If you’ve ever wanted to link directly to your Pogo.com profile, you’ll be able to do that soon! In addition, Pogo is revamping their profiles with a whole page of information showing your profile stats, your mini, your favorite games, badges, and a lot more. This should be released next Tuesday with maintenance, but if you can’t wait, take a look at Pogo’s Check it Out!
We updated our last post about Monopoly’s release date with some new information we found in a Hasbro press release. It looks like Pogo’s version “will be available on September 3rd”. (Which could mean the game will be put into “Sneak Peek” mode next Tuesday the 26th, or the following Tuesday on the 2nd, or just released on Wednesday. With Pogo, nobody ever really knows!)
In addition, here’s some information about the 22 cities that will be around the game board, listed from highest rent to lowest rent:
Dark Blue: Montreal, Riga
Green: Cape Town, Belgrade, Paris
Yellow: Jerusalem, Hong Kong, Beijing
Red: London, New York, Sydney
Orange: Vancouver, Shanghai, Rome
Magenta: Toronto, Kyiv, Istanbul
Light Blue: Athens, Barcelona, Tokyo
Brown: Taipei, Gdynia
Thousand Island Solitaire - Misty Seas Badge
Win 3,000 tokens this week!
Euchre - Right Bower Badge
Play the Jack of Trump (the Right Bower) 18 times this week!
…like next-week soon! According to this marketing page on Pogo.com, Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition is coming soon. But according to this Hasbro Monopoly Page, all versions of the game will be released simultaneously next week in order for users to break a World Record on multiple formats: the board game, online, or on your mobile phone or video game console.
According to the Pogo page, the game will be available to both Club Pogo and non-Club Pogo members (although Club members will get exclusive ‘movers’ — their word for ‘pieces’ — which will feature Pogo characters). You’ll be able to play with up to 3 human or computer opponents with four sets of customizable game rules. The best news to us is that we’ll be able to play a full game in just 30 minutes!
Look for this game to be released probably next Tuesday (the 26th) with maintenance so that Pogo.com may feature their version for the World Record event on the following day.
Update 8/20: According to this press release (which also lists the cities which will be featured in the game), Monopoly “will be available for download on mobile phones or free online at www.Pogo.com starting September 3, 2008.”
As part of their “Subway Scrabble” sweepstakes, Subway is giving away 1,000 one-year Club Pogo memberships and 1 million 3-month memberships. From now until September 29th, you can obtain a game piece from specially marked Subway products (sandwich wrappers, drink cups). You can instantly win one of the 3-month memberships just by peeling off your game piece. The 1-year memberships will be given in an online instant win when you enter a game piece’s unique code at the Subway Scrabble web site. There are also tons of other prizes to win and you can also request a free game piece without purchase — just read the official rules for more details. Good luck!
We’ve gotten a sneak peek of Sock Hop Slots and we were surprised to find it isn’t really related to Showbiz Slots. It does, however, model the latest slots offerings from Pogo (like Ali Baba Slots and the special Spooky Slots) with a story mode and ranks and badges. It features a character named Ducky and we believe the story will center around his 50’s-inspired musical career.
The graphics for the game’s reels include musical notes, stars, pianos and the main character Ducky. The slot machine itself is modeled after a jukebox: the arm of the machine is an old-style microphone! Each rank will be represented by a guitar which will sit above the pay table to the left of the machine.
The story will advance via musical notes gained by getting a Ducky symbol on the reels (perhaps a few times before a musical note is awarded). The ranks will be achieved as players collect the musical notes. There will be 5 badges, awarded at ranks 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50.
This week, we have three challenges because non-US players cannot play Scrabble for the badge.
Scrabble - LOVE for 7 Points Badge
Win 7 games this week! (Play with Pogo’s House Rules only!)
Mahjong Garden - Shadow Puppets Badge
Celebrate 2 birthdays with your dragon this week! (Complete the boar puzzle to check your progress!)
Quick Quack - Duckie Freestyle Badge
Get 12 streaks of 30 or more ducks this week!
Ali Baba Slots - Heap of Coins Badge
Spin and get 300 gold coins in 2 weeks!
Checkers - Checker Champ Badge
Win 15 RATED games in 5 days!
Hog Heaven Slots - Hog Barn Badge
Win 4,000 tokens in 12 days!
Keno Pop! - Sharing Numbers Badge
Win the Shared Number bonus 5 times in 5 days!
Mahjong Garden - Weather Dragon Badge
Win 10,000 tokens in 1 day (including Jackpot Spins)!
Pogo Bowl - Lucky Lapel Pin Badge
Knock down 10 gold pins in 10 days!
Spades - Parachutin’ Pooch Badge
Work with your partner to win 1,000 points in 4 hours or less!
Thousand Island Solitaire - Thousand Island Dressing Badge
Get a “Perfect 1000″ on 125 piles in 3 weeks! (Play cards to make your piles add up to exactly 1000.)
We’re particularly impressed with the slew of new stuff at Pogo.com with today’s release. Everyone Wins Bingo is a Club Pogo release, Operation Mania is a downloadable deluxe game (with mini items and badges!), and last but not least, the Mix-n-Match Challenges for August 2008 are out too.
If you’re eager to see the release of Everyone Wins Bingo and are desperately hoping it’ll come out this Tuesday, here’s a overview of Everyone Wins Bingo for you to check out.
