Agar.io is a quirky game that has gained a massive audience in part because you can easily play it against so many other people at once. The mobile and PC game starts you out as a tiny bacteria cell ...

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 ...

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 ...

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