some interesting changes.
Parallel Kingdom
First, Parallel Kingdom has been integrated with the Facebook Games Ticker, so players can see when they're friends are in the game. Second, the game can be easily bookmarked and, finally, new sound effects accompany much of players' actions in Parallel Kingdom. Alright, so that's not really a ton of jaw-dropping features. (To be clearBut for those who simply can't get enough Parallel Kingdom, here's another place to play.
(Ed. Note: This post has been edited to clarify that the location-based features available in Parallel Kingdom for mobile are all present in its Facebook iteration.)
"People want to play games in the environment they are most comfortable with, be that mobile, the Web, Kongregate, or Facebook," Justin Beck, co-founder and CEO of Parallel Kingdom developer PerBlue, told All Facebook. "We don't want to make people jump over fences to enjoy Parallel Kingdom, and that means meeting our players where they are. Thousands of users have already joined during beta, and since launching on these new platforms, the community is growing quickly."
Parallel Kingdom uses Google Maps to allow players to turn their local hang outs all over the world into battlefields to wage war on and territories to conquer. Based on our brief experience, there's not much to get pumped about with this release now that the charm of actually taking over your own stomping grounds, while really stomping on them (on the go), is still absent. However, this version of Parallel Kingdom does bring some interesting changes.
Parallel Kingdom
First, Parallel Kingdom has been integrated with the Facebook Games Ticker, so players can see when they're friends are in the game. Second, the game can be easily bookmarked and, finally, new sound effects accompany much of players' actions in Parallel Kingdom. Alright, so that's not really a ton of jaw-dropping features. (To be clearBut for those who simply can't get enough Parallel Kingdom, here's another place to play.
(Ed. Note: This post has been edited to clarify that the location-based features available in Parallel Kingdom for mobile are all present in its Facebook iteration.)
Google says, 'Fine, we'll make our own games,' teases Play Your World
Google+ Games Play Your World
This here is neither a tit nor tat situation. Google has revealed that the Google Maps team is working on its very own game for the Google+ Games platform. It's called Play Your World, and--based on a 27-second teaser--transforms Google Maps into a game reminiscent of the classic Marble Madness arcade game by Atari.
And, judging from the title, we imagine players will be able to turn any old location in a level to play with.There's a lot to gather from a 27-second video, you know, like how the game will have players guide a tiny ball along the streets and roads of major locations like the Las Vegas Strip and New York City.
Well, that's about it in terms of specifics (aside from that the Google Maps team is using WebGL to make Play Your World), but this marks an interesting turn for Google, which has before now taken a similar stance to Facebook on social games. That being simply curate the platform, and don't get into making your own games.
If anything, this is certainly a unique way to one-up Facebook in the social games world. Whether this marks the start of Google walking down the path of games or this is just a one-off experiment, it's way too early to tell. Play Your World is coming in February.
This here is neither a tit nor tat situation. Google has revealed that the Google Maps team is working on its very own game for the Google+ Games platform. It's called Play Your World, and--based on a 27-second teaser--transforms Google Maps into a game reminiscent of the classic Marble Madness arcade game by Atari.
And, judging from the title, we imagine players will be able to turn any old location in a level to play with.There's a lot to gather from a 27-second video, you know, like how the game will have players guide a tiny ball along the streets and roads of major locations like the Las Vegas Strip and New York City.
Well, that's about it in terms of specifics (aside from that the Google Maps team is using WebGL to make Play Your World), but this marks an interesting turn for Google, which has before now taken a similar stance to Facebook on social games. That being simply curate the platform, and don't get into making your own games.
If anything, this is certainly a unique way to one-up Facebook in the social games world. Whether this marks the start of Google walking down the path of games or this is just a one-off experiment, it's way too early to tell. Play Your World is coming in February.
Retro World contest: Enter to get your 15 minutes of fame
ou would figure the place where gamers could get their Angry Birds fix on the cheap would be most ideal, but nay. It looks like players just can't get enough of that extra screen space. According to a poll Rovio held for its 11.7 million Facebook fans, the most ideal device for playing Angry Birds is the iPad. Over 11,000 fans responded to the divisive question.
While we don't know exactly how many fans chose which device, 11,352 responses is quite the sample size. Following Apple's oh-so-expensive tablet were, surprisingly, Android phones. Finishing out the top five gizmo's to play Rovio's beloved bird-flinger on were the iPhone, followed by the iPod Touch and the Kindle Fire.
Considering Angry Birds HD for the iPad costs $4.99, compared to a mere $.99 for the iPhone, one has to imagine that the major draw of the iPad experience is the expanded screen space. That said, it's surprising more tablets didn't make the list, but equally impressive that the Kindle Fire, which has been on the market for less than two months, managed to place.
Top 5 Angry Birds Devices
Who knows, maybe all of these iPad lovers are playing the free version over and over again, or maybe they've simply settled for the universal version. One thing is for sure: If you consider yourself a true Angry Birds fan, you gotta try it out on an iPad. And if you don't have 500 bucks lying around, just "borrow" your friend's.
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While we don't know exactly how many fans chose which device, 11,352 responses is quite the sample size. Following Apple's oh-so-expensive tablet were, surprisingly, Android phones. Finishing out the top five gizmo's to play Rovio's beloved bird-flinger on were the iPhone, followed by the iPod Touch and the Kindle Fire.
Considering Angry Birds HD for the iPad costs $4.99, compared to a mere $.99 for the iPhone, one has to imagine that the major draw of the iPad experience is the expanded screen space. That said, it's surprising more tablets didn't make the list, but equally impressive that the Kindle Fire, which has been on the market for less than two months, managed to place.
Top 5 Angry Birds Devices
Who knows, maybe all of these iPad lovers are playing the free version over and over again, or maybe they've simply settled for the universal version. One thing is for sure: If you consider yourself a true Angry Birds fan, you gotta try it out on an iPad. And if you don't have 500 bucks lying around, just "borrow" your friend's.
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