Well before the first episode aired on HBO late last month, members of Boston-based developer Disruptor Beam had already seen a little over half of season three of Game of Thrones. They flew down to New York City and sat within a well-guarded theater, taking in the aftermath of the Battle of Blackwater and catching up …
For those of you allergic to Facebook, Insomiac's monster-collecting social game Outernauts is now on Kongregate.
Playing social games doesn't have to mean clicking on a farm. In Dungeon Rampage's case, social means wading into hordes of enemies and traversing perilous dungeons side-by-side with other people; you know — old school social, the way your mother used to make it.
Nexon's free-to-play social RPG The Grinns Tale, which I crowed about a few weeks back
You're looking at the tier six armor for Nexon's utterly wondrous social RPG The Grinns Tale, which I wrote about on that website we had last week. Official launch is November 6, but you can play it now, or watch a video about the game's whimsical design. Your choice!
Those delightful little creatures with their strange cross-time clothing choices and maniacal grimaces are more than just the player characters in one of the finest social role-playing games going — they're also my friends.
I was happy to stumble upon the free Kongregate game Midas today. Created by Melbourne-based Kongregate user wanderlands, it's a simple 2D platform/puzzler based around the story of King Midas.
Kongregate Arcade, the Flash game app released earlier today
The Kongregate Arcade app for Android brings more than 300 free games to your cell phone... if you have an Android. The app also lets you check out ratings, high scores and comments and even download games to play offline. iPhone owners? Sorry it's Flash.
GameStop, which most of us think of as a chain of stores where you buy disc-based games, has bought Kongregate, which is a website where one can play free games, including many hours of Desktop Tower Defense.
Chris Plante has posted a plea over at GameSetWatch - one for bringing more global entertainment to the West (well, America specifically). His idea? Some sort of portal that will be able to showcase games from all over the world, dragging American gamers kicking and screaming into acknowledging foreign countries that…
