Author Archives: SCVNGR

May
05

May Day, May Day!

Ahh, spring, when a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of…badges. (What? No, no, we’re pretty sure it’s badges. What were you thinking of?) Keep your eye on your calendar and your finger hovering over your SCVNGR app this spring and summer, y’all, because we have a ton of seasonal badges waiting for their [...]

May
02

Fair Beans for Beantown

Handcrafted artisanal root beer. A steaming-hot cup of French Roast coffee. A double scoop of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. What do all these have in common? For one thing, they’re all so mouthwateringly good that you’re probably tempted to stop reading and go grab some right now–hey, stop! Don’t go anywhere! Still with [...]

Apr
27

Kick Off the Season with SCVNGR & the LA Galaxy!

If you’re a soccer fan, we have some great news for you!   No, we’re not enrolling SCVNGRbot in a league for soccer-playing robots – we thought about that one too, but we were told that it wouldn’t be fair to the other bots. It’s even better than that: the LA Galaxy and Herbalife have [...]

Mar
07

Take A Shot At Bracket Battle!

Here at SCVNGR, you know how much we love the color orange. So when we found out there was a sport where the ball itself was orange, well, we couldn’t help but want to have some fun with this newfangled “basketball” thing. (Some of us even claim to have heard of it before, completely outside [...]

Feb
27

“Where was I? Oh, that’s right! Barcelona!”

First of all, +5 nerd points to anyone who gets the title. (Nerd points are a little like SCVNGR points, but you just get Internet cred instead of cool rewards AND Internet cred.) But Barcelona isn’t just an excuse to squeeze in a sci-fi reference here — it’s also the site of Mobile World Congress, [...]