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Posts tagged "iOS"

Clumsy Pirates almost set my house on fire

Clumsy Pirates almost set my house on fire
Clumsy Pirates is so good it made me burn my nachos - and sadly, reader, that's not a turn of phrase. Thumbstar's latest puzzler may look simple, but it exerts a surprisingly powerful grip, and although I only loaded it up for a quick look before dinner, it drew me in and led to my cheese-splattered downfall.

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Doing a runner: It’s Mr Dreamer

Doing a runner: It's Mr Dreamer
Morning! Mr Dreamer looks rather nice. It's made by Strapped to a Meteor, which is a pretty good name for a development studio, and it's an auto-runner with a neat twist: each tap of the screen sends you zipping from one side of the racing line to the other.

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Best of British: ‘hacking’ Warioware

Best of British: 'hacking' Warioware

A new group supporting British game developers is holding a game hack at Mind Candy this weekend - the aim is to raise the profile of UK indie development, and to create a cool mini-game collection.

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HueBrix – a puzzle game about paths

HueBrix – a puzzle game about paths

Some puzzle games are so fiendishly simple, you just think, oh lord, why didn't I think about that? We've all done it with Tetris, right? Why didn't we think of that? What's WRONG with us? It's just shapes falling down the screen. Just shapes...

HueBrix is just a collection of colour squares inside a grid. You're about to think it again.

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Deleting New Star Soccer

Deleting New Star Soccer
In the old days, Eugene Jarvis would wander the arcades of Chicago hoping to spot the machines he'd designed: Defender and Robotron: 2084. He was always looking for the same thing, too.

Signs of vandalism.

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Smash the Block – crowd funding with a twist

Smash the Block - crowd funding with a twist

Hard Lines creator Spilt Milk Studios is taking a cautious approach to crowd funding for its latest iOS project. It involves a freemium model – and the universal allure of cake.

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TWANG. Spy vs. Spy is back

TWANG. Spy vs. Spy is back
Are you ready for a very sad story about Mad Magazine and young love?

Or are you just a fan of the brilliant Spy vs Spy game?

Either way, we sort of have you covered.

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Bridge Constructor: A bridge too far

Bridge Constructor: A bridge too far
You can keep your football, first person shooter and dragon fantasy games. Wood, steel and tension is the future of interactive excellence.

Or is it?

Parkin tries his hand at civil engineering in the iOS game that asks you to build bridges over rivers with infuriating, yet compelling results.

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Cor! It’s Legends of Yore

Cor! It's Legends of Yore
Legends of Yore is a lovely roguelike that you should really be playing on your PC, Mac or smartphone.

We're a bit late to it, actually, so you probably are playing it already.

Damn.

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Pocket Planes makes me feel like an idiot

Pocket Planes makes me feel like an idiot

NImblebit, the creator of Tiny Tower, has developed another wonderfully cute social sim filled with teeny people with some place to go. There's just one problem: it is horribly obtuse – at least according to air traffic control newbie, KeithStuart.

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I need a heroine: Lara Croft vs. Nico Collard

I need a heroine: Lara Croft vs. Nico Collard
The internet is SUPER interested in women today.

More specifically, Lara Croft. You know? Lara Croft with the eyes and the backpack and the irrational hatred of endangered species and the butler and the back pain?

Parkin takes a look at why this is, and what Broken Sword's Nico Collard has to say about it all.

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Hang out with cute corpses in Space Disorder

Hang out with cute corpses in Space Disorder
Space Disorder is a neat-o iOS platformer coming to iTunes fairly soon. Do you like jumping? Do you like blowing things up? Do you like wandering past your own recently deceased clones?

Read on for more grisly info.

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