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It May Be Expensive, But It’s Still Final Fantasy IV
While not the best Final Fantasy game of all-time (in my reality that’s IX), Final Fantasy IV was one of the first role-playing games to feature a deep, character-driven plot and introduced the world to the Active Time Battle system, adding an element of urgency to pressing one button over and over again. That’s at…
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The Best Cold Weather Friends a Mobile Gamer Can Have
Winter is coming, and we’re going to need gloves. Not just any gloves, mind you, but gloves that allow us to interface with the touchscreen devices that have become such a huge part of our everyday lives over the past few years. I’ve been looking for a good pair for ages. I believe I’ve finally…
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What Facebook is Playing This Week: Farm for the Holidays
Twas the day before Christmas and all through the house, these are the games that are keeping parents from cooking and wrapping presents and the children from stumbling over internet porn. I was pretty sure we all agreed to stop playing FarmVille 2. I let my crops wither, stopped working on my seasonal quests. Now…
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Xbox Achievements Come to iOS with Wordament
You don’t need a Windows Phone to get mobile gaming achievements anymore, as Microsoft releases Wordament, a free competitive multiplayer word find tournament with 50 achievement points built right in. It’s one small step for Wordament, the competitive word game that’s been keeping Windows Phone gamers hunting and pecking since April of this year, and…
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Twas the Week in Gaming Apps Before Christmas
It’s almost Christmas, and that means new games and new devices to play them on! Perhaps that’s why I’ve been busting my ass playing the nine games spotlighted in this Week in Gaming Apps—gotta make room for more, right? On top of a handful of great games like the inventive shooter Alpha Zero, the tower…
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The Insecticons Descend Upon Transformers Legends
The first mobile card collecting game that’s been able to keep my attention for more than a few days just got its first big raid event. The Insecticons are running rampant in Transformers Legends on Android, and it’s up to me to stop them. You can help, I guess. For those unfamiliar with the genre,…
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No One Can Find Anything in Disney’s Free Mobile Holiday Present
After months of dancing around each other on the mobile app charts, Where’s My Water? and Where’s My Perry? team up for a very Where’s My Holiday? special. Having struck gold with the original crocodile-powered liquid physics puzzle game and it’s Phineas and Ferb-themed spin-off, Disney wraps both mobile stars up in a free Christmas…
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There Are Two Versions of Halo 4 on iTunes. You Don’t Want Either of Them.
Loaded with official artwork from the Xbox 360 hit and padded with dozens of glowing reviews, the two Halo 4 games that made it through Apple’s strict app approval process this week are, quite obviously, not what they claim to be. Spotted by a reader of AppAdvice, Toan Tran’s Halo 4 and Dung Bui’s Halo…
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The Music in the Fanta Fruit Slam Game is Driving Me Insane
There’s a new Fanta advergame on Facebook and iOS, giving fans of the increasingly popular soft drink a chance to slowly succumb to the madness of its thumping, giggling theme music. Fanta Fruit Slam isn’t all that bad for a game that is advertising the syrupy-sweet fruit soda line. Utilizing Unity 3D, developer Fishlabs Entertainment…
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There’s More Than a Little Sonic the Hedgehog in Major Magnet
Check out this screenshot for Major Magnet, an iOS platformer hitting iTunes on January 10. What does it remind you of? Can you imagine a blue hedgehog with red shoes running around on it? The similarities between Major Magnet and Sonic the Hedgehog are not coincidence. The team at PagodaWest Games working on the new…
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Goodbye iPhone, The Samsung Galaxy Note II is My New Gaming Phone
Up until recently I’d been counting the days until my December mobile phone upgrade eligibility, the day I could extend my contract for another two years in exchange for a discounted iPhone 5. There’d been a gnawing anxiety deep in my gut, growing stronger each day my friends possessed Apple’s latest gadget and I did…
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First My Little Pony Update Brings Bowling Pony, Who Doesn’t Roll on Shabbos
It’s Hearth Warming’s Eve in Ponyville, and Gameloft is celebrating with the first major update for the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic app. The town is covered with snow, there are festive decorations to buy, and John Goodman’s finest work is immortalized forever in digital pony form. Along with the requisite bug fixes, the…
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Twenty-Seven Classic Infocom Text Adventures All At Once, All For iOS
The Lost Treasures of Infocom collection is now available for iPad and iPhone, boasting 27 classic adventure games and more than 350 hours of gameplay for a mere $10. I hear what you’re saying, “But Fahey, I can download any or all of these games to my PC and play through them in their entirety…
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The Most Fun You Can Have With Pudding Without Somebody Getting Naked
Riding high on the continued success of Cut the Rope, developer ZeptoLab serves up victory pudding, only this pudding doesn’t want to be eaten or smeared on the naked bodies of unpleasant people. Pudding Monsters wants to be free. And who could blame them? Sitting in the fridge day in and day out, fearing the…
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I Admit Defeat. The Icarus Box Has Bested Me.
I have stared and poked at this image for more than an hour over the past two days. I touch it, a red card pops up and a buzzer sounds. I have no idea what to do here, and The Icarus Box isn’t keen to tell me. The Icarus Box is a puzzle/horror/mystery game for…
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Reviews
AVADirect Mini Gaming PC: The Kotaku Review
There are dozens of places to purchase a custom gaming PC on the internet. Companies with colorful websites with flash-animated front pages and rotating images showing off their latest products in the best possible light. Then there’s AVADirect, a custom PC builder on the outskirts of Cleveland with a website that looks like it was…
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