Mobile gaming Archives

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Hearthstone’s One Night in Karazhan guide: How to beat the prologue and The Parlor

Posted byby Mike Minotti
August 11, 2016
3 min

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft’s newest adventure just launched, and we’re here to help you beat it and earn those new cards. This week gives us the free prologue and the first wing, The Parlor. Each includes a series of bosses with special rules and abilities, but our guide will help you best them.

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3 min

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TabTale crosses a billion downloads for kids mobile games and apps

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 10, 2016
1 min

TabTale crossed a big milestone as it announced today that its kids games and apps have crossed 1 billion downloads on Google Play and iOS....

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1 min

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Pokémon Go down for some: Map shows no PokéStops or gyms

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
August 10, 2016
1 min

Players of the Google GPS-powered monster-catching game are reporting a number of errors when they boot up the game. Most people are getting maps completely devoid of monsters, PokéStops, and gyms. This essentially turns Pokémon Go into a useless Google Maps alternative.

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1 min

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The Pokémon Company sees no need for a QuakeCon-style fan convention

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
August 10, 2016
2 min

Pokémon Go is so popular that it is leading to a number of fan meetups around the world almost by accident, and that led...

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2 min

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‘Detective Pikachu’ movie was in the works long before Pokémon Go

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
August 10, 2016
2 min

Hollywood is making a Pikachu movie, and not only because of the success of Pokémon Go. While Legendary Entertainment and The Pokémon Company revealed they are...

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2 min

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Eisenhorn: Xenos brings Warhammer adventure to PC and iOS

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
August 10, 2016
1 min

Warhammer’s latest video game is an adaptation of one of its most popular books. Eisenhorn: Xenos is out now on Steam and the iOS...

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1 min

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Before Pokémon Go, Pikachu was always a star under The Pokémon Company

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
August 10, 2016
11 min

Pokémon is back! Only, of course, it never went away. And after 20 years, we wanted to talk with some of the people responsible...

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11 min

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The accidental history of Niantic’s Pokémon Go, as told by John Hanke

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 10, 2016
16 min

John Hanke put in his time evangelizing location-based gaming and augmented reality. He spent six years refining Ingress as the first AR game from...

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16 min

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A user’s perspective on in-game ads: What developers need to know

Posted byby Jason Wilson
August 10, 2016
4 min

You don’t have to look far to see the reach of mobile games and how they color our world. Just take one look outside,...

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4 min

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How Lumines creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi is bringing his beloved franchise to mobile (update)

Posted byby Jason Wilson
August 9, 2016
2 min

Puzzle games lend themselves to mobile’s touchscreen controls. And they’re profitbable, too — look at how King Entertainment has been a top-earning app store...

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2 min