If you haven’t paid attention, there’s a surprisingly strong genre of browser-based games dubbed .io games. The name comes from the .io extension files, and one big hit is Miniclip’s Agar.io. Agar.io ...

The story is all in the name. Agar.io stems from the substance agar, which is a jelly-like substance obtained from algae that is used to culture bacteria. You are a single celled bacteria in a petri ...

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House of Cards third season is now streaming on Netflix and it’s interesting, confusing, and, of course, morally abhorrent, but it is also — in traditional fashion — a showcase for mobile gaming. In ...

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a cell living in agar? If you’re anything like me, and presumably the rest of the world, the answer to that question is no. But who cares, because now you ...

Fidget spinners. They're slowly becoming the pogs of this decade, and like pogs, will be an enormous pile of garbage in five years out in a desert. They've gained popularity to the point where we're ...

Among top free iPhone apps of the week, cell-growing game Agar.io engulfs a number of top spots around the world; 'Colorfy' packages up the coloring book experience for iOS; 'Nono Islands' proposes a ...

Agar.io or Agario is a game in which you take charge of a tiny cell, eating small dots and other players that are smaller than you. Every time you eat a dot or another player you grow in size, making ...

The browser game Agar.io has made its way into the app store and onto our phones. The point of the game is to move your cell across the board in order to eat other players and grow larger. The ...

Two out of five stars. The browser game Agar.io has made its way into the app store and onto our phones. The point of the game is to move your cell across the board in order to eat other players and ...