App Annie’s July games index reveals that Miniclip's viral hit Agar.io has taken the mobile world by storm. Having been an online web browser game for some time, Agar.io raked in over 7 million ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Agar.io or Agario is a game in which you take charge of a tiny cell, eating small dots and other players that are smaller than you. Every time you eat a dot or another player you grow in size, making ...

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Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook This photo is a screenshot from the official Agar.io website. Repeating the same stage in “Mario ...