When Pokemon GO originally launched last July, it was an immediate cultural phenomenon. It was such a cultural phenomenon, in fact, that even places like CNN stopped talking about the upcoming election long enough to write getting started guides for the game. It was at the top of both the App Store and Google Play's top free app and top [...]
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When Dynasty Warriors: Unleashed was first announced, I was skeptical about how well the series' hack-and-slash combat system would work on mobile devices. When I played the game during the Limited Beta, I was immediately less skeptical. It would work just like games like Heroes of Incredible Tales, or HIT, except with less of a focus on killing a few [...]
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Perhaps the most pressing question about The King of Fighters World that I've had since SNK announced it this past January is "but what does it play like?" As a popular, long-running fighting game series, it's only inevitable that the game's mechanics are going to be dissected upon release. Today, we can get a brief look at how the game [...]
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Shadowverse's fourth major expansion is here, bringing with it a total of 104 new cards, "including two original Legendary type cards for each class." Some of these include literal "god-tier cards," like the Zeus card pictured above. To celebrate the launch of the new expansion, those who play the game between now and June 28th will be given ten Tempest [...]
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As of today, mobile Dynasty Warriors spin-off Dynasty Warriors: Unleashed is no longer exclusive to residents of Australia, Canada, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Nay, as of today, the game has launched worldwide. We may all now hack and slash to our hearts' content and fight for the glory of our chosen Kingdom! Dynasty Warriors: Unleash boasts the following features. Conquest [...]
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Remember the good old days when this is what Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean MMO looked like? Unfortunately, those days are gone, but game developer and publisher JOYCITY announced today that it will not only be launching a new mobile Pirates of the Caribbean MMO titled "Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War" sometime in the near future, but that [...]
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You'd be forgiven for having never heard of mobile FPS Critical Ops; there are dozens upon dozens of mobile first-person-shooters these days and it's hard to keep track of them all. But Critical Ops stands above the rest as doing exceptionally well. Finnish game developer Critical Force Entertainment announced today that more than 500,000 people play the game every single [...]
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GAMEVIL announced yesterday via Facebook that an Android-exclusive Closed Beta test for ArcheAge Begins has begun, which means that we also finally get to find out what exactly the game is. While GAMEVIL had opened pre-registration for the game last July, subsequently announcing last September that the game would launch globally during Q1 2017, the company had revealed very little [...]
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Tencent announced their Q4 2016 earnings yesterday and one interesting tidbit of news that came out of it (besides the fact that they're minting money) is that their mobile MOBA King of Glory which is basically League of Legends Mobile has surpassed 50 million daily active users. To put that number into context League of Legends gets about 100M monthly [...]
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Fans of Square Enix's Bravely Default series or just Square Enix in general will be happy to learn that the company's latest mobile game, Bravely Default Fairy's Effect, is now live in Japan. The game brings the Bravely Default series to mobile, offering a new, active time battle-esque combat system that utilizes three rows that players can switch between at [...]
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