Sinister Planet

Sinister Planet is an arcade shooter with a Market description that lumps it in with "Defender, Sinistar, Galaga, Asteroids, and R-Type". More accurately I'd say it's like Bosconian. It is a 2D top down shooter that places you in a sand box with the mission of collecting gems while surviving. I say "sand box" because, while the play area is bigger than my screen, it does have boundaries that...

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Sweetopia ( Portable )

Genre: PuzzlePublisher: Pi Eye GamesDeveloper: Pi Eye GamesAfter a 20-year slumber, the Sweetopia candy factory is having its grand reopening. While creating Sweetopia's next sensation, a cooking catastrophe occurs - and now this batch of sweets has explosive potential! Launch sweets, grouping matching ones together to win powerups and points! Simply stop the Sherbet Sizzlers from colliding, and all will be well, but it won't be easy! Master...

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4 Player Reactor

As developers start to look outside of the box of traditional joystick/mouse/keyboard game development innovative titles that take better advantage of a Smart Phone's unique attributes are released. 4 Player Reactor takes advantage of the 'play anywhere' nature of such devices. The game itself is simple. Many minigames which rely on either quick thinking and/or speedy reactions which ultimately...

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Current Games On Sale

Several noteworthy game sales going on...Shopper's Paradise (25% off) [Awesome Android Apps] - $2.99XGalaxy 2 [Design2Code] - $1.29Backbreaker Football (50% off) [NautralMotionGames Ltd] - $1.49The Movie Game [UMAI Development] - .99 Pounds or about $1.60Critical Altitude 3D ($2 off) [Burning Bear Development] - $.99Super Boom Boom [GAMEVIL Inc.] - $.99Hungry Shark (reviewed this past...

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Panzer Panic 1.1

Handy Game's Panzer Panic was reviewed back in January. It quickly became one of my favorite games on my Droid and is among very few that, once installed, continuously made the cut whenever I had to dump games to free up memory so that I could try out new games. Today, roughly 8 months later, an update has finally been released.The big change in the game seems to be that, in solo mode, instead...

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Glyder 2

Glu Mobile has taken an interesting tact with their recent Android game releases. First Super KO Boxing 2 and now Glyder 2 have been released with both a paid version and a free, full, ad supported version. Any guesses which versions are garnering more downloads? In fact it's entertaining reading some of the paid comments for Super KO Boxing 2 where people feel gypped because they think their...

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Some more (L)GPL strategy game love

Ok, quick update before too much dust gathers around here ;)Just yesterday I stumbled upon this gem of a strategy game over at LGDB:They call that simple bot???Its name is Quantum, as some of you might have guessed it is a clone of Dyson/Eufloria. But the game is quite mesmerizing with the strange background noise and your armies of small space tree spores conquering new worlds. But try it yourself!Now normally clones are not as good as the original,...

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Backbreaker Football Sale

Backbreaker Football is on sale until Sunday at 50% off (or $1.49). I don't know the 'reason' for the sale given that it's week 3 of the NFL's preseason and opening week of the regular season would have made more thematic sense, but at $1.49 I'll bite even though I own it on my iPod Touch. It also now supports Froyo's App2SD feature.Edit: I'm a bit surprised by this, but the game only takes up...

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GalCon

As I annouced a few days ago, GalCon is now available on the Android platform and, being a fan of the game from my iPod Touch days, that made me pretty happy. So far I've reviewed three similar games available in the Android Market with GalaxIR Star being the most recent and best.To recap (only necessary if you are completely unfamiliar with this type of game) these games put a galaxy of plan...

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Mafia 2

Mafia 2 Game | PC | Mafia IIGet and download now game Pc mafia 2 The son of a poor immigrant, is an Italian Americans killed Vito tries to take his share of the American dream. Looking to escape the life of poverty, which has consumed her childhood, Vito was soon influenced by the lure of power and wealth, which can bring the life of organized crime. A little criminal all his life, Vito, and his childhood friend, Joe, will descend into the world...

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Hungry Shark

Hungry Shark is a game that is almost therapeutic to me. I often criticize games in which I feel like there's little challenge such that the games can go on and on. That's somewhat true of this game if you stay close to the surface where food is plentiful, but yet it's such fun swimming around gobbling up other fish and the occasional swimmer. The feeling reminds me of the feeling I get in games...

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Antigen: Outbreak

Antigen: Outbreak is a neat little combination of an arcade game and a puzzle game. The story is that you're an antibody and are traveling through an organism. Enemy viruses (is that a word?) are travelling through the body, too, and it's your job to fight them off. The core mechanic of the game is that your antibody is a square with four 'patterns' on each of its edges. Each virus also has one...

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PRESS RELEASE - Wattpad Adds New Features to eReader Android App

Edit: This being a gaming blog I was most interested in the second sentence in this press release. I really believe that within 2 years (maybe sooner) the Android will surpass the iPhone with respect to game development unless Apple makes some serious policy changes regarding openness. I suspect they'll be too arrogant to do the latter in time to 'save' themselves.Wattpad, the world’s largest...

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GalCon is in the building!

Much to the chagrin of its competitors, GalCon has arrived on Android and it looks great! Look for a full review soon including details on why it's the best GalCon out there...And on another note, my iPod Touch, after 18 months, now has a near dead battery in it making it a slave to my electrical outlet. I am not ever buying another device that doesn't let me change its battery for my personal...

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Biggest Little Adventure ( Portable )

Genre: Hidden ObjectSee the world through a different perspective in Biggest Little Adventure, an epic journey of tiny proportions.Louis delivers a package to Ruby, who, upon opening it to reveal its mystical content, mistakenly shrinks him to the height of two stacked apples. Now, both Ruby and the miniaturized Louis embark on a worldwide search for the only possible cure. But can they find it in time before his condition becomes permanent?Join...

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Blade of Darkness

Genre: ActionPublisher: CodemastersDeveloper: Rebel ActBlade is a third person action and adventure game that emphasizes melee combat and exploration through a rich world. Play as any one of four classes as you battle monsters and other opponents using a huge variety of weapons.The Lord created Chaos, and divided it in two parts, the Light and the Darkness. He gave to them life and thought, and so were born the Spirit of Light and the Prince of...

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QB Attack Deluxe Football

One of the biggest thrills for a reviewer in my humble opinion is coming across that surprise gem of a game. It's usually not a big market title as we all of high hopes for those, but rather from some small, unknown publisher perhaps even releasing a first game. This game hit that mark for me.If you read my review on a regular basis you'll know I love sports games. Well, I love most games as...

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Farm Frenzy 3 - Russian Roulette ( Portable )

Genre: StrategyPublisher: Alawar EntertainmentScarlett is back in an all-new Farm Frenzy adventure that's out of this world! Having restored farms and fed people all over the world, the plucky heroine of Farm Frenzy 3 thinks she's done it all. But when she learns astronauts are starving because their corrupt boss made a crooked deal with a no-good contractor, she sets her sights higher than ever, vowing to prove herself worthy of taking over...

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Farm Frenzy 3 - Madagascar ( Portable )

Genre: StrategyPublisher: Alawar EntertainmentEnjoy an all-new Farm Frenzy adventure set in stunning Madagascar! Join Scarlett as she travels to the exotic country to help the workers on a reservation save their animals, which have become sick for an unknown reason. Raise new, vividly animated indigenous creatures like guinea birds, elephants and water buffalo, construct and use new buildings, and manufacture exciting new products throughout...

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Lava Ball 3D

Lava Ball 3D from Exit 4 Gaming is a take on the ever popular Labyrinth genre of games in which you roll a ball through a maze. These games are popular now because they make great use of the accelerometer found on today's mobile devices. Lava Ball 3D tries to take this formula and turn it up a notch. Does it succeed?First there's the title screen. From here you can choose a level on which to...

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iBomber

iBomber is a port of the iPhone version of the game that the developer proudly proclaims as having over 2 million downloads. So, if you're interested in this game make sure you have an iPhone/iPod Touch first because the Android version is horrible. It's as if the developer feels that we should be grateful to have a few table scraps to play with. We know better, though... there are many, great...

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Duke Nukem 3D Polymer HRP 4.2 ( Full -2010 )

Genre: ActionDeveloper: 3D RealmsPublisher: 3D RealmsBest hero action, the essence of Hollywood superhero, blond, muscular steel guy, sipping cool phrases through the snow-white teeth. This is Duke, is the last hope of humanity. The game already sewn EDuke32 support Polymer-rendering which adds to the game full-color, dynamic lighting, shadow mapping, support the detailed ************************ures, dynamic shadows, shader effects, glow-effects...

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Black Plague

In case you're wondering where the regular reviews are... I've been dog sick for many days and today took a turn for the worse. Unfortunately, the lack of posts is like the black plague for a blog. The plus is it gives me a chance to pull down and play many games. The minus is it's hard to get motivated to do work such as write reviews or my regular job not to mention it made for a lousy vacat...

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O A.D. Alpha 1 Argonaut

Fresh from our forums come the news that the first playable (multi-player only) alpha of O A.D. has been released!0 A.D. Alpha 1 videoIt features "aggressive units that attack enemies on sight, lifelike animals that escape danger, two new maps, in-game multiplayer chat and much more"! Check their release news for more details and instructions how to install.As always this gem of a game is looking for helping hands, so join them now and become part of FOSS gaming history!P.S.: I will be looking into playing some MP FreeGamer matches with this...

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RTCW and ET open-sourced

You probably heard it before elsewhere, but I was waiting for some actual developments to occur instead of making yet another "yay! source release!!!" blog entry ;)Anyways... the kind people over at id software have decided to release the source code of this two awesome games under the GPLv3.The guys behind the engine improvements of Quake3, IoQuake3 have already a source repository running and you can expect them to merge all the nice stuff from...

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FIFA 2010 Full ( 5 Language )

Genre: SportTheme: SoccerDeveloper: Sports InteractivePublisher: EA SportPlatform: PC WindowsSupport: DVDLanguages : ITA - ENG - FRA - DEU - ESPSystem Requirements :Intel CPU - Core 2 Duo T7700 2.4GHzAMD CPU - Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+Nvidia Graphics Card - Geforce 7800 GSATI & Intel Graphics Card - Radeon X1800 Series 256 MBRAM - 2 GBDirect X - 9Size : 6.50 GBDownloadrapidsharehttp://www.short5.com/sl/177917http://www.short5.com/sl/17791...

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New Pet Peeve

My old pet peeve was waiting in lines and/or traffic.My new pet peeve is Android Market games that use the name of a highly successful game in order to attract attention to an app that is a piece of crap. Today I saw Civilization and Pitfall, among others, and my intuition tells me that 3 seconds of my time is too high a cost for these.This all made me wonder... Apple could, as a strategy,...

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Sheep Slinger

It was in the shower this morning that I had a revelation. The game I had tried out last night (Sheep Slinger) had a major flaw... you could just play and play and play with no fear of death. What kind of witty analogy would I use? Space Invaders without bombs? Pac Man without ghosts? But first, back to Sheep Slinger...Sheep Slinger is a simple game that actually borrows the whole sling shot...

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Quake2 engine day ;)

Ok, today I have quite a lot of stuff, and its all Quake2 related :p Believe it or not Quake2 is alive and kicking... and its engine is featuring some of the very best open-source games!For those who might have missed it: AlienArena 7.45 has been released recently and the release makes an already solid game even more awesome ;)Further more the UFO:AI team is making some great progress after their highly acclaimed 2.3 release two months ago. Besides...

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Crush the Castle by Namco

Note: Crush the Castle is temporarily on sale for $.99 down from $4.99.When I reviewed a game called Steel Shot in May I was completely unaware that a game called Angry Birds was topping the charts on the iPhone. Since then I've tried Angry Birds and while Angry Birds is a far more polished title in the same genre my core criticism of the game remains for both. Crush the Castle is yet another...

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80s Arcade

I love the arcade classics from the 80s and 80s Arcade brings 33 of them to your Android phone for $2.99. Sound awesome? Well, it's only ok. First, I question the licensing of the games... is this legal? I seriously doubt 3D Studio has the rights to distribute the 33 original 'roms' that allow these games to be perfectly emulated for the low price of $2.99. But as I'm not certain of the I'll g...

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Some puzzle games

Can you imagine what a mix between a Pin-Ball machine, a physics simulator and a breakout clone would look like? Well your wildest dreams have been answered! Check this out:The game Flipout combines all this, and is a very challenging game in addition (didn't manage to even complete the first level :( ). But try it yourself ;)Another pretty interesting game by the same author is Mechanical Tower, a self described tower defense game: "but instead...

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