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Match-Three Plus Multi-Touch Makes My Brain Hurt (In a Good Way)
Swapping colorful objects to create rows of three or more is about as simple as a puzzle game can get. After years of playing titles like Bejeweled and Candy Crush Saga, seeing the patterns that make the best matches is almost second nature to me. Match-three games have become a mindless relaxing pursuit. Then came…
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Arcane Legends Gets Its First Taste of Player Versus Player Combat
The latest browser/mobile MMO from Spacetime Studios gets a bit more competitive today with the release of the first small taste of player-on-player violence. Who’s ready for a little Capture the Flag? Players from all platforms can queue up for four-on-four Capture the Flag battles, the most popular multiplayer mode in the Legends series. You…
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This Decade-Old Massively Multiplayer Space Odyssey Wants to Open a Wormhole to Your iPad
Launched into open alpha in 2002 by Milwaukee-based Guild Software, massively multiplayer space sim Vendetta Online has traveled a long way from Wisconsin over the past ten years. Officially released in 2004 for PC, Mac and Linux, in 2011 the game was launched on Android devices, making it the first computer-based MMO to make the…
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Zynga Elite Slots is Now Ready to Foster Your Obsession With Colorful Spinning Reels
Mixing the addictive nature of the slot machine with the community spirit of a massively multiplayer fantasy game, Zynga Elite Slots is now live on Facebook. Does it live up to design director Josh Gause’s vision of a collaborative community gaming experience? I don’t know. Not really understanding how today’s advanced slot machines work, I…
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This Week’s iPad Charts: Temple Run 2 and the NRA Practice Range
On one side we have the sequel to one of the most beloved mobile games in the world. On the other, an app mainly being downloaded due to controversy, morbid curiosity and irony. There’s room for everyone in the weekly free iPad app charts! Thanks to our new streamlined table format for these weekly chart…
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If There’s One Reason to Play Final Fantasy: All the Bravest, It’s The Hilarious Flavor Text
While I’m not too keen on Final Fantasy: All the Bravest‘s copious amounts of in-app purchases and incredibly basic gameplay, a quick flip through the game’s character, enemy and weapons collection pages is good for a fair amount of giggles, possibly even a guffaw or two. Take the basilisk, for instance. If my mother had…
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I Might Not Have What it Takes to Be a Disney City Girl
Maybe moving to the big city to be a Disney City Girl wasn’t such a good idea. My apartment is a hovel compared to the palace Jenna has, and even that’s stretching my budget to the limit. My boss will give me extra money for washing dishes if I dress in active wear, but he…
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There’s a Domo Game Coming to the iOS. Rejoice!
As a mildly enthusiastic fan of the ever-present mascot for Japan’s NHK television station, new that Domo: The Journey is coming to iOS next month from Playlithium has me squealing like a large man imitating a little girl. What’s the game about? Why, it’s about Domo. I don’t see why you’d need to know anything…
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ReviewsFinal Fantasy: All the Bravest is $46 of In-App Purchases Looking for a Game
If you’re looking for a mildly interactive trip through the history of the Final Fantasy franchise and don’t mind shelling out a little more than $50 for the complete experience, Final Fantasy: All the Bravest might be a justifiable purchase. If you’re just in it for the gameplay you can save a lot of time…
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This Week’s Windows Phone Charts: In With the Old, Out With the New
It’s not that the Windows Phone platform isn’t getting new games—it’s just that the older ones are just that good. We’ll run with that as the weekly Windows Phone charts return sleeker, sexier and more 5-hittier than ever before. Getting rid of the extraneous images and wonky formatting that previously made the weekly charts such…
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The World’s Most Popular Endless Runner Returns to Show the Clones How It’s Done
The success of Temple Run, a simple 3D endless runner created by the husband and wife team of Keith Shepherd and Natalia Luckyanova, has been nothing short of astounding. Since its 2011 release the game has grown into a casual gaming phenomenon, as definitive a mobile entertainment experience as Angry Birds or more Angry Birds…
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Aeria Delivers the Mighty Immortalis Unto the Collectible Card-Craving Masses
While Aeria Mobile’s latest entry in the engorged collectible card game market isn’t nearly as pretty as Pirate Maidens, it makes up for it by having a name that sounds suspiciously like the ancient mouthwash of power. Behold Immortalis, more than 650 cards and 70 quest zones’ worth of minty fresh fantasy battles. Like a…
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From the Real-Time Strategy Masters at Petroglyph: A Social Word Game for the iPhone
Founded in 2003 by the last remaining members of Westwood Studios—fathers of the modern-day real-time strategy game (see Dune II)—Petroglyph Games has spent the past decade continuing to build on that proud RTS tradition. Now the developer has taken an unexpected turn towards mobile social games, to Coin a Phrase Coin a Phrase is a…
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Real Racing 3 Wouldn’t Be Nearly as Realistic Without Real Race Tracks
Witness Australia’s Firemonkeys as they put more effort into the next installment of mobile’s flagship racing series than most console developers put into their $60 games. Not only are they recreating famous race tracks, they’re imagining new race tracks in real world locations. Firemonkeys and EA have been teasing us with footage of Real Racing…
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I’ve Been Waiting Forever for This Flying Squirrel Pinball Game
Well, maybe not forever, but certainly since Paladin Studios first pointed me towards Momonga Pinball Adventures back in February of last year. It’s due out on iTunes tomorrow, and I have high-flying hopes. The game tells the story of a young Japanese flying dwarf squirrel named Momo as he embarks on a quest to save…
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This Week’s Android Charts: Perhaps It’s Time I Looked Into This Ruzzle Thing
I put the weekly Android charts on hiatus for a month and look what happens! You folks got Ruzzle all over the place. You even spilled it on the iPhone charts. Looks like I’m just going to have to keep a closer eye on things from here on out. While I was working on a…
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You Can Finally Stop Playing Temple Run. Temple Run 2 Is Coming Out.
In 2011 the husband and wife team Keith Shepherd and Natalia Luckyanova released a simple little 3D endless runner that took the world by storm. Temple Run has been downloaded more than 170 million times since its launch. We called it the modern-day Pitfall. Looks like it’s time for the modern-day Pitfall 2—Temple Run‘s sequel…
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