Who Has The Biggest Brain?

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Who Has The Biggest Brain?
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Developer(s)Playfish
Publisher(s)Playfish
Platform(s)
Release2009

Who Has The Biggest Brain? is a brain training social video game by Playfish and published on Facebook Connect.[1][2][3][4][5] It was Playfish's first game.[6] The game, along with other Playfish titles like Word Challenge and Geo Challenge, were rolled out onto iOS.[7][8][9][10] EA acquired the rights to the game in 2009 after acquiring Playfish.[11][12][13]

The title sees the player work through memory, math, and spatial games to get a brain score.[14] The game consisted of 4 minigames, 60 seconds each.[15] The leaderboard showed both the player's Facebook photo and score and that of their nearest competitors.[16]

By March 2009, the game had been played over 500 million times by over 15 million people[17][18] with current monthly active player base of nearly 4.2 million people.[19]

On August 30, 2011, it was the announced the game along with other Playfish titles would be axed on September 30.[20]

Critical reception[]

Pocket Gamer deemed it "excellent and frighteningly addictive".[21]

References[]

  1. ^ Dredge, Stuart. "How Facebook Connect works for iPhone games". www.pocketgamer.com. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  2. ^ Dredge, Stuart. "Who Has The Biggest Brain comes to iPhone". www.pocketgamer.com. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  3. ^ "Who Has The Biggest Brain". Facebook. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  4. ^ Cowan, Matt (2009-11-04). "Playfish sees social games as industry driver". Reuters. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  5. ^ "Playfish sign for State of Independence". GamesIndustry.biz. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  6. ^ Dredge, Stuart. "Mobile veterans launch casual gaming start-up". www.pocketgamer.com. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  7. ^ Dredge, Stuart; Editor, Contributing. "Playfish talks iPhone games and Facebook Connect". pocketgamer.biz. Retrieved 2021-04-23.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  8. ^ Mehta, Prakash (2009-03-17). "Who Has The Biggest Brain? for iPhone and iPod Touch Launched by Playfish - GameGuru". Game Guru. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  9. ^ Dredge, Stuart. "Video: Who Has The Biggest Brain? for iPhone". www.pocketgamer.com. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  10. ^ Lazar, Lonnie (2009-03-14). "Playfish Brings Social Gaming to Apple Mobile Users". Cult of Mac. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  11. ^ "Electronic Arts acquires Playfish for $275 million". phys.org. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  12. ^ "Not Playing Around. EA Buys Playfish For $300 Million, Plus a $100 Million Earnout". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  13. ^ "Electronics Arts buys game maker Playfish". NBC News. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  14. ^ "Q&A: Facebook's Biggest Brain Tells All". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  15. ^ "Playfish: The Social Gaming Provocateurs". www.gamasutra.com. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  16. ^ "Who Has the Biggest Brain?". Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  17. ^ Segerstrale, Kristian (2009-03-14). "We're live on iPhone and iPod touch!". Life at Playfish. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  18. ^ Terdiman, Daniel. "Lessons to glean from social gaming". CNET. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  19. ^ Dredge, Stuart; Editor, Contributing. "Playfish launches first iPhone game... with Facebook Connect". pocketgamer.biz. Retrieved 2021-04-23.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  20. ^ Staff, A. O. L. "Playfish says goodbye to Hotel City, My Empire and four more games". www.aol.com. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  21. ^ "Who Has the Biggest Brain?". www.pocketgamer.com. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
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