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Changes to Leeroy Jenkins, Starving Buzzard Coming in ‘Hearthstone’ Update...
According to a forum post by Blizzard community manager “Zeriyah," upcoming balance changes for Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Free) will affect the Leeroy Jenkins and Starving Buzzard cards. This...
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Victorian-Era Strategy Game ‘Antihero’ Lets You Stab, Sneak, and Steal Your...
I’m not particularly good at strategy games or asynchronous multiplayer — supply lines and terrain and Panzers are beyond me — so I can’t do much but turn my nose up at the 4X genre’s creeping...
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Mojang Is Slashing the Price of ‘Scrolls’ Before Its Upcoming iPad Release
Scrolls — the hex-tiled collectible card battler and the subject of a hilariously asinine lawsuit — cost $20.95 when it was put into open beta last year. However, the development team at Mojang are...
View ArticleSpace-Puzzler ‘Sunburn!’ Gets a New Trailer, Launching Later This Fall
You may remember Sunburn!, the sickly-sweet puzzle game about launching a crew of stranded astronauts with a suicide pact into a nearby star. I first wrote about the game last month, but the premise...
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‘Inklewriter’ is a Free Gamebook Creator from the Studio Behind ’80 Days’ and...
The internet is sometimes an exhaustingly terrible place, but one of its redeeming qualities (for our purposes, at least) is that it’s made making video games easier than ever. Another tool of this...
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‘Valiant Hearts: The Great War’ Review – In the Trenches
One of my favorite poems in the English language canon has, ironically, a Latin title: “Dulce et Decorum est." In it, English poet and soldier Wilfred Owen tells his audience that, had they seen the...
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Subway Planning is Surprisingly Fun in ‘Mini Metro,’ Coming to iOS Later This...
When I was in the eighth grade, a city planner came to my pre-algebra class to talk about the mathematics involved in managing traffic lights. He gave a series of problems and asked us to find ways to...
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‘Assassin’s Creed Identity’ Soft-Launches in New Zealand and Australia,...
Remember earlier this summer when Ubisoft sneakily soft-launched Assassin’s Creed Memories (Free) in New Zealand and Australia, with nary an announcement or trailer beforehand? Earlier this morning,...
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Final Release Version of Mojang’s Card Battler ‘Scrolls’ Expected Late Next...
A small team in Mojang’s studio in Stockholm, Sweden has been quietly and unassumingly developing Scrolls, a card-based tactics battler, for over three years, always seemingly overshadowed by something...
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Stoic Studio Talks ‘Banner Saga’ Mobile Development and Direction of Upcoming...
[appicon url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id911006986?mt=8"]Bringing The Banner Saga ($9.99) to tablets gave John Watson nightmares. “This launch was even bigger to us personally than the original...
View Article“Goblins vs. Gnomes” Expansion Coming to ‘Hearthstone’ December 8
[appicon url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id625257520?mt=8"]"Goblins vs. Gnomes," the new 120-card expansion for Hearthstone (Free), will be available on December 8th. Where Hearthstone‘s previous...
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New “Goblins vs. Gnomes” Cards Now Available in ‘Hearthstone’ Arena Mode
Just two day ago, Blizzard announced that “Goblins vs. Gnomes," the newest themed expansion for Hearthstone (Free), was set to go live on December 8th, next Monday. Patch notes posted today, however,...
View ArticleStoic Studio Announce ‘The Banner Saga 2’ and Confirm Eventual Mobile Release
Stoic Studio announced today that the follow-up to The Banner Saga ($9.99), their lush, Ragnarok-themed tactical RPG, is coming to all the big non-mobile platforms some time next year. The sequel will...
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‘Bad Hotel’ and ‘The Nightmare Cooperative’ Developer Lucky Frame No Longer...
Today, Lucky Frame founder, director, and all around pleasant dude Yann Seznec announced that his company was no longer in the business of making videogames. Lucky Frame made its name on the iOS scene...
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Should You Be Buying “Classic” or “Goblins vs. Gnomes” Packs in...
Here’s the conundrum: Hearthstone‘s (Free) “Goblins vs. Gnomes" expansion has got you all in a tizzy, buying booster packs is already hard enough, and you’re probably missing cards from both the...
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Hyperkin’s ‘Smart Boy’ Add-on Turns your iPhone 6 into an OG Game Boy
In case your nostalgia for the 1990’s, video games, and 1990’s video games hasn’t been sufficiently commodified, peripheral manufacturer Hyperkin has today’s Internet curio: the so-called Smart Boy, an...
View ArticleWatch Adam Saltsman Talk About His New Tactical Survival Game, ‘Overland’
At last week’s Juegos Rancheros event in Austin, Texas, Adam Saltsman—best known for his work on Canabalt ($2.99) and Hundreds ($2.99)—gave a short presentation introducing his new game, a survival...
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Level-5 Announces ‘Layton 7’ for Mobile (Again), Still Doesn’t Look Very...
During the same Level-5 Vision 2015 event that brought wind of Fantasy Life 2 on iOS, Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino also announced a new Professor Layton game for smartphones. According to Siliconera,...
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EA Mobile Inks Long-Term Deal to Develop ‘Despicable Me’ Games, Announces...
This morning, EA Mobile announced a deal with Illumination Entertainment to develop and publish a set of Minions-inspired mobile games, the first of which launches this summer. “Minions," of course,...
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Warner Bros. Tapped the Producer of ‘The Ring’ to Make a ‘Five Nights at...
[appicon url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id973482987?mt=8"]I’m not much for horror games, but I’ve been fascinated with the way the collective gaming internet has taken to Scott Cawthon’s Five...
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