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Kongregate News Jun 18, 2020

Stickers & Blocks are Now Available on Kongregate.com!

Blocks are a new form of digital reward [https://kong.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360028939191] that players can earn by playing games, completing badges, and finishing quests in some of their favorite games on Kongregate.com. Blocks can be redeemed to get sticker packs from a special marketplace. Those stickers can then be used in chat rooms on Kongregate.com to help our community express themselves in fun & interactive ways! But Blocks aren’t just for players! Upon launch, we'll be givin

Community May 15, 2020

Kongregate Is Raising Funds for COVID-19 Relief

Hello everyone, It’s been a while, and we wanted to provide an update on what Kongregate has been up to these last few weeks. First off, we hope everyone is staying safe and in good spirits. For our part, we’re happy to announce that all of our employees have transitioned to working from home and are currently safe & healthy. We are observing social distancing guidelines, adapting to the challenges of the new normal, and continuing to meet online via video chat to stay connected with each ot

Kongregate News Jan 14, 2020

Kongregate Takes Your Data Privacy Seriously!

You may have received a flurry of emails from various companies relaying that they had updated their privacy policies. These changes stem from the California Consumer Privacy Act [https://www.caprivacy.org/], which went into effect January 1, 2020. But for us at Kongregate, our "privacy for all" mindset did not start in 2020 because of CCPA; we overhauled our privacy policy back in 2018, when CCPA’s “father,” GDPR, went into effect. Instead of just throwing all these abbreviations at you, let

Kongregate News Dec 19, 2019

Kongregate Announces Partnership with Forte

We at Kongregate are excited to announce a new partnership with Forte! Who is Forte? Forte is building a platform to jump-start a new generation of games in which the player-developer relationship is both healthier and more sustainable. Focusing on accelerating the adoption of blockchain, Forte is equipping developers with easy-to-use blockchain technology and tools that lay a new foundation for player-driven game economies, better aligning incentives between players and publishers. What does

Kongregate News Dec 05, 2019

Kongregate Acquires Popular Battle Royale Game 'Surviv.io'

Kongregate today announced the acquisition of Surviv.io, the top-down battle royale game for both web [https://www.kongregate.com/games/survivio_dev/surviv-io] and mobile (Android [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.surviv.surviv_io_mobile] and iOS [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/surviv-io/id1401727934?ls=1]). The deal follows the successful acquisition and integration of the Bit Heroes game by Kongregate earlier this year. “Surviv.io marks our second acquisition in which we h

Kongregate News Oct 10, 2019

Open-World Adventure ‘Pine’ Out Now on PC

Kongregate, in collaboration with Twirlbound, has launched Pine on PC. Pine is the award-winning open-world adventure game set in the world of Albamare. Players explore, trade and fight their way through a world filled with creatures much smarter than humans. Pine is available for download on Kartridge [https://www.kartridge.com/games/Twirlbound/pine], Steam [https://store.steampowered.com/app/1042780/Pine/] and GOG [https://www.gog.com/game/pine].

Engineering Oct 01, 2019

CORS, Cookies, Unity and WebGL Builds

In a previous blog post [https://blog.kongregate.com/unity-html5-cors-and-you/] I discussed how to get basic cross-origin requests working for your Unity WebGL project. This post is meant as a quick follow-up to cover another tricky problem that may come up when attempting to host your Unity WebGL game on Kongregate: cookie-based session authentication. The Problem Let's say you have a backend API that uses cookies for session management. Your game works great when testing on your own domain, b

Kongregate News Sep 27, 2019

'Bit Heroes' Celebrates 3rd Anniversary

On September 27th 2019, Kongregate’s popular pixel dungeon-crawler RPG turns 3 years old! With the recent acquisition of the title from our friends at Juppiomenz earlier this year, the Bit Heroes team is working hard to bring loads of new dungeons to explore, bosses to beat and loot to plunder. It’s been an incredible run so far, with even more adventure on the way, and we cannot wait to show you what we’ve got in store. To help celebrate this special occasion, we’ve got some new anniversary

Kongregate News Sep 26, 2019

Much Anticipated Garbage Town Builder, 'Flotsam,' Available Now on PC

Kongregate, in collaboration with Pajama Llama Games, has launched Flotsam on PC in Early Access. Flotsam is the award-winning, post-apocalyptic city builder at sea. You’ll need fresh water, seafood and scrap to make sure your drifters can make the best of this wet situation. Flotsam is available for download on Kartridge [https://www.kartridge.com/games/pajamallamagames/flotsam], Steam [https://store.steampowered.com/app/821250/Flotsam/], Humble [https://www.humblebundle.com/store/flotsam],