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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 a quirky game that has gained a massive audience in part because you can easily play it against so many other people at once. The mobile and PC game starts you out as a tiny bacteria cell ...

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 ...

President Frank Underwood has a new favourite game — and it's made by a British mobile company. On Friday, Netflix released the fourth season of the wildly popular political drama "House of Cards." It ...

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 ...

Phil is a freelance writer from the UK, studying Creative Writing at university. When he's not writing, Phil is usually fiddling about with his phone, tweeting, or obsessing over anything with four ...