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March 8, 2013

Upcoming ‘Danger Boat’ Gets a Gameplay Trailer

Last week we announced the first follow-up title from Disc Drivin’ [$1.99 / Free] developer Pixelocity Software called Danger Boat. While the…

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Portabliss: Kersploosh! (3DS eShop)

This is Portabliss, a column about downloadable games that can be played on the go. The nice thing about really cheap games…

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God of War: Ascension enables The Last of Us demo May 31

Synergy! The demo for Naughty Dog’s upcoming fungi-fueled survival game, The Last of Us, will be accessible on May 31, 2013, through…

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Revealed: Richard Garriott’s Massive Ultima Successor

Rounding out the Kickstarteriest week in gaming history, Richard “Lord British” Garriott has emerged from his castle of silence to reveal his…

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EA teases Battlefield 4 reveal at GDC

We may see the next Battlefield soon……

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Team Meat "not sure" About ‘Mew-Genics’ on iPhone, but Aim to Make iPad Version "respectful"

Development on Team Meat’s Mew-Genics is in full swing, so much so that the iOS version of Super Meat Boy was put on…

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Rumor: EA Maxis takes ‘full responsibility’ for SimCity issues via internal memo

An internal memo from Maxis general manager Lucy Bradshaw details the state of the developer, who is hard at work trying to…

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Rumor: EA asks SimCity affiliates to ‘stop actively promoting the game’

Rumor: EA asks SimCity affiliates to ‘stop actively promoting the game’ originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:00:00 EST….

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Revisiting Reckoning: How Kingdoms of Amalur got the single-player MMORPG right

This is a weekly column from freelancer Rowan Kaiser, which focuses on “Western” role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their…

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Pulse: A game where sound reveals the world

We like Pulse, an independent project and IGF finalist from Team Pixel Pi, for a couple of reasons. One, the main character…

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SimCity marketing campaigns suspended by EA

EA doesn't want any more heat on SimCity until things get sorted……

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PSN Community Update: A Chat with PSNStores.com

I reached out to Chris Kuspis, editor-in-chief of the community-run website PSNStores.com. We did a quick chat online that I hope you…

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Road to the IGF: Starseed Pilgrim

Droqen’s Starseed Pilgrim is up for the coveted Excellence in Design award at the Independent Games Festival later this month. We talk…

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Get a job: Pocket Gems seeks a game systems designer in San Francisco

“Join us in redefining how users engage games as a leader on our Design Team. We’re looking for people who love the…

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Blog: Mid-core is bullshit

Veteran developer Kevin Gliner writes about how the concept of the mid-core game “comes up short for the same reasons traditional casual…

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TA Plays: ‘Block Fortress’ – It’s Like ‘Minecraft’ With Guns

Block Fortress [$1.99] is a blast. It’s a sandbox tower defense game that plays like Minecraft, except with guns. Across the game’s…

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Freebie Alert: iPad Puzzler ‘Help Volty’ Free Until March 10th

We’re fairly eagle-eyed when it comes to spotting the good games that grace the App Store’s shelves, but inevitably with such an…

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Sticky Bees Unleashed upon Kickstarter

Sticky Bees is a weird, simple, adorable iOS game about smashing hundreds of bugs with your big bee body. That bee body…

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