Good rivalries—the kind that get you really riled up—are hard to come by. We haven't very many good rivalries in a video game since Pokémon Red, in my opinion. But as much as people hate Gary Oak, he's got nothing your rival in Kim Kardashian: Hollywood. » 7/28/14 4:30pm Yesterday 4:30pm

Some devs like to keep it simple: no in-app purchases or microtransactions—hell, no app at all; no forcing you to rope your friends to play. Just, you know: player gives dev money, player gets entire game. That game is probably priced at more than 99 cents to boot. » 6/20/13 4:30pm 6/20/13 4:30pm

Mobile games are great; they allow people to game pretty much everywhere. From gaming during the daily commute to gaming while waiting for the bus, mobile games can enrich people's daily lives. Sadly, for one man in China, the joys of playing mobile games had lead to an undeserved beating. » 5/22/13 6:00am 5/22/13 6:00am

Let me break it down for you: 12 years of Catholic school. Powder-blue communion suit. Did the Stations of the Cross ON MY KNEES for multiple years. Childhood best friend was an altar boy. (He's fine. Nothing ever happened. Thanks for asking.) I say all this to establish that I know all about nuns. Nuns have paddled… » 11/02/12 8:30am 11/02/12 8:30am

Word games? I love ‘em. Give me a jumble of letters and a grid and I'll go to town. One great thing about the advent of smartphones is how they've ushered in a major re-think of the word game DNA. So, last week, when a neighbor mentioned that a new iOS word game was spreading like wildfire through his workplace, I… » 10/31/12 1:16pm 10/31/12 1:16pm

NASA is sending animals into space again. Well, the pigs and birds of Rovio's mobile hit aren't actually real. But they've become officially sanctioned astronauts anyway. » 8/23/12 2:30pm 8/23/12 2:30pm

You spent hours playing Pitfall on an Intellivision or an Atari 2600 back in the day, imprinting your impressionable brain with a fear of crocodiles that not even delicious Choco-diles snacks can't conquer. Also you love gold. A lot. » 7/09/12 11:45am 7/09/12 11:45am

Early this past March in China's Gushi County » 6/15/12 7:30am 6/15/12 7:30am

Been almost a year to the day since we first heard BioShock was making the jump to mobile phones. And we haven't heard squat from it since. So let's catch up with some footage. » 2/17/09 4:30am 2/17/09 4:30am

iPhone appears to be one of the main drivers behind mobile gaming growth, according to the comScore report released on Friday. » 2/02/09 3:00pm 2/02/09 3:00pm

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