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They Said Draw Something. You Drew 11 Billion Somethings.
Zynga celebrates a year of the once insanely-popular social mobile game Draw Something by letting the world know how much time and productivity it wasted via a stat-filled infographic. Did you know the most popular word in The Netherlands is “Kerstbal?” Well you do now. Let’s learn more, it’s fun! Draw Something was absolutely everywhere…
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Pudding Monsters Terrorize the Big City Tomorrow
ZeptoLab’s Pudding Monsters is one of my favorite mobile puzzle games on iOS or Android, but even with 75 levels in the initial release it went by way too fast. Tomorrow we get more, as the fearless flans take Manhattan in the game’s first free update. They started off in the kitchen, moved into the…
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This Week’s iPhone Charts: Sniper, No Sniping!
There’s something magical about shooting stick figures in the head from extreme distance. After years of being persecuted by these two-dimensional, monochrome tyrants, humanity is finally rising up at taking back their dignity. Pure fiction, but it helps me justify two separate Clear Vision sniper titles on the iPhone paid charts—one in the top spot.…
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There are Plenty of Ways to Pay in the Free-to-Play Real Racing 3
Firemonkeys’ eagerly-anticipated Real Racing 3 is the first free-to-play entry in the popular mobile racing franchise. How far you can get without paying real money depends entirely on how much patience you possess—do you mind waiting 10 minutes for tire repair? Car damage and wear is not an imaginary thing, so it certainly falls within…
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My New Girlfriend is a Space Pirate
I think what I love most about Sela the Space Pirate is her unwavering courage in the face of overwhelming odds. She masks it as madness—she’s so good at masking it’s scary—but when your life is nothing but maneuvering your finger-guided, auto-firing starship through level-after-level of evil(-ish) aliens and the accompanying bullets, you just gotta…
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Morning Star Alpha is No Ordinary Comic Book Game Tie-In
This spring, developer Industrial Toys plans to redefine the mobile first-person shooter with the sci-fi epic Morning Star, but first it’s going to redefine the interactive digital comic book tie-in with Morning Star Alpha When Industrial Toys founder and president Tim Harris contacted me about the upcoming announcement of a supplemental stand-alone app based on…
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What’s Most Impressive About Nvidia’s New $1,000 Graphics Card? How It Sounds.
On Thursday Nvidia’s latest “most powerful graphics card in the world” hits the market—the Kepler-based GeForce GTX Titan. Packed with a ridiculous number of CUDA cores, all the Teraflops you can eat and innovative features like display overclocking, it’s sure to impress the hell out of people that watch performance monitors and keep their frame…
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The New Beast Wars Begin with Optimus Prime and Predaking
Hasbro is calling them Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters, but that’s not what I’m calling the upcoming third season of the animated series and the corresponding toys. A dragon that transforms into a robot and a red-and-blue figure that’s vaguely reminiscent of the original Optimus Prime? These are the new Beast Wars, my friends, and they’re…
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Lay’s Chicken and Waffles, Sriracha and Cheesy Garlic Bread Potato Chips: The Snacktaku Review
Last summer Frito-Lay tapped into the power of social media to give fans of the company’s signature potato chip brand a chance to choose the next exciting flavor to grace store shelves. Millions of flavor combinations were submitted. Some, like Spinach and Sour Cream, were relatively uninteresting. Others, like my own Ground Glass and Your…
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Cowbell Hero Takes the Joke Way Too Far
I admire Digital Hero Games’ dedication. Over a decade after Christopher Walken and the cast of Saturday Night Live hilariously introduced the phrase “More cowbell” into the modern vernacular and years after the first cowbell-fueled parodies of Activision’s Guitar Hero franchise appeared on the internet, the developer released a full-fledged mobile game based on the…
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Playing Dance Dance Revolution on Your iPhone Isn’t Exactly Dancing, Now Is It?
I’m all about seeing my favorite franchises represented in the mobile gaming space, but Dance Dance Revolution seems like a series best left to controllers that won’t shatter if you stomp on them. Maybe Dance Dance Revolution: Dance Wars will prove me wrong. The iTunes reviewers seem to approve of the new free-to-play game from…
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It’s Super Mario As An Endless Runner, With Rabbits.
If Nintendo made games for mobile phones, an endless running Super Mario platformer would be a no-brainer. Since Nintendo does not make games for mobile phones, HeiGames is making Super Bunny Land, which is close enough. Don’t worry Nintendo, we’ve got this. That’s the message indie developers are sending with games like Banana Kong and…
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There’s Lots of Love in This Week in Gaming Apps
During this most romantic/depressing week of the year, let us not forget the gaming apps, whose portability and charm keep us playing whether we be curled up on the corner sobbing or curled up naked on a bed of roses, waiting for your significant other to get home. Now that I have children in the…
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You Have to Kick These Cats. It Keeps Them From Exploding.
If you’re going to make a game about juggling cats in the air using your head and feet, you better have a damn good reason for the simulated animal cruelty. I’d say the threat of feline impact craters fits the bill. This is Hackycat, a game by artist-illustrator Ken Wong, also known as the art…
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This Is an Incredibly Odd Way to Experience The Wizard of Oz
When I was growing up, every holiday season was punctuated by a television airing of The Wizard of Oz. We’d gather around the television and watch Dorothy and friends learn a little something about themselves in the span of 101 minutes. The Wizard of Oz Facebook game has been around for four months, and we’re…
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This Week’s iPad Charts: Hold Me Closer Tiny Dentist
I’ve only been doing these weekly charts since fall of last year, and this is the second time a free dental simulation game appeared on the free charts. At least this one features cartoon animals getting their mouths drilled full of holes. I can understand the appeal. It was a week of great change on…
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