Pixel People for iPhone Review
Finally, a building simulator that pushes the mobile genre of games an evolutionary step forward. Pixel People, by Lambda Mu (and published by Chillingo), abandons the degenerating game play mechanics...
View ArticleHow To Earn Free Utopium In Pixel People
Utopium is the in-app currency in Pixel People, which is used for city upgrades, decorations and buildings. It’s most important use, I think, is speeding up wait times. In the later stages of your...
View ArticleiOS Review: Dead Trigger 2
The zombies with green glowing eyes are back just in time for Halloween, and putting bullets into the brain-hungry fiends is free(mium). Dead Trigger 2, by Madfinger Games, combines the first person...
View ArticleiOS Review: Heroes of Loot
A countless number of times I’ve alluded to my allergy to the recent 8-bit movement on the App Store: but the movement is unavoidable because 8-bit games are most accessible to developers who lack...
View ArticleiOS Review: Oceanhorn Monster of Uncharted Seas
The price could be a deterrent for some. I had pointed this game out to a friend, and his first comment was, “bro, it’s 8.99”, and I said, “well it’ll go on sale sooner or later.” Yet so far this...
View ArticleiOS Review: Shadow Sun
I wonder if fifteen years from now “retro” games will have evolved from the now trite 16 Bit style into a style that reflects games like Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic. Perhaps the style of...
View ArticleIncoming Rant: Captain America, The Winter Soldier Sucks
When will audiences finally suffocate on the action. When will, in a moment of infinite jest, audiences bleed from the eyes, the ears, and the nose, as their brains turns to mush from the bellow of...
View ArticleIncoming Rant: Godzilla Sucks
Be honest: you only saw Godzilla to see an Asian man utter Gojira after a brief dramatic pause, and an orchestrated roar to follow (Alexandre Desplat did a fantastic job in this soundtrack, by the...
View ArticleIs Hearthstone Pay to Win?
Is Hearthstone pay to win? Of course not. What a ‘loaded’ question that is impossible to answer in a single, minute answer. It is almost a philosophical question, challenging the nature and ethics of...
View ArticleFour Reasons why Hearthstone Sucks
Many of Hearthstone’s faults are a consequence of poor mechanics design. Blizzard obviously did not have the foresight into the creative combos the community invented to abuse Hearthstone’s design. The...
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