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I've spent the past few days zapping aliens and maneuvering troops in the iPad version of XCOM: Enemy Unknown, and…

Everybody loves quick time events, those timed button presses utilized in today's high-tech interactive…

Since the early days of the Cyberpunk pen-and-paper role-playing setting, I've been fascinated by the idea of…

As a rule, I like sports in video games better than I do in the real world. For someone like me who's never been…

Music is enough of a puzzle already. You've got your parts, your sections, your structure. Then, you have to make…

Magnets, man. They make you go fast.

Up until this week, I hadn't really played a game on my iPad that gave me the creeps. Games that made me laugh?…

Whenever I feel like the physics puzzle format is completely played out, Fahey slides me another download code, and…

As far as sharp looking iOS games go, Hungry Oni must be one of the most dazzling I've seen all year. And yes, I…

Sure, the venerable kart racing genre revolves around wacky track designs and a rotation of goofy-lethal power-ups.…

To paraphrase A League of Their Own, there's no molerats in pinball. But this game—filled with rolling, bouncing…

Yeah, it's a "runner" game. You control a character that's perpetually moving forward, and all you have to do is…

Swapping colorful objects to create rows of three or more is about as simple as a puzzle game can get. After years…

The iTunes description for Heroes & Castles, a new third-person tower defense game that hit iOS yesterday, says it…

It's been a silly week for mobile games with suggestive names. First there was this. Then Fahey handed me something…

When I first caught wind of Hello Games bringing their stunt-racing hero Joe Danger to iOS, I imagined a straight…

You know what Temple Run is missing? Kids with guns.

If Gameloft ever wants to shed its reputation as a studio that copies other people's ideas and repackages them, then…

I want to go fast—faster than modern day street vehicles are capable of travelling. I've felt the need for…

I think I know what you're thinking: Game of the Year 2013? Already? That's crazy talk.