Trends with Benefits: Destined for Jail

Try and solve this week’s Trends with Benefits, the weekly brainteaser from your friends at TriplePoint! TWB appears every week in our news round-up, Points of Interest, and offers terrific prizes to readers who can puzzle their way through the challenge du jour. First crack at the prizes go to Points of Interest subscribers when the newsletter goes out on Fridays, but we’ll be sharing each week’s challenge here on our website, as well.

This week’s challenge is for Cell Bound, the new iOS action-puzzler from TriplePoint client, Hothead Games! Read on and see if you can work this one out!

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Trends with Benefits: Happy 20th Anniversary, Sonic

Have a go at this week’s Trends with Benefits, the weekly brainteaser from your friends at TriplePoint! TWB appears every week in our news round-up, Points of Interest, and offers terrific prizes to readers who can puzzle their way through the challenge du jour. First crack at the prizes go to Points of Interest subscribers when the newsletter goes out on Fridays, but we’ll be sharing each week’s challenge here on our website, as well.

This week’s challenge will give you a chance to win the original Sonic the Hedgehog on PSN! Keep on reading to see if you can catch it!

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Trends with Benefits: Puzzle Species

Take a swing at this week’s Trends with Benefits, the weekly brainteaser from your friends at TriplePoint! TWB appears every week in our news round-up, Points of Interest, and offers terrific prizes to readers who can puzzle their way through the challenge du jour. First crack at the prizes go to Points of Interest subscribers when the newsletter goes out on Fridays, but we’ll be sharing each week’s challenge here on our website, as well.

This week’s challenge is for a lovely new RockYou t-shirt! Read on for your chance to claim it.

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Trends with Benefits: The Subsequent Sizable Subject

Here’s this week’s Trends with Benefits, the weekly brainteaser from your friends at TriplePoint! TWB appears every week in our news round-up, Points of Interest, and offers terrific prizes to readers who can puzzle their way through the challenge du jour. First crack at the prizes go to Points of Interest subscribers when the newsletter goes out on Fridays, but we’ll be sharing each week’s challenge here on our website, as well.

This week’s challenge is for a digital copy of The Next Big Thing for the Mac, to celebrate its recent Mac release. Read on and see if it can be yours!

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Trends with Benefits: Veterans of Future Wars

Take a crack at this week’s Trends with Benefits, the weekly brainteaser from your friends at TriplePoint! TWB appears every week in our news round-up, Points of Interest, and offers terrific prizes to readers who can puzzle their way through the challenge du jour. First crack at the prizes go to Points of Interest subscribers when the newsletter goes out on Fridays, but we’ll be sharing each week’s challenge here on our website, as well.

This week’s challenge is for a digital copy of Vanquish on the Xbox 360 for one fictional history buff. Read on and show us what you’ve got!

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Trends with Benefits: Sonic Speeds

Here’s another round of Trends with Benefits, the weekly brainteaser from your friends at TriplePoint! TWB appears every week in our news round-up, Points of Interest, and offers terrific prizes to readers who can puzzle their way through the challenge du jour. First crack at the prizes go to Points of Interest subscribers when the newsletter goes out on Fridays, but we’ll be sharing each week’s challenge here on our website, as well.

This week’s challenge puts up a free download of Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing on the Xbox 360 for one lucky and crafty entrant. Will it be you? Read on and see what you know about speed!

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Trends with Benefits: Zombies! Zombies Everywhere!

Introducing Trends with Benefits, a weekly brainteaser from your friends at TriplePoint! TWB appears every week in our news round-up, Points of Interest, and offers terrific prizes to readers who can puzzle their way through the challenge du jour. First crack at the prizes go to Points of Interest subscribers when the newsletter goes out on Fridays, but we’ll be sharing each week’s challenge here on our website, as well — starting with this week’s undead-themed quiz, offering a copy of Hothead Games’ new iOS hit Bunny the Zombie Slayer as a prize! Read on and see who else you know in the corpse-killing business… Continue reading Trends with Benefits: Zombies! Zombies Everywhere!

The TriplePoint Experience at SXSW 2011

We hope you’re managing to sort information from insanity on this April Fool’s Day. It’s never an easy job, is it?

It’s an activity that’s not just restricted to April 1st, either — as our own team has written previously, certain gatherings and occasions, like South by Southwest, can be tough to survive if you’re unprepared.

Take a look, following the break, at a little glimpse of the madness at this year’s SXSW. Just watch out for monkeys. Continue reading The TriplePoint Experience at SXSW 2011

Celtics @ Warriors, TriplePoint @ The Suite

D-FensThe TriplePoint team enjoyed a night at the Oracle Arena with some friends and clients, enjoying the action from on high, perched in a lovely suite. From there, we has a great view of a great, closely-fought game, right up until the 4th quarter when the Golden State Warriors decided it would be rude not to let their guests from Boston score over and over again.

A good time was still had by all! Read on for a few photos from the event…

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Games and Learning: Double Standards

Do we in the videogames industry employ a double standard?

The answer is yes, but that’s hardly unique to our field. Every line of business, from handguns to ham sandwiches, is quick to point out its own benefits, and ready to dismiss common criticisms. However, when the same logic is used to arrive at two separate conclusions, a second glance may be in order. Continue reading Games and Learning: Double Standards

Free Dessert

Think for a minute about the worst customer service you’ve ever received.

For me, it was a restaurant. Our party did not receive a bite to eat – not even complimentary bread, which our food was allegedly meant to come with – for over half an hour. The waitress came out, once, to say things were running a bit behind, and then promptly vanished again. Ten minutes later, the food began to arrive, slowly and unevenly. By the time one end of the table had been served, the other end had either nearly finished, or else let their food grow cold. One diner’s meal had been omitted entirely, and would not receive anything to eat for yet another 15 minutes. My check was even incorrect upon arrival.

This final grievance prompted me to seek out the manager, and upon hearing my list of complaints, his immediate response was a hapless shrug and a rhetorical “What can I do?” Continue reading Free Dessert

En Route to Victory: Commuter Gaming

When gaming is your hobby, it will naturally be your default choice for occupying life’s little patches of boredom. The advent of casual games has provided us all with a wealth of diversions for everyday lulls, whether it’s Bejeweled Blitz with your morning coffee, Desktop Tower Defense while the bank has you on hold, or maybe a few rounds of Angry Birds during that incredibly engaging PowerPoint presentation. Continue reading En Route to Victory: Commuter Gaming