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Mobile Gaming’s World of Warcraft Gets a Battle Arena Spin Off Tomorrow
Gameloft’s Order & Chaos Online was mobile gaming’s answer to World of Warcraft, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game for tablets and smartphones. Tomorrow the brand expands with Heroes of Order & Chaos, a MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) game shades of League of Legends This is actually a rather interesting reversal of the origin…
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The Final Episode of The Walking Dead Asks You To Make The Hardest Decisions Yet
[The Walking Dead is a difficult series to write about. I want you to experience the game for yourself. After all, your game will likely play out entirely different from mine, given how dependent on player choice it is. But I still want to give you an idea of what it was like to experience…
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Holiday Gift Guide: What Do You Get The Person Who Doesn’t Game?
Just cause someone doesn’t play games as regularly as you do doesn’t mean they wouldn’t be up for a friendly introduction. So what do you get that one friend, cousin, sibling, aunt? Watch out for our editors chiming in down below, but share your ideas with everyone, too! We’re open to ideas that run the…
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The Sweetest Game of Tetris You’ll Ever Un-Play
For decades now the world has been obsessed with the stacking of tetrominos, passionately rotating and placing odd geometric shapes in a never-ending quest for the perfectly-packed screen. We have to learn to let go. Dream of Pixels can help. Dawn of Play’s Dream of Pixels is an ingenious take on the classic Tetris formula.…
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This Week’s iPhone Charts: Battle of the Facebook Ports
In an odd bit of unintentional coordination last week, Zynga and King.com both launched mobile versions of their hit Facebook games on iOS on the very same day. This gives us a chance to answer a question with this week’s charts: Who’s players are more into mobile, Ruby Blast‘s or Candy Crush‘s? Judging by the…
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One of the Greatest Mobile Music Games Goes Free-to-Play
Experimenting with new ways to make folks pay for their iOS games, Square Enix releases Groove Coaster Zero, injecting new songs and adapting a free-to-play model to Reisuke Ishida’s original musical masterpiece Groove Coaster Zero takes the fine selection of tracks from the original game, drops in a selection of new free and premium tunes…
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Skylanders Battlegrounds and the Best iPad Peripheral a Collector Can Have
Since the release of Skylanders Cloud Patrol for iOS last year, fans of Activision’s toys-meet-games franchise have been clamoring for a more direct way to interact with their precious plastic playmates than entering in a cold, impersonal numeric code. Tomorrow’s release of Skylanders Battlegrounds finally gets a Bluetooth summoning portal into players hands, along with…
By Mike Fahey
