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Community Aug 22, 2023
Kongregate News - August Update

We're Going To GamesCom! Are you attending GamesCom 2023? Come meet up with our Business Development Manager, Ekaterina Saveleva, August 23rd to August 25th. Learn what it means to join the Kongregate team and build fun - together! Kongregate Livestream | Fridays at 10 am PDT Kongregate livestreams new and exciting games every Friday, 10am PDT. This week's special guest is the publisher of Incremental Cubes. Hop in our chat and say "hi"! If you'd like to be considered for a guest spot on our

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Marketing Aug 16, 2023
Shaping Content, Fostering Community: A New Chapter on YouTube

Filling the Void: The Start of Our YouTube Journey When we began our efforts early this year, our YouTube channel hadn’t been updated in years. Where once was a thriving community of gamers and promotional vids, now the channel was collecting dust. It was clear that we needed to expand our efforts there. Our focus became about engaging our audience and throwing everything at the wall to see what stuck. Our initial livestreams focused on the beta testing of a new online community storytelling g

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Brand Aug 09, 2023
What’s New on Kongregate: YouTube Year in Review

Last year, we embarked on the exciting journey of rebranding Kongregate from the ground up. After over 15 years as a leader in web gaming and mobile publishing, we felt it was time to take a look at what makes Kongregate different - what makes us unique - and update our look to meet our ideals and our culture. Kongregate has always been a place that is open and welcoming to gamers from all walks of life, where gamers who love games come together to have fun, together! Our new look and vibe had

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Culture Jun 28, 2023
Meet Pez: Embracing Authenticity During Pride Month

As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, Pride month holds a special place in my heart. It's an opportunity to reflect on my journey, embrace my identity, and contribute to creating a more inclusive world. I remember attending my first Pride event in my small town in Chile back in 2012. Although it wasn't as grand as the ones I saw on TV, it was a significant step for me. Originally I had some apprehension about going - I might get recognized among the smaller crowd, and people may not understand w

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Culture Jun 21, 2023
Kongregate's June Book Program Explores Juneteenth and LGBTQ+ Stories

We are thrilled to announce the return of our highly anticipated June Book Program, running throughout the entire month of June. Building on the success of last year's program, we are excited to offer our employees another opportunity for greater growth and understanding. The June Book Program is designed to foster continued learning within our company and provide our employees with valuable insights into Juneteenth and the LGBTQ+ community through educational books. During the program, each em

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Culture May 10, 2023
Kongregate Visits Kellogg Middle School

Last week, I was joined by our Director of Marketing Drew Hambke to visit Kellogg Middle School in Portland, Oregon to talk about the many possible careers within the video game industry. In order to inspire students to start thinking about their career journeys, the teachers at Kellogg kindly invited us to share openly about our own personal experiences with games and the gaming industry, as well as shed some light on the many aspects of video games from a career perspective. As with any pres

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Bitverse May 03, 2023
Gotta Run Fast!

We will be playing our very own Bit Heroes Runner for this week’s live stream! Be sure to tune in this Friday at 10 am PST and watch us RUN FOR OUR LIVES! Tune In Here: Since starting the show in January, live streaming has given us a bold new opportunity to highlight some of our favorite games on Kongregate.com – whether they are games made by our talented developer partners or games we’ve made ourselves. It’s a great way for us to showcase the games and gives us a chance to really connect w

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Community Mar 14, 2023
March Update Roundup

More New Games! We were thrilled to announce that STUG was the first of many new games coming to the site. Since then 2 more games have been added to Kongregate! In Mergest Kingdom, you can merge together hundreds of objects in a land full of challenging quests and harvestable resources. Find the best ways to match and merge various pieces to erect the biggest buildings and cultivate the most fruitful plants! Incremental Epic Hero 2 is a mixture of incremental/idle and roleplaying gameplay,

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Kongregate News Mar 08, 2023
Kongregate is Celebrating International Women's Day!

Happy International Women’s Day & Women’s History Month! This week we’re excited to celebrate by welcoming Michelle Shaw as our guest on the “Game With Us!” weekly Kongregate livestream, sharing our World of Women NFT with you, and chronicling Fernanda Contreras’ story on how she got started in the video game industry. Livestream We will be playing Incremental Epic Hero 2 and Raid Heroes: Total War this Friday at 10 am PST with Michelle Shaw. Join us here: World of Women NFT Last year, Kongr

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