Few mobile games offer single-screen action with friends as intense and fun as Lucky Frame’s Gentlemen! Sure, there are multiplayer experiences like swapping turns in Letterpress or fighting for the highest score in Ridiculous Fishing, but nothing quite like this. It’s sort of like a two-player take on Super Crate Box mixed with Spy vs. Spy, only instead of having to kill off waves of enemies, you’ll need to dispose of a human foe sitting right across from you. You’ll compete across a handful of simple...
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Games for the weekend: Mikey Hooks 0
August 16th at 12:00pm / GigaOM / 0 opinionsThis hero of this week’s game is Mikey, who must jump through a series of obstacles to save his friends.
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Google makes Quickoffice free on iOS, Disney brings 'Infinity: Toy Box' to iPad 0
September 19th at 11:51pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsGoogle has made its Quickoffice suite free on iOS for users with Google accounts, and Disney has released an iPad companion app for its Disney Infinity console game.
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Asphalt 8: Airborne Now Free As App Store’s âApp Of The Weekâ 0
October 20th at 10:24pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsAsphalt 8: Airborne, the latest high-octane racing game from Gameloft, is now free for a limited time as part of Apple’s App of the Week promotion. The discount comes less than two months after the game made its App Store debut,…
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Hatch 1.1 Update Brings Wallpapers, New Shop Items & More 2
November 28th at 9:04pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsHatch, the cute virtual pet for iPhone from the makers of Clear, has received its first update just one week after making its App Store debut. The release adds some beautiful wallpapers for your iPhone, introduces some new shop items,…
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11 Best iPad Apps of 2013 5
December 25th at 5:05pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsWhether you're new to the iPad or looking to add to your app collection, 2013 brought in a healthy dosage of innovative, addictive options for Apple tablets.
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Nintendo Mulling Mobile Apps as Part of Recovery Plan 0
January 30th at 10:25pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsNintendo is considering mobile apps as part of a way to spur recovery after a slump in Wii U sales -- but that doesn't mean you'll be able to play Mario games on your smartphone anytime soon. In a presentation to Nintendo investors on Wednesday, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said the company is looking to build relationships with its customers through "smart devices" instead of letting the customer relationship remain walled off on each console.
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Apple highlights indie games with new iOS App Store section 0
March 21st at 9:31am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsIn a change to the iOS App Store late Thursday, Apple debuted the new "Indie Game Showcase," a special section that will regularly highlight one independent developer and their favorite titles.
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Apple announces 2014 Apple Design Award winners, Threes and Monument Valley among selected 2
June 3rd at 5:31am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsAfter the WWDC keynote wrapped up on Monday, Apple announced the winners of its annual Apple Design Awards that recognizes the most innovative and technically superior OS X and iOS apps of the year.
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Table Tennis Touch captures all of the fun of ping-pong with none of the humiliation 0
May 16th at 7:35am / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsI suck at table tennis. Like, it’s embarrassing. I’m alright at serving, and I can usually return, but if anyone smashes at all or puts any spin on the ball, I fold faster than a laundry robot. I still like…
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5 Can't-Miss Apps: Feedworthy and More 0
July 20th at 4:05am / Mashable / 0 opinionsThis week's apps list includes a new Reddit client, an app to optimize your phone's battery life and a new game based on 'Guardians of the Galaxy.'
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5 Can't-Miss Apps: Hanx Writer and More 2
August 17th at 12:05am / Mashable / 0 opinionsThis week's list includes an app for on-demand fitness coaches, a game that puts a new spin on the endless runner and Tom Hanks' typewriter app for the iPad.
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Mine bitcoins on your iPhone in Bitcoin Billionaire 0
October 29th at 5:04pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsOne of my favorite games for the iPhone is Game Dev Story, an adorable and addictive game by Kairosoft that puts the player in the role of managing a team of video game developers. Something about Noodlecake Games’s upcoming title,…
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Create your own Adventure Time game in this great iOS app 0
January 20th at 4:04pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsCartoon Network’s Adventure Time isn’t just a popular kids’ show, it presents one of the richest and most surreal animated landscapes I can remember seeing on a TV show. In other words, it’s perfect for sparking and unlocking young people’s imagination…
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You Should Play: Mr. Jump might just be the most difficult one-touch platformer on iOS 0
March 27th at 3:00am / Macworld / 0 opinionsYouâll jump. Youâll die. Youâll die again. But Mr. Jump's ludicrously difficult gameplay will keep you coming back for more.
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Toss a Lifeline to stranded astronaut in new Apple Watch game 0
May 6th at 8:24pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsHow do you keep a jaded gamer engaged on the small-screened Apple Watch? Strand a young astronaut on an alien moon and ask that gamer to keep the doomed traveler alive. Written by the guy who co-wrote Fables: The Wolf…
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Fallout Shelter stays true to Fallout's spirit, but the gameplay is too slow 0
June 17th at 2:02pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsWe had high hopes for Falloutâs first foray into iOS gaming, but this resource management game suffers for its repetitive gameplay and slow pacing.
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Thrilling choose-your-own-adventure game Lifeline leaves an astronaut's fate in your hands 2
August 8th at 2:42am / Macworld / 0 opinionsYouâre a stranded astronautâs only hopeâand you can only communicate through text messages.
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Downwell is an H.P. Lovecraft story turned into a retro action game 0
October 15th at 5:09pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsIn many of H.P. Lovecraft's stories, an adventurer stumbles across something he shouldn't have â a mysterious cavern, an ancient city under the sea, a strange cave full of secrets. And though these hidden places are always filled with terrors, curiosity pushes the adventurer onwards into darker, more disturbing territory. Downwell, a new game for iOS and PC, feels like what would happen if you took one of those stories and turned it into a low-fi video game. And then you added gun boots....
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HoPiKo is a punishing, rewarding pull-and-fling platformer for iOS 0
December 24th at 4:42am / Macworld / 0 opinionsHundreds of tiny stages awaitâif you're up for the challenge.
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Compete to set the high score in this game based on Ernest Cline’s Armada 0
April 12th at 12:29pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsWriter Ernest Cline may be best known for his 2011 sci-fi novel Ready Player One (with a Steven Spielberg-directed film adaptation in the works), but his most recent book â 2015's Armada â is full of similar, self-aware geeky fun. The paperback version of Armada comes out today, and to celebrate the fact, publisher Penguin Random House has released a web browser version of the mysterious in-novel video game Phaëton....
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Sky Force Reloaded scores a hit with its freebie blasting 0
June 27th at 4:02pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsDazzling aerial shooting that never sends you crashing back to earth.
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The Mr. Robot mobile game feels like a miniature conspiracy ARG 0
August 18th at 4:49pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsI was intrigued when I first heard that Telltale â the studio known for its adaptations of The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones â was publishing a video game based on the USA series Mr. Robot. As it turns out, the clunkily named Mr. Robot:1.51exfiltratiOn isnât the kind of dramatic adventure title that Telltale is known for. Itâs developed by Oxenfree creators Night School Studio, and itâs a $2.99 text-based iOS and Android game that runs over the course of a week....
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Five of the best board game conversions for your new iPad or iPhone 0
December 26th at 5:51pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsA niche category of the expanding game market on iOS are board game translations. AppleInsider goes beyond Monopoly and Scrabble and looks into five of the best more advanced board games that benefit from an iOS implementation.