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  • Nightfall Review
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    • iOS
    Nightfall Review

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    Nowadays, it seems like a new iOS board game pops up every few weeks. As an avid board gamer, I could have one of two possible reactions to this. 1) I could loudly decry the death of my beloved analog game and stamp my feet and tell you why the digital version isn't "real." Or, 2) I could give them a shot and often be pleasantly surprised at the new playing opportunities that arise from the digital ports.
  • Bumbledore Review
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    • Android
    • iOS
    • PC
    Bumbledore Review

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    Bumbledore is a bee wizard who is out to protect the hive. I'll be honest: as a huge fan of the Harry Potter books, it's Bumbledore's name that first made the game stick out to me. Does it make sense or mean anything if you're not familiar with the Dean of Hogwarts? No. Heck, the game isn't a play on Harry Potter with bees or anything. It's just castle defense title starring a bee sorcerer with a clever name.
  • Spin Up Review
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    • iOS
    Spin Up Review

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    Spin Up is another title in an ever-growing lineup of "endless" games that include Canabalt and Jetpack Joyride. Your goal is to simply to get as far as you can before inevitably failing. Endless games are compelling and addictive because no matter how well you do, you can always play again and do just a little bit better.
  • Rune Raiders Review
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    • iOS
    Rune Raiders Review

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    Rune Raiders takes the turn based strategy dungeon crawler formula and boils it down to the bare minimum essence of the genre. It's light on story, graphics, music and seemingly every other metric for judging a game. For instance, the on-screen representation of your heroes are just pictures of their faces moving around a grid. Yet for a weirdly stripped down game it's compelling enough to be worth a look, though it might take some explaining.
  • Wizorb Review
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    • iOS
    • PC
    Wizorb Review

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    I went into Wizorb thinking that is was part Arkanoid and part old-school RPG. I'm not sure where I got that idea, but going by the screenshots of the game, it's a fairly obvious assumption to make. I was really curious to see how they could've honestly mashed those two totally different games together into something cohesive.
  • Madcoaster Review
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    • iOS
    Madcoaster Review

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    I absolutely adore roller coasters. My wife and I both do. We search them out and catalog the ones we've ridden. I have my top 10 favorites (#1 is Loch Ness Monster, Busch Gardens in Williamsburg Virginia). Elements that I love and loathe (cobra and heartline rolls are the best). I can talk about them the way some people talk about cars or sports. Sadly, my passion for these wood and steel giants has gone largely forgotten in the video game world, unless you like building them in Rollercoaster Tycoon (which I do, I just want more variety). Enter Chillingo's Madcoaster.
  • Super Lemonade Factory Review
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    • iOS
    Super Lemonade Factory Review

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    There's a website out there where you can get a randomly generated band or rap name made for you. Really, it just throws a bunch of random words into a digital blender and then spits something back out at you. I can't help but think that's the route the makers of the platformer Super Lemonade Factory went to come up with a name. It just makes no sense. Of course, that doesn't mean it's a bad game, now does it?
  • Stacking Review
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    • PC
    Stacking Review

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    It's sort of amazing that a company could find an idea like the one explored in Stacking and make it work at all, let alone so well. Stacking presentes a steampunk meets Charles Dickens style world populated entirely by Russian matryoshka dolls (the nesting dolls that sit inside each other). That idea not only gives the world the rich character it so enjoys, but also facilitates quite ingeniously the game's main mechanic.