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Grant Crime Auto: Ice City Now Available on the Amazon App Store. Wait, What?
I refuse to believe for a single second that any of the reviews under Amazon’s Grant Crime Auto: Ice City listing actually paid $3.99 for such an obvious fake. I cannot afford to have my faith in human intelligence damaged any further. Pointed out by Kotaku reader rh_underhill, Grant Crime Auto: Ice City‘s description on…
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I’m Addicted to the iTunes Game Store
The moment my iPad or iPad Touch’s screen illuminates my finger hones in on the blue icon with the pencil, ruler and paintbrush formed into a stylized ‘A’, no matter what my previous plans for the device might have been. I know the shop lurking behind the icon is only updated at certain times, but…
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I Didn’t Know I Wanted a Trampoline Game on My iPad Until I Saw This
“Finally a beautiful, fun, frustratingly rewarding trampoline game for the iOS!” began the email from developer Joel Blanco Berg, at which point I stopped and thought about how the use of finally suggests someone was desperately waiting for a trampoline game to come out. Then I watched the trailer for Bouncy!, and realized that maybe…
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Atlas Raider Rolls the Dice on Social Board Gaming
I miss dice. I miss the days when “social gaming” meant going somewhere and playing a game with people and dice, be it Talisman, Dungeon or just plain old Monopoly. Social game developer CrayonPixel looks to recapture the magic of dice-based board games with Atlas Raider, a new type of board game for the digi-magical…
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Razer Prepares to Unleash the World’s First PC Gaming Tablet
At last year’s Consumer Electronics Show, gaming peripheral maker Razer debuted Project Fiona, a PC gaming tablet concept with a pair of control sticks affixed to the side. It looked ridiculous, but there was promise there. That promise is realized this year in the Razer Edge, a full-featured, crowd-sourced gaming PC with the form factor…
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My New Favorite Endless Runner is Also an Endless Gunner
You know what Temple Run is missing? Kids with guns. The endless runner continues to run amok through the various mobile gaming platforms, with fresh new variations popping up every time you swipe the screen to turn. It’s a genre that flourishes on mobile because of its flourishes—just a series of simple finger swipes gets…
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Facebook Gainers: How the Heck Does Bubble Safari Ocean Score 23 Million Players?
I often pick on Zynga’s social games; that’s what comes of being the biggest fish clumsily flopping through the pond. I poke at the company’s financial troubles, bemoaning game closings. I’ve been known to revel mildly when their more popular games lose players to the underdogs (every other Facebook game developer). None of this changes…
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Finished with Flow Free? Graduate to Lost Cubes
A simple little puzzle game involving connecting colored circles on a grid, Flow Free is a mobile sensation, devouring the free time of Apple, Android and Windows Phone gamers around the world. When Flow Free’s puzzles stop flowing, Pocket PlayLab’s Lost Cubes for iOS is ready to pick up where it left off. Lost Cubes…
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Project Shield’s First Killer App Could Be This Tegra 4 Version of Hawken
When Adhesive Games’ creative director and co-founder Khang Le took the stage during last night’s Nvidia press conference to play the free-to-play mech combat game Hawken on Nvidia’s Project Shield handheld, I was confused. This was not the PC game. What the hell was that? Turns out Nvidia ran out of time to mention that…
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Because You Subconsciously Demanded It, the Spiritual Successor to Shaq Fu
In a post-apocalyptic future a mutation has created a race of sentient zombies that have enslaved mankind. The planet’s only hope lies in a warrior of legend known as the Justice Bringer—basketball legend and Kazaam star Shaquille O’Neal. Coming tomorrow to iOS and Android, ShaqDown is a 2D side-scrolling action game and the second video…
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Game Changer or Needless Gadget? An In-Depth Analysis of Project Shield.
So Nvidia has a new gaming handheld on the way, powered by its latest mobile chip and capable of playing Android games and streaming PC games directly from your computer. Should we be excited? Worried? Should we even care? Let’s find out. What is Project Shield? Project Shield is a cool code name, chosen because…
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Fahey’s Top Ten Games of 2012
Just when you thought that it had passed, I went and saved the best for last. Or I procrastinated. Either way, looking back on 2012 from my death bed four years from now, these are the ten games that could possibly briefly pull me out of my fevered demetia, bringing a spark of recognition to…
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The MOGA Mobile Controller Gets Supersized
Now that Power A’s MOGA game controller for Android is picking up steam, it’s time to go big. Announced today in advance of CES 2013, the MOGA Pro is a full-sized gaming controller that pairs the convenience of a phone clip with a stand for your tablet. The list of supported games is growing, and…
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Mad Catz’s Mobile Hardware is Just as Pretty as Its PC Peripherals
As promised last week, Mad Catz has drawn back the curtain on its new line of mobile peripherals, each (well, not the headset) featuring its fancy GameSmart technology to ensure compatibility across a wide range of mobile devices. If it supports Bluetooth Smart (and it should), your mobile jam could be enhanced by a mouse…
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Oh Yeah, Nvidia Also Officially Outs the World’s Fastest Mobile Processor
So there I was, prepping a post on Nvidia’s Tegra 4 processor, the successor to the Tegra 3 with six times the graphics processing power and all sorts of nifty advancements that really seem boring now compared to the Shield portable gaming device The Tegra 4 features 72 GeForce GPU cores—at least ten times the…
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The First Week in Gaming Apps of 2013, Brought to You By a Terrible Stomach Virus
Welcome to 2013, the year that shall go down in history as the one that started with every being in my household violently expelling substances out of every orifice imaginable. That’s my fancy way of saying the this one’s going to be a short one. My wife, two 18-month-old boys and I were given the…
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Don’t Let the Limecat Fool You, This is One Kick-Ass Free-to-Play First-Person Shooter
Do you miss the early days of first-person shooters, when everyone was pretty much equal and the little guy had a chance of coming out on top? I just played a Free for All match of Offensive Combat, dropped in after the round had already started and still managed to win by one kill—and I…
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17 Vatican Virtual Farmers and Other Entertaining FarmVille 2 Stats
They might have lost Kirk Hamilton and Stephen Totilo, but every day eight million other people still hop online to water their virtual crops in Zynga’s social farming sequel, FarmVille 2. According to the first FarmVille 2 Almanac infographic, 17 of those players are playing from the Vatican. I suspect something more sinister afoot. Are…
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Almost the Wipeout-Style Futuristic Hovercar Racer the iPhone Has Been Waiting For
I want to go fast—faster than modern day street vehicles are capable of travelling. I’ve felt the need for ground-based speed since I was a small-ish boy, so games like F-Zero, Wipeout and Extreme-G (remember Extreme-G?) have always been a passion. Plenty of mobile developers have attempted to capture the power and energy of the…
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