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 ...

A free browser game that increases the size by absorbing smaller cells than yourself while manipulating circular cells is called "Agar.io"is. There are many games with the same rules as agar.io, but ...

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 ...

Phil is a freelance writer from the UK, studying Creative Writing at university. When he's not writing, Phil is usually fiddling about with his phone, tweeting, or obsessing over anything with four ...

Agar.io is a new game in the Google Play Store that seems to be gaining a lot of steam very quickly. At first glance, the game doesn’t appear to be too much. Yet, the download counts keep rising and ...

Whether you’re low on space for another massive download or just looking for a fun online game to play in your browser, .io games have plenty to offer. So, if you want to start to familiarize yourself ...

Miniclip's viral casual game Agar.io has accumulated 113 million downloads on mobile since it launched back in April 2015. The game was a huge success for the company at the time, ending up as the ...

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