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Scribblenauts Remix Gets a Siri Remix
Is the pen mightier than the sword if you use the pen to draw a sword? Scribblenauts Remix is a great game for simultaneously fostering one’s imagination and critical thinking skills, but upon getting...
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Gamer’s Journey: Jetpack Joyride and My Love for Carrots
I’m not really sure where I stand on mobile gaming these days. I’m incredibly cautious when it comes to the new handhelds, and in the last year I’ve switched from iOS to Android back to iOS for my...
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Noby Noby Boy Has Reached Uranus
It is more comfortable than you'd think. I present to you the latest achievement of the Noby Noby Boy community. A community that at this point that has to be just about as unique as the game itself. 3...
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Call of Cthulhu: Wasted Land Reflex Review: Not a Wasted Effort
There comes a time in a fan-boys life where he must realize that his idle and idolized franchise is fallible. For me, an obsession with H.P. Lovecraft has equated to constant disappointment when...
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Cheap and Dirty Gamer: Snuggle Truck Needs Drivers to Ensure Safety of Cuddly...
Nothing snuggly about barbwire In addition to my expertise in video games, horror themed survival scenarios and dancing like no one is watching, I’m also a fifth degree black belt in snuggling. This...
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iCade 8-Bitty Bluetooth Controller Makes iOS and Android Feel More Retro
You know you were thinking it. That iCade April Fool’s joke keeps on getting less funny and more useful. Now that the iCade is actually a reality, ThinkGeek has revealed that they will be releasing a...
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Gaming Lifestyle: A Healthy Anti-Gamecation
My interpretation of gamecation might be a little different from yours. Instead of taking time off of work to focus solely on a big release, sometimes you just need a break from games all together....
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Tiny Wings Reflex Review: Flying High Even Though I Can’t
Ever since I dumped my Droid X at the beginning of this year and sprinted back into the loving arms of an iPhone 4S, I have been enamored with a simple iOS game called Tiny Wings. It’s been the...
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Cheap and Dirty Gamer: Gun Bros are the Best Bros
These bros bring a tear to my eye People roll their eyes at me on a regular basis but never do I get as poor of a reaction from folks as when I use the word bro. Most assume that I’m either a frat boy...
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Penny Arcade Adventures Episode 3 goes 16-Bit RPG Thanks to Zeboyd
Classically trained. The first two episodes of Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness generated some of the biggest laughs I’ve had with gaming in recent years. Humor is tough...
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Steambrothers! To Arms! Sword and Sworcery EP Released on Steam
A double rainbow! What does this mean? The ridiculously named, yet fantastic adventure game Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP just dropped on Steam. Sword & Sworcery released on iOS last year...
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Wolfenstein 3-D Celebrates 20 Years by Going Free in All Browsers
Wolfenstein 3-D owns some great real estate in my heart, and for its 20th anniversary id Software is porting it to all browsers to play for free. It’s a freaking party in Castle Wolfenstein, and we’re...
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Kid and Play: Prepare Our Future Gamers
We as gamers have a responsibility. A responsibility more important than trying to beat Battletoads, even though we all know it’s impossible. A responsibility to not only play games, but to keep this...
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Cheap and Dirty Gamer: World of Goo Can Unite Me to You
Fact: approaching a stranger and asking them to mash their goo into your goo is a sure-fire way to get punched in the face or tied up and thrown in a trunk. In today’s world, people tend to only...
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Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness – Episode 3...
The latest Penny Arcade game plays like a greatest comedic hits, smashing mimes, hobos, and fruit-loving robots between toasted slices of bread and then punching that sandwich until you can’t even tell...
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Cheap and Dirty Gamer: Indestructo Tank: Launch Will Loosen Your Tight Behind
When you’re cheap and dirty, you don’t normally have access to really awesome but unbelievably expensive luxury items like tanks. When we do get the opportunity to get hands on with such things, we...
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Hero Academy (PC) Launches on Steam August 9
On August 9, 2012, Hero Academy, the very popular iOS turn-based game will make its way to Steam. Why is this release important? Robot Entertainment promises the game allows iOS users to play against...
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Plants vs Zombies 2 Wants Revenge on Your Petunias in Spring 2013
With a 2 after it. I may go as far to say that Popcap has created the most endearing video game zombies, so even my zombie fatigue couldn’t stop the smile from creeping across my face when I read that...
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Radio Waves for 9/28/12
It’s among us, my friends. Apple has pushed its iPhone 5 into all of the sweatiest, stickiest and liquid-soapiest hands of the planet Earth just one week ago. If you’re thinking that’s why there was no...
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Hey! Buy! Pinball Duo Accessory Adds Plunger and Flipper Control to iPad
Somewhere in the last year, digital pinball has inexplicably fascinated more than a few of the Horrible Night contributors. At first, it seemed all innocent until Josh mentioned that he was actively...
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Radio Waves for 10/12/12
It’s a big release week for games. Even the people under rocks know that games came out this week and people want them. There’s quite a variety as the releases range from alien-domination sims to 8-bit...
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Molyneux’s Curiosity for iOS and Android Releases November 7
This has to be one of the most perplexing games I’ve heard about in recent memory. The game’s name is Curiosity. It’s going to be released on iOS and Android for free on November 7, and I still have no...
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The Walking Dead Review: The Dead Can Feel
A game seldom comes along which strikes a chord deeper than just being entertained. The Walking Dead by Telltale Games delivers on a one-of-a-kind experience by reaching into your personal morality and...
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Cheap and Dirty Gamer: 10,000,000 Makes Me Panic
I’d like to believe I’d be the type of guy that stayed calm when a high pressure situation arose. I always imagined that should a bomb need defused or a plane have to be diverted for an emergency...
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Horrible Times #403: The Nice Spartans
Seriously, misty. Video games took a beating last week. Same old story exacerbated by an idiotic publisher, so it was nice to be reminded by Bungie that this is an industry full of good people....
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In Defense of iOS Games – The Cursed Checkpoint #201
Ethan and Matthew discuss the importance of iOS titles in their gaming diet and why the supposed “time killers” have made their lives more pleasurable. The Cursed Checkpoint is a topical video game...
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Radio Waves for 02/08/13
I never thought I would be considering rehab. First, let me explain that I’ve got a problem. It’s not a “real” problem like being trapped in a gauntlet of traps run by a puppet, but is a problem...
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Zen Studios Brings Star Wars Pinball to Pretty Much Everything Starting Feb 26th
Zen Studios broke through in a big way with us last year, even taking home a Grimmy in the process. I had written off digital pinball, but it’s is hard to argue with quality table designs in any form....
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Radio Waves for 02/22/13
A typical year in video games tends to be lopsided in terms of big name releases. Slow in the beginning, but everyone is swimming in AAA titles by the holidays. What happens as those big titles get...
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Radio Waves for 03/08/13
Video games are some of the most comfortable forms of escapism available at my fingertips. If I want to drive a taxi off a pier, I can play Grand Theft Auto. If I want to jump-kick a sightseer off a...
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Star Wars Pinball Game Curious Video: The Balls You Are Looking For
Zen Studios is on a tear as of late. The reigning kings of virtual pinball are following up their run of quality Marvel tables with a planned 10 tables of Star Wars Pinball themed goodness. Josh and...
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Radio Waves for 03/22/13
Back in 2007, I was surprised by a journey I took under the sea to a place called Rapture. It was majestic, yet dreary. Foreign, yet familiar. Wet. Very, very wet. The highest honor I can bestow upon...
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Broken Age is the Name for the Double Fine Adventure Game Funded by Kickstarter
Both kids seem to have rough lives. A little over a year ago, Double Fine changed the way the video game industry looked at Kickstarter and crowdfunding in general. The result of this experiment was...
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Radio Waves for 04/05/13
I’d describe myself as a “gaming tree,” firmly rooted to where my consoles and computers are like an expensive security blanket. On the surface, I can’t say I really have any issues with travelling. I...
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Cheap and Dirty Gamer: Dungeon Hearts Requires No Bribes
A dungeon is the worst place to leave your heart… I woke up this morning to find I had some new items in my Steam inventory, which is always an exciting thing. Opening it up, I saw that I had a coupon...
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Radio Waves for 05/03/13
It’s happening, folks! We just hit May, but the storm of awesome movies is fast approaching and it starts with Iron Man 3. This usually means that gamers can expect the usual product placement of soda...
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Radio Waves for 05/31/13
Memorial Day is a perfect time to remember things past. When a long weekend is mostly rained out, it’s also the perfect time to remember how much I enjoy Guild Wars 2. “Horrible Night homeboy” Verdian...
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Ticket to Ride Reflex Review: Mobile Achievement Puncher
Family trips when I was a kid meant loading up a backpack full of books, CDs, magazines, and those magnetic travel versions of board games. They came in all varieties from checkers to Sorry. You’d be...
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Knights of the Old Republic iOS Reflex Review: Don’t Touch the Force
This was pretty much my exact reaction. Playing Knights of the Old Republic was one of those defining moments of my gaming history. It was my first true RPG. It was my first BioWare game. It was the...
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Radio Waves for 02/10/14
Look who’s back. Fresh off The 2013 Grimmys, it’s safe to say that video games definitely happened last year and they’re gonna continue happening this year. I’ve spent the last month returning to games...
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Radio Waves: Dogfighting Legendary Farms
I sat here contemplating the games I’ve been playing lately. My habits are normally more bouncy, treating each game as the next Second Coming. For the last month, I’ve sort of… plateaued. At the end of...
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Nimble Quest Review: Get in Line, Hero
The Heroes walk single file in order to hide their numbers Nimble Quest has been my goto few-minutes-to-kill mobile game for over a year now. A game developed by NimbleBit, creators of Tiny Towers and...
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Played Kingdom Rush – Like Me!
You’d think I’d be overwhelmed. Not so! Admit it, you have genre prejudice, too. I don’t know what it is about tower defense games, but I can never seem to get over the hump. My perfectionist playstyle...
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Played Crossy Road – Such Mascots. Very Hop.
I know how this story ends. I’ve talked quite a bit about the weekly arcade challenges I have in my office. We’ve played close to 100 classic and modern arcade games for high score supremacy. We’ve...
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Played Game of Thrones Episode One – This Will End Well
You look concerned. I’m a late fan of the Telltale game series. It wasn’t until after the first season of The Walking Dead was complete that I discovered its awesomeness. I completely missed the...
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Tales from the Borderlands Episode 1 Gamethrough Review – Con Me In
I love you, Loader Bot. I’m not going to pretend that you can judge an episodic game by its first episode, but Tales from the Borderlands: Zer0 Sum is the most fun I’ve had with the first episode of a...
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Hey! Play! Dreeps Wakes You Up and Adventures for You
You got this, robot boy. dreeps wakes you up. dreeps has your gaming covered when you can’t game or if you need to game while gaming. You are going explore new lands, fight bosses, survive dungeons...
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Played Oquonie – I Love What You’ve Done With The Place
Oquonie is an isometric puzzle game for iOS created by interactive designer Devine Lu Linvega of XXIIVV in collabration with illustrator Rekka Bellum. You control a weird little creature interacting...
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Night Terrors Aren’t Just for Children Anymore
The hairs on the back of my neck stand up every time I look at her. I love horror movies. I have since my dad let me watch George Romero’s 1968 Night of the Living Dead when I was about five or six; I...
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Game Curious Sproggiwood – Step By Step
I had a friend once. His name was Sproggi and he got me into all sorts of trouble. Staying straight-edge was near impossible when Sproggi’s antics included imprisoning me in his realm and sending me on...
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