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 ...

Agar.io is secretly one of the world’s biggest games. It is a free web experience where players pilot a tiny dot around a two-dimensional plane in order to grow larger by consuming other dots ...

An unlikely internet sensation when it launched in 2015, Agar.io spawned an entire genre of spinoff “-io” games with trademark low-res graphics and free, free-for-all gameplay. Nowadays, its ...

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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I started playing an online game called agar.io a few weeks ago, and by now it’s swallowing up almost all my leisure time. I’ve stopped reading, watching movies — it’s weird! I probably have a few ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a cell living in agar? If you’re anything like me, and presumably the rest of the world, the answer to that question is no. But who cares, because now you ...