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		<title>iQ212 has THREE mobile games live this month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Sorry for hogging all the carrier deck slots!  iQ212 has three mobile games live NOW on tier 1 carriers. We are livin&#8217; the cross platform vision.

Monopoly Tycoon for EA is a new twist based on the Hasbro license.  We improved the tycoon play with a clever once-around auction mechanic (thanks for the inspiration Dr. Knezia!) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iq212.com/blog2/2008/08/07/iq212-has-three-mobile-games-live-this-month/</link>
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		<title>Facebook is the New Google - Guest blog by Leon Atkinson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Microsoft is the new IBM. Google is the new Microsoft. Facebook is the new Google.
In the 80s, it was said that no one was fired for picking IBM. Microsoft was the hot new innovator in the 80s. In the 90s, got stagnant and then beloved for embracing open source. Microsoft turned into a villian. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iq212.com/blog2/2008/08/06/facebook-is-the-new-google-guest-blog-by-leon-atkinson/</link>
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		<title>iQ212&#8217;s team is growing; meet the newest member!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Rick and Nicki are proud to welcome the newest member to the iQ212 team (and our family!).  Chloe Thyme Marazzani arrived May 9th and weighed in at 7lbs 9oz. 
Her big sisters are happy helpers who actually argue over dibs on changing diapers!  Rick is catching up on Tivo (and two seasons of Smallville from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iq212.com/blog2/2008/05/30/iq212s-team-is-growing-meet-the-newest-member/</link>
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		<title>Launching a Facebook app</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Three weeks ago iQ212 released EmoticonsTM, our first game.  As part of our multi platform launch strategy, Emoticons is on PC, web/facebook, and soon on mobile.  There are big differences between launching a PC or mobile game, and an app for the web.    Fortunately iQ212’s experience comes from diverse platforms.  Here is a bit of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iq212.com/blog2/2008/04/21/launching-a-facebook-app/</link>
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		<title>The History of Match Three Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Wow! I found this on the web today and had to share it.  Brief History of Match Three Games  Some guy wrote a long paper on the history of match three games.  Feel free to pass it along.
Who knew?  I thought Gamehouse invented the Match Three game in 2001!  Turns out that Match Three games have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iq212.com/blog2/2008/04/01/the-history-of-match-three-games/</link>
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		<title>Emoticons is LIVE today - April 1st, 2008!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Great news for Tuesday, Emoticons is available today!  We had one minor setback: as a cute, innovative, mass-market, puzzle game, no game portal would carry it.  But yesterday we redesigned it into a Hidden Object game and TODAY it is live on every game portal!  Check out the screenshot of the new Emoticons below.
 

 

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		<link>http://iq212.com/blog2/2008/04/01/emoticons-is-live-today-april-1st-2008/</link>
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		<title>iQ212 launches our first game - Emoticons!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ iQ212 has been in business for a year and we have finally launched our first game, EmoticonsTM.  It is an original puzzle game that is now available for PC and web/facebook, and will soon launch on mobile carriers.  Hopefully you will be seeing and hearing lots more about Emoticons as it spreads to new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iq212.com/blog2/2008/03/24/iq212-launches-our-first-game-emoticons/</link>
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		<title>Americans love their cell phones more than Internet, crack.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ A Pew Internet and American Life Project report is forshadowing the near future where mobile is really the most personal computer.  In a recent report, when asked how hard it would be to give up a specific technology, folks are more likely to say the cellphone would be most difficult to do without, followed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iq212.com/blog2/2008/03/06/americans-love-their-cell-phones-more-than-internet-crack/</link>
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		<title>D&#038;D Creator Gary Gygax Passes Away at 69</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Gary Gygax co-created Dungeons and Dragons in 1974.  His obituary today got me thinking and reminscing.  I was in elementary school in the late 70s when D&#038;D made it to California.  I recall my fourth grade teacher having to explain to me the difference between chain mail and postal mail! 
As kids my friends and I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iq212.com/blog2/2008/03/04/dd-creator-gary-gygax-passes-away-at-69/</link>
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		<title>Rick&#8217;s GDC Tetris Talk Recap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ GDC was fun, informative and productive for me and iQ212 this year.  I think my GDC Mobile lecture accomplished its goal of getting people thinking and talking about casual and mobile design and the issues that even good games face when entering the mobile gauntlet.
My talk was called &#8220;Tetris: the Best/Worst Mobile Game Ever&#8221;.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iq212.com/blog2/2008/02/22/ricks-gdc-tetris-talk-recap/</link>
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