Frank Underwood's new game jam: 'Agar.io'
Mild spoiler alert: This post contains (mild) spoilers for Season 4 of House of Cards.
Another season of House of Cards, another potential gaming addiction for Frank Underwood.
Mobile game Agar.io is featured so prominently in Episode 9 of just-launched Season 4 that it almost seems like an advertisement. Underwood has a tense meeting with his new Republican rival, New York Gov. Will Conway (Joel Kinnaman), but the tension is broken when he asks Conway if he plays any video games.
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Conway quickly whips out a phone to show Underwood Agar.io, a multiplayer mobile game that has become a cult hit -- gaining 2 billion YouTube views for videos of its gameplay.
Underwood has a long history with gaming, from playing Call of Duty to blow off steam in Season 1, to enjoying contemplating sessions of mobile game Monument Valley in Season 3.
For those who haven't played Agar.io, I'll let Conway explain the rules:
"You start out as a little bitty dot, and then you eat these other dots and get bigger. The bigger you get, you've gotta avoid getting eaten by the bigger players. Meanwhile, you're trying to eat the smaller players."
"Sounds a little like running for president," Underwood responds.
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Chelsea Stark was the Games Editor for Mashable, where she covered everything from AAA titles, mainstream consoles, indie gems, mobile games and gaming culture. She handled news, feature stories and reviews. Before that, Chelsea was Mashable's Multimedia Producer, where she helped develop visual storytelling aids, whether they were photos of video. She came to New York in 2010 to pursue her master's degree in journalism at NYU's Studio 20 program, which focused on innovation as journalism is changed by new technology. Before coming to New York, Chelsea lived in Austin, where she did online journalism and social media for the local CBS affiliate. She loves good beer, classic Nintendo games, and all things geeky, and spends her time attempting to find anything close to good Tex-Mex in Brooklyn.
