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July 29, 2013, Los Angeles Times, Pastor Rick Warren preaches for first time after son's suicide, by Jack Dolan,
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July 29, 2013, Los Angeles Times, Pastor Rick Warren preaches for first time after son's suicide, by Jack Dolan,
Rick Warren, bestselling author and pastor of an evangelical mega church in Orange County, preached for the first time on Sunday after his son's suicide.
Matthew Warren, 27, shot himself in the head in April following a long struggle with mental illness.
On Sunday, his father appeared in jeans and a black T-shirt in front of an estimated 10,000 congregants at his Saddleback Church in Lake Forest and vowed to fight prejudice against people with mental illnesses.
“It’s amazing to me that any other organ in your body can break down and there’s no shame and stigma to it," Warren said. "But if your brain breaks down you’re supposed to keep it a secret.”
On Monday, he tweeted: "I'm back. And fearless after months in God's presence."
A Southern Baptist who opened his church in Orange County in 1980, Warren delivered the invocation at President Obama's 2009 inauguration and is the author of "The Purpose Driven Life," which has sold tens of millions of copies.
After his son's suicide, Warren and his wife, Kay, launched a petition about mental illness urging "educators, lawmakers, healthcare professionals, and church congregations to raise the awareness and lower the stigma of mental illness."
“Matthew was just one of about 11.4 million American adults that suffered from severe mental illness in the past year,” the petition states. “In fact, one in five Americans experiences some sort of mental illness.”
Warren has taken to social media to grieve over the family's loss. The family also started a foundation on mental health in Matthew Warren’s name.
The game was a huge success for the company at the time, ending up as the most searched game on Google in 2015. It spawned numerous clones, the most notable being Slither.io, 2016's fifth most trending game on Google Play in the UK.
The game also boasts 30 million players a month, according to Miniclip CEO Rob Small. He did not clarify if this figure included browser players, however.
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The news comes as part of Miniclip's announcement that its portfolio of games has surpassed one billion downloads combined. Agar.io is only the second most popular game – 8 Ball Pool has managed 302 million downloads on mobile.
The publisher isn't leaving Agar.io alone, however. Small promised that new features are planned to launch in the game in the next few weeks.
You can find out more about Agar.io's success, and how Miniclip managed so many downloads overall, in our interview with Small.
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It’s really tough to describe a game like Agar.io (Free). It hearkens back to the old age of computing, back when Prodigy and CompuServe allowed users access to games at the cost of an hourly rate. There’s something soothing about the experience, and since it’s free and gets right into the action in seconds, you may as well try it out.
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Agar.io is described as an “MMO," but it’s a lot more arcade-like in nature. You’ll start off as a single, solitary cell — yep, as in, a microscopic organism. Your objective is to simply absorb smaller cells, grow in size, and live as long as you possibly can. If you happen to get absorbed, it’s game over, and you’ll start over from the beginning. I’m leaving out the major gimmick of course, in that most of those other cells that you are eating and being eaten by are actually other players. Hence, the “massively multiplayer" part. As you’d expect, things can get extremely hectic and competitive being surrounded by a constant sea of players
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Easily dismissed? Maybe. But you could easily have said the same thing about agar.io and slither.io when they came out, and we all know how those two games blew up. In addition, emoj.io is the brainchild of Phil Hassey, the man who gave us the Galcon games, and thus someone who understands how to take a title with simple presentation and endow it with meaty multiplayer gameplay.
This is all our way of saying that even if you’re as over emojis as the Japanese, there’s a good chance many people (my daughter among them) are not, and emoj.io is a game worth keeping an eye on. The official website is live but doesn’t offer anything more than what we’ve already given you, so the only thing left to do now is check back at the App Store or Google Play next month.
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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 refers to the substance that scientists use to create bacteria cultures). The goal is to swallow other cells without larger ones swallowing you. It’s a total Darwinian game, with lots of hilarious results as players try to outmaneuver each other.
And now Agar.io has hit a big milestone. It has reached 2 billion views on YouTube. A total of 21 other game franchises have generated that many views on YouTube. Most of them are blockbuster games like Call of Duty. But Agar.io, released as a simple 2D game in 2015, is one of the rare indie titles to get there.
The title was created by Matheus Valadares and published by Miniclip. The game caught visibility in part thanks to one of the stars of the Agar.io world, Jumbo, who started by uploading one Agar.io gameplay video every week. In less than seven months, it became one of the fastest channels to reach a million subscribers in the history of YouTube.
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For a game you probably haven’t heard of, Agar.io is kind of a big deal. It was a huge hit on the web before it briefly topped the charts on the App Store — and while it’s no longer in the top 10 free apps, it still continues to make an impact. Case in point: YouTube has just confirmed that Agar.io videos have surpassed 2 billion views.
Only 21 other games have done that, and they usually start with words like “Call of Duty” or “Grand Theft Auto.” In other words, they’re not typically indie games about bigger circles eating smaller ones.
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One of the big reasons for the game’s video-based success according to YouTube was the creation of a channel by Jumbo, a personality who uploads one Agar.io video a week, and in just seven months has become one of the fastest channels to reach 1 million subscribers. (The official Agar.io channel is over 1 million now, too).
Haven’t played it yet? Maybe it’s time to get in on the craze. Agar.io is available as a free download from the App Store and Google Play.
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