04.01.13Fall in love and then swiftly into hatred and loathing all over again with My 'Lil Bastard, out today on Facebook! You'd better believe that the pains of raising a ungratefully disobedient pet will be lessened with friends to hassle for help.
03.26.13Ever not been invited to a rocking party? We feel your pain, and that's why we want to cordially invite you to come crash a party with us in our new game for Adult Swim: Piranha Pop! Ruin the dolphin's merriment by popping all of their balloons today!
03.11.13Following two successful Pop game parodies -- Pokémon: Black and Blue and Super Tanooki Skin 2D -- PETA turns its attention to StarCraft II and the plight of misunderstood Zerglings. Stop by their blog to open your heart to the Swarm too!
01.10.13The Brooklyn Game Ensemble has blown the proverbial horn of game design, beckoning a team of the finest industry giants (our own Vincent LaCava included!) on the East Coast. Read about their beginnings, process, and updates on project Librariana over at Polygon!
12.12.12A big congratulations to our own Noah Sasso (and other outstanding game designers) on the successful funding of the SPORTSFRIENDS Kickstarter! If you missed out on donating to these awesome local multiplayer games, you'd best buddy up with someone who did ASAP!
12.01.12From providing Hurricane Sandy relief to an American Giving Awards nomination, friend of Pop Architecture for Humanity has had quite a month! To find out more about their cool projects and events (and how you can help make a difference), be sure to subscribe to their newsletter!
11.14.12Put down those lame textbooks, it's time to study geography This Is Pop style! Play Mankind: World Heritage Destinations today, and be sure to follow along with A+E's 'Story of all of us'.
10.17.12Our Pokémon: Black and Blue game for PETA hit 1 MILLION views on the first day, 150,000 Facebook likes (okay, one of those was us), and we've got an inbox full of rants. Thanks for the love and hate, everyone!
10.13.12Pop and BaraBariBall are big in Texas! Peep the praise for our PETA games, and our lead game designer's indie fighter in the Austin Chronicle.
10.11.12Boy oh boy, the press sure loves the games we make for PETA. Check out the unprecedented positivity for our latest collaboration Pokémon: Black and Blue on Forbes, Kotaku, Rocket News 24, and Yahoo Games!
10.08.12People who make animals fight each other for money or enjoyment suck. That's why we've teamed up with PETA for another animal friendly spin on a video game classic...Pokémon! Play our new game Pokémon: Black and Blue, and support PETA's mission to end the mistreatment of animals in violent and unnecessary sporting events.
09.20.12Pop's Noah Sasso is taking his acclaimed fighter BaraBariBall to the international stage, with stops added in Japan for Tokyo's Sense of Wonder Night and Toronto for Gamercamp. Stop by his BaraBariBlog for a full list of upcoming exhibitions!
06.06.12Despite allegedly having never set foot in Brooklyn, Pop’s CEO Vincent Lacava has been welcomed onto the Brooklyn Games Ensemble roster with open arms! Stay tuned to our Announcements page or subscribe to our Newsletter to keep tabs on BGE and other friends of Pop.
06.05.12Let it be known that we at Pop revel in our notoriety – which of course is in a great part down to our long-term (strictly platonic!) relationship with Adult Swim – but even we’re a little disappointed that only eleven people hated us enough to sign this petition! We demand a recount!
05.29.12This Is Pop’s Co-Founder and CEO, Vincent Lacava, talks with The Creator’s Project about Toilet Duck, the Macarena, the Real Housewives, and, most importantly, how to make great casual games!
05.16.12Wunderbar! Them crazy Germans have a taste for tofu. Alien tofu! Tofu Hunter In Space lives at AdultSwim.de!
05.02.12This Is Pop has always been a global operation, but even more so with the launch of History Channel’s Spanish and Portuguese language versions of Ice Road Showdown and You Got Pawned! Test out both your foreign language and gaming skills here, here, here, and here! Vivan los juegos! Viva os jogos!
05.01.12The NYU Game Center’s Third Annual No Quarter Exhibition is fast approaching and this year Pop has a vested interest! Our very own game design lead Noah Sasso – ably assisted by our Lead Animator Joon Choi – is showcasing his talents alongside other notable names in the industry. If you’re in NYC, be sure to stop by and experience this year’s cutting edge new indie games!
04.10.12When we say we’re History buffs, we're not talking about knowing the birthday of Abe Lincoln's second son or how many jousts Henry VIII won. No… our kind of History is tattooed fat dudes buying muskets and attractive blondes driving eighteen wheelers across ice lakes! Which is why we're stoked to see our new History Channel games launch! Go play Pawn Stars: You Got Pawned and Ice Road Truckers: Ice Road Showdown and dose up on some History, This Is Pop style!
03.01.12This Is Pop CEO Vincent LaCava speaks to Eric Zimmerman's game design class at NYU's Tisch School about building successful game brands.
02.29.12The Top-rated game, and six of the Top thirteen most played Adult Swim games - Hemp Tycoon, My Lil' Bastard, Biblefight, Viva Caligula, Rock Paper Scissors Extreme Deathmatch, and Zombie Hooker Nightmare - are This Is Pop games! Check 'em out!
02.22.12Our SpongeBob mini games have been played over 100 million times! In case you missed our homepage feature, we've archived it for you here.
12.21.11We’re always pleased to see our games reviewed over at Kotaku.com, as more often than not they know what’s hot and what’s not! And Circus Slam is most definitely hot! Check out their review here and then pick it up for less than the price of a loaf of bread at the App Store!
12.19.11Sometimes we get to use our game design powers for good - Check out Circus Slam for iPhone and help us support PETA's efforts to raise awareness - and ultimately stop - the rampant mistreatment of elephants at circuses.
11.14.11People who hurt animals make us mad. Really mad! Which is why nothing makes us happier than helping PETA push their campaigns out to the game playing public. Click here to play our Super Tanooki Skin 2D game and to support PETA in their quest to expose the barbaric practices that go on in Chinese fur farms.
11.14.11Making a game about kittens getting wet was one of the hardest things we’ve ever had to do. Making the game even better left us in floods of tears. Play the new and improved Kitten Purrrtection at Lifetime Games!
11.05.11For those of you who missed our Halloween homepage - featuring Zombie Hooker Nightmare, Harum Scarum, Trick or Treat Beat & more - we've backed it up for ya here.
10.28.11Check out The Young Guns 9 exhibit at The Art Director's Club of New York, and thank Judge V if you were a winner!
10.14.11
More love from the GamePro staff - POP's Victorian BMX is ranked #4 on their list of top 15 flash games!
10.07.11Lovers of Solitaire! Banish Start > All Programs > Games > Solitaire from your memories! You're but one click away from heaven! Strip Solitaire has launched at Adult Swim Games!
10.07.11Lovers of semi-naked, hot people! Put down your lad mags and copies of Cosmo! You're but one click away from heaven! Strip Solitaire has launched at Adult Swim Games!
10.07.11Now that Adult Swim have launched their Facebook Arcade there's even more motivation to pole dance, look at hot, naked people, fight a vending machine, fly a homemade jetpack, massacre harmless tofu creatures, commit genocide, and more...!
09.28.11
According to GamePro, Victorian BMX Plays Like Excitebike on Acid..
08.04.11Hemp Tycoon reaches 15 million plays! That's the entire population of Malawi!
Or if cities are more your thing, everyone in Moscow!
07.12.11A recent Ars Technica feature claimed Adult Swim “might just be the best indie games publisher around”, citing the dozens of creative and bizarre titles the network’s site has introduced to the world over the last four years.
06.06.11Check out the Waterslide Inferno review on JayIsGames.
05.25.11Here at Pop, we're not all about murderous Roman emperors, wars between mythical beasts, the grim reaper on a BMX, and pole dance parties. No! We also shed a tear when a kitten gets wet... Share our concern and play our latest game - Kitten Purrrtection - at Lifetime Games.
05.05.11When a group of experimental Burger/woman hybrids escape from the Research Compound, only the crack TorToss team can destroy the evidence in time!
05.02.11As the balmy days of summer approach, we're pleased to introduce a new way to cool down - hit the pool with Gumball and Darwin in a cannonball contest of epic proportions! Check out CartoonNetwork.com, and play
Gumball Splash Master!
03.03.11Zoologists and cryptozoologists, take note! A war is being waged underneath our very noses!
The Yeti and the Sasquatch, both long rumored to exist, are fighting for survival... and they’re well-armed!
02.09.11Our old friends at the Art Directors Club call Hemp Tycoon "so addictive it could be the new Snood." If that's not reason enough to start up your own hemp farm, we don't know what is, so get to Adult Swim and invest in the finest grow lights money can buy.
02.04.11The praise for Hemp Tycoon is rolling in faster than we can catalog it. To wit - PlayThisThing, who praises us for nailing the grow-your-own movement without the "fruity surrounding indicia we see on Facebook." If there's one thing we here at Pop don't do, it's fruity surrounding indicia. We think. Just let us check our dictionaries.
01.30.11Our games have got legs, baby. Check out the CartoonNetwork.com top games list - two of This is Pop's games are still topping the charts after five years! If you haven't checked them out, see what you're missing in Battle Ready, and Tag Team Titans, just two of those perennial favorites.
01.20.11A good despot never lets death get in his or her way, which is why Caligula can be found tormenting the tormented in our follow up to the now classic Viva Caligula! – Viva Caligula! In Hell! Go and seek out some bad people to play with!
01.12.11Tofu Hunter wins the Libby Award for Most Animal Friendly Game of 2010!
12.27.10Both Hemp Tycoon and My Lil' Bastard are now over ten million plays each!!
11.16.10Tofu Hunter has been nominated for a Libby Award for Most Animal Friendly Game of 2010 by PETA!
The Libby Awards ("Libby" is for "liberation") honor animal-friendly people and products.
Visitors to peta2.com will help them determine the winners by voting for their favorites in each category.
11.12.10Hemp Tycoon breaks three million plays in just over a month!
11.04.10We at Pop just can’t get enough of stripping. In fact, most of our creativity stems from the fact we work naked. See the product of our liberal outlook on life at AdultSwim.com, where Pole Dance Party 2 is due to be the next big hit!
11.04.10Hemp Tycoon breaks two million plays in just 28 days!
10.18.10Just a week after sprouting, Hemp Tycoon edges Robot Unicorn Attack as the top rated, most played game on AdultSwim.com!
Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
10.07.10Psst... Hey you! How would you like to make a fortune by growing and selling? Then check out
Hemp Tycoon on AdultSwim.com! Grow and sell all your
favorite types of Industrial Hemp
(without having to hire a lookout).
10.04.10Check out the Death Row Diner review on JayIsGames.
09.13.10We created 33 Spongebob games for Nickelodeon in 2009 and together they've been played over
100 MILLION times! We're stoked that you enjoy 'em - love for the fans!
08.23.10What do you get when you combine Death and a BMX? You get our latest smash hit on the web,
Victorian BMX! Experience the mortiferous excitement on
AdultSwim.com.
07.02.10Wine Pong - IndieGames Browser Game Pick
07.01.10Wine Pong launches on AdultSwim.com. Play hard, but keep in mind this nugget of wisdom:
"Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living."
- Jean Kerr
06.04.10Love letters!
05.24.10A weekend of serving slop to the dregs of society has spawned a new underclass of amateur lunchladies! They are everywhere!
05.21.10Even murderers need to eat (apparently!), so we made a game about it! Not ones to shy from controversial subject matter, we undertook 6 months of undercover research in America's most dangerous, maximum security prison to give our newest Adult Swim game an authentic feel! Get food on your apron and blood on your hands and play Death Row Diner! These folks did and loved it!
05.09.10We like a good love story, so what could be better than a game about expressing your love with a jetpack? Jetpack Jackass has blasted-off over at Adult Swim. Now go show it some love. Or perhaps you'd be willing to poke Floater Pro onto your iPhone? We'd be kindly obliged if ya'did.
04.27.10Turns out Codename: Kids Next Door - Down Hill Derby is game of the week over at CartoonNetwork.com. Maybe race on over and check it out? Apparently, it's the top game on their site! Whoda-thunk-it?
01.29.10Just thought we would chime in and mention that, on top of all of our other awesome games, we made 26 Sponge Bob Games last year for Nick. That's a new game every two weeks for a year. You can't beat that! (But we'll try.)
01.18.10If there's one thing the internet likes more than torturing small animals, it's strippers. We get that, you get that, and fans of Adult Swim Games get that. That's why two of our games - Pole Dance Hero and My Lil' Bastard - are rightfully topping the "most played" list over at Adult Swim. Get in there and strip and torture your little hearts out.
01.15.10We love basketball. Well, not playing it so much, what with all the "being outside" and "balls hitting us in the face" and "being five foot three." But we love the idea of basketball - and our new game, Three-Point Shootout, now on Foot Locker Unlocked!
01.09.10 Calling All Titans is the Top Rated and Top Played game today on CN.com! Assemble your team of pubescent crime-fighters and lead them into battle, one mini-game at a time here.
01.08.10 Has your iPhone recently been invaded by a pooping, pyromaniacal bastard? Well, don't you worry, you're not alone. As the good people at ADC Young Guns can tell you, My Lil' Bastard for iPhone is a hit. If your iPhone is still missing its newest friend, you can pick one up here.
01.08.10 Some accolades come only once in a lifetime - others come only once a week. But this week is ours - for Pole Dance Hero has been named Game of the Week at Casualgaming.biz! We bask in this glory, for this week is one like none other - a week America spent with us, riding the pole.
01.08.10You've been a Guitar Hero, led a Rock Band, and (based on its sales figures, probably not) been a DJ Hero. But now it's time to really live out your performance fantasies, in our newest game: Pole Dance Hero, now on AdultSwim.com.
12.23.09There's a surprise in your stocking this Christmas - or at least in your iPhone. My Lil' Bastard has made the jump from the internet to the iPhone, and along with it come a bevy of new mini-games... and the same crude, crass, and overall nasty gameplay you've come to expect. Get your copy now!
12.17.09Our second of two awesome holiday updates to our games has been released - this one brings the joy of poking a dead body with a stick to a whole new season. That's right, Floater has been reborn, brutally murdered again, and pushed down an icy river to create Floater On Ice, live today at AdultSwim.com!
12.14.09It's Christmas, and CartoonNetwork.com has given you the greatest of gifts - Tag Team Titans, now free for all to play. This Pop classic puts you in control of the Teen Titans team as you unleash a slew of powers against Baron Blood and his minions. It's already topping the CartoonNetwork charts - why not go give it a spin?
12.03.09What's more extreme than SpongeBob SquarePants ripping up the streets on a skateboard? Well, when he does it all the way to a gold medal as "Game of the Year" on Nickelodeon. So go play Skater Sponge today, because each play sends us closer to our number one goal - domination of the hearts and minds of children.
11.23.09Are you in the holiday spirit yet? Well, maybe taking a trip up to the north pole with everyone's favorite post-apocalyptic prostitute will help get you in the mood. Zombie Hooker Nightmare XXX-Mas is live today at Adult Swim - unleash a stocking of new weapons on the denizens of the frozen north, and sneak a roll in the hay with Santa himself.
09.25.09Our games are a little like our children - we send them out into the world, hoping that people will love them and respect them for what they are, and knowing that the next one will be even better than the last. Take Inuyasha Demon Tournament, which is still Adult Swim's most played game ever with over 70 million plays! But it's always nice when we find out that our younger ones are doing well out there - like on AdultSwim.com, where we currently have 4 of the 5 top-rated games of this year, and 3 of the 5 most-played games of this year. Well done, kids. Now don't forget to call.
08.13.09Spell My Finger, our new game for Adult Swim, is now live and stretching vocabularies across the nation. Don't believe us? Ask Casualgaming.biz, who named it their Game of the Week. That's right - all this week, you better play this game. Because it's official. And you'll like it. We do.
07.30.09In a thrilling twofer of Adult Swim news, two old favorites are given new life today! First off, Twirl & Hurl has finally seen the release of its third episode, giving you a thrilling 45 levels of spinning action to play through. And even more exciting, Ultimate Vending Machine Challenge is now the subject of an awesome iPhone port as Vending Machine Champ. Play it, love it, learn from it. Or enjoy it, at least.
07.24.09We're a regular SpongeBob SquarePants game factory here at This is Pop. Get ready to spend a long weekend catching up on all of the new games... RoundPants Runaround, Robot Ruckus, Sea Stampede, Walks Da Plank, Sizzlin' Scare, Chum is Fum, Toy Store Trial, and Patrick's Hat Trick, all live at Nick.com!
07.20.09Play This Thing were kind enough to write up their love of My Lil' Bastard, and throw a few kind words our way as well. We're flattered, and we're especially glad that the game was "enough to put them off parenthood." All in a day's work.
07.16.09On such a beautiful summer's day, our thoughts wander to our childhoods, where we spent whole days running around the woods, exploring and adventuring. Then, after one traumatic experience, we never left the comforting glow of our computers again. We made a game about that experience... Floater, live today at AdultSwim.com.
07.15.09Mr. Mullet continues to catch eyeballs and affection at Adult Swim. In its latest writeup at gaming mega-blog Destructoid, it's rightfully called "one of the best" games on AdultSwim.com. Try it now, if you missed it the first time around.
07.14.09Dungeons and Dungeons has recently begun making appearances on some of the internet's premier Flash games sites, and attracting yet another round of glorious attention. IndieGames.com is the latest to realize the joys of whipping your way through a robotic S&M playground - something everyone should experience at least once.
06.25.09Never let it be said that This is Pop is only about silly, mindless fun. On our off-hours, we've even been known to read books without pictures in them. Nevertheless, it was exciting to put our principles into play (and draw pixelated boobs) for Breasts Not Animal Tests, live today at PETA2.
06.19.09Our games have got legs, baby. Check out the CartoonNetwork.com top games list - three This is Pop games are still leading the charts. If you haven't checked them out, see what you're missing in Battle Blitz, Ninja Survival, and Battle Ready, just three of those perennial favorites.
06.04.09Have you gotten your daily dose of SpongeBob? If not, we have three brand new games featuring him and his friends - Belly Bounce, Sandy Chop Chop, and Bubble Blower. Plenty of sponge-y goodness.
05.22.09The good people at JayIsGames shared their love of Mr. Mullet today - in the way only they know how. It's been a while since we were called Sugarlips, but... uh... thanks?
05.21.09Do you like puzzle games? Do you like vomiting? Do you like clicking frantically, knowing that you are powerless to stop the situation that you've led your character into, and it's all your fault? Then you'll love the first episode of Twirl & Hurl, live today at AdultSwim.com.
05.20.091up.com's annual list of the 101 best free games on the Web is up, and we're happy to announce that three of our games made the cut - Zombie Hooker Nightmare, My Lil' Bastard, and Ultimate Vending Machine Challenge all found their place among the best and brightest of internet time-killers. And, naturally, two of them are under their "WTF" category - a proud distinction if we've ever heard one.
04.29.09SpongeBob SquarePants: Gnarly Rip Curl went up on Nickelodeon's site last week, and it already has 1.7 million plays. This week, we've released SpongeBob Krabby Katch, which is totally gonna get 300 million plays.
04.23.09Mr. Mullet continues to grab attention from the internet. TheGamesList calls it "surreal but quite brilliant", which happens to also be what our second grade teacher called us.
04.14.09The 2009 Webby Award nominees have been announced, and we're pleased to tell you that Rock Paper Scissors: Extreme Deathmatch has been nominated in the games category! Check out the other nominees and vote for us in the People's Voice section!
04.10.09Gotten your fill of strapping on your high heels and fetching johns from the grasp of the zombie scourge? No? Good, us neither - that's why we've unleashed a new second episode of Zombie Hooker Nightmare, live today at AdultSwim.com!
04.08.09Ultimate Vending Machine Challenge is still going strong on Adult Swim Games, and people are noticing. Thanks to PC Gamer, IndieGames.com, and Kotaku for spreading the joy of beating up a giant, snack-filled beast.
03.26.09 There are titles, and then there are TITLES. When the name Zombie Hooker Nightmare came to us, we knew what we had to do - make the best prostitution / zombie carnage game in the world. The fruits of our labor are live today at Adult Swim!
03.20.09 Thanks to the good people at Gamezebo for their kind words about Ultimate Vending Machine Challenge, and their advice not to try it in real life. Good advice, and we wish it had come a little sooner - get well soon, Will!
03.12.09 For all of us with a little bit of hair loss anxiety, it's time to stand up and praise a real hero. Someone who takes matters into his own hands, stands up and finds his own hair, by any means necessary. Someone like Mr. Mullet, live today at AdultSwim.com!
03.09.09 Two thrilling new games are live at Nick.com! In Monster Vs. Aliens: Ultimate Challenge, a blue blob battles an evil alien using pieces of himself. In Monsters Vs. Aliens: Alien Trackdown Smackdown, a giant woman is chased by a giant robot for all eternity. They're metaphors.
02.24.09 Jellyfish genocide, repurposed as children's entertainment - sometimes, our jobs really are pretty great. Play SpongeBob Squarepants: Demolition Sponge on Nick.com or their special SpongeBob microsite!
02.13.09 Our friends at Adult Swim are nominated for a South by Southwest Interactive Conference Web Award. We like to think that it's because of some of the killer games we've done for them in the last year, like Ultimate Vending Machine Challenge, My Lil' Bastard, Rock Paper Scissors: Extreme Deathmatch, and Dungeons and Dungeons... Just to scrape the surface. Cross your fingers and check out the rest of the nominees here!
02.10.09 Virtual pets are fine, but they're just too cute and too nice for us. That's why we brought a real bastard into the world - My Lil' Bastard, live today at AdultSwim.com!
01.22.09Fight the machines, for the future of snacktime hangs in the balance. Play Ultimate Vending Machine Challenge, now live at AdultSwim.com!
01.20.09While poking around CartoonNetwork.com the other day, we noticed that Ben 10: Battle Ready is now their most played game ever, and Star Students and Battle Blitz round out the top four. We're proud to have poisoned so many young minds!
01.04.09SpongeBob has a new website, and topping their most-played list is This is Pop's own Dastardly Dirty Treats!
12.04.08Berman, Pop's friend and elevator operator, reminded us today that it's "The Happy Month", December. So let's start celebrating with The Fairly OddParents: Jingle Bell Jump, a slice of holiday cheer now at Nick.com!
11.28.08The early word is in - you guys are a bunch of weirdoes, too. Or at least the awesome people at Gay Gamer, Das Gamer, and Gaming Today, all of whom love Dungeons And Dungeons!
11.20.08 Proof, in game form, that we all need therapy. Badly. Make the best of our perversity by playing Dungeons And Dungeons, live today at Adultswim.com!
11.13.08This Is Pop's three Naruto games are all on CartoonNetwork.com's Top Ten Games list. You just can't get enough of that little ninja, can you?
11.05.08Jurassic Lucha Club ha ido viviendo en España y Portugal! Traductor Google afirma que esto es la forma en que diria esto en Español. Promesa que los juegos se traducen mejor.
11.03.08Still feel like being a ninja, even though Halloween's over? We've got just the thing. Naruto: Battle For Leaf Village, live today at Cartoon Network!
10.27.08Get into the Halloween spirit the Pop way - by viciously mauling your enemies with candy in Spongebob Squarepants: Dastardly Dirty Treats.
10.06.08With over 110,000 plays, Bible Fight is a juggernaut on Gamebrew.com's Most Popular Games list. InuYasha Demon Tournament weighs in with 43k plays. That's over 150,000 hours you probably shouldn't have billed at work.
09.29.08Pigs (and cows) fly. They pull off some pretty wild stunts, too. See for yourself in Back At The Barnyard: Barn Burner, now at Nick.com!
09.02.08You think you're hardcore? If you can beat the cowboy boot, then we can talk. Give it your best shot - play Foot Locker: Intergalactic Sneaker Rescue!
08.20.08 Jurassic Fight Club: Turf Wars gains two new Dinosaurs today - the Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus Rex!
08.19.08We were thrilled to find Japan's Flashgametoday has done reviews of Breakfast Brawl, InuYasha, and Rock Paper Scissors: Extreme Deathmatch. We were less thrilled when Google translated one page as "Suma Bra-tempered Match-up Game". Ah, technology. |
