2010 Search

31 reconstructed results for addicting games in the 2010 exhibit.

1. Addicting Games - Nickelodeon's Flash arcade

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   Addicting Games, owned by Nickelodeon's parent Viacom, was one of the most-visited casual game sites in 2010, with categories like Shooting, Puzzle and Sports and a...

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2. Armor Games - Sponsor of the best Flash games

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   Armor Games sponsored and hosted many of the highest-quality Flash games of the era, including tower-defence hits and puzzle games, with a brown-and-orange site and a...

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3. The Impossible Quiz - The trick-question Flash game every classroom knew

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   Splapp-me-do's The Impossible Quiz, from 2007, was still one of the most-played Flash games on school computers in 2010: 110 trick questions, three lives, and skips. It...

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4. Kongregate - Flash games with achievements, bought by GameStop

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   Kongregate hosted thousands of free browser games with badges, chat rooms beside every game and a levelling system for players. GameStop bought it in July 2010, betting...

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5. Miniclip - Free games, and the school-computer favourite

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   Miniclip was where school computer labs went to play 8 Ball Pool, Club Penguin's ancestors and hundreds of other Flash games. In 2010 it claimed tens of millions of...

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6. hi5 - Big in Latin America and Portugal

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   hi5 was one of the world's largest social networks in the mid-2000s, especially in Latin America, Portugal, Romania and Thailand. In 2010 it was pivoting toward social...

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7. Newgrounds - Everything, by everyone: the Flash portal

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   Newgrounds was the original home of Flash games and animations, where amateur creators uploaded movies and games for the community to rate. In 2010 its Flash Portal...

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8. Amnesia: The Dark Descent - The horror game that made YouTube scream

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   Frictional Games' Amnesia, released in September 2010, gave players no weapons, only a lantern and a sanity meter. Its terror made it the perfect subject for webcam...

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9. Bejeweled Blitz - One-minute matches and a weekly friends leaderboard

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   PopCap's Bejeweled Blitz turned the match-three classic into 60-second rounds with a leaderboard of your Facebook friends that reset every week. In 2010 it was one of...

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10. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 - The plugin that ran YouTube, FarmVille and every banner ad

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    Flash Player 10.1, released in June 2010, ran the YouTube player, Hulu, Pandora, FarmVille, every browser game and most animated adverts; Adobe said it was installed on...

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11. Robot Unicorn Attack - Always, I wanna be with you: the Flash game of 2010

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    Adult Swim's Robot Unicorn Attack, released in February 2010, was the Flash game of the year: a rainbow-trailing robot unicorn dashing through a pastel dreamscape to...

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12. Qzone - China's biggest social network, built on QQ

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    Tencent's Qzone, attached to the QQ messenger, was by most measures the largest social network in China in 2010, with hundreds of millions of active users decorating...

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13. Club Penguin - Disney's virtual world for kids

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    Club Penguin was the safe, moderated virtual world where children waddled around as penguins, played mini-games and decorated igloos. Disney had bought it in 2007, and...

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14. Plants vs. Zombies - Tower defence with peashooters, on every platform in 2010

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    PopCap's Plants vs. Zombies, released for PC in 2009, arrived on the iPhone in February 2010 (selling 300,000 copies in nine days), then the iPad, Xbox 360 and DS. Its...

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15. Civilization V - Hexes, one unit per tile, and one more turn

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    Civilization V, released in September 2010, moved the strategy series to hexagonal tiles and one-unit-per-tile combat, and became a Steam fixture for the next decade. It...

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16. Facebook - The social network at 500 million users

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    In 2010 Facebook was six years old, had just overtaken Google as the most-visited site in the United States on some weekly measures, and passed 500 million users in...

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17. Red Dead Redemption - Rockstar's western, the game of the year for many

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    Red Dead Redemption, released on 18 May 2010, put Rockstar's open-world design in the dying American West. It won many game-of-the-year awards, its Undead Nightmare...

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18. Browser plugins: Flash, Java, Silverlight, QuickTime - The web ran on plugins, and every one of them wanted an update

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    In 2010 the browser was a host for plugins: Flash for video and games, Java for RuneScape and bank sites, Silverlight for Netflix, QuickTime and RealPlayer for media,...

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19. Mafia Wars - Text-based crime, energy bars and a lawsuit

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mafia-wars

    Mafia Wars was Zynga's text-heavy crime game where you did jobs, recruited friends into your mafia and waited for energy to refill. It had millions of daily players on...

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20. Pet Society - Playfish's cute pets, bought by EA

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/pet-society

    Pet Society, from Playfish, let you dress up a pet, decorate its house and visit friends' pets, and was one of the largest Facebook games of 2010. Electronic Arts had...

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21. Cut the Rope - Feed Om Nom: a million sales in ten days

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    ZeptoLab's Cut the Rope launched in October 2010 and sold a million copies in ten days, one of the fastest-selling iPhone games to that point. Its physics puzzles and...

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22. Steam in 2010 - Steam comes to the Mac, and sales that emptied wallets

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    Valve's Steam store launched on the Mac in May 2010 with Portal free for two weeks, and its holiday sales, with daily deals at 75 percent off, became a ritual. Steam had...

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23. Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Nintendo's best-reviewed game of the decade

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    Super Mario Galaxy 2, released in May 2010 for the Wii, added Yoshi and even more inventive gravity-bending levels to its predecessor's formula. It was one of the...

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24. Limbo - Black-and-white, silent, and the summer's indie darling

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    Playdead's Limbo launched on Xbox Live Arcade in July 2010 as part of Microsoft's Summer of Arcade. Its monochrome silhouettes, giant spider and puzzle-platforming won...

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25. Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver - Johto remade, with a Pokéwalker pedometer in the box

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    The DS remakes of Pokémon Gold and Silver reached North America and Europe in March 2010, bundled with the Pokéwalker pedometer. They sold more than 12 million copies...

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26. Just Dance 2 - The Wii party game that outsold the critics' favourites

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    Just Dance 2, released in October 2010, was one of the best-selling games of the year despite lukewarm reviews, proving the Wii's audience wanted to dance in the living...

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27. Let's Play videos - From Something Awful screenshots to YouTube commentary

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    Let's Plays, playing a game while narrating it, began as screenshot threads on Something Awful and became a YouTube video genre by 2010, with Minecraft and horror games...

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28. banhammer - A moderator's power to ban users, imagined as a hammer.

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    banhammer: A moderator's power to ban users, imagined as a hammer. Example: "the mods brought out the banhammer"

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29. The Pirate Bay - The torrent tracker that would not die

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    The Pirate Bay was the world's best-known BitTorrent index in 2010, a year after its founders were convicted in Sweden. Its pirate-ship logo, comment threads and "legal...

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30. Bandcamp - Name your price

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    Bandcamp gave independent artists a simple page to stream and sell their music, including "name your price" downloads in any format from MP3 to FLAC. By 2010 it was...

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