Agar.io is a new game in the Google Play Store that seems to be gaining a lot of steam very quickly. At first glance, the game doesn’t appear to be too much. Yet, the download counts keep rising and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Agar.io is secretly one of the world’s biggest games. It is a free web experience where players pilot a tiny dot around a two-dimensional plane in order to grow larger by consuming other dots ...

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 ...

With the end of Flash support, many beloved browser games will be lost to time. So many great games were built on Flash, but for years, there have been hundreds of amazing games built under the IO ...

Miniclip's viral casual game Agar.io has accumulated 113 million downloads on mobile since it launched back in April 2015. The game was a huge success for the company at the time, ending up as the ...

Every once in a while, a game comes along that grabs ahold of the Internet and refuses to let go. These games don't appear nearly as frequently as they used to, back before digital downloads of full ...

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