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Toys’R'Us Towers by Ubisoft is like Tiny Tower, but with actual rewards

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Toys’R'Us Towers by Ubisoft is like Tiny Tower, but with actual rewards

Imagine the hours you’ve spent building an enormous, glorious skyscraper in Tiny Tower. Now, imagine if those hours wasted spent joyfully actually amounted to physical gain. That’s essentially the premise of Toys’R'Us Towers, a Facebook game made in collaboration between developer Ubisoft and the toy store chain available now on the social network. The...
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This is what Pocket Planes looks like in flight [Video]

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This is what Pocket Planes looks like in flight [Video]

by Joe Osborne, Posted May 23rd 2012 12:45PM Figuratively speaking, of course. The creator of Tiny Tower has released the first official trailer for its next would-be mobile hit, Pocket Planes. Looking to do the same for flight simulators that it did for property sims, NimbleBit is poised to make running an airline somehow...
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A Tale of Two Towers: NimbleBit and Kabam hop aboard with Mobage

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A Tale of Two Towers: NimbleBit and Kabam hop aboard with Mobage

by Joe Osborne, Posted Apr 25th 2012 11:15AM One is tiny (but only by name), the other is tall. Both Kingdoms of Camelot creator Kabam and Tiny Tower maker NimbleBit have signed on with DeNA and ngmoco to bring their games to the social gaming duo’s Mobage network on Android. According to VentureBeat, the...
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NimbleBit’s Pocket Planes soars over tiny towers on iPhone this summer

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NimbleBit’s Pocket Planes soars over tiny towers on iPhone this summer

The Tiny Tower creator looks to strike iPhone game gold once again. Pocket Planes is the NimbleBit‘s next iOS game, revealed to TouchArcade at this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. According to the website, this free-to-play game is markedly different from its predecessor, despite employing the same adorable, classic Nintendo-like art style....
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CrowdStar CEO: ‘There’s confusion about genres and copies’ [Interview]

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CrowdStar CEO: ‘There’s confusion about genres and copies’ [Interview]

The infamous Dream Heights is now available to all on the App Store, and while reviews are positive overall, a number of them draw comparisons between Zynga‘s game and NimbleBit‘s Tiny Tower. After the past month and a half’s dramatic David and Goliath scenario, it’s not surprising. But It Girl creator CrowdStar has its...
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Dream Heights takes on Tiny Tower on iPhone in the US App Store

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Dream Heights takes on Tiny Tower on iPhone in the US App Store

by Joe Osborne, Posted Feb 13th 2012 1:00PM Not deliberately, of course. We sure know of at least two folks that aren’t terribly thrilled about this news. Amidst claims of copycatting, cloning, what have you, Dream Heights has made it to the U.S. iOS App Store. And according Zynga, it’s certainly not the first...
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Zynga CEO: ‘Be careful not to throw stones when you live in glass towers’

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Zynga CEO: ‘Be careful not to throw stones when you live in glass towers’

Those are Zynga CEO Mark Pincus’s words to those that accuse the FarmVille creator of copying its game ideas, namely Tiny Tower creator NimbleBit and Buffalo Studios, the team behind Bingo Blitz. In an interview with VentureBeat, the Zynga head went into great detail regarding the recent allegations made against the company over Dream...
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FrontierVille creator Brian Reynolds: Copycatting hasn’t been a problem

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FrontierVille creator Brian Reynolds: Copycatting hasn’t been a problem

The issue of copycatting in social games has been put under the microscope this month, thanks to accusations thrown at Zynga for copying both NimbleBit‘s Tiny Tower and Buffalo Studio‘s Bingo Blitz. (Let’s not forget that 6waves Lolapps is looking at an infringement suit from Triple Town’s maker.) Who better to address the arguable...
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Glu Mobile releases Small Street for iPhone, consider Tiny Tower flattered

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Glu Mobile releases Small Street for iPhone, consider Tiny Tower flattered

by Joe Osborne, Posted Jan 27th 2012 4:50PM The (Tiny Tower) Clone Wars have begun. Glu Mobile, best known for iPhone hits like Gun Bros., has unleashed Small Street onto the Canadian App Store for iPhone and iPad through its Glu Games label. And whaddya know, this free-to-play mobile looks a helluva lot like...
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