Category Archives: SCVNGR

Hallo Norway!

Hot on the heels of announcing our international round of funding, SCVNGR is taking another big step in our quest build the game layer on top of the world. SCVNGR has partnered with the Noroff Institute, the largest private university in Norway, to engage hundreds of thousands of Norwegians in 5 of Norway’s largest cities. [...]

Stake Your Claim

Earlier this week, SCVNGR released an awesome new feature that makes it far easier for individuals and organizations to share their SCVNGR profile with others. Now, you can customize the URL for the link to your profile ex. SCVNGR.com/poweruser. To create a custom URL, follow these simple steps: 1. Sign into your account at SCVNGR.com 2. [...]

Hot Damn, it’s Badge Time

Sing, Muse, of this week’s new digital heraldry. 1) THE “NO MORE TEARS!” BADGE This badge is designed to protect you from one of the great travel nightmares—a crying child on an airplane. You know the type: Jetblue runs out of blue potato chips, and they begin wailing like they’ve been cast onto the rocks [...]

SCVNGR-ween — A Ghoulish Success

On Wednesday, employees gathered together at the witching hour (lunchtime) for a Halloween party complete with countless sugar OD’s and two fun contests–Best Costume and Spookiest Food. Entries for the latter ranged from classic Dirt Cups to “blood”-filled cupcakes. Event Visionary Karen Wooley took home the ceremonial pumpkin in both categories. Her clever “Executioner” costume [...]

SCVNGR Shellacs Hubspot in Paintball Match

Update: SCVNGR has been contacted by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks regarding an HBO miniseries centered on the company’s rise to paintball glory. On Sunday, Oct 24, SCVNGR stung  HubSpot‘s ego in a much-anticipated paintball battle. SCVNGR won 5 out of 7 matches, despite having nearly 10 players less than the bad guys. Here’s a breakdown of the carnage [...]