Nadia Oxford

In the early aughts, Nadia fell into writing with the grace of a brain-dead bison stumbling into a chasm. Over the years, she's written for Nerve, GamePro, 1UP.com, USGamer, Pocket Gamer, Just Labs Magazine, and many other sites and magazines of fine repute. She's currently About.com's Guide to the Nintendo 3DS at ds.about.com.

Reviews
May 18, 2015
Smurfs’ Village and the Magical Meadow Review: A True Blue Town-Builder
By Nadia Oxford
The Smurfs are timeless in comics, literature, and animation, and in a strange way, they’re timeless on the App Store, too. Beeline Interactive’s town-building game, Smurfs’ Village, hit the App Store in 2010, and it still receives regular updates. It …
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May 13, 2015
Horizon Chase Aims to Capture the Spirit of 16-Bit Racing
By Nadia Oxford
Indie mobile developers love to re-capture the glory days of the 16-bit era with their games. There are innumerable sprite-based 2D platformers, strategy games, and RPGs up for grabs. Interestingly, this nostalgic deluge contains very few entries in one notable …
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May 12, 2015
Make War with Words in NimbleBit’s Capitals
By Nadia Oxford
Words can start wars, and words can end them. NimbleBit’s word-based war game, Capitals, is all about playing tug-of-war with letters. Just watch out for Q. That tail will poke a bloody hole in your head if you’re not paying …
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May 12, 2015
Cooped Up Review: One Strange Bird
By Nadia Oxford
Nitrome cooks up some of the most colorful games currently available on mobile platforms. So it’s kind of weird to describe its latest game, Cooped Up, as “dark.” Mind, Cooped Up is still a joyful collision of color. There are …
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May 11, 2015
EvoCreo Review: It’s Super Effective!
By Nadia Oxford
There are innumerable Pokémon clones on the App Store, and all of them want to be the very best. Obviously, a small independent mobile game team doesn’t have the time, budget, or programming muscle necessary to create an experience that …
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May 8, 2015
School the Gods in Divine Academy, Coming May 14
By Nadia Oxford
Realore’s trailer for its upcoming god-themed sim, Divine Academy, features footage of Zeus pecking away at an iPad. Surely Hera travelled into the future and purchased this toy for him after she got sick of her divine husband’s endless moonlit …
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May 8, 2015
Now You Can Change Nations and Wonders in Dominations
By Nadia Oxford
Ruling the world is a big deal, which is why Big Huge Games’ latest updates for its combat-strategy game, DomiNations, is suitably large. Changes and alterations in the 1.3.0 update include the ability to change your Nation – just in case …
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May 7, 2015
DragonVale’s Cooperative Breeding Feature Lets You Mate With Pals
By Nadia Oxford
As most of us well know, breeding is an activity that’s best performed with the aid of good friends. Backflip Studios understands this, and has introduced “cooperative breeding” into the world of DragonVale. Cooperative breeding is meant to help you …

Nadia Oxford

Smurfs’ Village and the Magical Meadow Review: A True Blue Town-Builder

Horizon Chase Aims to Capture the Spirit of 16-Bit Racing

Make War with Words in NimbleBit’s Capitals

Cooped Up Review: One Strange Bird

EvoCreo Review: It’s Super Effective!

School the Gods in Divine Academy, Coming May 14

Now You Can Change Nations and Wonders in Dominations

DragonVale’s Cooperative Breeding Feature Lets You Mate With Pals

New Genre-defining Action-Healer, 3 Healers Fables The History of Three Influential Figureheads Without Combat

Satirical Dystopian Time Management Life-Sim Dystopicon Lands on Steam Soon!

Guns of Eschaton Is an Upcoming Soulslike FPS Set in an Occult Apocalyptic West

2.5D Atmospheric Adventure Inspired by Arabian Astronomy Nightscape Drops a New Trailer