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The Ultimate Mobile Drift Racing Experience Skids Into the Sequel Lane
Drifting is the art of making cars do things cars should not do and spending a lot of money on tires. Ratrod Studios’ Drift Mania Championship 2 for iOS, Android and soon Windows 8 devices is a much cheaper alternative. The sequel to the wildly popular Drift Mania Championship is now available for play on…
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This Color-Swapping Runner is Not a Tron Game, But it Should Be
Considering the overall lack of quality Tron games since the time of the first film, I’m willing to give Hope This Works Games‘ upcoming neon red and blue Android and iOS free-runner Polara a couple of identity discs and call it a day. It’s a little bit color-shifting shooter Ikaruga, with a hint of color-shifting…
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Zynga Games Lose a Couple Hundred Thousand Fans in the Facebook Fake Account Purge
Facebook has implemented countermeasures to purge fake, forged, hacked or otherwise unsavory ‘Likes’ from its pages, resulting in the sudden departure of several hundred thousand of Zynga’s several hundred million fans. The ‘Like’ is a powerful unit of measurement in today’s Facebook-connected world. For the average consumer of social media content the number of ‘Likes’…
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Gamevil Unsheathes Cartoon Wars: Blade
Where does a warrior go when the Cartoon Wars end? He grabs his sword and sails across the sea to find new stick figures to kill in Cartoon Wars: Blade Available today on iTunes, Blade is another side story in Blue GNC’s epic sketchy war franchise. While Cartoon Wars 1 & 2 were defense games,…
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Vector is the Beginning of One Intense Facebook Game
Free-running across rooftops while being chased relentlessly by a shadowy unknown enemy is not an experience I expected to find in a Facebook game. I also never expected to shout motherf****** at the top of my lungs at a Facebook game, so there’s that. Created by Nekki, the developer behind Shadow Fight, Vector is a…
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There’s a PlayStation 3 Surprise in the New iOS and Android Netflix Apps
Have you updated the Netflix app on your iPhone, iPad or Android device lately? Try firing it up when your PlayStation 3 is on the Netflix menu, and you’ll discover a nifty new way to control the console version of the streaming video service. As long as the Netflix app on my PlayStation 3 is…
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Pocket God‘s Latest Update Will Be There For You, When the Plague Starts to Fall
Only Pocket God creators Bolt Creative could work the Friends theme song into a trailer for a game update about spreading a plague and burning the corpses of pygmies. Pocket God Episode 46: Germs of Endearment is now live, giving the players’ pygmies access to the Plague Room, an incredibly ill-advised playroom containing a fountain…
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Hasbro’s CityVille, FarmVille, Words with Friends and Draw Something Games Launch October 1
Come Monday, October 1 the agreement between toy maker Hasbro and game maker Zynga finally bears fruit (and vegetables), as physical games based on digital favorites hit store shelves. Who’s up for some Hungry Hungry Farmville? If anything can pry your Zynga game-loving friends and family off the computer, it’s Hasbro’s line of games and…
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This Diabolical Dragon Breeding Game Has Kept Me Playing for Over a Year
You want to know how a free-to-play iPhone game keeps a guy that barely has time to play new releases engrossed for more than 365 days? I have one day left to breed a Solstice dragon, and three days to breed a Sapphire. Curse you, Dragonvale I first wrote about Backflip Studios’ Dragonvale in December…
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Google Play Celebrates 25 Billion Android App Downloads with $.25 Apps
With an impressive 15 billion apps and games downloaded in the past year alone, Google has every reason to celebrate reaching the 25 billion apps milestone. And so do Android gamers, as a celebratory sale delivers titles like Angry Birds Space Premium and NFL Kicker 2013 for a quarter of a dollar. With more than…
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15 Simple Rules for Making a Successful Free-to-Play Game
Free-to-play is the driving force in today’s mobile and social games — we start playing them because there is no cost to do so. Whether or not we keep playing them may well depend on the 15 rules of free-to-play outlined by Gamesbrief‘s Nicholas Lovell earlier today at the F2P Summit in London. Edge‘s Nathan…
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Gameloft Live Brings Its Fancy 3D Avatars to iOS
What, Game Center wasn’t good enough for us? Gameloft Live brings the Xbox Live-ish experience Android gamers have been futzing about with to iPhone and iPad, complete with 3D avatars, social networking, multiplayer challenges and unlockable rewards. Look at me, I’m so damn skinny, and my virtual representation is far less lazy about shaving his…
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Here’s the Wii U’s Official Lineup for Launch Day and Beyond
The Wii U launches in North America on the 18th of November, 2012. Here are the 23 games that are launching with the system, as well as those coming before March 2013. It’s a rather large launch window Nintendo has defined for the Wii U launch, giving publishers four months to make it onto this…
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Gameloft’s Mobile Call of Duty Goes Up a Number in This Spectacular Trailer
If I didn’t know this was a trailer for a game coming to iPhone, iPad and Android this fall, I would have complained about how we already have too many modern combat games on consoles. This is just gorgeous. The Modern Combat gets prettier and prettier with each new installment. Gameloft might be making copies…
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Another Mobile Game About Obama and Romney Hitting People
Hot on the heels of Chair’s Vote!!! comes another game that involves the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates laying the smack down, only in Vellum Interactive’s Political Arena your in-game purchases directly benefit the candidate you choose to play. A recent Esquire poll Political Arena asked people who they thought would win in a fistfight,…
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Final Fantasy Creator’s Blade Guardian Hits iOS Next Week
Mistwalker’s first mobile game, Party Wave, was certainly not what I expected from the company fronted by the creator of Final Fantasy, Hironobu Sakaguchi. Blade Guardian, a real-time tower defense strategy title due out on October 1, is much more like it. It’s not that I don’t like surfing; I plan on picking up a…
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Official Hobbit Games Make the Perilous Journey to Mobile Phones and Web Browsers
As the geek cinema event of the year slowly approaches, Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment teams with Kabam to create a pair of social strategy games loosely tied to Bilbo’s epic journey. I say loosely tied because I don’t recall Bilbo creating and managing his own fantasy kingdom as players will do in The Hobbit: Kingdoms…
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