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Want More Plants Vs. Zombies? This Technically Counts
PvZ Presents: Talking Zombatar, coming to smart phones and tablets later this year from PopCap Games, is decidedly NOT Plants Vs. Zombies 2. You will be able to buy new outfits for your pet dead thing, so I guess that’s something. *weeps*
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With a Mario Marriage Proposal This Super, How Could He Say No?
“Will you be my player two?” More beautiful words between two gamers have never been spoken. Offbeat Bride tribesmaid Kaharaminttu raised the phrase to new levels of sweetness with this creative coin box proposal to her husband-to-be. When Kaharaminttu’s “mancreature” told her that he felt it was silly that society always expected the man to…
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Angry Birds Space Scores a New Boss, a New Bird, and a Little Tetris Flavor
The biggest update yet to Rovio’s award-winning fowl-flinging space physics game sees the return of an inflatable hero, the appearance of the big (the operative term) boss of the sugary planet of Utopia, and a secret level loosely based on the most beloved puzzle game of all time. There are 20 new levels to conquer…
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This is the Pure Essence of Real-Time Strategy
Since its inception, the real-time strategy genre has gotten progressively more complex with each passing year, piling weather effects, terrain conditions, tech trees, multi-tiered objectives and more on top of a relatively simple core concept. Auralux is that core concept. Recently released for Android devices (it’s been out for the PC, grab a free demo…
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The Four Core Concepts That Guild Wars 2 is Built Upon
Yesterday’s Q&A with Guild Wars 2 content designer Mike Zadorojny painted the development of next month’s blockbuster MMO in broad strokes. Today ArenaNet releases a series of videos that break the game’s design down to four core components: dynamic events, player versus player, personal story and combat. A massively multiplayer online role-playing game is much…
By Mike Fahey
