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Five awesome Minis; mini reviews!

March 18, 2011

The PlayStation Minis shop is a bit of a forgotten child on the PlayStation Network, which is unfortunate because there are some seriously good games available on it. You do have to do a bit of wading to sort the great from the rest, though – there’s plenty of junk…

Review: MooJooce (iPhone)

March 17, 2011

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Review: MooJooce (iPhone)

March 17, 2011

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Moo! Noisy Badger launches MooJooce on iPhone

March 17, 2011

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If you have a dollar or so spare, you can use it to support a small English developer, Noisy Badger, and pick up its action puzzler, MooJooce.As you can probably guess, the game is exceedingly simple – you match up multi-coloured bottle lids as they get moved down a conveyor…

Moo! Noisy Badger launches MooJooce on iPhone

March 17, 2011

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What makes a good tower defence game?

March 17, 2011

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It’s a reasonably new genre, but tower defence games have experienced a surge of popularity, thanks in no small part to the iPhone, XBLA Indie Games, PSN Minis and DSiWare/ WiiWare. See, they’re cheap to make. Meaning small teams and indie developers can reasonably quickly turn one over. While we’re…

What makes a good tower defence game?

March 17, 2011

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Retro Review: King’s Field; the genesis of Demon’s Souls (Japanese PSOne Classic download)

March 17, 2011

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One of the highest rated PlayStation 3 games is Demon’s Souls, a game which successfully fuses stylish Gothic horror with rock-hard gameplay and brilliantly realised action. It was a sleeper hit and while it has sold nowhere near as many units as the likes of Final Fantasy XIII, it should…

Retro Review: King’s Field; the genesis of Demon’s Souls (Japanese PSOne Classic download)

March 17, 2011

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Doodle Jump XBLA… with Kinect?!?

March 16, 2011

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Just the very name sounds tiring, but that’s not enough: Doodle Jump, the megahit iPhone and Android game, is getting Kinected.In other news, the developers of Doodle Jump, Lima Sky, continue to adapt the simple-but-addictive gameplay for the iPad, and will soon release a free multiplayer update for the iPhone…

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