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This Week’s iPad Charts: Little Inferno Sets the Charts (and Everything Else) on Fire
The game that single-handedly justified the $350 I spent on Nintendo’s Wii U console back in November came to iPad this week, spreading joy and laughter to Apple tablet gamers everywhere. And flames — can’t forget the flames. Little Inferno is a magical experience. One moment you’re gleefully dropping items into your Little Inferno Entertainment…
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Gameloft Gears Up for Gaming on Blackberry 10
Now that everybody’s buzzing about the sexy new BlackBerry Z10, mobile gaming giant Gameloft steps up to the plate to ensure gamers considering a switch that they’ll be at least 11 games for them to play on their shiny new handset, including The Amazing Spider-Man, The Dark Knight Rises and Modern Combat 4. Does this…
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The Weapon Selection in Redneck Revenge is Simply Exquisite
I’d like to think that if I found myself surrounded on all sides by zombies I’d have the presence of mind to stuff a stick of dynamite up a chicken’s ass. Okay, technically it’s a rooster. That’s what separates me from the animated backwoods stereotype. That and my lack of control over large aquatic mammals.…
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My Perfect World is Populated By Pixel People
A game designer is a combination of a programmer and an artist. A preacher is a philosopher and a dreamer combined. Meld a magician and a scientist and you have a wizard. This is how the world works in LambdaMu Games’ Pixel People—simple, elegant and endlessly entertaining. The planet Earth is gone, the sole remaining…
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You’ll Never Guess What I Drew in Doodle Roulette
Baby Gaga’s Doodle Roulette is a Facebook drawing game that features a nifty way to let all of your friends play without even having to load the app. Your drawings are posted directly to your Facebook wall, inviting friends to guess what you drew in the comments. So far my Facebook friends could not give…
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This Week’s Windows Phone Charts: Begone, Where’s My Water?
Last week Disney’s duo of dirt-digging water puzzle games, Where’s My Water? and Where’s My Perry? stormed the Windows Phone charts, taking the two top spots and displacing Rovio’s ever-present Angry Birds. This week? They’ve been disappeared. Not disappeared so much as shunted so far down the charts they’re no longer a threat. Where’s My…
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Wizardry Online Launches. Prepare to Die, Permanently.
The free-to-play massively multiplayer online extension of one of the world’s oldest role-playing game franchises is now live in North America, luring players to its servers with the sweet embrace of permadeath. How long will you survive Wizardry Online? The selling point of Sony Online Entertainment’s Japanese import, besides the prestigious name, is the fact…
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Can You Spot the Error in This Temple Run 2 Menu?
Osbervant reader Jon has been playing Temple Run 2 on his Android device since it launched last week and didn’t notice the error on this menu screen until last night. I didn’t notice it until he pointed it out, so he wins. I point out the error not to call out Imangi Studios’ tiny team…
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It Doesn’t Get Much More Social Than a Game That Teaches You How to Flirt
You’re an alien from a distant planet, sent to Earth to harness the most powerful force in the universe, generated by a Living Organism’s Volatile Emotions—LOVE. That’s the strangest backstory for a dating simulator I’ve ever heard. It’s the backstory to Flirt Planet, a social game aimed at helping awkward internet denizens learn social interactions…
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The Words with Friends Craze Justified By One Perfect Piece of Clothing
No matter how you feel about the popular social/mobile game Words with Friends, you have to appreciate a property that spawns a piece of art in which Cobra Commander shoots Captain Planet through the chest as Shredder, Boba Fett, Skeletor, the Terminator and a Dalek look on. Fantastic work from The Atomic Rocket, available today…
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This Week’s Android Charts: A Temple Run Triple Play
It’s all Temple Run, all the time in this week’s Android charts, as the launch of the smash-hit sequel brings all three games in the franchise into the spotlight. I wonder if Imangi Studios’ other games ever get jealous. They make other games, you know. Remember Max Adventure, the dual-stick shooter about a kid saving…
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The Alien Vs. Predator Battle Gets Mobilized with AVP: Evolution
With the console and PC release of Aliens: Colonial Marines right around the corner, Fox Digital Entertainment taps Angry Mob Entertainment (Predators, Muffin Knight) to give iOS and Android gamers something to do while everyone else is playing the Gearbox game. That something is Alien Vs. Predator: Evolution, a single-player third-person action-adventure game that’s really…
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The First Playable Villain in Avengers Alliance Isn’t All Bad
Dear Playdom, when you announce a playable “villain” for the wildly popular Facebook role-playing game Avengers Alliance, I expect a real villain, not Mr. Flippity-Floppity Magnet Man. Readers that have been following X-Men continuity since the early days are familiar with Max “Erik Lehnsherr” Eisenhardt’s propensity for switching sides at the drop of a hat.…
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Epic Citadel Shows Mobile Gamers Just How Pretty Android Can Be
Back in 2010, Epic Games released an Unreal Engine 3 tech demo for the iPhone and iPad that opened gamers’ eyes to the potential for console-quality gaming on Apple’s portable devices. Now it’s out for Android, and it’s prettier (and more useful) than ever. Available as a free download on Google Play and the Amazon…
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Dungeon Quest is a Free Dose of Heavily-Distilled Diablo
The opening screenshot for this review of Shiny Box’s Android action role-playing game isn’t very flattering. That’s because every time I picked up my Nexus 7 to capture a screen I ended up playing Dungeon Quest for another half-hour instead. To take a screenshot on the Nexus 7 you have to hold down the power…
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Is This Gameloft’s Team Fortress 2 or Battlefield Heroes?
Can’t it be both? Coming soon to iOS and Android, Blitz Brigade is a team-based online multiplayer shooter. It’s set during World War II (can’t you tell?) and features vehicular combat, five character classes, single-player challenges and trailer music that sounds like it’s being performed by a Team Fortress 2 cover band. It’s Team Fortress…
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