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Kongregate News Oct 25, 2023
Treat Yourself to New Games and Kongpanions!

🍁 It's October - What's New? 🍁 As we creep through the shadows of October, join us in watching our latest What's New on Kongregate video presenting our newest & recently updated games and featured Kongpanions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e_BEc7L_5g Kongregate Livestream | Fridays at 10 am PDT Friday, October 28th at 10 am PDT - Join Francisco, Sophia, and Heather for a freaky livestream! We're having an extra long stream this Friday to share some Halloween-themed games, answer questio

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Culture Sep 27, 2023
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month Through Gaming… and Food!

Although Hispanic Heritage Month isn’t something that I have circled on my calendar with anticipation, like with a fun holiday, it’s still something very important to me. It's special because it’s a time when we all take a moment to reflect on the rich cultural contributions of Hispanic and Latino communities. I've seen countless contributions from our community and it's sometimes easy to forget how much we've added to this amazing country. For me, this month serves as a powerful reminder of w

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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 07, 2023
Queerness in the Gaming World: A Celebration

Amidst the scorching summer heat, a shiver ran through my veins. Something in the air told me this is where I belonged. The first Pride Month event I ever attended was in Nashville back in 2016. It was the first time I’d seen so many queer people and families coming together in one place for one purpose. Music was playing. Everyone was decked out in rainbows. Together we were smiling, dancing, and rejoicing in being seen and understood. It opened my eyes to the possibilities of not just toler

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Community May 31, 2023
Rebel with a Cause: Dan's Punk Rock Mission to Revolutionize Gaming

We sat down with Dan - the Senior Product Marketing Manager at Kongregate - to talk about the importance of AAPI month and how his experience as a member of this community has informed his career in video games. — I grew up in a mixed family. My dad is Hawaiian Filipino and my mom is Irish, English, and Dutch. Growing up, I knew that this made me different from a lot of my peers, but I didn’t really know why. When my parents would volunteer for school events, I would get a lot of weird looks w

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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 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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