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Most of the games I have on my phone are in some way frenetic. They're filled with bold, bright colors, quick action, and noisy effects. After watching my friend's preschool-aged niece school us all at Angry Birds, I have found myself occasionally desiring something a little more calm and adult. More »
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Balls were kicked. Knights were wound. Towers were defended. Passwords were hacked, and the dead rose to detect among the living in another spectacular Week in Gaming Apps. More »
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Despite the fact its creators have railed against the quality of iPhone games, and openly trolled consumers on the iTunes store by selling a parody game for $350, Super Meat Boy is being rebuilt to be playable on touch-screen mobile devices, the game's two-man team said in a Twitter conversation today. More »
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I'd like to recommend a game I am bad at. I think you'd be better at it than I am. Plus it's pretty and, did I mention that on Android it's free? More »
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In late 2010, developer Kairosoft released one of its older mobile management games, long out in Japan on standard phones, in the West. That game was Game Dev Story. And it was brilliant. More »
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This week we featured five different titles across several different platforms in our daily Gaming App of the Day posts, but that doesn't matter to you, does it? No, you're too busy playing Kingdom Rush. More »
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Apple is in direct competition with Google's Android. Steve Jobs hated it. He once told Walter Isaacson, "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this." More »
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Every three months, game publisher EA tells the public that one of its upcoming games, Mass Effect 3 will be coming out for consoles (of course!), PC (expected) and "handheld/mobile" (huh?). More »
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That it took so long for PC, MAC, and iOS masterpiece Osmos to reach Android devices is a tiny bit of suck which absorbs smaller sucks until it's the biggest suck of them all. The Ubersuck, if you will, master of all that sucks. More »
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With the new Steam mobile app (yes!) currently only available in beta form (no!), many of you probably can't actually access it. Never mind. This video is the next best thing. More »
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How does one of the greatest fighting games of all time wind up one of our least favorite gaming apps of the week? Was it the power of Chopin, the combination of Minesweeper and Minecraft, or the $11.99 price tag? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5879897&view=rss&microfeed=true The iOS App that extends aspects of Trion's MMO makes its debut on the Android Market today. As Mike Fahey reported earlier, you can chat with Guild members, engage in mini-games and glance at event schedules from Rift Mobile. Find it here. More »
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Screw Apple, you say. You don't need to enter their closed system to taste sweet smartphone bliss! Look, you have a perfectly fine Android handset on your person. It's still wrapped in plastic, eve. Once you remove that protective layer, it's Fun City! And app! We've got you covered on games, you non-conformist rebel. Download the ones below onto your device and be proud. More »
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Mine: To extract ore or minerals from the earth. Mine: An explosive device used to destroy enemy personnel, shipping, fortifications, or equipment. Minecraft Sweeper: An explosive Android app about extracting ore and minerals from the earth used to destroy any free time you might have accumulated. More »
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The gang at XDA-Developers are hard at work on a full port of Counter-Strike to Android devices, but they've already released two playable versions Android owners can run go get free right now. More »
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It's not always easy to work in all five of our Gaming App of the Day game titles into the weekly gaming app round-up, but I'd like to think this week I was particularly inspired. Notice how I just strung a bunch of words together? So good. More »
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]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5878007&view=rss&microfeed=true Available today on iTunes, the Android Market, and wherever it is Windows Phone 7 users get their apps, Dance Central 2 Dance*Cam encourages fans to record their dance routines via mobile phone and upload them for friends to judge. I'll pass! More »
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Camel Games' high-polished "massively multiplayer online" empire building game Little Empires neatly demonstrates why we should never open ourselves up to the inevitable pain that friendship brings. Pretty heavy for a game with cartoon elves, right? More »
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We're finally back up to speed after last week's regrettable triple play, charging headfirst into 2012 with our mobile devices held up in front of our faces so we can't see a thing. What might we be playing when we stumble into traffic? More »
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I original planed on topping off today's Gaming App of the Day with "Revolutionary Game Features Unicorns Pooping Explosive Rainbows", but I didn't want to oversell Angry Mob Games' Muffin Knight. More »
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A free update due to arrive in February will bring Minecraft: Pocket Edition closer to the Survival Mode of the game's wildly popular PC version, says Daniel Kaplan of Minecraft maker Mojang. More »
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Here it is, our massive guide to every mobile game featured in our daily Gaming App of the Day segment during the year 2012. Are you ready for a veritable flood of (three) games? More »
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The appeal of Wind-Up Robots is rather simply understood, for kids young and old who have played with toys and personified their actions. In this sweet-hearted tower-defense title for iOS and the Kindle Fire, by Soma Games, the toy box supplies a force of earnest, mechanical friends who guard a sleeping boy against the midnight forces of under-the-bed monsters, and guarantee his safe rest while his father's away. More »
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Vector Tanks was around for at least three years on the iTunes App Store and looked a lot like Battlezone the whole time. It isn't there anymore. Atari recently sent legal papers over to the game's developer, Black Powder Media, which now warns other indie developers that "anything that has even a passing resemblance to an Atari classic," can expect to see a copyright infringement claim. More »
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Massively multiplayer gamers that haven't taken a break from Trion World's Rift to go play The Old Republic are a special sort of people. Now you can stay in touch with them via Rift Mobile, a free iOS app that allows players to chat with their friends and win fabulous prizes on the go. More »
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White-haired action comedy hero Leslie Nielsen may have passed, but his legacy lives on in The Naked Gun: I.C.U.P., an episodic adventure series coming to iOS and Android devices in the next few months. Let's check out the first trailer, shall we? More »
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Merry (belated) Christmas, owners of the recently-released Grand Theft Auto III on iOS and Android. That mobile version you bought is actually, in almost every respect, the old PC version of the original, meaning if you can get at its file structure, you can use PC mods on it. More »
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This week, Industry Gamers took a look at what happened in 2011, and what will happen in 2012. More »
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Battleduty Modernfield 3. It's a game, sort of, that you can play. Barely. It's also pretty damn great. More »
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Chinese tablet company JXD has released a new unit called the S7100, which in an effort to sell to its local market, flaunts not just its specs, but who and exactly where it's ripping off properties that are owned and controlled by someone else. More »
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If you got or you gave a mobile device this morning—iPhone, Android phone, iPad or tablet—chances are there's a "what now?" factor in the discussion. Chances are you or someone else may also have given or been given a little money to put some apps on the thing, too. What do you do? What are the first games to download? Calm down, we've got you covered here. More »
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In 1966, TV station WPIX filmed a a fireplace at New York's Gracie Mansion, canceled $4,000 worth of advertising, and broadcast it for two hours on Christmas Day as a gift to viewers who had no fireplaces in their apartments. Its spirit lives on screens large and small to this day. More »
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Merry Duckcheesemas, everybody! It's that special time of year in which the Week in Gaming Apps celebrates all things rubber duck and cheese related, along with three other games that have absolutely nothing to do with this theme. More »
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