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The Final Pocket God Update Blames Scientology For the End of the World. Sounds About Right.
Those poor Mayans. All this time we’ve been pointing to their broken calendar with anxiety and dream, when we really should have been pointing at completely plausible alien-based religion created by a science fiction author. Do you think there’ll be Tom Cruise? Oh yeah, there’ll be Tom Cruise. In Pocket God Episode 47: Apocalypse the…
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Now’s Your Chance to Get Every Dragonvale Dragon You’ve Missed
Notorious for releasing limited-time only dragons and driving players insane trying to breed them before time runs out, Backflip Studios shows fans mercy for the holidays, unlocking every dragon ever released in the game for breeding and purchase—for a limited time, at least. I have the Leap Year Dragon. The one I’ve been bitching about…
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A $209.99 In-App Purchase That Could Save a Baby From HIV
There are medications an HIV-positive expectant mother can take throughout pregnancy and breastfeeding that grant her child a 98 percent chance of being HIV free. $205 is enough to keep a mother in medication from conception to weaning. The largest in-app purchase in Coca-Cola and (RED)‘s new free-to-play iOS game is $209.99. That’s no coincidence.…
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Now You Don’t Need Friends to Play the Penny Arcade Card Game
I’ve been wanting to play the Penny Arcade card game from Cryptozoic Entertainment for ages. At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con I spent a great deal of time wandering past the Penny Arcade booth, holding the cards in my hand or casting longing glances from afar. Had Jerry and Mike noticed me there, they might…
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See This Cute Little Boba Fett Cosplayer? Zynga is Killing Him
I knew it was coming, but I didn’t want to believe it was true. As part of the great Zynga Facebook game purge of 2012, which has already claimed Treasure Isle, Fishville and Mafia Wars 2, my little friend here will be terminated come December 30. His name is Back, named after my long-standing, often…
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Fantastic Caribbean Adventure The Journey Down Makes Sweet Music on iOS
Skygoblin’s lovingly handcrafted point-and-click adventure The Journey Down hasn’t been ported to the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. No, it just sort of wandered in, bobbing its head to some sexy jazzy reggae, and made itself right at home. With its exquisite hand painted graphics and its singular Afro-Caribbean setting, The Journey Down is one…
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Gears of War and Erector Make One Hell of a Co-Op Team
While snapping together plastic bricks will always hold a special place in my heart, sometimes I crave a more complicated building toy – something that requires an allen wrench and several dozen tiny little screws. The Gears of War King Raven Erector set fits the bill nicely. Let’s build it. The King Raven is one…
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Slow Motion, Live Action Dubstep Fruit Ninja
From YouTube video creator Scott Winn, creator of the famous kittens flying in slow motion video, comes the ultimate realization of the world’s most popular fruit-slicing mini-game. Somebody get me a sword. Fruit Ninja in Real Life to Dubstep [YouTube]
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True Marvel Heroes Tales of a Level 15 Hawkguy
The Avengers’ Hawkeye (lovingly referred to by comic scribe Matt Fraction as Hawkguy) gets a lot of flak from fans and movie-goers for being the guy with the bow and arrow trying to keep up with the equivalent of spandex-wearing gods, but I’ll pit my level 15 Hawkeye against your level 1 Hulk any day.…
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CultureSplitscreenHere’s a Dinosaur-Riding MMO You Can Play in Your Browser Right Now
Why are you sitting on your ass reading a website when you could be sitting on a dinosaur while wearing a cowboy hat and shooting lasers? Why do I even have to ask a question like this? Dino Storm is a free-to-play browser-based massively mutliplayer online role-playing game in which thousands of players wander about…
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This Challenging Puzzle Game is a Crossbow Bolt to the Brain
I nearly let the fact that Ludomo Gamestudio’s Quiver looks like a shareware PC game from the mid-90s stop me from playing. Had I given in to my graphics snobbery I would have missed out on one of the most inventive puzzle games available on Android. Each of Quiver‘s 51 levels presents the player with…
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What to Get the Discerning Cut the Rope Fan for Christmas
ZeptoLab’s candy-munching Om Nom is the most iconic mobile gaming character this side of Angry Birds, the sweetheart (and tooth) of smartphone gamers around the globe. Round 5 immortalizes the star of Cut the Rope in a series of plushies and collectibles worthy of his big, stupid, toothy grin. Reversible plushies are Transformers you can…
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Chillingo Lines Up 15 Free iOS Games for the Holidays
When every iOS game on the list for your Best Games of 2012 Sale promotion is free, it’s no longer a sale — it’s a giveaway, and when one of those games is Pony Trails, that’s a steal. Seriously, if you’re into horses or know someone that is, Pony Trails is a nifty little simulator…
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Evil Brains Invade the LEGO Hero Factory Next Month
While I love LEGO in general, the Hero Factory lines and Bionicle before it never appealed to me. I’m a brick man. Still, a new LEGO game coming in January to mobile devices and web platform is a wonderful thing, even if it isn’t as square as I’d like. Hero Factory: Brain Attack has players…
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The Dorkly Weekly: Pokemon Rusty’s First Big Gym Battle
The saga of Pokemon Rusty continues this week, as our hapless hero fights his first gym battle—about 30 levels too early. I’m not sure which line I am going to steal from this one. “Logic is the rarest candy of them all!” is pretty good, but I’m leaning towards “God Digglett!” For more sick and…
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Reviews
McDonald’s McRib: The Limited Time Only Snacktaku Review
It’s finally time—time for McDonald’s menus across the country to run red with pale pork shoulder drenched in barbecue sauce. The Jesus of fast food has returned, as foretold by prophecy and marketing. Just as Christianity was offered as an alternative to the pagan ways of ancient people, so was the McRib offered as an…
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The Stargate Dials Infinity Blade in Teal’c’s Revenge
After several months as not much more than a guided tour and a terrible round of golf, Arkalis Interactive’s Stargate Command app finally gets its game on, and that game is Infinity Blade, more or less. Available as a $.99 download within Stargate Command, Teal’c’s Revenge casts players as everybody’s favorite mascara-wearing Jaffa warrior as…
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