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Hardcore Social: Dungeon Rampage is a Bloody Good Time
Playing social games doesn’t have to mean clicking on a farm. In Dungeon Rampage‘s case, social means wading into hordes of enemies and traversing perilous dungeons side-by-side with other people; you know — old school social, the way your mother used to make it. Oh the things I’ve missed while poking about FarmVille and CityVille…
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Zynga’s Next Big Mid-Core Mobile Game Coming From November
That’s right, not in November, but from November Software, a team of former LucasArts developers looking to make the hardcore gaming experience more accessible with a game called Battlestone The screenshot above is not technically from Battlestone. It’s from Golden Arrow, the original project the folks at November showed off earlier this year. Using a…
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The Curiosity Team is Working Hard to Compensate for Your Boundless Enthusiasm
Peter Molyneux and his team at 22cans are a visionary group, but that vision didn’t include a million people eager to find out what’s inside the cube in the developer’s first foray into experimental mobile games. Today 22cans thanks tappers for their patience and promises to fix the connection and coin-retention problems with Curiosity If…
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This Week’s iPad Charts: The Angry Birds Death Star Approaches Completion
In case you hadn’t figured out how this works yet, Rovio releases a new Angry Birds game, and then it sits on the charts for months and months and months. This week we welcome the latest Rovio chart-sitter, Angry Birds Star Wars It’s a week of major releases on the iPad, unlike last week where…
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My New Favorite Tablet Stand Gently Cups My Thigh
Since taking up duties as Kotaku’s official mobile gaming guy, I’ve started spending a large amount of time sitting outside on my patio, trying to look busy while playing games on my iPad or my Transformer Prime. The PadPivot is my constant companion, resting reassuringly upon my thigh andkeeping my tablet safe and secure. The…
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Stormfall: Age of War Makes Me Wish I Were a Better Empire Builder
Launched earlier this week on Facebook by Plarium, Stormfall: Age of War is an incredibly polished social empire builder with tons of depth, sharp production values (voice overs!) and plenty of opportunities to interact with your Facebook friends both positively and negatively. If only I had the patience. Empire building is one of my gaming…
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There’s a My Little Pony Party in My Pocket and You’re All Invited
Hot and cold running My Little Pony hit iTunes today (with Android coming soon). Hot because the obvious love for fans of the show, and cold for the city-building gameplay that I likely wouldn’t bother with if not for the prevailing ponitude of it all. I’ve been excited about the My Little Pony mobile game…
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Star Wars Brings Out the Very Best in Angry Birds
Everything is better with Star Wars. Anyone that’s ever cut a graceful arc through the air with a vaguely saber-shaped object while making whooshing noises knows this. Dogs know this. Pizza lovers know this. Even Disney know this. Anyone can toss a tan robe on their pet or Photoshop a lightsaber into their prom photo,…
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This Week’s Windows Phone Charts: Pacman 8 is So Much Better Than Pacman 7
Dear Namco Bandai, you should probably pay more attention to the Windows Phone platform, if only to make sure people don’t get confused about Pac-Man continuity. Yes, one of this week’s top free games is Pacman 8. Not Pac-Man 8, but Pacman 8. That’s an important distinction. It also bears noting that there is also…
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The Most Gaming-Friendly Phone Carrier Going
Since my first clunky flip-phone to my most recent handset I’ve been an unwavering AT&T loyalist. Every couple of years I upgrade to the latest model, extending my obligation without considering the alternatives. After a meeting last month with T-Mobile to discuss its gaming strategy, my loyalties are beginning to waver. T-Mobile wants to be…
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I Should Love This Demon Collecting Game, But I Just Don’t Get It
I love collectible card games. I love anime art. I love leveling up strange creatures, melding them together to form more powerful entities. I just can’t love Zynga’s Ayakashi Ghost Guild, or any of the new breed of collector games popping up on mobile devices lately. The formula followed by Ayakashi and games like it…
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My Little Pony Comes to iOS Tomorrow, and Suddenly I’m Incredibly Happy
I was having a pretty horrible day. My computer crashed, my hard drive had to be completely reformatted. I threw my back out two days ago, and the pain is excrutiating. Then Gameloft sent me this, and everything is okay. Even the initial loading screen makes me happy. It’s astounding. While some of you get…
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This Week’s Android Charts: Victory for the Incumbents
Now that last week’s excitement has passed it’s back to business as usual from the weekly Android chart, with Minecraft re-elected into the top paid spot by a narrow margin. There are plenty of familiar faces showing up in this week’s Android charts, from Rovio’s stable of birds and pigs to your own family and…
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This Week’s iPhone Charts: Wreck-It Ralph Rules the Roost
When we last left our intrepid iPhone gaming app charts, Tumblr had stolen my powers of tracking, leaving me to resort to an image-based solution. This week the rankings are back, which is why it took me so long to get them up. How about that Wreck-It Ralph? The computer animated sensation that’s sweeping the…
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You Have to Play The Wizard of Oz, If Only to Experience the Joy of MunchkinCam
Spooky Cool Labs’ Facebook game based on movie classic The Wizard of Oz is in beta now, and you should definitely give it a try, if not for the ability to see through the eyes of Munchkins in first-person, then for the most dramatic wood chopping and ore mining in video game history. Riddled with…
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This Rollercoaster Ride of a Physics Game Could Use a Better Name
Last week Ubisoft’s RedLynx studio released a fun and challenging rollercoaster-based psychics puzzler for iOS. You might have missed it, as the app icon is a cartoon cat and the game is called Nutty Fluffies I initially passed over the game myself. I couldn’t imagine a world in which a game with that moniker would…
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The Grinns Tale Launches, Charming the Pants Off of Everybody
Nexon’s free-to-play social RPG The Grinns Tale, which I crowed about a few weeks back, officially launches today. Here’s the opening movie. Yes, a social game with an elaborate opening movie. It’s also got some interesting stats. What stats, you ask? These stats, direct from Nexon: Here Are Some Fun Stats From the Beta Times…
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Grand Gaming Experiment Curiosity Launches, Players Tap Out Dirty Words
Curiosity, the first experimental game from Peter Molyneux’s 22 Cans, is an iOS app that invites the entire world to tap away at a gigantic multilayered cube, revealing its secrets pixel-by-pixel. A “life-changing” secret awaits the single player that makes it to the center. Right now it says “Fuckers” on the side of it. No…
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