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Hollywood Monsters is The Next Big Thing on iOS
No, that’s not hype. Released last year on PC under the title The Next Big Thing, Hollywood Monsters is a hilarious adventure game from the creators of Runaway, and its coming to your iDevices December 6. Mobile is quickly becoming a second home to the point-and-click adventure game, what with tablets and smart phones being…
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This Week’s iPhone Charts: The Cheapest Dental Surgery Available
The magic of mobile gaming affords us countless opportunities to explore magical worlds filled with happiness and joy and comfort. Or we could just take a hammer to our teeth. I must admit that when I first saw Dental Surgery at the top of this week’s free iPhone app charts, I downloaded it immediately. Within…
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Reviews
Great Value Golden Crème Cakes: The Snacktaku Review
The mediation has failed, and Hostess is closing its doors for good, selling off its popular brands to the highest bidders. Now that the initial panic has subsided it’s time for clearer heads to prevail. The end of the Twinkie as a Hostess product is not the end of all golden sponge cakes. There is…
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The Dorkly Weekly: Redditaur I Choose You! Use Memequake!
Today Dorkly asks, “What if the world’s most popular websites were Pokemon?” Ash probably would have had a hard time collecting all of those gym badges with Pornotubeon at his side. If you could carry around any website in a ball in your pocket, bringing it out whenever you pleased to rollick and play a…
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Hardcore Social: No One is Safe From the Bloodthirsty Hordes of Citizen Grim
I was not planning to spend an hour shooting and bludgeoning zombies to death on Facebook, yet here we are. I wandered over to Zynga.com to grab a screenshot of FarmVille for today’s winners and losers post, and there was the image for Eruptive Entertainment’s Citizen Grim, all darkness and evil and flames and pretty…
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Culture
The Official Oreo iPhone Game Isn’t Nearly as Bad as It Should Be
The rise of mobile phone games has done wonders for the normally dark and seedy world of advergaming. With Oreo Twist, Lick, Dunk, PikPok has created an interactive advertisement I’ve actually wanted to play more than once. The setup is pretty simple: Oreo cookies fly into the air. One swipe twists the tops off. The…
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Square Enix’s Latest Mobile Puzzler is a Delirious Whirlwind of Exploded Pixels
The creators of Motley Blocks painstakingly crafted a series of 80 simple images using colored cubes, creating a collection of nifty 3D pixel art covering a variety of subjects. Then they blew them all up, and you have to put them back together. So much work, this mobile gaming. Each level in Motley Blocks begins…
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Had Enough Cowbell? But Wait, There’s Cowbell Hero
Who’s ready for a game based on a five-year-old joke about a Saturday Night Live skit from twelve years ago? Thanks to the magic of the iPhone and iPad, Cowbell Hero becomes a real thing next month. I would be incredibly disappointed with Digital Hero Games (via PocketGamer) for making Cowbell Hero if they hadn’t…
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This Week’s Facebook Winners and Losers: The Great FarmVille 2 Exodus
Smell that? That’s the fragrant odor of rotting vegtetation, courtesy of the nearly five million players that didn’t bother tending their virtual crops in FarmVille 2 last week. While some 50 million folks did log in last week to click on crops like there was no tomorrow, 4.6 million is a substantial chunk of players…
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My Little Pony Too Hardcore for You? Try Littlest Pet Shop.
From the same Hasbro/Gameloft agreement that spawned the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic mobile game comes Littlest Pet Shop, a game about collectible animals with giant wobbly heads. Littlest Pet Shop features 150 collectible pets to feed, wash, play with and build luxury housing for, just like real life. It’s freaking adorable, even if…
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Transformers Prime Teaches the Wii U Control Pad How to Drive
Transformers Prime for the Wii U isn’t a particularly spectacular game, but it does hint at big things to come for racing games on the console, transforming that bulky control pad into a capable little steering wheel peripheral. Turning the Wii remote sideways never made for an immersive driving experience. It was novel at best,…
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Avengers Initiative Now Available on Android With Extra Tegra 3 Sexiness
Marvel’s Infinity Blade take on the Avengers finally smashes its way onto Google Play, but not every Android device is created equal. Is yours on the list? If you’re on a Tegra 3-powered device then you’re more than good. The game has been optimized for the powerful platform, with exclusive battle effects that accurately model…
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The Best Grand Theft Auto Comes to iOS and Android December 6
With the mobile version of Grand Theft Auto III still tearing up the Android and iOS charts, Rockstar readies a second helping of mobile free-roaming mayhem with the December 6 release of the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 10th Anniversary Edition More than any other installment in the series, this is my Grand Theft Auto.…
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This Week’s Android Charts: All Hail the Mighty Fruit Ninja
As Angry Birds Star Wars fever beings to calm and we move into the Thanksgiving weekend here in the U.S., our thoughts turn to food, more specifically how badly we want to slice it with a katana. Fruit Ninja isn’t at the top of the Android charts this week, but it’s on both of them,…
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It’s Gameloft’s $.99 Thanksgiving Saletacular
Starting today and running through the Thanksgiving weekend, Gameloft is discounting a bunch of its $6.99 titles on Android, iOS and Kindle Fire to $.99, giving us something to do while camping out for Black Friday sales. As of this writing the Kindle Fire titles are already discounted. Still waiting for the Google Play and…
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Reviews
Steelseries Free Mobile Controller: The Kotaku Review
Nothing this small should work as well as the SteelSeries Free Mobile Controller does. Years of development have resulted in a tiny, pocket-sized controller that had me overlooking its small stature the moment I started playing a compatible game. Finding a compatible game? Not nearly as enjoyable. My experience with the SteelSeries Free controller at…
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Mobile Gaming’s World of Warcraft Gets a Battle Arena Spin Off Tomorrow
Gameloft’s Order & Chaos Online was mobile gaming’s answer to World of Warcraft, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game for tablets and smartphones. Tomorrow the brand expands with Heroes of Order & Chaos, a MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) game shades of League of Legends This is actually a rather interesting reversal of the origin…
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