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Feb

5

2012

Review: World of Goo sticks your fingers to the screen

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by Josh O'Donnell
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If you could sum up World of Goo in one word – and you didn’t want to use awesome, magnificent or fantastic – magical would work just fine. The developers at 2D Boy, a team of two (that’s right, two!) ex-Electronic Arts employees working out of San Francisco, have brought us an incredible world to [...]

Jan

30

2012

Sonic 4 Receives ICS Compatibility Update

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by Stacy Bruce
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For those of you who were disappointed to see that the recent release of Sonic 4 Episode 1 wasn’t compatible with your ICS device, you’ll be happy to know there is a market update waiting for you right now. Today’s Sonic 4 update brings compatibility to all devices running Android 4.0 and I was able to [...]

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Jan

26

2012

Microsoft Aiming To Get Xbox Live Games On “Other Platforms”

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by Joe Sirianni
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More word of Xbox Live trickling down to other platforms is on the rise as a Microsoft spokesperson has acknowledged they realize some are playing their games elsewhere. “While the Xbox Live experiences and games always work best on the Windows platform, we understand that some Xbox fans may be using other types of devices”. “To [...]

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Jan

26

2012

Grand Theft Auto III Gets Updated To 1.3, Brings Support To Transformer Prime & Ability To Install Game On SD Card

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by Roy Alugbue
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Grand Theft Auto III for Android has been updated to version 1.3 and it looks to enhance the overall experience for those playing the game. In addition to the game tailoring your visual experience with new video display settings, you can expect the following: Added support for Medion Lifetab and the Asus Transformer Prime Integrated with Immersion [...]

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Jan

23

2012

Gameloft and Verizon to Bring Voice Over LTE for Multiplayer Gaming

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by Stacy Bruce
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Gameloft and Verizon have recently announced plans to revolutionize Android gaming that could potentially change the game (pun intended). Plans are in action to enable in-game voice chat over Verizon’s 4G network that will work much similar to online gaming on Xbox and PS3 consoles. “We are thrilled to be partnering with Verizon to illustrate [...]

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Jan

20

2012

Get Android Game Recommendations From Over 250,000 Games With the Hooked App

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by Stacy Bruce
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With Android gaming popularity on the rise, it’s becoming harder and harder to find games that you are interested in with the flood of new daily releases. That’s where the Hooked app comes in. Hooked is an Android app that searches a database of over 250,000 games and provides “personalized game recommendations based on each [...]

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Jan

20

2012

Namco: “Freemium” Games Hurt Quality, Do Gamers Really Need Them?

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by Roy Alugbue
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  There’s no doubt about the impact of gaming in our society today. Much of pop culture and our social lives are impacted by gaming to a certain extent. Angry Birds went from being a small app to a pop culture reference in the form of mentions from celebrities and clothes with Angry Bird characters being sold in designer stores now as noteworthy [...]

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Jan

20

2012

Rovio Rings In The Chinese New Year By Releasing Angry Birds Seasons: Year Of The Dragon

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by Roy Alugbue
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Rovio wants to ring in the Chinese New Year in style by bringing in the latest installment of the popular Angry Birds series. They’ve released the new Angry Bird Seasons: Year of the Dragon to the Android Market and it awaits your skills to defeat the newly transformed Mighty Dragon. You’ll need to postpone your [...]

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Jan

19

2012

Brass Monkey Raises $750k In Seed Financing, Looks To Turn Android Devices Into A Wii-Type Controller For Browser Games

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by Roy Alugbue
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While using your Android device as a controller is nothing new, Small development company Brass Monkey has just made a potential breakthrough. They developed and released SDKs for Android and iOS devices not too long ago which allowed those devices to act as a remote controller for Flash-based, Unity3D-based and desktop games and apps. There was [...]

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