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March 11, 2013

There’s Tons of iOS Pinball Games, But Do You Actually Know How to Play Pinball? Check Out These Videos!

So Zen Pinball [Free] has all the Star Wars Pinball IAP tables in it now, but it’s sort of become vaguely apparent…

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Microtransactions: Incompatible with immersion?

Schell Games designer Francisco Souki argues that while he likes the redesigned weapon upgrade system in Dead Space 3, the game’s microtransaction-based…

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Angry Birds Toons Will Be Available Right Inside All of the ‘Angry Birds’ Games

This coming weekend is when you’ll finally get to watch the misadventures of the Angry Birds crew when their cartoon series debuts,…

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‘Dungeon Plunder’ Review – A Roguelike that Plays the Odds

Slot machines and RPGs make good bedfellows, as the King Cashing series has taught us. Dungeon Plunder [$1.99] takes that combination and…

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PS Plus offers up a Ubisoft sale, cheap Scott Pilgrim, free Joe Danger 2

PS Plus members can snag a pile of Ubisoft games for 50 percent off this week, while standard players get 30 percent…

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NMA summarizes SimCity woes, sort of

The SimCity servers may still be having problems, but good news: NMA’s video rendering servers are working just fine.NMA summarizes SimCity woes,…

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Sack it to Me: Enter the Bomb Transporter Contraption Challenge!

Contraption Challenge 18 for LittleBigPlanet 2 is now underway and there are plenty of goodies up for grabs in this latest challenge…

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars Ends After Five Seasons

It appears that the long-running animated series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars has seen its last space skirmish…at least on Cartoon Network….

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Darkstalkers Resurrection arises this week

The launch trailer for Darkstalkers Resurrection is worth watching even if you’ve spent years playing these games and therefore have a good…

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‘Jones On Fire’ Review – Run Through Flames, Rescue Kitties

Kitties are cute and should be saved: this is the premise of Jones On Fire [$1.99], and it’s a good one. These…

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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World DLC comes to PSN today

Surprise! The Scott Pilgrim vs. The World online DLC actually comes out today on PSN, according to Sony. The $4.99 DLC, which…

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Halo 4 lowers drawbridge for Castle Map Pack on April 8

Halo 4 is getting yet another batch of DLC next month. Entitled the Castle Map Pack, the content adds three new multiplayer…

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PlayStation Plus: Joe Danger 2 Free for Members, Huge Ubisoft Sale

Last week, we announced March’s Instant Game Collection additions for PlayStation Plus members. Spec Ops: The Line led the charge, and this…

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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World DLC: Online Multiplayer & Wallace Wells

When we created a game called Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, we meant it. “But,” you might have asked, “what about playing…

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Star Trek Into Darkness: A Look At The New Teaser

In a movie weekend dominated by a year-high performance from Oz: The Great and Powerful, a new teaser trailer for Star Trek…

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What gamification gets wrong

When gamifying activities, many in the industry stray from the pursuit of true game mechanics — and in this post, Andrzej Marczewski…

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Spin the Bottle points to May 2013 release

Spin the Bottle, KnapNok’s Wii U party game that issues physical challenges to its players, will be released on the Wii U…

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Frameface: We’ve Got Warframe Beta Keys

UPDATED: Fresh keys added. Exciting-looking sci-fi combat game Warframe (which seems to feature strange-helmeted space ninjas) is currently being smoothed over at…

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