coming soon/rumors

Here’s a look at the upcoming Mix-n-Match badges for August 2010. There are twelve in total and each badge will cost 16 gems. They will be released around the first of the month.

BOGGLE Bash – Four Letter Word Badge
Find 88 4-letter words or longer in 10 days!
Win this badge plus 2,000 tokens!

Dice City Roller – Let the Good Times Roll Badge
Clear 18 ’5 of a kind’ cards in 10 days!
Win this badge plus 2,000 tokens!

High Stakes Pool – Bad Break Badge
Win 8-ball game 8 times in 10 days!
Win this badge plus 2,000 tokens!

KenoPop! – Fingers Crossed Badge
Score with a red ball 8 times in 10 days!
Win this badge plus 2,000 tokens!

MONOPOLY Here & Now: The World Edition – Metropolitan Magnate Badge
Have a player pay you rent 88 times in 2 weeks! (Finish the game to check your progress)
Win this badge plus 3,000 tokens!

Mahjong Garden – Virtual Garden Badge
Collect 12 Zodiac tiles in 10 days! (Finish each puzzle to gain Zodiac tile)
Win this badge plus 2,000 tokens!

Perfect Pair Solitaire – Nautical Nuptials Badge
Visit 8 ports in 10 days! (Reach 8 spaces marked with a star on the game board)
Win this badge plus 3,000 tokens!

Pop Fu – Fu for Thought Badge
Pop 188 balloons on medium difficulty or above in 10 days! (Does not include speed round balloons)
Win this badge plus 3,000 tokens!

Squelchies – See Food Badge
Get 88 combo bonuses in 10 days! (Get combo bonus by making large groups of Squelchies, or for creating Chain Reactions. 2X combos do not count)
Win this badge plus 2,000 tokens!

Stack ‘em – Free Range Badge
Match all 5 special pieces 8 times in 2 weeks! (Special pieces are round with a star, earned at the end of each level)
Win this badge plus 2,000 tokens!

Vaults of Atlantis Slots – Sunken Hero Badge
Get ’3 gold coins’ or better 18 times in 10 days!
Win this badge plus 2,000 tokens!

Word Whomp™ Whackdown – Baby Carrots Badge
Reach the Jackpot Spin carrot 18 times in 2 weeks!
Win this badge plus 2,000 tokens!

The Matinee PBA we told you about earlier that was renamed Summer Blockbusters appears to have been renamed again: it’s now At the Matinee. If you need a refresher, here’s our sneak preview of the badges and challenges.

Here’s a sneak peek at the next Clue episode: Acropolis Now. It’ll have three new cities: Chicago, Athens, and Dublin (thanks Booboo!). It will cost 20 gems for Club Pogo members and 40 gems for regular members.

Journey into the heart of darkness as a sinister plot leads you across the globe from the bustling streets of Dublin to the ancient ruins of Athens. Can you discover the secret to Project Hades?

We don’t have a release date yet. (July? August?) The game’s developer has stated that they plan to release a new episode each month, and one out of every three releases will be free for Club players.

Balloon Bounce (formerly known as Pogo Philler) will have seven badges: five rank badges and two in-game award badges. Check ‘em out!

Rank 10 Badge

Rank 20 Badge

Rank 30 Badge

Rank 40 Badge

Rank 50 Badge

Balloon Heroes Badge
Requirement TBD

Boom Boom Balloon Badge
Requirement TBD

For more information on this upcoming game, check out Pogo’s coming soon page and see our archive of posts about Balloon Bounce. Special thanks to Linda for sharing these badges with us.

Pogo will soon be rewarding Club Pogo members from the US, Canada and UK for renewing their memberships! Club Pogo Renewal Rewards will start on July 13th. If you’ve got a credit card on file and you’re an annual member, you’ll be rewarded with 100 gems and a free month added to the end of your subscription period. If you’re a monthly member, you’ll get 5 gems. This offer does not apply to members whose accounts are renewed by RecycleBank and/or MyCokeRewards promotions. Be sure to read the promo page and check out the FAQ for more details.

It appears the first set of mobile games that Pogo is creating this time around will be iPhone apps and they will be versions of Mahjong Safari, Poppit, Sweet Tooth, Turbo 21, and Word Whomp. Apps available for the iPhone are usually available as well for the iPod touch, but we’re not sure if Pogo is going to create a dedicated iPad version or not. For now, the games are being referred to as iSafari, iPoppit, iSweetTooth, iTurbo21, and iWordWhomp — these, as with most of Pogo’s development names, are subject to change. We’ll be sure to keep you posted on the latest news as soon as we have it, so stay tuned here!

Welp, the title says it all. Pogo Philler has been renamed to Balloon Bounce. Here’s a peek at the new logo:

Pogo is asking for your input on their new mobile projects! Take this survey and let them know how you feel.

As usual, these surveys from Pogo give us insight into what they are planning for the future. This survey seems very geared towards the iDevices. At one point they ask if you’d be interested in any of the following games on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch: Poppit!, Word Whomp, Sweet Tooth 2, Turbo 21, Pogo Bowl, Mahjong Safari, First Class Solitaire, Sea Ball, Puck’s Peak, Bingo Luau, Mini Golf Madness, Phlinx, Hog Heaven Slots, Monopoly Slots, High Stakes Pool, Spades, Euchre, Lottso!, Texas Hold’em, Poker, Hangman Hijinks, and Crossword Cove. One of these games may very well be the first mobile game we see from Pogo.

There was also a question asking you to rate the importance of the following to you:

* Ability to add to the tokens you already earned on the Pogo.com website
* Ability to work on your current game rankings, rather than starting at the lowest rank
* The ability to continue a badge challenge that you began on the Pogo.com website
* Access to your closet of Mini clothes and backgrounds

For us here at BH, we answered an emphatic 10 out of 10 for each of these. Hopefully these games won’t be additional purchases that do not share game ranks and badges with the current Club Pogo offerings. The ideal mobile app is one that is seamless and contains all of the above.

Whether you are an iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, or other mobile device user your input is valuable to them, so be sure to set aside a few minutes and let your voice be heard!

The Matinee PBA we told you about earlier is now called Summer Blockbusters. Here’s a first look at the badges and their requirements. This album contains the following 10 animated badges and an album completion badge.

Click to view the animated badges and challenges