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Reviewers Love Playing With Animals, Climbing Trees, and Stabbing People In Assassin’s Creed III
Swinging through the treetops certainly doesn’t seem like a particularly colonial pastime. And yet reviewers seem to love it. The newest entry in the Assassin’s Creed saga takes to the 18th century and the heart of the American Revolution. Can Boston and New York, in their fledgling states, measure up to Damascus, Rome, and Istanbul?…
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UncategorizedCreatorverse is One Of the Coolest Things You Can Do With an iPad
Released today by Linden Labs, Creatorverse is a playground for the inventive mind. Connect simple shapes, assigns colors, behaviors and physical properties, and then combine them into wonderful complex machines you can share with the world. Linden Labs was once known solely for Second Life, the virtual world completely built and driven by its players.…
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Original Mass Effect Available For PS3 On December 4, Some DLC Included
The Mass Effect Trilogy, due out for PC and Xbox 360 on November 6, will be available for PlayStation 3 on December 4, BioWare announced today. The trilogy brings the first Mass Effect game to the PS3 for the first time, although Mass Effect 2 and 3 were both available on the console. Where the…
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After a Sandy Delay, CityVille 2 Launches Today
Hurricane Sandy’s reach extended far beyond the real world, causing the unexpected delay of the millions of potential virtual towns of CityVille 2. Originally slated for launch on Monday, Zynga’s brand-new 3D city-builder goes live today. The Baltimore-based Zynga studio working on CityVille 2 wanted to kick off this week with a flurry of city…
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UncategorizedRise of the Collectible iPhone Robots
Backflip Studios takes the addictive formula of the wildly popular Dragonvale, swaps colorful lizards for quirky machine creatures, and guarantees that I’ll be obsessing over robot breeding and battling for the next year. I’ve written about Gizmonauts a couple of times already, back on that website that’ll be returning any day now, but I’ve been…
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Anatomy of a Whale
Tonight, Lee’s iPad questioned him with a blue pop-up window: “Do you want to buy one Chest of Gems for $99.99?” Lee could use those gems to immediately fortify his army. He tapped “Yes,” almost without thinking. In less than a month of playing around two hours a day, he’d spent nearly a thousand dollars.…
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UncategorizedAmazon’s First Mobile Game is a Fresh Take on Tower Defense
After mixing up the hidden object genre with its first Facebook game, Living Classics, Amazon Game Studios takes on tower defense with its first mobile game, Air Patriots. Create a squad of planes and guide them about the screen with your fingers, drawing attack paths in order to efficiently destroy enemy forces. It’s a more…
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Dreamfall Chapters Is Real. Actually Happening. Ragnar Tørnquist is ON IT.
Adventure game fans, now is the time to begin squeeing and flailing with joy. Ragnar Tørnquist, the man behind The Longest Journey and Dreamfall-and recent MMO The Secret World-has formed a new studio and actually begun production on Dreamfall Chapters, Funcom announced today. In a press release, Funcom said that Red Thread Games, Tørnquist’s new…
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This Week’s Windows Phone Charts: Xbox SmartGlass is Not a Game
Our week of emergency visual representations of our daily top app charts continues with the latest and greatest for the Windows Phone crowd, who seem to be playing a lot of SmartGlass and Xbox Live Extras. My high score in SmartGlass would blow your mind. Cracking Sands continues to dominate the paid charts this week,…
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