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Somebody Take Magical Ride Away From Me, Please.
Wandering through the Facebook App Center can be a dangerous thing. I’ve been playing Pretty Simple’s endless broom rider, Magical Ride, for an hour now. The only reason I am not playing it right now, is because I have two minutes before I get another life. One minute. Actually, be right back. Magical Ride would…
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Like All Things, 2K Play’s Latest Game Gets Better When the Sheep Show Up
Despite the fact that 2K Play sent me a plush cow stuffed with a whoopie cushion to promote it, I wasn’t finding Herd Herd Herd nearly as charming as I thought I would. Then the sheep showed up. First demoed at E3 2012, Herd Herd Herd transforms your finger into a sheep dog. Nowhere in…
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is Go on Mobile, and It’s Glorious
I shouldn’t have to tell any self—respecting gamer to go drop $4.99 on the tenth anniversary edition of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on iOS or Android (once it’s live). For those that lack self-respect, go drop $4.99 on the tenth anniversary edition of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. It’s better than ever. Along with…
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Come for the Unintentional Call of Duty Parody, Stay for the Stellar Multiplayer
In early 2011, Epic Games released Duty Calls, a Call of Duty parody game that made fun of the military shooter in order to promote the release of Bulletstorm. The story mode for Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour is ten times as funny, only I’m pretty sure it wasn’t meant to be. Modern Combat 4…
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Knightly Adventure Comes to Android Just in Time for the Holiday Update
Free-to-play cross-platform action role-playing game Knightly Adventure has been capturing the hearts of iOS and Facebook players since its November 8 launch. Now developer Pangalore takes on Android, with the help of a little holiday spirit. Nothing says “Merry Christmas” like a witch, right? Okay, so maybe the timing on the new premium Witch character…
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For the Honor of Grayskull, She-Ra Has the Power, Not That She Deserves It
How does one improve upon the most powerful game in the universe? By unleashing the most powerful game update in the universe, featuring Princess Adora and her magical horse. Princess Adora of course transforms into She-Ra, the marketing product of a much simpler time, when capturing the hearts of little girls was as easy as…
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Zynga Applies for a Nevada Gambling License
As part of its lengthy preparations to offer real-money gambling via its social games in the U.S., Zynga has taken the first step towards acquiring a Nevada gaming license, which would help pave the way towards giving American players a chance to give the company their money without getting virtual livestock in exchange. They’ve comleted…
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I Understand the Mobile Collectible Card Game Genre Now, But I Can’t Afford It
Look at that. There I am, in second place overall in Aeria Mobile’s Pirate Maidens, one of those newfangled mobile collectible card games I’ve been having so much trouble dealing with lately. After a week spent dominating the female anime pirate collecting game I can safely say that I understand the genre intimately. I just…
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The Google Play Store is a Mess. Hooked Can Help.
With hundreds of thousands of games to choose from and few organization options, Google Play isn’t the friendliest place to find something to play. It’s easy to get lost in the ever-growing sea of Android apps. Game discovery app Hooked is Google Play’s lighthouse. There are a bunch of game discovery apps for Google Play,…
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It’s a Mobile Resident Evil Ripoff, But It’s Not Half Bad
From Yingpei Games, the developer formerly known as Epic Games China, comes Mercenary Ops, an Unreal Engine-powered on-rail zombie shooter that’s one of the best Resident Evil games on iTunes, despite not being a Resident Evil game. One look at the game’s iTunes description makes its inspiration abundantly clear: “In Mercenary Ops, you are Leo,…
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SongPop Tops Facebook’s 25 Highest-Rated Social Games of 2012
Grabbing social gamers by their dangling music nostalgia glands, SongPop tops Facebook’s list of the top 25 web-based and mobile social games of 2012. It also makes for a lousy top image, so I went with number 14, NaturalMotion’s CSR Racing, instead. Pretty car. Using a mystical combination of App Center star ratings, negative and…
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Zynga Launches CoasterVille, Its Most Expressive Social Game Yet
From the Zynga studio that brought you the company’s most unique game to date, Empires & Allies, comes a theme park management game that offers players unparalleled freedom to create their happiest place on Earth. Build your own farm. Build your own city. Build your own castle. Zynga’s large stable of social games have promised…
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Full Bloom is One Puzzling Gardening Simulator
I wasn’t actively seeking a social game that combines cultivating a garden with puzzle adventure progression, but I’m not unhappy I stumbled upon it in Playdom’s Full Bloom Last night, after an incredibly long work day, I went poking about the Facebook App Center (you knew they had one of those, right?), where Full Bloom…
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Now There’s Even More Rayman Jungle Run to Love
I can’t get enough Rayman these days, so today’s free update to Ubisoft’s Rayman Jungle Run on iOS and Android is greeted with open disembodied hands. Both the Android and iOS versions of the mobile counterpart to the excellent Rayman Origins score nine new levels and one new Land of the Livid Dead today, bringing…
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If All You Want to Do Is Kill Enormous Dragons, This is Your Game
Stunning combat games like Infinity Blade and Avengers Alliance are nice and all, but they waste a lot of time in-between battles with exploration and poking at items. In Glu Mobile’s Dragon Slayer you slay dragons. That’s it. You also upgrade and manage equipment and, in order to truly excel at the game, spend a…
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