Outernauts now available on Kongregate
Kaboom! Outernauts has broken free of Facebook. Fans will be happy to know that they can now access Insomniac Games' popular flash-based MMORPG on Kongregate.
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Letter by Letter Review
Words can hurt. Words can kill. Okay, so words can't actively slit someone's throat, but a well-placed move in Letter by Letter for iOS proves words are capable of giving your rivals a bad day. Let's just settle by pointing out that words can sting like a paper-cut between your fingers. In fact, with Letter by Letter, your words may actually come back and haunt you.
AR Defender 2 Preview
War is a monstrous, horrific business. That said, playing at war can be fun as long as no-one is hurt for real—but while fake war is the preferable alternative, it still tends to feel kind of plastic and sanitized. Isn't there any middle ground to be had, here? As it turns out, there is. AR Defender 2 for iOS and Android is an augmented reality title that plunks you in the center of a war that feels more real than most video game battles, but you don't need to fear getting picked off by flying bullets.
Dream Undercity Preview
Dinosaurs are extinct. They ruled the earth for a while, got a little too over-confident about the guests they invited to their house parties, and everything came to an abrupt end when a meteor crashed the celebration and nuked all the party lizards back to their core components. That's what we're taught in school, but what if it's not that simple? What if the dinosaurs weren't wiped out, but instead retreated deep into the earth to nurse their killer hangovers for the next several million years?
Spellstorm Preview
Spellstorm is an iOS-based collectable card game that features plenty of monsters, warriors, and combat. Frankly, that's a lot less frightening than the other image that the game's moniker conjures up—namely, a maelstrom of spelling tests sprung upon an unprepared class.
Respawnables Preview
So far as humanity knows, each of us only gets one kick at the can. As a result, we're programmed for self-preservation (though that reflex occasionally tends to click to the "Off" position and suddenly we're overcome with the urge to imitate a Jackass stunt). But what would happen if life was more like The Respawnables by Zynga and Digital Legends? What if we had not one, but many lives to give on the battlefield? The world would begin to look a lot more like a Looney Tunes cartoon, that's for sure.
Allods Adventure Preview
Allods Online is a Russian-developed MMORPG that enjoys worldwide popularity. In turn, the Rage of Mages strategy/RPG series is the basis for Allods Online. And why stop there when we can complicate things further? Allods Adventure HD captures the magic of the Allods world and re-packages it as a puzzle game for iOS.
Kickstarter Picks: Tiny Barbarian DX
What's more retro than a movie about a beefy, shirtless barbarian? A pixel-based video game about a beefy, shirtless barbarian. Maybe you had a chance to play last year's Tiny Barbarian, a simple but compelling side-scroller by retro game fan Michael Stearns. Now Stearns and his friend, Daniel Roth, are turning to Kickstarter in hopes of funding a remake of the game for the PC. It's a big undertaking, even if the game's hero is oh-so tiny.
