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The iPhone Game Charts for 10/30 2012
Lacking access to this previous week’s charts keeps the comparison to a minimum in this week’s iPhone game charts. New games on the paid list include Arms Cartel Global and Grand Theft Auto III On the free side, Slendr is all the rage, with the excellent Punch Quest, the charitable Bubble Galaxy with Buddies and…
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I Bought a 5th Gen iPod Touch For Gaming, and I Am Incredibly Pleased
I’m getting rid of my iPhone 4S. After years of using my phone more as a gaming machine than a communication device, I’ve decided to move on. The recently-released fifth generation iPod Touch is the perfect tool to wean me off of my iPhone dependency. I’m not impressed by the iPhone 5 — I prefer…
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Reviews
Peanut Butter and Pickle Sandwich: The Snacktaku Review
The old man leaned back in his chair and took a lingering drawl from his pipe as the wide-eyed children before him took in his tale. “But why, Grandfather?” asked one of the doe-eyed ragamuffins at his feet. “Why did Fahey eat a peanut butter and pickle sandwich for us?” The old man smiled wistfully.…
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The Dorkly Weekly: How Video Game Characters Do Trick-or-Treat
I agree with Sheik, that is an incredibly stupid costume, Link. One of these days I’m going to get around to playing Majora’s Mask long enough to understand why the strange people that worship it love it so. For more sick and twisted video game comedy, follow the link to Dorkly.com
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Gameloft Brings 12 of Its Best to Windows Phone 8
With 12 of its most popular games coming to the next generation of Microsoft’s mobile platform, I can stop complaining that games like Asphalt 7 and N.O.V.A. 3 aren’t on Windows Phone 7 and start whining about not having a Windows Phone 8. Huzzah! Along with bringing back the relative oldies-but-goodies, Gameloft is also ready…
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The Grinns Tale is the Most Charming RPG I’ve Played in Years
Those delightful little creatures with their strange cross-time clothing choices and maniacal grimaces are more than just the player characters in one of the finest social role-playing games going — they’re also my friends. Nexon’s The Grinns Tale is a twisted little turn-based role-playing game with a little town-building thrown in for good measure. Players…
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Skylanders Gets More Mobile With Two New Games and a Bluetooth Portal
Building upon the success of last year’s Skylanders Cloud Patrol, Activision is preparing to unleash the full force of its toys-meets-video-games franchise on mobile devices, with two new titles due out next month, a mobile-friendly Portal of Power and a rejuvenation of Cloud Patrol courtesy of the Activate community service. We’ve already seen the first…
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Luke and Leia Use the Force in This First Taste of Angry Birds Star Wars
Now kiss! Rovio doesn’t deliver sibling smooching in this first gameplay teaser for Angry Birds Star Wars, but they do give us Lightsaber swinging and pink Force-pulling, so I’ll forgive them. Is it possible for a pair of cartoon birds to possess a smoldering sexual tension? You probably shouldn’t answer that. Just enjoy the strangeness…
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Buddha Finger, a Mobile Martial Arts Rhythm Game Developed by Kick-Ass Moms
Anna Marsh and Sarah van Rompaey are a pair of video game industry veterans, having worked on big-budget titles including Tomb Raider Anniversary and Underworld. Together with graphic artist Gabriella Pavan they formed Lady Shotgun, a part-time game studio run by full-time moms. Here’s their first game. Buddha Finger is a rhythm game inspired by…
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What Facebook is Playing This Week: The Same Things It Was Playing Last Week
FarmVille 2‘s meteoric rise to fame slowly turns this week, as players realize they enjoy building restaurants, playing Scrabble and matching candy much more than they do farming. Actual numbers aside, the composition and positioning of the list as of this writing is exactly the same as last week’s. Things are a bit stagnant at…
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The Week in Gaming Apps Goes on a Toy Run
There was a period of my life during which I spent all of my time either playing pen-and-paper role-playing games or running from Wal-Mart to Wal-Mart in search of the hottest toys. This Week in Gaming Apps is dedicated to that guy. He would have loved this. We’ve got two games based on cartoons with…
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One Part Alice in Wonderland, One Part Sherlock Holmes
It’s rather suspicious how two games I decided to write about today wound up new entries on this morning’s iPad charts. Perhaps I should have Constable Cheshire Jr. and the Mad Hatter look into the matter once they’re done unraveling the mystery of Mirrors of Albion An exciting new entry in the hidden object category…
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Dragonvale with Robots?! You Bastards.
On no less than two separate occasions have I bemoaned the addictive nature of iPhone breeding game Dragonvale, the mobile game I’ve played longer than any other. Now Backflip Studios takes the same formula and applies it to robots. Dammit. Gizmonauts, now available on the iTunes App Store, is a robot breeding game. This should…
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This Week’s iPad Charts: I Told You He Had the Power
Last week I debuted the new and improved iPad gaming app charts, delivering the top free and paid apps in a relatively easy-to-read format. This week He-Man shows up and kicks the entries all over the place. Dear iPad gamers, the charts are not very dynamic if you keep loading new games onto them. I…
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Ruby Blast Adds a Heaping Helping of Adventure
Ruby Blast, Zynga’s color-matching game that started life as a shameless clone of Bejeweled‘s Diamond Mine mode, has transformed itself into a shameless Diamond Mine clone with a difference, adding an extensive adventure mode on top of its regularly scheduled weekly tournaments. Ruby Blast‘s quietly implemented adventure mode (which I heard about via Games.com) adds…
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Square Enix’s New Free-to-Play iOS Game is an Evil Revelation
Available today on the iTunes App Store, Square Enix’s free-to-play Wizardlings is a casual tap adventure in which a pair of tiny wizards reveal a magical fantasy world, one block at a time. It’s cute, colorful and incredibly evil. Taking control of one of two wizards—boy or girl—the player moves cross grid-based levels, tapping on…
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Nobody Takes He-Man Seriously, And That’s Why I Love His Mobile Game
In late 1982 Mattel fashioned a generic fantasy barbarian with an even more generic name into a children’s media goldmine. First came the toys. Then came the cartoon, with its horribly-limited animation. It got so big that in 1987 Dolph Lundgren starred in a live action Masters of the Universe movie. Glitchsoft’s He-Man: The Most…
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