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Beyond: Two Souls, the beautiful new game from Quantic Dream sports an epic story and some of the best visuals ever seen on a console. But the game also has a mobile twist that theoretically allows you to control the game using an Android or iOS device. The Beyond: Touch app allows the player to…
This week we took a look at Quiz RPG: World of Mystic Wiz, a Japanese smartphone game that was only recently translated to English. The game mashes up casual RPG gameplay with trivia and card battling. It’s a unique deviation from a tried and true model of mobile gaming, and it’s a lot of fun…
For gamers of a certain age, Konami’s Contra is burned into our brains. Whether we played it on the NES or in our local pizza parlor’s game room, the marriage of run and gun action with unforgiving difficulty proved to be the perfect combination to keep the sauce-covered quarters flying into arcade boxes and NES…
Pacific Rim is a science fiction film that hits theaters Friday, July 12th. It takes place in the 2020s when monsters called Kaiju rose through portals in the sea and began attacking our civilization. To defend ourselves, humans created giant robots called Jaegars. Together with a heroic former pilot and trainee, the team must defend…
Meet Bones Wellington. You’re going to be spending a lot of time with him if you decide to invest in a new game called Mansion Run. He’s essentially a living skeleton living in a nice home, but it’s haunted by ghosts. He needs to make a run from the ghosts by switching through floors and…
Google announced yesterday that it would be shutting down their Google Reader service, the denizens of the internet were shocked, to say the least. How are we going to get our news? What about our years of feed customization? Well folks, I’m here to help you tell Google to talk to the hand. Feedly is…
There are many apps out there that focus on sharing music, and now an app called Soundtracking has seemingly pulled the best parts from social networks and music sharing into one app. Soundtracking is an iOS and Android app that brings together picture sharing like Instagram, music tagging/discovery like Shazam, and location sharing features like those of FourSquare…
Frog Orbs is an addictive game for iPhone and iPad from Ballpit Monster that revolves around a frog trying to protect his magical orbs and save his flies from enemies. Okay, maybe that sounds weird. It’s a good game though, trust me. I’ve been playing it for almost a week and I’m pretty hooked. It’s…
DataMan Pro is an app for iPhone and iPad that allows users to stay on top of their tiered data plan by rigorously tracking how much data they use on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis to avoid those nasty overage fees. I was able to spend some time with it for the past week…
Just in time for Halloween is the Slash Monsters game for iOS from Fishing Cactus. It’s not totally Halloween-themed, but this game does feature plenty of undersea monsters slowly approaching you and it’s your job to slice ’em. It’s somewhat like Fruit Ninja, except there’s a legitimate themed background instead of a wooden board and…