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The Best Part of Pandaria So Far is This Gorgeous Graphic Novel
The Mists of Pandaria parted in World of Warcraft last week, unlocking a long-hidden, lore-heavy civilization for players of the popular MMO to explore. The most enjoyable tale out of the land of pandas, however, can be found between the covers of the Pearl of Pandaria graphic novel—a work that began development before the expansion…
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E.T.‘s Mission Continues 30 Years Later in The Green Planet
It’s been three decades since Steven Spielberg enchanted the world with E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, changing the way a generation thought about potential alien life and Reese’s Pieces. Chillingo and Universal celebrate 30 years of friendly aliens next week with E.T.: The Green Planet, or as I like to call it, E.T. Farms Home At the…
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Reconstruct the Life of George from Physical Bricks in This LEGO-Powered Gaming App
There are plenty of LEGO video games out there, but most of them focus on the appearance of the popular building toys rather than the most important element—construction. Rather than assembling the LEGO memories of a pretty awesome guy via button presses, Life of George has you build them out of physical bricks. Life of…
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Stop Playing Politics on Facebook and Start… Playing Politics on Facebook
Rocket Surgeon’s For the People: Fantasy Politics officially launches on Facebook on the early January swearing in day for new members of Congress. If you consider that a holiday, then you might want to be sworn into the open beta. Congressman Fahey reporting for duty! For the People: Fantasy Politics casts players in the role…
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This is What Happens When You Cross Scrabble with Tron‘s Light Cycles
The rise of Words with Friends has brought the slow and plodding casual word game genre into the spotlight. With Lexatron, Fictorial‘s Brian Hammond seeks to add a little excitement to the scene with a keen competitive twist. Rather than trying to fill a board with expensive words, the goal in Lexatron is to make…
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Just When You Thought Snuggle Truck Couldn’t Get Any Cuddlier, Enter Brony Mode
Owlchemy Labs’ game about transporting cute animals but secretly about smuggling illegal immigrants is now overtly about My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Cautious driving brohoof! Packed inside Steam copies of Smuggle Truck and available as an in-game purchase in the free iOS version, Brony Mode transforms the cuddly animals of Apple acceptance necessity into…
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Reviews
Nutella: The Snacktaku Review
My first taste of Ferrero’s famous chocolate hazelnut spread came in the spring of 1991 in a dorm room at the predominantly female Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia. Her name was Deirdra. She was long and lithe and graceful, with hair like autumn leaves dancing in the wind. She was impish and sweet and…
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The Dorkly Weekly: Quitting Smoking the Mortal Kombat Way
When you’ve been smoking as long as Mortal Kombat‘s resident grey ninja has been smoking, there’s really only one way to kick the habit. As a filthy smoker and professional martial artist, this would be one of those videos that haunts me to my dying day. Fortunately I am not a professional martial artist, so…
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Culture
The Snacktaku Slider: Bacon, Egg and Cheese McGriddle
Welcome to Snacktaku Sliders, where I compare the magical works of art crafted by supremely talented, highly paid food photographers to the slightly less magical creations of the underpaid staff at the fine-ish franchise eateries America has to offer. First up, the bacon, egg and cheese McGriddle from McDonald’s. I picked the McGriddle for the…
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Devil’s Attorney Could Never Be Better Than Its Own Theme Song
Arriving October 11 for iOS and Android from the folks at 1337 Game Design, Devil’s Attorney is a game about something that’s couldn’t possibly be as entertaining as the outstanding inspirational 80s rock theme. According to the game’s official website (via Pocket Gamer), Devil’s Attorney centers around the turn-based strategic legal battles of one Max…
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The First Apple-Approved iPad, iPhone and iPod Game Pad is One Small Step for iOS Gaming
While the race to create a universal game pad controller for Android devices is in full swing, Apple has time and time again refused to give a controller solution the go ahead, until now. The Duo Gamer is the first officially-sanctioned game pad for the iPod, iPad and iPhone, but there’s a catch — it…
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Robot Rising is a Sexy 3D Action RPG That Just Happens to Be on Facebook
Robot Rising from Stomp Games and Tencent Boston is 3D isometric action role-playing mech game with a little strategy thrown in for good measure, and if I hadn’t mentioned Facebook in the headline you never would have guessed the platform it’s running on. I’m ashamed for not mentioning Robot Rising sooner. Tencent Boston had been…
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AOL Unleashes Video Taboo for the iPhone, Awkwardness Sure to Follow
What I really wanted to write up there was “AOL Unleashes Video Taboo for the iPhone, Countdown to Penis”, but I suppose when an app is released that allows people to randomly send video of themselves to other players the penis is implied. Let’s check out Clucks! Taboo is the party game that challenges players…
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What Facebook is Playing This Week: FarmVille 2 Rising
FarmVille 2 didn’t place on last week‘s list of the top ten Facebook apps by daily active users. Then I invited a few friends. Someone certainly invited a few more folks, as number 39 FarmVille 2 jumps into the top spot this week, surpassing even its Zynga sibling, Texas Hold ‘Em Poker. I’m going to…
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ReviewsPokémon Black and White 2: The Kotaku Review
It’s four o’clock in the morning and I’m sitting outside my apartment chain-smoking cigarettes, mildly buzzed on cough syrup and decidedly not getting the rest I was supposed to be getting in order to alleviate the need for prescription medication in the first place. Instead I am grinding levels on my water and fighting-type Pokémon…
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Four Splendid Gaming Apps… and NFL Pro 2013
As Owen Good often reminds us, not every Gaming App of the Day is a good one. For every Bad Piggies, The Room or Bar Story 2 there are a dozen NFL Pro 2013s, and he seems to wind up playing them all. Oftentimes we’ll play gaming apps for our daily spotlight based on our…
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The SteelSeries Free Controller Makes Mobile Gaming Almost Too Easy
This past Monday I sat down with SteelSeries chief marketing officer Kim Rom at a local cafe to eat barbecue pork sandwiches and check out the company’s new Freedom to Play line of mobile gaming products. As Rom explained the intricate details of the Free Mobile Wireless Controller I got further in Temple Run than…
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Now There’s an Entire Studio Dedicated to Making More Mobile Sims
Finland, Finland, Finland, the country where I quite want to be, your mountains so lofty, your development studios dedicated to creating more mobile games for The Sims franchise so fresh and new. EA Maxis has opened Maxis Helsinki to focus on making virtual people for us to torture on our tablets and phones. There can…
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The Strangest, Coolest Free iPhone Game You’ll Play All Day
I know, I know; another girl rides her haunted skateboard through the underworld game. Crafted dangerous close to my hidden base on the outskirts of Atlanta by Secret Library, Cool Pizza is a sweet little four-color (okay, three colors and black) game about a skateboarding girl beating the hell out of hell with her possessed…
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