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LEGO Batman: DC Super Heroes for iOS Review: Another Fun LEGO Game For The iPhone
| App Name: | Lego Batman: DC Super Heroes |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | Platformer |
| Price: | $4.99 |
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I do not think that Traveler’s Tales has ever made a bad LEGO game. Some of them are better than others, but I have enjoyed every market-licensed outing I’ve ever taken with this creative and fun series. Happily, TT keeps up the good work with LEGO Batman: DC Super Heroes, their iOS version of the [...]
Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! Review: Mash-Up Of Old-School Ideas And Modern App Sensibilities
| App Name: | Steve Jackson's Sorcery! |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | RPG, Books |
| Price: | $4.99 |
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Long, long ago, before we had smartphones or apps or even 8-bit gaming consoles, game designer Steve Jackson released Fighting Fantasy, a series of single-player paper RPGs that played something like a Choose Your Own Adventure book, but with more rules. Now, developer Inkle has taken the first of these books and converted it into [...]
Celtic Heroes Releases Dragonfire: New Great Looking HD Graphics and Loads of New Content
Celtic Heroes continues to surprise me with its longevity. I can think of a dozen reasons why this indie MMORPG should not still be an active game — heck, why it shouldn’t have survived its first year! — but the game has defied them all to remain a viable and ever-improving experience. This week, One [...]
Mailbox Review: Clever, Intuitive Mail App That’s Great If You Only Use Gmail
When the Mailbox app hit the App Store earlier this Spring, the tech blogs exploded with joy. Here was mail done cleanly, intuitively, sleekly, better. Of course, there was the two-week wait initially to actually use the app, as the Mailbox team only slowly rolled out their server load. That situation has changed recently. Mailbox team [...]
Star Command Review: Kickstarted Star Trek Sim Is Playable But Limited
| App Name: | Star Command |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | Sim |
| Price: | $2.99 |
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Star Command is a game brought about by an early Kicksterter success story that almost turned into a Kicksterter failure. But now, two years and a second funding campaign later, this ambitious space sim has been loosed on the App Store. While Star Command isn’t everything it could be, it’s still a good game with [...]
Catching Up With Dungeon Hunter 4: IAPs Ruin It Again
Without question, one of the biggest disappointments of 2012 for me, personally, was Dungeon Hunter 3. Dungeon Hunter was impressively competent clone of the Diablo experience back in 2010; and in 2011, Dungeon Hunter 2 improved on every aspect of the original game’s experience. So when DH3 was announced, I was really looking forward to [...]
Slayin’ Review: Combines Retro and RPG Into a Great Game
| App Name: | Slayin' |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | Retro |
| Price: | $0.99 |
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Like retro? Like RPGs? Like simple, challenging games that tempt you into “one more try”? Then you’ve got to try Slayin’, the retro monster killing game from developer Pixel Licker and FDG that hits all the right notes. Slayin’ is a relatively simple game. You begin each game as a hero — Knight to begin [...]
Cut the Rope: Time Travel Review: The Formula Still Works
| App Name: | Cut the Rope: Time Travel |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | Physics Puzzle |
| Price: | $0.99 |
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I hate reviewing iterative iPhone games. Angry Birds Seasons, Temple Run Oz, Doodle Jump Hop — there’s a real difference between a sequel and a skin, and sometimes it seems almost pointless to review them. So of course Zeptolab had to put out Cut the Rope: Time Travel, a new iteration on their popular Cut the Rope [...]
News iPhone MMORPG Releases and Updates: Ragnarok Valkyrie Uprising, Arcane Legends, & More!
It’s safe to say that my MMORPG attention recently has been taken up almost entirely by Order and Chaos Online’s Level 70 update — the rumors, the anticipation, the release, the playing. But Order and Chaos is not the only MMORPG out there, and in fact there have been a lot of noteworthy happenings recently. [...]
Order and Chaos Level 70 Update Diary: Finding New Builds And Grinding Through Under Realm
As promised last week, I’ve continued to dig into the new Level 70 cap update for Order and Chaos Online. As I noted last week, it really tweaked a lot of things about the way the game is played, so first impressions are not always best impressions. This week I took my level 60 mage, [...]
