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Fahey’s Top Ten Games Of 2013
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. The time when I get to produce a list of ten games I love, and then present them to the internet, a large percentage of which throw things. I can’t change what I love, people. Note there are no mobile games on the list of the site’s…
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Reviews
Nine Months Later And SimCity Is A Bust
I love watching the streets of SimCity 2013. The cars and people zipping by, streets stretching to the horizon. Look too closely or zoom out too far, and the game’s problems are impossible to miss. I’d stay on those streets forever if I could, but there’s a review to update. Presented here is my original…
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Google’s 15 Best Android Games Of 2013
It’s the end of the year, and that means for one brief, shining moment, one Google Play gaming category will make perfect sense. These are Google Play’s editor’s picks for the top Android games of 2013. rymdkapsel grapefrukt games $3.99 This marvelous, minimalistic real-time strategy game was one of Stephen Totilo’s favorite games this year.…
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Now You Can Play Knights Of The Old Republic On The iPhone
In May of this year, one of the greatest Star Wars stories ever told made the jump from PC and old consoles to the iPad. Today Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic finally went universal, with a host of new features to welcome iPhone and iPod Touch players into the fold. Along with support…
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ReviewsCut The Rope 2 Is A Great Reason To Give Its Creators More Money
For three years the creators of Cut the Rope have been adding new free level packs to the original game. Both the prequel, Cut the Rope: Time Travel and the spin-off, Cut the Rope: Experiments, have gotten free new content this month. These guys really deserve another dollar. Cut the Rope 2 is our chance.…
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ReviewsSneaky République Tricked Me Into Enjoying A Stealth Game
I do not enjoy stealth-action games. Kickstarter success story République is a game with deep roots in the Metal Gear Solid franchise — the pinnacle of the stealth-action genre. Why am I enjoying it so much? It’s a matter of perspective. You see, I am not sneaking in “Exordium”, the first episode of République. Hope,…
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Ninja Theory Makes Lovely Console Games. They Also Made This.
Taking a break from creating big-budget console games starring striking characters with large, moist eyes like Enslaved and DMC, Ninja Theory releases a mobile brawler featuring a character with a thing for striking. The game is called Fightback, and it’s definitely different from anything else Ninja Theory has done. Quick hits of swipe and tap-based…
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I’ve Never Seen Such A Filthy Lara Croft Statue
Look, Gaming Heads, I know you’re all excited about introducing the new Tomb Raider line to the public, but who is going to buy a $340 statue that’s all covered in dirt, bruises and blood? Show a little self respect, dammit. I mean, it’s not like you missed the dirt and blood and such. This…
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A Game About Collecting LEGO Figures Sounds Better Than The Real Thing
Collecting real life LEGO figures involves tons of money, trips to Walmart, and many, many duplicates. I think I prefer LEGO Minifigures Online‘s take on the hobby. You’re still opening bags in Funcom’s upcoming MMO, slated for a summer 2004, but these bags feature fully-playable characters, each with their own stats and special powers. You…
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The Avengers Are Assembling in Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition [Update]
Marvel, Mojang and Microsoft are teaming up to deliver an official Avengers Skin Pack to the Xbox 360 version of the popular block builder. The pack, coming soon, will feature 35 character skins, including Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Nick Fury, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Loki, Wasp, Falcon, Vision, Maria Hill, Agent Coulson and more.…
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A Thousand Years Of Neverwinter Lore In One Minute
With hundreds of thousands of pen-and=paper adventurers adding their personal stories to the streets of D&D’s Neverwinter over the years, the Lore in a Minute folks wisely stick to bullet points in prepping gamers for the free-to-play MMO. I was always more of a Waterdeep guy myself.
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Marvel Heroes Readies $130 Worth Of Heroes And Villains For 2014
Earlier this year, Marvel Heroes gave unto the players of its free-to-play MMO the ability to purchase and play as Squirrel Girl. In 2014, along with the likes of Juggernaut, Magneto, Dr. Strange and Venom, Marvel Heroes adds Moon Knight as a playable character. If that’s not worth spending $130 on an “Advance Pack”, then…
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iTunes’ Top Selling, Top Grossing, And Simply Top Games Of 2013
Every December the editors of Apple’s iTunes face the monumental task of selecting two games out of the thousands released during the year to receive top honors as the Best of 2013. This year they chose ridiculously well. I cannot link you to iTune’s Best of 2013 feature — you’ll have to go into iTunes…
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It’s A Skylanders Stop-Motion Christmas Spectacular (With Ponies)
The Irate Gamerspent nearly 60 hours creating this stop-motion action figure Christmas spectacular, when he could have just filmed my office for an hour on any given Saturday. The old Skylanders go on a magical journey to welcome the new Skylanders: Swap Force figures into their home. It’s a bit slipshod, but certainly better than…
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The Most Brilliant iPad Game I’ve Played All Year
This is Blek. It’s a simple name for a simple game, one in which all you have to do to win is draw a single line. Which single line? That’s the complicated bit. Whatever sort of line you draw in Blek takes on a life of its own, repeating until it either reaches the top…
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Culture
The Last Thing You’ll Ever Eat
Turducken? Turducken is nothing. Behold Cthulken. Or Craturktopus. Perhaps Turkrakon. Whatever you call this dark combination of turkey, crab legs, bacon and Elder God, it is the one true Last Supper. Reddit’s doc_birdman, along with numerous unnamed agents of chaos lurking in the shadows, shared this image with the internet over the weekend. It’s been…
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The Most Delightful Game Development Engine Ever.
Introduced in 2005 as a Mac game development tool, Unity has grown into a multi-platform monster, used to make games for everything from Facebook to consoles — but none of that really mattered, until it got an official anime mascot. Meet Unity-Chan. Just like the general public didn’t care about Internet Explorer until it got…
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