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 ...

House of Cards third season is now streaming on Netflix and it’s interesting, confusing, and, of course, morally abhorrent, but it is also — in traditional fashion — a showcase for mobile gaming. In ...

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a cell living in agar? If you’re anything like me, and presumably the rest of the world, the answer to that question is no. But who cares, because now you ...

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 ...

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A free browser game that increases the size by absorbing smaller cells than yourself while manipulating circular cells is called "Agar.io"is. There are many games with the same rules as agar.io, but ...

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 ...

Two out of five stars. 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 ...