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Creatorverse is One Of the Coolest Things You Can Do With an iPad
Released today by Linden Labs, Creatorverse is a playground for the inventive mind. Connect simple shapes, assigns colors, behaviors and physical properties, and then combine them into wonderful complex machines you can share with the world. Linden Labs was once known solely for Second Life, the virtual world completely built and driven by its players.…
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After a Sandy Delay, CityVille 2 Launches Today
Hurricane Sandy’s reach extended far beyond the real world, causing the unexpected delay of the millions of potential virtual towns of CityVille 2. Originally slated for launch on Monday, Zynga’s brand-new 3D city-builder goes live today. The Baltimore-based Zynga studio working on CityVille 2 wanted to kick off this week with a flurry of city…
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Rise of the Collectible iPhone Robots
Backflip Studios takes the addictive formula of the wildly popular Dragonvale, swaps colorful lizards for quirky machine creatures, and guarantees that I’ll be obsessing over robot breeding and battling for the next year. I’ve written about Gizmonauts a couple of times already, back on that website that’ll be returning any day now, but I’ve been…
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Anatomy of a Whale
Tonight, Lee’s iPad questioned him with a blue pop-up window: “Do you want to buy one Chest of Gems for $99.99?” Lee could use those gems to immediately fortify his army. He tapped “Yes,” almost without thinking. In less than a month of playing around two hours a day, he’d spent nearly a thousand dollars.…
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Amazon’s First Mobile Game is a Fresh Take on Tower Defense
After mixing up the hidden object genre with its first Facebook game, Living Classics, Amazon Game Studios takes on tower defense with its first mobile game, Air Patriots. Create a squad of planes and guide them about the screen with your fingers, drawing attack paths in order to efficiently destroy enemy forces. It’s a more…
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This Week’s Windows Phone Charts: Xbox SmartGlass is Not a Game
Our week of emergency visual representations of our daily top app charts continues with the latest and greatest for the Windows Phone crowd, who seem to be playing a lot of SmartGlass and Xbox Live Extras. My high score in SmartGlass would blow your mind. Cracking Sands continues to dominate the paid charts this week,…
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The Wikipad is Delayed
WikiPad, the Android tablet/game controller combo, was originally scheduled to be released today. Due to last-minute “refinements”, it’s been delayed, with a new release date to be announced eventually, I’m sure. GameStop customers that preordered the tablet and were completely freaking surprised today will have it made up to them with some sort of extra…
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Create and Share Your Own 3D Browser-Based Games with Gameglobe
Gameglobe is a place where everyday folks like you and me can play, create and share unique 3D games (like that one up top) with people all over the world. Square Enix and Bigpoint have just launched the site’s open beta, so it’s game on for everybody. Just head over to Gameglobe.com, sign up for…
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King.com’s Saga Continues with Pet Rescue
Engorged with the heady success of Bubble Witch Saga and Candy Crush Saga, King.com adds another epic tale of level-arranged puzzles to Facebook with Pet Rescue Saga, a game that’s vaguely about rescuing pets. Mostly it’s about matching colored blocks, but there’s a twist-some of these colored blocks have pets on top of them. You…
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If Only Real Steering Wheels Held iPads
I suppose having an iPad mounted to the steering wheel of my 95 Nissan Pathfinder would probably be some sort of distraction or something. I guess I’ll have to settle for the Kolos iPad Racing Wheel The Kolos iPad Racing Wheel is effectively a traditional racing wheel controller with a place to slot your iPad.…
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This Week’s Android Charts: GTA Triumphant
Would you look at that, good old Grand Theft Auto III topping off the paid Android games chart this week. It makes an old dog proud, which is weird as I am pretty sure only humans worked on the game (Rockstar Games management doesn’t count). Thanks to our temporary new format, this week’s top tens…
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There Was Only One Way to Respond to the N-Word in Letterpress
I couldn’t find the words to respond to the appearance of that most unacceptable of racial slurs in a random game of Letterpress on my iPhone this weekend. Luckily I found the right letters. Letterpress is an iOS word game in which friends or total strangers can take turns using a set amount of letters…
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FarmVille 2 Goes Dark for Halloween
Haven’t stopped by your FarmVille 2 farm in awhile? Log in today through tomorrow to see what it looks like in the dark. And then get spammed by Halloween quest messages for hours! I’ve been slacking off on FarmVille 2 lately, what with so many nifty new Facebook games coming out that don’t involve poking…
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Need for Speed Most Wanted Mobile Is Excellent, Until You Play the Console Version
I’ve been playing the gorgeous mobile version of Need for Speed Most Wanted for the past week, loving every tilt-steering, nitrous-swiping, fender-bending moment. Last night I played the console version of Need for Speed Most Wanted for the first time. I can never go back. Real Racing developer Firemonkeys makes the best racers on iOS…
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Activision’s Activate Social Mobile Platform Begins with Skylanders
As mentioned in yesterday morning’s Skylanders mobile game story, which can’t be accessed currently for various storm-related reasons, Activision is debuting it’s social mobile platform Activate in Skylanders Battlegrounds, Lost Islands and an update to last year’s Skylanders Cloud Patrol The service, tied to Facebook for login purposes, adds multiplayer challenges, leaderboards and cloud saving…
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