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 ...

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 ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. With every new season of House of Cards comes a new video game reference. This year’s slate of episodes is no exception. On the fourth season of House ...

The story is all in the name. Agar.io stems from the substance agar, which is a jelly-like substance obtained from algae that is used to culture bacteria. You are a single celled bacteria in a petri ...

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 ...

The browser game Agar.io has made its way into the app store and onto our phones. The point of the game is to move your cell across the board in order to eat other players and grow larger. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

App Annie’s July games index reveals that Miniclip's viral hit Agar.io has taken the mobile world by storm. Having been an online web browser game for some time, Agar.io raked in over 7 million ...

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