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  • Intake: Be Aggressive Review
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    Intake: Be Aggressive Review

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    What do you get when you cross Dr. Mario with Ikaruga? Finger-tapping bullet hell with a dose of wubwubwub, that's what. Or at least that's what you get from Intake - a blisteringly fast puzzle game from Cipher Prime, the makers of fantastic little gems like Pulse, Fractal and Splice: Tree of Life.The gameplay here is easy enough to grasp. Pills of different colors descend down the screen in varying directions and you'll need to tap to eliminate them - but only if they match the color that you're meant to be hunting for. You'll only deal with two different colors at any given time, and switching your target color is as easy as tapping the bottom of the screen. If any of the wrong colored pills reach the bottom of the screen, it's game over.It's simple on paper, but devilishly difficult in practice.
  • Splice Review
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    Splice Review

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    You know what we can't stand? Video game tutorials. Nine times out of ten a tutorial will either be walls of text that we're clearly not going to digest properly, or half an hour of "do this simple thing", "now do it again but with an added element" and repeat until fin. The best tutorials are those which either incorporate the teaching into the gameplay, or let us figure it all out for ourselves.
  • Pulse: Volume One Review
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    • Android
    • iOS
    Pulse: Volume One Review

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    While music games have certainly had their share of the limelight on the App Store over the last few years, few of them have felt like they were tailor-made for the platform. Pulse bucks this trend, offering an interactive musical experience that could only be accomplished on the massive touch screen that is the iPad.
  • Pulse: Volume One Preview
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    • Android
    • iOS
    Pulse: Volume One Preview

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    Developer Cipher Prime recently made some waves at the Game Developers Conference when it showed off Pulse, an upcoming music game for the iPad. While music titles haven't exactly been super successful on the platform, the developer is banking on the idea that what the genre needs is a different type of game. As a result, Pulse is pretty much unlike anything else that's on the market.
  • Fractal Review
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    • PC
    Fractal Review

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    Cipher Prime's melody-driven Auditorium was one of the most understated indie gems of 2009, beautifully combining puzzle elements with sweeping, layered piano and string tracks. Fractal is very much in the same vein, although the music takes a back seat this time around. With clever game mechanics and plenty of different modes to play through, Cipher Prime's latest is definitely worth experiencing.
  • Auditorium Review
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    • iOS
    • PC
    Auditorium Review

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    For almost a year, Auditorium has swirled around the internet as a great Flash game that generated a lot of grassroots gamer buzz. The experience of manipulating light into sound that got millions of hits online is now a full-fledged release, coming to multiple platforms. The iPhone version of Auditorium looks and plays a treat, but you don't quite get what you pay for.