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Niko, A Wonder Child in the Eyes of Reviewers and Players
"Best platformer I’ve seen
on the iOS yet." (TheAppReviewer).
That says it all about Niko, our recently launched iOS game. Since its release on January 19th,
Niko has received tons of positive feedback from players and game reviewers. For instance in
Holland, Niko got more than 130 raving reviews on App Store in just 4 days and a local review site
iPhoneClub commented: "The truth is, Niko justifiably deserves all the credit
and success it has earned!"
Sulake has been running the world's largest social game and online community
Habbo Hotel for more than 11 years now, the
company is not really a newcomer to the mobile world either. Already back in 2006, Sulake released
a few J2ME game titles, such as Habbo Creatures and Habbo Dreams, which brought heaps of fun to the
Habbo users. With the increasing popularity of touch screen devices in the past few years, Sulake
has also released
Bobba Bar
on iOS, focusing on real-time social interactions, and
Lost
Monkey on
iOS and
Android,
which was the first app designed to move the Habbo audience from online to mobile and back again.
And now here comes Niko, a fun platformer combining sling shot actions and amazing level
designs, and featuring a cute superhero Niko ("looks like a mogwai and has the stealth of a ninja"
according to 148Apps), who has to save his captured friends from the mysterious
Otherworld. What makes Niko stand out is the fact that even though the game remains truly faithful
to the roots of platformers, it introduces a unique, simple and playful way of leading Niko through
the levels. As
TouchArcade describes:
"you can slingshot, jump and fly through the air to your heart's delight!". However, the most
hilarious and apt game review comment about Niko has to be: "If ever, in some odd twist of events,
Super Mario met up with Angry Birds, decided to get married and have a child, that child’s name
would be Niko." (Unbound Gamer).
Wanna meet Niko the wonder child?
Get it now!
PS. See how excited our friend American artist
Big Ali is about Niko:
Jamie Woon visits Habbo Finland!
The rising British soul artist,
Jamie Woon, is doing his first solo concert
in Finland on Monday November 28th. Jamie visited Finland also in August, when he performed at
Flow, a big Finnish electronic music
festival.
Since Jamie happens to be one of the favourite artists of Habbo Hotel Finland’s Hotel Manager
(and of many users’, we reckon), Jamie was invited to be the special guest star of a live chat held
in Habbo. And since Jamie is known as a kind man, he said yes!
So the Finnish fans of Jamie have a great chance to practice their English skills and have a
special opportunity to meet Jamie virtually in person on Monday November 28th at 3.15 PM EET in
Habbo Finland. The visit will take place at Habbo.fi’s
Disco
Room.
We hope Jamie enjoys his visit in Finland and in Habbo!
Horses!
We're very happy to announce that horses
have galloped to Habbo! We've seen
countless stables popping up all over the hotel grounds and Habbos putting on some riding boots.
Indeed, horses are the first pets you can actually ride on and they come in a variety of
colors from chestnut brown to flashing pink. If after those endless rides into the sunset your
horse seems a bit worn-down, no worries; you can polish it's image with some new dyes.
The horse's body and hair color can be changed afterwards and even the hair and mane can be
given a fresh new style. By customizing your pet horse, the chances of running to an exactly
same-looking horse become minuscule. Time to breath in that country air and hop on the saddle. The
prairie awaits!