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The GU iOS Game of the Week -- Fruit Ninja HD
18th May 2012 - As a general rule, when you look close enough most video games have a story behind them that explains how they came to be, and the Fruit Ninja games are no exception to this rule. Their story starts with what was a small Australian game developer called Halfbrick Studios that at the time was best known for a handful of game series -- T.. Read More.
The GU iOS Game of the Week -- Imperium Galactica II: Alliances
20th Apr 2012 - Following on the heels of the recent release of Sine Mora, Hungarian-based studio Digital Reality offers gamers this classic fusion of real-time strategy and strategic management -- Imperium Galactica II: Alliances -- on the iPAD's iOS platform (it was previously released for Windows) delivering a deep and intense real-time strategy tit.. Read More.
The GU iOS Game of the Week -- Virtual City 2: Paradise Resort
6th Apr 2012 - In the city simulation game genre we have gotten used to game play that has us placing roads and power poles, building power plants, hospitals, schools, and the rest of the infrastructure that a city must have to expand, and spending the bulk of our game play time trying to keep the population happy and growing. Virtual City 2 is not t.. Read More.
The GU iOS Game of the Week -- iBomber Defense Pacific
31st Mar 2012 - The newest tower-defense style mobile game for iOS from developer Cobra Mobile and publisher Chillingo Ltd. -- iBomber Defense Pacific -- puts players in the role of Commander and places them in charge of organizing the defenses and defensive strategy for a variety of missions covering a wide array of situations that might have been enc.. Read More.
The GU iOS Game of the Week -- Fix-It-Up Eighties: Meet Kate's Parents
24th Mar 2012 - Fix-It-Up Eighties: Meet Kate's Parents is the next title in the well-established series of Time Management games 'Fix-It-Up' created for mobile gaming platforms, though it should be noted that this offering in the series is restricted to just the iPhone 3Gs, iPhone 4, iPhone 4i, and the 3rd and 4th generations of the iPod touch -- whic.. Read More.
The GU iOS Game of the Week -- Treasure Seekers 4: The Time Has Come
16th Mar 2012 - The discovery of the century is made in 1932 as the young scientist Eleanor Lonsdale deciphers ancient Mayan rock inscriptions that uncover a doomsday prophecy leading to the end of the world in 2012. Returning from her expedition, your sister "Nelly" (as you call her) disappears, evidently having been kidnapped for reasons that have t.. Read More.
The GU iOS Game of the Week -- The Island: Castaway
9th Mar 2012 - The basic plot for The Island: Castaway is familiar to anyone who watched Lost on TV back in the day -- a transportation accident leaves a group of unique and different characters on a desert island that has a supernatural force present within it. In the case of Castaway the cast of characters also includes a village full of natives wh.. Read More.
The Farmville Discovery: Mastery Billboards
23rd Feb 2012 - Welcome to this edition of The Farmville Discovery, an ongoing series of articles covering events and noteworthy additions to Zynga's social networking based Facebook game Farmville. Today's article is about the new Mastery Sign Billboards recently added to the world of Farmville in a move by the developers to continue the effort to de.. Read More.
The GU iOS Game of the Week -- Smoke Your Tires
17th Feb 2012 - It is not very often that the GU iOS Game of the Week happens to be a game that has ties to the racing and NASCAR -- but our selection this week, Smoke Your Tires, is also a celebration of the launch of the 2012 stock car racing season! In connection with the International Speedway Corporation ("ISC"), the leading promoter of motorspo.. Read More.
The GU iOS Game of the Week -- Sea Wolf
7th Feb 2012 - While I try not to begin articles by limiting the scope of their application to just a small portion of the potential audience, I am afraid that I will briefly need to do that here -- though I promise the rest of you that it will quickly become relevant to you and besides, you may very well find this brief journey down memory lane to be.. Read More.
A FashionWare Gamer's Holiday Gift Guide 2011
21st Nov 2011 - The commercial evolution of the Internet in the early 1990's turned out to be an event with far-reaching consequences that went way beyond what most experts predicted, illustrating a significant impact upon a broad a range of cultural and consumer trends to the point that it is widely considered to have redefined itself, emerging as mor.. Read More.
Mamba Nation Battles its way to iOS
4th Nov 2011 - If you are already aware of Mamba Nation, you know that it is more than just a cuter knock-off of Second Life minus the gritty full-frontal nudity and hard core sex that was a a primary attraction for a significant number of the casual players for the latter. Partly the brainchild of French games entrepreneur and bad boy Nicolas Gau.. Read More.
Game Developer Spotlight: Paradox Interactive
25th Sep 2011 - When it was founded in 1998, Swedish video game developer Paradox Interactive began the lengthy process of carving out a niche for itself in the highly competitive fields of game development and game publishing, setting its sights upon the Windows PC as its preferred platform in an era during which most of the established video game hou.. Read More.
Holiday 2011 Video Game Release List
9th Sep 2011 - While this is not an all-encompassing list of every game set to be released over the course of the next four months, it does include a fairly comprehensive list of the upcoming AA and AAA titles for the 2011 Holiday Season! - A - Airline Tycoon II (October 14th) Windows PC / Mac OSX / Linux Assassin's Creed Revelations (November 15th).. Read More.
Smart parents use smartphones to help their kids
19th Aug 2011 - Results of an academic study released today reveal the positive impact that playing video games has on bonding between parents and children who play together. Mobile App and Game Developer PopCap Games recently undertook a study in partnership with Goldsmiths University that reveals video games can increase bonding within the f.. Read More.
The Psychology of Video Games: It's a Spatial Thing
17th Aug 2011 - Memory is a funny thing; despite a tremendous amount of research undertaken by some of the most intelligent minds of the past century, how human memory works at its most basic level is still not something that the learned communities who make memory part of their concern can completely agree upon. When we examine all of the experiments.. Read More.
Why are your kids better than you at Angry Birds?
18th May 2011 - There is a phenomenon attached to the incredibly popular mobile gaming apps in the Angry Birds series that has some adults scratching their heads, and their kids laughing. It seems that children are better at the game than adults, finding the puzzles that always stump their parents to be a snap. Part of that has to do with spatial re.. Read More.
Farmville Strategy Series: Just the Basics
21st Feb 2011 - According to the most recent statistics, on an average day between 30 and 50 million people spend time tending to their farm in the Facebook game Farmville -- a web-based game that features about what you would expect from a game that loosely simulates farming. The secret to the incredible success of the game has a lot to do with insta.. Read More.
