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This Week’s Windows Phone Charts: Cracking Sands and Circling Words
Welcome to the second-ever Kotaku Windows Phone game charts. In this second installment of this thrilling series we explore how the game rankings ebb and flow from week to week. I think it turned out rather well. In fact, I think it turned out so well that we’ll maintain the same theme every week, until…
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The Pink-Haired Kitty Girl Rule Also Applies to Mobile Defense Games
There is no such thing as a bad game that features a pink-haired girl with kitty ears — even the most hideously unplayable mess is somewhat redeemed by such wondrous presence. Luckily for Gamevil, Arel Wars 2 is pretty damn playable as well. A deep and satisfying free-to-play defense game now available for iOS (the…
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Quantum Conundrum Creators Bravely Venture Into Mobile Gaming with PIXLD
Quantum Conundrum‘s Kim Swift (because I am tired of typing Portal creator) and her team at Airtight Games have undergone a startling epiphany—mobile phones can play games. They’ve launched Airtight Mobile to take advantage of this discovery, with the first of these “mobile phone games” dropping next week. It’s called PIXLD. From the official announcement…
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Explore the Hauntingly Beautiful Pathways of the Shardlands
Available today from Breach Entertainment, Shardlands is a strikingly pretty adventure puzzler set on a desolate alien world filled with bizarre creatures and strange contraptions. And that’s why I wasn’t paying attention to the first 10 minutes of Zynga’s 3rd quarter financial call. I suppose “more interesting than a Zynga financial call” isn’t a particularly…
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Zuckerberg Isn’t Pleased With the State of Facebook Gaming, But It’s Getting Better
With Facebook’s major gaming revenue source faltering and social gaming in general struggling to find new ways to engage and earn without annoying, it’s no wonder Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg isn’t happy with the state of gaming on his massive social network. During yesterday’s earnings call as reported by TechCrunch, Zuckerberg came right out and…
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Pummel Your Pals in the Street Fighter X Tekken Facebook Game
Celebrating the release of Street Fighter X Tekken on the PlayStation Vita, Capcom has released Friend Fighter on Facebook, a silly little app that’s not much more than an excuse to prove I have more friends than Kirk Hamilton. Pick a friend, pick a criteria (photos posted, travel miles, amount of friends, etc.), and get…
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This Week’s Android Charts: Bard Sharks
It’s week two of our continuing coverage of the Google Play top charts, and you know what that means—last week’s positions are go! Did your favorite game move up the charts? Slip down? Why are you so concerned? Where did these sharks come from? While there hasn’t been a great deal of movement in the…
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Every Friend Recruited for Bubble Galaxy with Buddies is Clean Drinking Water for Burkina Faso
Scopely’s latest “with Buddies” game hits the iTunes app store today, bringing with it a flood of clean drinking water for a developing country. The developer has partnered with charity:water to donate a gallon of water to the West African country of Burkina Faso for every friend you nag to play. Bubble Galaxy with Buddies…
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This is Role-Playing in Its Purest Form
Long before there was a Final Fantasy or an Ultima, role-playing was strictly something a group of friends did around a dining room table cluttered with pieces of paper, rulebooks and dice. Knights of Pen and Paper captures that experience beautifully. Countless games have boasted bringing the pen-and-paper role-playing experience to video games over the…
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A Powerful New Gaming PC That’s Only 3.6 Inches Wide
Digital Storm isn’t just a boutique PC shop — it’s a group of engineers striving to innovate in the PC space. Now those engineers have unleashed the Bolt, a 14 inch tall, 3.6 inches wide marvel of space economy and power, with one rather noisy downside. This is not an all-in-one PC box, with components…
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This Week’s iPhone Charts: Can Felix Fix the Bad Piggies?
Last Tuesday we brought back our weekly iPhone charts, listing the best paid and free games available for the long phone and its ancestors. This week we get to see how those charting games like to move it, move it. Only one week out and already I’m beginning to see some trends forming. For instance,…
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The MOGA Android Controller Will Make You Curse Like a Sailor in Public
Available today where ever an Android gamer cries out for an analog stick, Power A’s MOGA gaming controller invites you to offend complete strangers with your outrageous trash talk. I post this because a) I quite like the MOGA and b) any chance to see a mime lose his s*** is a glorious occasion, even…
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Webkinz Creators Tempt Women with Love, Romance, Intrigue and Adorable Mouse Figurines
Ganz, the company that married stuffed animals with social gaming with Webkinz (now on iPad) has recently introduced Tail Towns Friends, a game filled with juicy gossip, farming, drama, forbidden love and collectible figurines… you know, for the ladies. In Tail Towns Friends, players enter a soap opera world populated by tiny anthropomorphic cats and…
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The Dorkly Weekly: So That’s How Dr. Robotnik Became Dr. Eggman
There is nothing more sadly humorous than a someone trying to go by a self-conceived nickname. A nickname is something given to you by other people. With the dawning of the internet age a person can have a certain amount of control over what they are called, but someone can really do with an internet…
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Battle Sudoku Against Friends Does Not Require a Clever Headline
You know Sudoku, the grid-based number game that everyone went crazy over a few years ago? This is Sudoku with power-ups, a three-move-per-turn limit, explosive mines and poker-style suites. When you’ve got all that, plus turn-based multiplayer, you do not require eye-catching wordplay. 6Waves’s latest free-to-play iOS game is now available for your number-revealing pleasure,…
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Cave Continues Putting Out the Prettiest Shoot-em Ups on iOS
When the bullets start flying on October 26, shmup fans will be too busy dodging and shooting to appreciate how pretty DoDonPachi Maximum looks on the iPhone and iPad. Thank goodness for screenshots. Shoot-em up master Cave is bringing this fresh new take on DoDonPachi to iOS devices later this week. Riffing on previous games…
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The Wizard of Oz Facebook Game Will Get You, My Pretty
But not your little dog, because contrary to several canine-centric pages, your little dog should not be using Facebook. Spooky Cool Labs is bringing the classic film to Facebook, potentially creating the world’s first million member yellow brick road march. An article over at The Hollywood Reporter this morning describes a fully 3D adventure that…
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