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The Universal Appeal of the Five-Minute Game
There's a particular kind of game that exists in almost every culture on earth, usually without anyone in one country realizing the version in another country exists at all. It has simple rules, a boa
Browser Games Never Actually Died, They Just Went Quiet for a Decade
When Adobe finally killed Flash in December 2020, most of the internet treated it as a funeral nobody attended. The actual mourners were a strange mix: animation studios, a handful of ad agencies stil
Indonesia's Mobile-First Gaming Culture Is Unlike Anywhere Else
Indonesia gets called an "untapped market" often enough that the phrase has basically lost meaning, which is a shame, because the actual behavioral story underneath the cliché is specific and genuinel
Why Most Web Games Monetize Worse Than Mobile Apps (And What's Changing
There's a version of the web gaming pitch that goes something like: no app store fee, no 30% tax, all the upside stays with the developer. It's not wrong, but it skips past an uncomfortable detail tha
The Strange Staying Power of Solitaire: A 150-Year-Old Game That Refuses to Die
Here's a fact that sounds like it should be wrong but checks out the more you look into it: the version of Solitaire millions of people play on their phones every day is mechanically almost identical