Makeover Madness – Frizzy Hair Badge
Make it to “Day 5″ 5 times this week!
BATTLESHIP – Torpedo Badge
Sink 100 ships this week!
Summer Bloom 2010 Super Badge
Win 20 Challenge Badges between 12 AM PT June 2 and 12 AM PT July 28! (This includes Personal and Premium Challenges!)
If you’d like to meet up to earn these badges, play in game rooms under the Topics or Pogo tab that start with either B or H, or Temporary Members Room 50030. Don’t forget to wear a badge that looks like a B to announce your presence!
Share your thoughts, hints, and tips on these badges in a comment below. Good luck with your badges this week!
by Lura on December 2, 2009
Word Search Daily – Winter Search Badge
Find 120 words this week!
Battleship – Direct Hit! Badge
Get 300 hits this week!
by Lura on October 20, 2009
by Lura on October 12, 2009
Here is a sneak peek at the five rank badges and two in-game achievement badges (aka “secret badges”) for Battleship.
Rank 10 – Excellent Ensign Badge
Rank 20 – Loyal Lieutenant Badge
Rank 30 – Clever Commander Badge
Rank 40 – Capable Captain Badge
Rank 50 – Astounding Admiral Badge
Battleship Bomber Badge
Sink 2500 Battleships to earn this badge.
Terrifically Tenacious Badge
Miss 50000 times to earn this badge.
PS: there’s a possible spoiler in the comments here. Good things come to those who read the comments. *laugh*
by Lura on October 9, 2009
We’re still waiting on the actual badge graphics, but we can tell you that Battleship will have 50 ranks, 5 rank badges, and 2 “secret” in-game achievement badges. There’s also been a little bit of information leaked about how we’ll be earning those badges, ranks, and powerups. This, from the Ranks section of the How to Play:
BATTLESHIP has 50 ranks that you can earn as you progress through the game. For Club Pogo players, your rank is shown on the upper left. Also, at ranks 5, 15, 25, and 35, you unlock access to a new powerup, which are only available to Club Pogo players. You earn rank progress by firing shots. You can play in any game mode, win or lose, and make rank progress at approximately the same speed, so play using whatever mode you like best.
There are 5 rank badges you can win in BATTLESHIP. The badges are given out when you achieve ranks 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50. There are also two secret badges, which we won’t write about here, because then they wouldn’t be secret!
Note: To make rank progress, you do not need to win the game. You simply need fire shots.
There’s also some information on a marketing page at Pogo: Battleship is Coming Soon!
Big thanks to the little birdies who whispered in our ear about this news! We’ll be sure to show you as soon as we get our hands on Battleship’s seven badges and their requirements.
by Lura on October 1, 2009
Battleship is coming along nicely and should be released by the end of this month! The game is scheduled to be featured in the next game night (after tomorrow’s) on November 6th, so it should be released before then or Pogo’s going to have to change up their promotion! Thanks Chadd for pointing this out! It’s worth mentioning that we are assuming at least a week of “sneak peek” mode where the game is “out” but not generally released — ie linked on the Pogo home page — before the game would be used for a promotion or event.
The graphics in the game are coming along nicely, everything is very shiny and sharp. Behold a loading image:
Here are some details about the powerups you’ll be playing with while you battle to sink your opponent’s ships (thanks John2!):
Some powerups are always available:
* Heavy Shot
* Counter-Attack
* Reinforcements
* Sinking Shots
* Torpedoes
Some powerups are unlocked at certain ranks:
* Rank 5 – Skipper Powerup
* Rank 15 – Harpoon Powerup
* Rank 25 – Attack Squadron
* Rank 35 – Tomahawk Powerup (Only Active if you have very few ships remaining!)
We’re still waiting on the badge graphics and requirements for Battleship, but they should be out soon. As usual, stay tuned to BadgeHungry for the latest information, and look for this game near the end of the month!
by Lura on September 17, 2009
Last night, several people wrote in to let us know that they’d received rejection letters from Pogo’s beta program for this session and some wrote in to let us know they’d been accepted. It looks like this is the final batch of letters to go out. (For those of you interested in whitelisting the address for your spam filters, both the acceptance and rejection letters came from betainfo@fun.ea.com.)
Currently, testers are playing Battleship (we’ve heard a rumor that they’re holding a frag party this weekend!), and soon Risk and Block Builder will be available for testing as well. Keep an eye here for news, rumors, badges and information as they become available!
Congrats to those of you who got in!
For those of you who didn’t: Pogo claims they don’t allow people to test for two concurrent sessions, so you’ll have an even better chance of getting in next time! This session should end somewhere around the end of the year and shortly thereafter the next round of applications will be taken.
Come back tomorrow for our Weekend Open Thread where we’ll be discussing beta applications, among other topics!
Risk and Battleship are coming to Pogo.com! Don’t get your hopes up for a release anytime this (or maybe next) season, these aren’t even in development yet. We’ll bring you as many details as we can, as soon as they’re available.
