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A Delightfully Melodic Take on the Monster Breeding Game
Thanks to the success of titles like Dragonvale you can’t swing a dead lizard without hitting a dozen games that feature mystical islands filled with magical creatures having sex with one another to create new magical creatures. Developer Big Blue Bubble has taken the sub-genre and made it into a musical. The familiar elements are…
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What Are Zaxxon and Breakout Doing in The Week in Gaming Apps?
Each week dozens of new gaming apps are released across the various mobile platforms, imaginative original works trying to build a name for themselves in a crowded market. I’m not saying Zaxxon Escape and Super Bunny Breakout aren’t fresh and entertaining—they’ve just got a bit of an unfair advantage. It’s hard to not have a…
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It’s Bubble-Popping in Space, With Buddies
Coming soon to iOS and Android from the creators of Jewels with Buddies, Dice with Buddies and Casual Sex with Buddies (he’s lying about that last one), Bubble Galaxy with Buddies combines turn-based asynchronous multiplayer with the joy of Bust-A-Move. In spaaaaaaaace. Developer Scopely has done quite well with its “With Buddies” line of games,…
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Farming Gangnam Style
I could do without the song, but I firmly believe the world would be a better place if everyone took a moment now and then to dance as if they were riding a horse while really having to pee. Apparently someone at Zynga agrees. If you’re playing Farmville 2, keep a close eye on your…
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Sumioni and Razor Salvation Enter the Tegra Zone
The quad-core Tegra 3 chip gets a little more love this morning with the addition of Acquire’s demon-painting action game Sumioni and turret shooter Razor Salvation from Blowfish. When last I played Sumioni is was on the PlayStation Vita, and the gesture-based ink demon magic should translate quite nicely to Tegra 3-powered Android devices. Hell,…
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Got a Tegra 3 Device? Join Shadowgun: Deadzone‘s Public Beta
The online multiplayer follow-up to one of the best damn shooters on any mobile platform is coming soon to Android and iOS, but folks with Tegra 3-powered devices can play the public beta version of Shadowgun: Deadzone right now. Madfinger needs help optimizing the network codes so that when Deadzone goes live it’s actually playable,…
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What Phone Do You Play Games On?
Are you an iPhone gamer? Android fan? Windows Phone addict? Xperia loyalist? While the mobile phone gaming industry has settled into a set of easily manageable platforms over the past few years, there’s still plenty of choice. Which have you chosen? I am currently in possession of four different smart phones dedicated to gaming, covering…
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Physics Make All the Difference in This Bunny-Based Breakout Game
I would have been perfectly happy if Super Bunny Breakout, a collaboration between Atari and Zynga, were nothing more than the original Breakout with a vaguely rabbit-looking ball. Luckily for everyone else, it’s so much more than that. This is the story of a superhero rabbit and his four oddball (pun sorta intended) companions banding…
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Midnight Club Vets Bring Fast-Paced Combat Racing to Facebook
Developed by a crack team of former Midnight Club developers at Jagex’s new California studio, Carnage Racing is a fully-realized 3D combat racing game debuting exclusively on Facebook next month. That doesn’t leave us much time to push the cows off the road. Smashing headlong into the notion that Facebook games are inane click fests…
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Teenage Mutant Ninja LEGO Debut at New York Comic-Con
Re-born and raised in the sewers beneath the city that never sleeps, Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello and Leonardo make a rare above-ground appearance today as LEGO reveals its upcoming line of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle LEGO sets. Cutest turtles ever. Based on the newly-launched Nickelodeon animated series, the new line (ninja) kicks off on January first.…
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The Latest Angry Birds App Isn’t a Game. It’s a Cookbook!
What did you think the Bad Piggies were doing with the eggs they stole from the Angry Birds? Raising the them as their own? Oh no, they’ve been making omelets, waffles and egg sushi, and now you can too with Bad Piggies Best Egg Recipes on the iPad. Well, technically you’ve been able to for…
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Apps Plus Toys: HeroClix TabApp Marvel Super Heroes
In the third (and possibly final) installment of this week’s look at gaming apps that use physical toys to enhance and amuse it’s time for everyone’s favorite twisty-based collectible figure game to take a shot. Uncanny Avengers assemble on my iPad! Retailing for $14.99 wherever things like this are sold, the HeroClix TabApp sets combine…
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Canadians are Playing a New Skylanders Mobile Game Right Now
While non-Canadian fans of plastic toys that come to life eagerly await this month’s release of Skylanders Giants, they that battle the giant ice spiders can download a free-to-play game called Skylanders Lost Islands right now. Spotted by the folks at Pocket Gamer, Skylanders Lost Islands sounds like standard free-to-play social fare. Players build and…
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He-Man the Most Powerful Game Trailer in the Universe
Hot on the heels of the most powerful screenshots in the universe, it’s the official trailer for He-Man: The Most Powerful Game in the Universe. Prince Adam is just so interesting, isn’t he? Nice to see GlitchSoft and Chillingo having so much fun with our favorite Eternian. Not only are we going to play as…
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The Mobile Version of Need for Speed: Most Wanted Looks Pretty Spectacular
I was a little worried my new mobile gig here at Kotaku would preclude me from enjoying Need for Speed: Most Wanted. Looks like EA Mobile and the racing experts at Firemonkeys have me covered. This is gorgeous. EA Mobile tapped the folks behind the lovely Real Racing 3 to create the mobile version of…
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This Game Reveals the Cold, Calculating and Utterly Evil Nature of Cats
“Oh Mike, don’t be mad. The cat doesn’t realize it just used your comic book storage carton as a litter box”. Lies. In Dingo Games’ free-to-play Clumsy Cat, due out October 18 on iOS, we get a glimpse at the true motivation behind the actions of the common house cat—the complete and utter destruction of…
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This is a Game About Collecting Garfield Trading Cards — Just Collecting Them
There is no crazy trading card battle system woven into Garfield Collections. It’s just a game about buying, selling and collecting virtual trading cards. I am not sure how that makes me feel. Developer DeckDAQ wants to bring collecting and trading into the digital age, so instead of collecting and trading real items, Garfield Collections…
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