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FreeSkate Xtreme Uses Your iPhone Camera to Keep Track of Your Head
If the location of your head is something you’re never quite certain of, then you’ll probably want to spend $.99 on VisionHacker Studios’ FreeSkate Xtreme for the iPhone and iPad later this week. It uses the Apple camera to find your skull, and then uses it to skate. It’s nice to see developers starting to…
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Last Friday, William Shatner Told Me to Play With Myself
I spent an hour Friday afternoon playing around with Shatoetry, an outrageous new iPhone app that lets fan construct sentences and phrases using the distinctive dramatic voice of Mr. William Shatner. Using the odd assortment of words contained within the app I made Captain James T. Kirk say some truly outrageous things, but none so…
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The Dorkly Weekly: Snorlax Must Be Weak Against Camrys
The tragically hilarious tale of Pokemon Rusty finally continues this week, as we learn the answer to the age-old question, “Can a human be healed at a Pokemon Center?” If the medical program in Pokemon-rich regions is this efficient, it’s only a matter of time before overpopulation destroys the planet. This is why we can’t…
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ReviewsTootsie Rolls: The Snacktaku Review
There are Snacktaku reviews that come into being as a result of months of research, vetting out of potential candidates and focus testing. Then there are Snacktaku reviews that spring from finding a five-pound bag of candy on clearance at Walmart the day after Halloween. Look at all those damn Tootsie Roll products. The day…
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The Littlest Hellboy and Friends Join the Cast of Big Head Bash
Spicy Horse Games’ (Alice: The Madness Returns) browser-based online shooter Big Head Bash is a game about toys shooting each other right in their over-sized heads. The competition heats up today, as Hellboy and four friends from Mike Mignola’s supernatural comic series join the likes of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama as collectible killers. Combining…
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Smurf Your Own Smurf in Smurf Life, Coming Smurf to Mobile Devices
Now that they’ve finished subverting millions to their wills via Smurf Village, Beeline Interactive places Peyo’s little blue money machines in such dire peril that Papa Smurf’s only recourse is to create a brand-new Smurf—you. The only-proficient-when-the-plot-calls-for-it wizard Gargamel has cast a powerful darkness spell over Smurf Village, threatening to increase the price of candle…
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Here’s an Action-Packed Social RPG You Can Play Anywhere
Launching November 8 from Pangalore Games, Knightly Adventure is a free-to-play Diablo-esque action RPG tucked inside a social city-builder. You can play it on your cell phone. You can play it on your tablet. You can even play it on your PC. It’s versatile like that. The future of social games shall be platform-agnostic, and…
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What’s Mightier Than the Mighty Eagle? Try the Millennium Falcon
Rovio continues to tease the November 8 release of Angry Birds Star Wars on mobile, PC and Mac, this time with a full gameplay trailer that ends with the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. While Luke, Leia, R2, C3P0, Han, Chewbacca and Ben will be doing the grunt work…
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What Facebook is Playing This Week: No Sign of CityVille 2 Yet
While I busy myself playing games like The Grinns Tale and the newly-released CityVille 2, the rest of Facebook mills about the old familiar haunts, munching on candy and clicking up exotic cuisine. This list is quickly growing stale, with the same games as last week appearing this week, only in slightly different order. It…
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Warning: Your iPad Mini May Emit Smoke When Sliced in Half With a Broadsword
I know it’s just an advertisement for ClearPlex screen protectors, but I just can’t stop watching it. This makes me glad I got rid of all my bladed weapons before the babies arrived. The 30 pound Final Fantasy VII Buster Sword in the corner doesn’t count.
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The Week in Gaming Apps: Rumbly Tumblr Edition
Welcome to the first (and hopefully final) Tumblr edition of Kotaku‘s Week in Gaming Apps, where we look fondly back at the mobile games that touched our lives during this trying time, except for the one from Monday that we can only link to via Google cache. Since our normal format won’t work here, I…
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Treasure Isle and FishVille Are the First Zynga Games to Die
Last month Zynga revealed that 13 of its lesser-performing Facebook games would be closed in order to make the social side of the company less of a massive disappointment. Yesterday players of FishVille and Treasure Isle were informed that those games would be closing up shop on December 5. What, there was a FishVille? Not…
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Wreck-It Ralph Isn’t Just a Movie, It’s Also a Game
Building on the free iOS App, the $.99 version of the official Wreck-It Ralph mobile game features three movie-themed games in one-Fix-It Felix Jr., Hero’s Duty and Candy Climber. It’s available on iTunes today, with an Android version coming soon.
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This Week’s iPad Charts: Spider — He is Our Hero
In what is hopefully the last graphic installment of our weekly mobile charts, the classic (if a platform that’s only a few years old can have a classic) Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor skitters to the top of the free charts, and a pair of big budget console game tie-ins make paid appearances. Need…
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Angry Birds Star Wars’ Only Hope? Obi-Wing Kabirdy, Of Course
The crossover between an incredibly successful film franchise and the near-ubiquitous mobile game continues apace, with the latest character reveal of Bad Piggy and Angry Birds versions of Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi. A slice of Angry Birds Star Wars gameplay is shown, but other than pigs in Stormtrooper attire nothing looks terribly like Star…
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The Wondrous Armor of The Grinns Tale
You’re looking at the tier six armor for Nexon’s utterly wondrous social RPG The Grinns Tale, which I wrote about on that website we had last week. Official launch is November 6, but you can play it now, or watch a video about the game’s whimsical design. Your choice!
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Win a Sweet Star Wars Laptop
Razer is holding a sweepstakes to give away a limited edition Star Wars edition of their $2500 Blade laptop. I was going to wait until after sign-ups were closed to tell you folks, but figure if I win I’d just have to give it away all over again anyway, so have at it
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