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MMORPGs are a dime a dozen these days but it remains one of the most dynamic genres out there, catering for a wide spectrum of players. Hardcore players will always have their World of WarCraft or their Eve Online. Players who do not want a subscription model have their Guild Wars 2 and dont get [...]
If you are living in the States or Canada and in the market for photobooks and you have an iPad, you may want to consider the Printzel iPad App. Created by a New York company of the same name and recognized as a Friends of eBay company, this app is a showcase of the Printzel [...]
Linden Labs highly acclaimed and extremely popular iOS app, Creatorverse has gone the freemium route. Described by Kotaku as One of the coolest things you can do on the iPad, the app, which allows users to create all kinds of stuff, is now free with basic tools for users to start...
Plenty of interesting revelations in this weeks batch of comics, so you can expect that this weeks review of books to be SPOILER-FILLED. Are you ready? Out from the ashes of the Court of the Owls storyline, a new hero emerges in the form of ex-Talon, Calvin Rose. Now hes out for the...
The folks at Mexican digital agency Grupo W have a pretty interesting iOS gem of a game in the form of Metal Junk. The game is their take on a game genre that has been made popular on iOS devices and it is a genre that can count Temple Run as one of its luminaries. [...]
Just last month I reviewed Train Empire, an iOS title inspired by table top train sets. This month, I have the opportunity to review Belight Softwares latest iOS title Rails, which at first glance seems to be similar with Train Empire. Several play-throughs later yielded a different, but ultimately...
Ravensburger Digitals popular card game, San Juan, is currently on sale on the iTunes App Store. This universal app, optimized for the iPhone 5 and the iPod touch 5, is now being priced at USD 2.99 instead of USD 6.99. Would be conquistadors would do well not to miss this as with other previous app [...]
Sales of smartphones and tablet are outstripping those of PCs and laptops. Although there has been a huge increase in tablet users over the last year, smartphone users are now spending more time online and consuming more online data than tablet users. Interestingly around 41% of tablet users and 39% of...
This is something to look up to for Resident Evil Revelations fans, as the upcoming May 2013 title for the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U and PC will feature Rachel as a playable character in the Raid Mode portion of the game. The additions of Rachel and Hunk as playable characters in Raid Mode are [...]
Kickstarter, Indiegogoboth of these are crowd funding websites that have been utilized by the video games development community to help push out their titles. I always thought that while the Kickstarter model of awarding backers with stuff (and there are tiers for that based on how much you decide to...
This is pretty interesting, I just got a high score playing Crushin Robots NYC on the iPad with Natalia sleeping on my lap. All other play-through attempts on this new game by indie devs Falling Objects Entertainments latest game ended rather dismally but Ill get to that in a...
GearSprouts latest iOS title, Chuck the Bot brought a smile to my face as the wordplay in title not only described the name and nature of the games protagonist (his name is Chuck, he is a robot), but also the gameplay involved, where you have to chuck poor Chuck out-of-bounds from a level. The...
Did you know that the Japanese translation for the old DuckTales game for the NES literally meant Naughty Ducks Dream Adventures? Well the naughty ducks from the beloved cartoon get to continue their video game shenanigans in the 21st century with DuckTales Remastered developed for Capcom by...
Turn-based World War II games on the iPad are not a common breed, and Im not sure whether is that popular a genre to begin with. But this doesnt deter the folks at HeroCraft from releasing their brand new title Strategy Tactics: World War II for iOS devices. In this turn-based game,...
Its always interesting to see developers of triple-A titles for the PC or consoles making the jump to mobile. The resulting games almost always tend to be a little more cooler than what solo indie developers tend to come up with, and with new indie development studio Megapop (made up of ex Funcom and...
Our friends at UNAGames dropped in to announced that they have been nominated for the Drago dOro, the Italian award for excellence in the world of video games. Just a little background on the Drago dOro; it is the Italian video game industry award established by AESVI, (Associazione Editori...
I had an interesting itch to scratch, desktop gaming on the go, without a laptop or a desktop but with an iPad. Given the advent of high speed Internet broadband in Malaysia along with remoting software that I usually use for work, I was just waiting for the right game to come. I know I [...]
The SimCity 5 launch reminded me of Diablo III all over again, with its always on server connection (EA is not calling it that, rather players are sharing the same game space) and to hear an EA exec mention that more people logged on than they have expected, playing in ways that werent...
Turn-based strategy games are a boon to parents with small children. Take for instance Civilization V. You dont need fast reaction times, neither do you need both hands to operate both keyboard and mouse and you spend most of your time watching the action unfurl on the screen. These are the reasons...
When the folks from Czech-indie game developers Cinemax contacted me about their new iOS title 247 MISSILES, I was thinking to myself: Hmmm Another Missile Command clone? Curiosity did get the better of me and I ended up using the promo code provided by the developers to grab a copy of...