Who Has The Biggest Brain?

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

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  7. Dredge, Stuart; Editor, Contributing. "Playfish talks iPhone games and Facebook Connect". pocketgamer.biz. Retrieved 2021-04-23.{{cite web}}: |last2= has generic name (help)
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  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.
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  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.{{cite web}}: |last2= has generic name (help)
  20. A. O. L. Staff. "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.