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  • Duel of Fate Review
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    Duel of Fate Review

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    I never was much of a Magic: The Gathering player, but I've played enough to know that the appeal of the collectible card game genre lies in the cards themselves. Many videogame developers seem to miss this point. Maybe their goal is to attract new players, maybe it's to provide something that differentiates their project from the growing morass of battle card games across all platforms, but all too often they mix in flashy minigames and other froufrou that only detracts from the experience.
  • Dragon City Review
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    Dragon City Review

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    You may already have some idea of how to train your dragons thanks to Cressida Cowell, but do you know how to breed them? If you don't, you can fill in that regrettable gap in your fantasy credentials by playing Social Point's Dragon City, which lets you create over 150 versions of the winged monstrosities by tossing two dragons into a common pen and hoping for the best.
  • Mystic Ice Blast Review
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    Mystic Ice Blast Review

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    Don't get me wrong: I love "match 3" puzzle games on Facebook, especially when they come with a 60-second blitz mode for easy competition with my friends. In fact, I think I've almost reached a point where I've played Bejeweled Blitz on more days of my life than any other game besides World of Warcraft.
  • Men in Black 3 Review
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    Men in Black 3 Review

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    You have to hand it to Gameloft--they could have produced yet another uninspired movie tie-in, but with Men in Black 3, they delivered an amazing experience in resource management and turn-based combat. In fact, based on early reports, you'll probably get more enjoyment out of it than the movie itself, and that's something that few tie-ins can claim.
  • The Last Stand: Dead Zone Review
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    The Last Stand: Dead Zone Review

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    The best thing I can say about The Last Stand: Dead Zone is that I was playing it at the very moment of Diablo III's long-anticipated release and found myself reluctant to stop. That's partly because there wasn't much point to trying to log in to Diablobecause of the server load, but also because ConArtist's fourth entry in their Last Stand series surprised me at every turn. It succeeds as both as a strategy game and a roleplaying game, and it's a gritty example of how to give aging social conventions new relevance. Perhaps most importantly, it's a game for people who doubt the legitimacy of Facebook as a gaming platform.
  • Ravenshire Castle Review
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    Ravenshire Castle Review

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    If you're wondering why Gamezebo's a little late in its coverage of the release of Ravenshire Castle, the answer's simple--for a couple of days, I was unable to do anything past the third or fourth quest thanks to a bug that prevented new missions from appearing. That in itself speaks of the obstacles surrounding the game's release, and as I've ventured into the castle itself and beyond, I'm surprised to find less threatening shortcomings at almost every turn. It's a shame, really, since there's a good game lurking behind all these issues, and Ravenshire Castle goes to great lengths to prove that there's still room for innovation in an aging genre.
  • Farm Up Review
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    Farm Up Review

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    Farm Up is set in the 1930s, which may be the oddest time setting for a farming game imaginable. This was the age of the miserable Joads of the Grapes of Wrath, a host of failed government aid efforts, and Dorothea Lange's portraits of weather-beaten Okies fleeing the Dust Bowl. All in all, it was a time of hardship and tears that forever changed the face of rural America.
  • Empire Review
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    Empire Review

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    The closest I've ever come to knowing what it's like to grow up in the projects is driving by Cabrini-Green on my way to work in Chicago, so I'm not even going to pretend that I'm qualified to discuss the quality of the story behind Empire, a new social game by Jay-Z. But apparently it's the real deal, and the game's story recalls his rise from Brooklyn's Marcy Projects to a nine-figure businessman, much like his similarly titled hit "Empire State of Mind" in 2009. I do like to think that I know my games, however, and I'm hesitant to say that this outing will be anywhere near as successful.