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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 Apr 06, 2023
Who's That Kongpanion?

Kongpanions started out as the brain-child of two employees who wanted to come up with a way to make badge-earning even more compelling for players. The two of them walked into a conference room with a vague mission and walked out with the pitch to give out adorable collectible buddies as a prize for completing achievements in-game. Since then, Kongpanions have been a community-building event and unofficial pictographic history for Kongregate, by naming them after employees, inside jokes, and

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Culture Mar 30, 2023
Continuing to Empower Women in the Gaming Industry

It’s the beginning of Spring and the end of Q1 - a time of excitement as we all transition toward new projects and celebrate the goals we met during the first quarter. As we near the tail end of March, we wanted to wrap up Women’s History Month and spotlight some of the female leadership we have here at Kongregate. During International Women’s Day, we got to see Head of Studio Fernanda Contreras speak at the UN! You can read more about Fernanda’s story on what it was like to kickstart the gamin

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Kongregate News Mar 22, 2023
We're at GDC!

We’re only halfway through the week and it already feels like so much has happened! Monday was a day of traveling for many of the Kongregate folks - even flying internationally to arrive at the Moscone Center in San Francisco for GDC - the annual Game Developer Conference. Here is where we get a chance to meet up with other members of the gaming industry and meet our fans directly. It’s a great opportunity for Kongregate to say hi and shake hands, all among some of our favorite people. This ye

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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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Community Feb 28, 2023
Achievement Unlocked - New Badges on Kongregate

Hello everyone! I’m Arbiter Rex, a Kongregate dev and long-time video game creator and enjoyer. You might have seen me lurking in the #just-chatting room of the Kongregate Discord or leading our Blood Vessels project last year. This year, I’m taking on the exciting challenge of renewing Kongregate.com - working on everything from our upcoming Kred- sales to new badges, new achievements, and a whole lot more! You may have noticed a recent influx of badges on the site along with new games, and

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Community Feb 13, 2023
Kongretine’s Day: Lifelong Friendships Between Players & Developers

This February, we’re focusing on the feeling of togetherness — and love — within our community. Players are hanging out with one another on Kongregate.com and our Discord developing and playing games together while making lifelong friendships — so we’re celebrating that with Kongretines Day. The Kongretine’s Day coloring event is a Valentine’s Day event where players can send a love letter to their ‘Kongretine’ of choice. It’s a unique opportunity not just for players, but for our developers to

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Community Jan 25, 2023
What Do We Want to Spark Within the Web3 Community?

An message from Kongregate's Chief Technology Officer, Max Murphy. As we talk with developers and continue our journey into blockchain technology, a lot of us have been asking, “What do we want to spark within the web3 community?” Experimentation. Creativity. Thinking outside the box and pushing boundaries. We would like to get gamers and game developers to think along the lines of exciting, weird, fun games that have a piece of asset ownership in them so players can own their journey. If y

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Community Jan 20, 2023
Bringing Kongregate’s Meta-Game Experience to Discord

Let’s say you’re new to Kongregate and our Discord community. You saw on our Twitter that there is an event going live — Discord Faction Events. The Faction Events are a series of competitions players can participate in on our discord servers. On the Kongregate platform server, our most popular competition is the Faction Fight. The community manager (CM) chooses a game on Kongregate.com, and each player battles to get the highest in-game score for their team. Clicking the link in our bio, you

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