After years of smaller collectible card game publishers porting their decks to iOS and Android devices, enjoying a relatively Wizard-free reign, Magic: The Gathering swoops in and plucks mobile victory from their hands. On the bright side, we've got a game called Velocirapture. Velocirapture!
I'm taking a few days off early next week to spend some time not typing sentences like this one, so this week's Gaming App of the Day lineup shall serve as a blueprint to my leisure. I've already been playing Magic on the PC, so I might-as-well grab the iPad version in case I need something to play in the two minutes between going out into the 104 degree heat and the device melting away in my hands.
Dungeon Village is also on my radar, the perfect game to play on my recently-acquired Asus Transformer Prime once the iPad has boiled away.
Who knows, maybe I'll even get a little Velocirapture in before the country burns to ash and the real rapture begins.
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