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Infinity Blade III Launching With The New iPhone 5S [Update]
With a 64-bit A7 processor delivering double the graphics processing power of the previous model, the iPhone 5s is the perfect place to debut the latest installment of the platform’s most impressive looking title. Infinity Blade III will hit the app store on September 18. [Update — Now with video!] Chair co-founder and CEO Donald…
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iOS 7 Arrives September 18, Followed By A Flood Of Game Controllers
Announced today at Apple’s special event in California, the eagerly-anticipated iO7 update rolls out free to most iOS devices on September 18, bringing with it built-in support for game controllers. Then thefun begins. Expect every major controller manufacturer to have some sort of game pad available for the new iPhones and the old iPads and…
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The Next Star Wars Pinball Trilogy Might Be Better Than The Last
The second triology of Star Wars tables for Pinball FX 2 and Star Wars Pinball begins with Darth Vader. Not the Midichlorian-rich little boy Darth Vader, but full-on, James Earl Jones-talking, force-choking, 25-sandwich-a-day-eating Darth “Motherf***ing” Vader. That’s how you start a second trilogy. Then we get a Return of the Jedi table, which screws with…
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The Best Game Of Thrones Video Game So Far Is 8-Bit And Free
The console game was rubbish, the browser-based social strategy game lacks action — what’s a Game of Thrones fan gotta do for a satisfying video game adaptation of their passion? Spanish comic artist Abel Alves offers this free solution. Like the fabled NES games of old, Game of Thrones: The 8-Bit Game foregoes telling George…
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ReviewsHoly Walking Dead, Batman! That’s One Massively Ugly Action Figure
Standing 13 inches tall and sporting a removable chest piece that reveals his internal organs, DC Collectibles’ $90 Arkham City Solomon Grundy figure is the most hideous rendition of the character yet. With DC’s resident mutant zombie set tomake a return in the portable installment of Batman: Arkham Origins, now is the perfect time for…
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Final Fantasy XIV Had A Great Weekend. Let’s Celebrate Live.
The congestion issues of launch now a thing of the past and apologies accepted, we’ve got all the time in the world to play Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. Sounds like the perfect time for a live stream to me. Update: Hey now, hey now — the stream is over. Not only does server…
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ReviewsThe Uncomfortable Line Between Free-To-Play And Premium
When one downloads a free game for their phone or tablet, there’s a fair chance they’ll be getting an experience that isn’t all it can be without additional purchases. That shouldn’t be the case with $7 premium title like 2K Drive, yet here we are. To be clear, not a single additional penny is required…
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The All-Android Week In Gaming Apps, As Foretold By Prophecy
What took the promised all-Android Week in Gaming apps so long? If you ask me, I blame Android. You see, while other platforms are standardized and uniform, Android covers a wide variety of devices, and not all of them work with all peripherals. For instance, the new Nexus 7 doesn’t use the older MHL HDMI…
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Final Fantasy XIV MMO Log One: There Is No Hate Here
I got a lot of flack last weekend when I wrote about Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn‘s launch being a disaster. I get the feeling people thought I was dissing the game. That’s just not true. I was dissing the fact that so many people who wanted to play it could not do so,…
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ReviewsMcDonald’s Mighty Wings: The Snacktaku Review
As you watch this video Snacktaku review for McDonald’s new Mighty Wings, try not to think about how horribly sick I feel the day after recording it. I sure am. I am not saying that McDonald’s take on America’s favorite way to consume birds is directly responsible for me running to the restroom every fifteen…
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Marvel’s worst-dressed heroine is now playable in Marvel Heroes. Along with difficulty modes, a new starting zone, an updated defense system and unique items, Marvel Heroes update 1.2 adds Emma “Lingerie Model” Frost, whose special power is getting into groups with Cyclops and Jean Grey and making things all awkward.
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This Is Probably Not The Star Wars Game You Were Looking For
Star Wars: Force Collection is pretty sad. It’s not because it’s a collectible card game — well, not completely because it’s a collectible card game. Over the past year I’ve come to terms with the genre. If players are willing to spend ridiculous amounts of money on cards that don’t technically exist with arbitrary attack…
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By Odin’s Beard, The Thor Game Looks A Lot Like Diablo
The first trailer for the official game for Thor: We Might As Well Make A Sequel is here, and I’m getting a definite Diablo vibe off it. Looks like Thor is a whirlwind Barbarian. Thor: The Dark World, coming this November to smartphones and tablets, is a Gameloft creation, and Gameloft of course makes the…
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Think Nothing About Doom Is Huggable? Think Again.
Video game statue experts Gaming Heads have stared into the mouth of evil, and it licked their face and wriggled its theoretical pseudopods gleefully, and that’s probably why these horrific Doom plushes look so damnably huggable. The Cacodemon and Pain Elemental were once the stuff of nightmares. Back in the day, when first-person perspective was…
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At the top of the “Places We Weren’t Expecting To See BioShock Infinite Referenced” list, Disney Infinity. I guess they both have the whole “Infinity” thing going, but a kid-friendly imagination game seems an odd place for a recreation of the floating town filled with racists and murderers. Have fun, kids!
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The New Call Of Duty Game Is “Not Some Lazy Type Of Port”
It’s easy to understand how someone can look at a brand new mobile game carrying the name of one of the world’s most popular video game franchises arriving completely unannounced and think “cheap cash-in”. Members of Activision’s Blast Furnace mobile studio say that’s not the case with Call of Duty: Strike Team. Following this morning’s…
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I’d Forgotten This All-Girl Fighting Game Was A Thing
Man, what was that game again? The one where the women are all kidnapped and forced to fight, with the Nobel Peace Prize winner in the fishnet top and cut-offs with electrical tape over her chest? Man, good thing Kung Fu Factory decided to get rid of… oh wait, they’re still making Girl Fight? And…
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