Are You A Word Game Fanatic? is a post from Chris Pirillo I am addicted to yet another game. This time it’s Scrabb.ly. It’s a massively multi-player crossword game where you can lose lives by swapping tiles and build words until you become the king. Okay, so you won’t really become king. You will have [...]

Earlier this year, mobile developer TuneWiki raised over $ 7 million to expand beyond the namesake lyric-centric music player that put it on the map. Today sees the company’s first major expansion with the launch of a new iPhone game called Lyric Legend, which combines lyrics with the rhythmic gameplay that made Tapulous’s Tap Tap [...]

5 Action Ideas to Win the Affiliate Marketing Business Game & Earn More Affiliate Commission! Now, I am going to give you how to win the affiliate marketing business game. It seems that there are a lot of competitors in the affiliate marketing business world. How to compete and be outstanding among those competitors is [...]

Taking an if-you-can’t-beat-them, join-them-and-beat-them attitude, SCVNGR is today unveiling its integration plans for Facebook Places and launching new features to take of advantage of both Facebook Places’s read and write APIs. SCVNGR is just one of… Mashable | The Social Media Guide

Some companies keep a playbook of product tips, tricks and trade secrets. Zynga has an internal playbook, for instance, that is a collection of “concepts, techniques, know-how and best practices for developing successful and distinctive social games”. Zynga’s playbook has entered the realm of legend and was even the subject of a lawsuit. SCVNGR, which [...]

According to Variety, Rovio, the company that makes ‘Angry Birds’ has been shopping the beloved iPhone game around Hollywood, and currently rolling out some franchising deals. “Rovio, the Finnish creator of the hit iPhone and iPad game, which has sold more than 6.5 million downloads, wants to turn the property into a major franchise that [...]

At Indiana’s all-boys Wabash College, the critically acclaimed video game Portal will appear alongside The Epic of Gilgamesh, Hamlet, and Aristotle as required material for undergraduate students seeking any degree. The game will be part of a mandatory Freshman… Mashable | The Social Media Guide

A few weeks ago, location-based game SCVNGR launched a new feature called Rewards that makes it an increasing threat to the likes of shopkick, Foursquare, and every other company looking to combine the power of coupons and deals with location.  The premise is simple: complete SCVNGR challenges to earn points, which you can in turn [...]

As expected, EA’s Medal of Honor is coming under fire from all sides. The game, a first-person shooter, is scheduled to be released on October 12 for the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC, takes place in Afghanistan, and puts you in control of U.S. soldiers on the ground there. It also, at least in the [...]

A Geeky Video Game Bathroom is a post from Chris Pirillo Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I am attempting to build the world’s Geekiest bathroom. A few weeks ago, I showed off my NES controller soap. I felt it was looking lonely all by itself in [...]