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The mobile invasion at BAFTA
The nominations for March’s BAFTA Games Awards were announced yesterday, and the portable category makes interesting reading. What was previously referred to as the Handheld award is now Mobile &...
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Angry Birds Space
They say that there are five stages of grief. Well, in my experience, there are three stages of Angry Birds Space. 1. Anticipation Fuelled by the NASA association, endless tie-ins and ceaseless media...
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On Party Rings, Haribo & Hotel Chocolat
I’ve been playing Don’t Run With A Plasma Sword recently. It’s been hard to put my finger on why it’s not entirely satisfactory, but I’ve got there: it’s a packet of Party Rings. It’s unarguably a...
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Android Gaming on the Nexus 7
Last month Google unveiled their entry into the tablet market, with the Google Nexus 7, the budget-priced 7” Android tablet that aims to surpass the Kindle Fire and potentially Apple’s iPad. The Nexus...
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London 2012: the freemium Olympic Games
The freemium model is a bit of a curious fit for an official Olympics game. It doesn’t quite give the right message, does it? If you want to succeed, you need to build on your natural talent through...
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I bet that you’ll look good on the App Store
Mobile games are released at such an unrelenting rate, that I don’t generally find pre-release coverage very helpful. If I can’t click through and buy it immediately, then there’s every chance I’ll...
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Not a Real Racing 3 review
Freemium gaming has no shortage of critics. It’s understandable, given that such games have earned a reputation for nickle and diming their players. EA have taken the concept further than ever with...
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Donate your brain to scientific research – the easy way
They might have peaked in about 2009, but there’s still a healthy market for games with the word ‘brain’ in the title – certainly on mobile. But rather than playing another clone of Nintendo and Dr...
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Garfield’s Wild Ride – Review
You know when you’ve been playing a game of an evening, and you can still see it in your mind’s eye when you go to sleep? Match-three puzzlers have a habit of doing it to me. Well, Garfield isn’t an...
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Fist of Awesome – Review
Fist of Awesome has been one huge charm offensive: from the early animated GIF screenshots, through the doubling-its-target Kickstarter, to designer Nicoll Hunt’s beard. It’s been either: (a) a...
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Dragon Coins – Review
Coin pushers: gateway gambling machine, disappointing old-fashioned seaside arcade amusement, or terribly modern entertainment sensation? It’s looking bizarrely like the last of those. There’s daytime...
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Alphabear – not quite an obsession
For what looks at first glance like a simple word game with cute bears, Alphabear is surprisingly complex. They had me at cute bears though, especially as they’re reminiscent of the chaps from Triple...
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Miitomo: I gave Nintendo nothing and all I got was this smashing striped...
Few companies have enough obsessed fans or intrigued observers to get a new social network up to critical mass on day one. But only Nintendo could get away with launching an odd little social network...
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EarthShape: the Daydream exclusive hobbled by VR
There’s no getting away from it: virtual reality is a bit of a faff. To get over that, a game needs to be both good and novel – to offer something VR-specific to make it worth the effort. Surprisingly,...
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How to get free Android apps without going on the rob
Piracy is rife on Android. Piracy is bad. But free is good. And you can have free Android apps without piracy. At a price. (Figuratively.) Here are two ways. Amazon Underground Amazon Underground...
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I bet that you’ll look good on the App Store
Mobile games are released at such an unrelenting rate, that I don’t generally find pre-release coverage very helpful. If I can’t click through and buy it immediately, then there’s every chance I’ll...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Not a Real Racing 3 review
Freemium gaming has no shortage of critics. It’s understandable, given that such games have earned a reputation for nickle and diming their players. EA have taken the concept further than ever with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
I bet that you’ll look good on the App Store
Mobile games are released at such an unrelenting rate, that I don’t generally find pre-release coverage very helpful. If I can’t click through and buy it immediately, then there’s every chance I’ll...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Not a Real Racing 3 review
Freemium gaming has no shortage of critics. Itâ€s understandable, given that such games have earned a reputation for nickle and diming their players. EA have taken the concept further than ever with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Donate your brain to scientific research – the easy way
They might have peaked in about 2009, but there’s still a healthy market for games with the word ‘brain’ in the title – certainly on mobile. But rather than playing another clone of Nintendo and Dr...
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