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Robot Unicorn Attack Goes Retro
The Erasure-powered glory of Robot Unicorn Attack has seen many different iterations, from the original Adult Swim flash game to the mobile app, heavy metal to Christmas to a Facebook evolution. Now PixelJam takes us back to the very beginning with Retro Unicorn Attack Some might say that Adult Swim is beating a dead horse…
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Cut the Rope Creators Peel the Lid Off Pudding Monsters
With Cut the Rope and Cut the Rope Experiments, UK developer ZeptoLab created a pair of the most popular games on any mobile platform, along with one of the most beloved mobile mascots, the candy-munching OmNom. If anything can build on that success, it’s pudding. Due out later this month, Pudding Monsters looks to be…
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Reviews
Pringles Pumpkin Spice, Cinnamon Sugar and White Chocolate Peppermint: The Snacktaku Review
What do the holidays taste like to you? Is it the dark and playful taste of chocolate and peppermint? The warm, inviting sweetness of cinnamon and sugar? Or maybe it’s pumpkin spice, a traditional baked favorite that’s made a big splash in the snack game lately? Whatever your answer might be, it’s sure as hell…
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The Dorkly Weekly: Pokemon Rusty Does Not Get Hidden Machines
Hidden Machines are the most useful moves you can teach a Pokemon, but it has to be the right Pokemon. Let’s see if Pokemon Rusty can figure it out. Nope. I don’t know why I expected otherwise. For more sick and twisted video game comedy, follow the link to Dorkly.com
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AR Defender 2 Makes the Whole World Your Tower Defense Battlefield
Coming December 13 to iOS and Android from BulkyPix and developer int13, AR Defender 2 allows you to play 40 levels of tower defense anywhere you can fit a printed AR marker card. While we wait for augmented reality to be put to use doing something useful and practical, games like AR Defender 2 will…
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Mafia Wars 2 Sleeps With the Fishes December 30
The Zynga social game cullings that began with FishVille and Adventure Isle continues this month, as the troubled social gaming giant kills one of the most disappointing sequels of all time. No one wanted Mafia Wars 2, an action-packed 3D sequel to a wildly-popular and mostly text-based social game. This was because the fans of…
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Today’s Cuteness: A Crash Course in Bunny Multiplication
Coming this Thursday to iOS from NotDoppler, Bunny Cannon is a game called Bunny Cannon, which is (perhaps sadly) enough for me to purchase it. Thankfully it looks rather clever as well, for a game that’s ostensibly about lying to young rabbits about sex.
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This Week’s Facebook Winners and Losers: The King.com Saga
Now don’t get too excited; Zynga is still on the tops of both the gainers and losers charts this week. CityVille 2 added nearly eight million users this week, but I want to talk about the two positions behind that, populated by a pair of games from King.com. Candy Crush Saga gaining new ground is…
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Clay Balls, Eyeballs, Pixels and Falls: It’s the Week in Gaming Apps
Every weekday we elevate a particularly entertaining mobile game or game by-product to Gaming App of the Day status. This week we have six. I blame the balls. It was a very ballish week here at Kotaku. There were clay balls rolling down hills. We had eyeballs bouncing all over the place. We had ball-shaped…
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The Herd Outsider’s Guide to the Brony Phenomenon
Why can’t you escape the colorful cartoon ponies? Over the past two years the rising tide of adult male fans of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic cartoon have invaded the internet, seeding internet forums, Facebook, YouTube and pop culture conventions with proof of their passion for animated equines. Don’t understand the appeal? Perhaps…
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There’s a New Walking Dead Mobile Game, and It’s Brilliant
Like a mysteriously silent walker lurching out of the woods to sink its teeth into your face, Skybound’s comic book based The Walking Dead Assault came out of nowhere this morning to take a large bite out of fans’ free time. Normally when a game based on a major property arrives with little fanfare on…
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Gameloft Working to Correct My Little Pony Problems
Following the tragic treasure chest explosion that decimated Ponyville, Gameloft is working on ways to keep their My Little Pony game from collapsing under the weight of the community. As it turns out, Gameloft wasn’t expecting My Little Pony players to have so many friends. Apparently I wasn’t alone in my troubles, as other players…
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Zynga and Facebook Dial Their Relationship Back a Notch
For the past couple of years the social network Facebook and the social gaming company Zynga have enjoyed a rather cozy relationship. Zynga games have been a substantial source of revenue for Facebook, and the game maker has relied on the network to drive millions of players to its stable of titles. It’s been a…
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Even the Cemeteries Are Gorgeous in Akaneiro: Demon Hunters
American McGee and his Shanghai-based studio Spicy Horse continue to polish one of the most beautiful browser-based / Android games I’ve seen. With open beta looming, let’s take a look at the dark and lovely Bloodroot Cemetery, the latest area revealed for Akaneiro: Demon Hunters Akaneiro is a action role-playing game that combines Japanese mythology…
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The Next Big Social Word Game is Also a Horse Racing Game
Only in the mobile gaming sector could a developer not only come up with an idea as convoluted as combining betting on and racing horses with Scrabble, but turn that idea into what could be the next smash-hit social word game. Mention Mobile’s Word Derby turns tile-based word-assembly into a horse race. Up to four…
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There’s a New Mobile Final Fantasy Game on the Horizon, and We Hold the Key to Sephiroth
The airships are coming! Following a highly successful launch in Japan, DeNA Co. and Square Enix are preparing to bring Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade to North American Apple and Android devices. Airborne Brigade, the first free-to-play Final Fantasy social game to be released in English, casts players as airship pilots exploring an FF-inspired land, banding…
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