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You Know What Atari Classic Breakout Was Missing? Bunnies.
Really that headline works with any game, even games that already have bunnies in them. Coming soon from Atari and Zynga (The A to Z of mobile games—that’s free, marketing people), Super Bunny Breakout Inspired by the superhero Freedom Man, one rabbit embarks on a quest to free his furry friends from an animal testing…
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Reviews
Razer Blade Mk2: The Kotaku Review
The first Razer Blade was not a high performance gaming laptop, nor was it meant to be. It was designed with a balance of portability and power in mind, and the allure of a 17 inch gaming laptop that weighs less than seven pounds was enough for the unit to sell out at every turn,…
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From Anime Weight Loss to Monochrome Fish: It’s the Week in Gaming Apps
What a long, strange trip the past five days in gaming apps has been, beginning with a big-eyed passionate plea for healthy exercise and ending in a strange world of shadow sea creatures, with a little LEGO thrown in for good measure. It never ceases to amaze me, the astounding variety of gaming available on…
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Free-to-Play Mini Heroes is Several Different RPGs in a Single package
It’s a little bit Pokémon, a dash of Harvest Moon and a small slice of old school Final Fantasy. It’s also a bit difficult to navigate and a little buggy, but that shouldn’t stop you from giving Mini Heroes a go. Released today on Facebook, Mini Heroes from Likwid Games aims to please all of…
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The Ultimate PlayStation Mobile Launch Game Guide
Earlier this week Sony unleashed 20 (mostly) new games on PlayStation Mobile, the new indie game delivery platform for the PlayStation Vita and PlayStation Certified devices. That’s a lot of games to take in all at once, so we did it for you. We played every game available on PlayStation Mobile so you didn’t have…
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Battle Bears Take the Fight to TV Animation
With five bear-based shooters for Android and iOS devices under their fuzzy little belts and another on the way, SkyVu Entertainment teams up with the makers of Yo Gabba Gabba! to transform Battle Bears into the next big TV animation franchise for boys. Created by SkyVu co-founder Ben Vu while he was an animation student…
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30 Years Later Arcade Classic Zaxxon Continues
30 years ago Sega’s isometric space shooter Zaxxon took arcades by storm, confusing early gamers with its at-the-time freaky isometric perspective. Players were tasked with destroying the evil robot Zaxxon deep within its asteroid base. How did we get out? That’s where Zaxxon Escape for iOS and Android comes in. Developed by Free Range Games,…
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Not Even the Simpson‘s iPhone Game Can Escape the Treehouse of Horrors
The 23rd special Treehouse of Horrors episode of The Simpsons airs on October 7, but players of The Simpson’s: Tapped Out get a leg up on the festivities with fresh new content pulled directly from the twisted TV special. Writers, producers and artists from the show worked hand-in-hand with the developers of the app to…
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Culture
Snacktaku PSA: It’s National Taco Day. Why Are You Sitting There Not Eating?
Did you know it was National Taco Day? Deadpool knows. I’m sure the people that make the Facebook game Rubber Taco do. I’m not so sure you do. Because if you did realize it was the day to celebrate the traditional Mexican dish of a flour or corn tortilla packed with stuff (i.e. Taco Bell’s…
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The Original Grand Theft Auto iPhone Clone Returns with Payback 2
Back in 2009 James Daniels released Payback for the iPhone, a game that was essentially a knock-off of the original isometric Grand Theft Auto. Now Payback is back, switching focus from solo slaughter to multiplayer mayhem. The darker, shinier Payback 2 slices up the open-world gameplay of the original game into a series of eight…
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Burrow Your Way into the Worms Facebook Beta
Team17’s battling invertebrates hunger for the blood of a billion Facebook users. The original Lumbricus terrestris-based trajectory shooter is going social, and it craves your beta testing prowess. With bite-sized real-time multiplayer battles, weapons drawn from the span of the series’ 17-year history and an array of stylish hats, Worms for Facebook is a different…
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The Pinball Duo Transforms the iPad Into an Incredibly Limited Pinball Machine
From the creators of the Gameloft-exclusive Duo Gamer and the Atari Arcade controller comes the Duo Pinball, a plastic frame that adds side buttons, a plunger and a lot of bulk to the Apple iPad. It’s the sort of controller only a pinball video game addict could love. I’m Mike Fahey, and I’m a video…
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This is the Last Presidential Election Gimmick Mobile Game I Will Write About Unless One Kills a Guy
It seems lately that not a day goes by without another mobile game with ties to the upcoming presidential election arrives in my inbox. They paste the Republican and Democratic candidates into trite video game situations, offer to donate a portion of sales to the appropriate campaign fund. They call them exciting and action-packed. I’m…
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Fantasy Conflict is Like Modern Conflict, Only Not as Modern
Gaijin Entertainment’s real-time strategy series Modern Conflict has garnered a fair amount of praise in iOS gaming circles, but many have criticized the series for a distinct lack of castles and dwarves. And so here we are. Where are we? Why the faraway kingdom of Baldoria, where greedy dwarves have swiped the crystals that control…
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World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Log Supplemental: Level 85 and Holding
While Kate is working the latest World of Warcraft expansion pack from the bottom up, I am tasked with taking my level 85 character to level 90, exploring what’s new for the high level crowd. It’s not going well so far. Pandaria is gorgeous, filled with sweeping vistas and landmarks that make me eager to…
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Here’s PlayStation Mobile Running on an Xperia Phone
Available today on the PlayStation Vita and PlayStation certified mobile devices, PlayStation Mobile brings a selection of fine indie games to a whole new platform. On the Vita it’s just a tab in the PlayStation Store. On the Xperia Ion it looks something like this. The nice Xperia people lent me an Ion for a…
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Play This Facebook Game, Help Animals in Need
Sojo Studios’ Facebook game WeTopia has generated more than $500,000 for children’s charities since its launch in November of last year. Now the developer extends its philanthropy-enabling formula to needy animals with Joy Kingdom, a fun free way to turn your social game obsession into happy critters. A lot of people say that Facebook games…
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PlayStation Mobile Launches Today with 21 Exciting Games for Vita and PS-Certified Devices
Sony’s mobile gaming push goes live today, making the PlayStation Vita much more attractive and justifying the purchase of PlayStation Certified Android devices with 21 bite-sized games. Let’s see what’s in store! Rolling out across Japan, the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Australia today, PlayStation Mobile is a platform that…
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PlayStation Mobile Launches Tomorrow, and This Intriguing Rhythm Slasher is Coming With It
While the majority of the 20 or so titles launching tomorrow for the PlayStation Mobile platform on Android and PlayStation Vita remain up in the air, the ones I know for certain — Eufloria and this, Beatnik Games’ side-scrolling rhythm action game Samurai Beatdown — are certainly worth the price of admission. I’m a huge…
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