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  • iOS App-Aholics Anonymous: [Order & Chaos]

    iOS App-Aholics Anonymous: [Order & Chaos]

    Of course, folks, it’s that time of year again. The air’s cold, and the holidays threaten to suck your wallet free of any loose change. Whatever is a mobile gamer supposed to do without the funds to feed the addiction? It just so happens that...

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    iOS App-Aholics Anonymous: [God of Blades]

    App Name: God of Blades Developer: DEV NAMEWhite Whale Games Launch Date: 9-26-12 Price: $2.99 App-Aholic Rating: 4/5 Watch it Here: Official Game Trailer The exhausted genre of the endless runner meets a unique RPG twist! God of Blades is not the typical button-masher, but...

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    iOS App-Aholics Anonymous: [Lili]

    App Name: Lili Developer: BitMonster Inc. Launch Date: 9-19-12 Price: $4.99 App-Aholic Rating: 4.8/5 Watch it Here: Official Game Trailer Lili is unreal! But no, seriously, Unreal Engine 3 has been making its way into many mobile games these days. Lili is no exception, and...

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    iOS App-Aholics Anonymous DUAL EDITION: [Mole Kart 2 Evolution / Megatroid Chapter Two]

    This is what happens when Apple hogs the spotlight. With Apple’s massive keynote event clogging up the headlines, this past week in iOS gaming was a bit…er, stale. How can we keep it exciting for you wonderful folks? Easy. We put in some overtime to...

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    The Visual Nerd Reviews Spawn #223

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    iOS App-Aholics Anonymous: [Wild Blood]

    App Name: Wild Blood Developer: Gameloft Launch Date: 9-6-12 Price: $6.99 App-Aholic Rating: 5/5 Watch it Here: Official Game Trailer Hey, folks! It’s that time of the week again! News today: last Thursday, Gameloft released their latest hack-’n'-slash RPG adventure, so naturally, iOS-AAA has your...

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    Geek Movie Review – Total Recall

    I thought I would do my homework for this review and watch the 90s original Total Recall with everyones favourite nanny philanderer, Arnold (can’t act for shit) Schwarzenegger. To be fair to the original, in its day it was probably a very good example of sci-fi, but being...

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    iOS App-Aholics Anonymous: [Bastion]

    App Name: Bastion Developer: Supergiant Games LLC Publisher: Warner Bros iOS Launch Date: 8/30/12 Price: $4.99 App-Aholic Rating: 5+/5 Watch it Here: Official Game Trailer It’s games like this that truly encourage me to adore my job here at 8DAG. If you haven’t heard already,...

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    The Visual Nerd Wraps Up August in 30 Seconds!

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    LEGO Lord of the Rings

    Here is the newly released box art, for the anticipated Warner Bros Interactive tittle LEGO Lord of the Rings. LEGO Lord of the Rings will contain the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy and features   co-op multi-player game play. It will be released for the Xbox 360, PS3, Nintendo Wii, DS,...

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    iOS App-Aholics Anonymous: [Mikey Shorts]

    App Name: Mikey Shorts Developer: BeaverTap Games, LLC Last Update: 8-17-11 Price: $0.99 App-Aholic Rating: 4/5 Watch it Here: Official Gameplay Trailer Old-school, classic Mario-esque games seem to be making a large comeback through the iOS scene. This week, Mikey Shorts adds itself to the...

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    Top 8 Cosplays: Wizard World Chicago 2012

    There were a ton of excellent cosplays this year, I had to narrow it down to only 8, so if you want to see the rest check out our coverage! Here they are the top 8 costumes of WWC 2012! 8)   7)   6)...

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    iOS App-Aholics Anonymous: [Horn]

    App Name: Horn Developer: Phosphor Games Studio Co-Developer: Zynga Launch Date: 8-11-12 Price: $6.99 App-Aholic Rating: 5/5 Watch it Here: Official Game Trailer Zynga? Yeah, Zynga. Who would’ve expected an Unreal-powered game like this from the master-developers of much simpler time-wasters, Zynga? But don’t forget...

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    EA

    One of the largest gaming companies Electronic Arts (EA) has secretly put them self up for sale, so far no concrete deals have been made. Over the past year EA’s stock prices have dropped 37% due to the constant increase in popularity of social and...

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    Random Character Generation for D&D Next

    Check out this nifty character generation for D&D Next courtesy of @Greywulf

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    The Boys

    Sadly one of my favourite comic books amongst the many written by Garth Ennis will be concluding with issue #72 in November. So join me in saying farewell to Butcher and the gang.

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    Pathfinder Gets Jacksonized

    Paizo’s world renowned fantasy RPG, Pathfinder, has just been announced to be getting the full Munchkin treatment in a full brand new core set. Lisa Stevens CEO of Paizo Publishing made the following statement about the partnership “We all love Munchkin here at Paizo Publishing,...

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    iOS App-Aholics Anonymous: [Magic Portals]

    App Name: Magic Portals Developer: Asantee Last Update: 7-14-12 Price: $0.99 App-Aholic Rating: 5/5 Occasionally, when the AppStore seems dull from the lack of new releases, it is completely acceptable and sometimes compelling to scavenge the databases for past gems that may have previously slipped...

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    Geek Panel With Sam Trammell

    I was lucky enough to moderate a panel this year at Wizard World Chicago, below is the audio file of the panel. Listen to it and let me know what I should do for next year. There is audio from the panel itself at the...

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    Tokyo in Tulsa 2012

    Tokyo in Tulsa 2012 Confession: I’ve been burned out on anime for about ten years. I don’t mean to say there’s anything wrong with anime, nor do I mean it’s somehow an inadequate hobby, but it’s something I’d drifted away from early in my geek...

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