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Drawing from deep rooted experience in AAA video game development, the team at Renown Entertainment has created the ultimate arcade hoops game for Apple iOS. All-Star Basketball was built for sports fans and arcade gamers alike featuring intuitive controls and addictive quick-burst gameplay. There are no tokens required to play and no energy timers to wait for. Play as much as you want, when you want and bring home the gold! Read the rest of this entry »

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, TT Games and The LEGO Group have announced the launch of LEGO® Friends for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch available for download on the App Store.  Based on the popular LEGO Friends collection of building sets, the LEGO Friends App lets players create their own summer adventure in Heartlake City alongside LEGO Friends Olivia, Mia, Stephanie, Emma and Andrea. Players explore and expand the adventure by unlocking new levels of friendship in fully narrated interactive stories, eventually earning “True Friend” status. Read the rest of this entry »

Rocket 5 Studios invite you to join Cecil Sparks, a Paranormal Investigator who specializes in helping ghosts who are being bullied in the afterlife, in this spooky, puzzly, rock’n’roll fueled adventure game for your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch! Explore a huge haunted mansion, solve fiendishly fun puzzles and avoid diabolical traps on your way to helping deceased rock’n’roll legend Marshal Staxx escape the torment of a larcenous poltergeist named Baublebelly. Read the rest of this entry »

The Casual Games Association, the host of Casual Connect USA, declared 13 winners of the Indie Prize Showcase during a special awards ceremony. This showcase was sponsored by Facebook, Everyplay, Unity, and SKYmobi, with award prizes donated by Unity, App Promo, Photon Realtime, deltaDNA, 5th Planet Games, Intel, polljoy, Splitforce, Plantronics, Marmalade and Everyplay. The Indie Prize Scholarship provides the opportunity for qualified indie development teams to showcase their games at Casual Connect, a conference for professional developers and publishers in the video game industry. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s a Scum-Eat-Scum pond down here. NotSoft, an Oshawa-based independent game studio, has released its “frenetic eat-’em-up” game Pond Scum for Android phones and devices that puts players in control of a cannibalistic Scum Bubble attempting to become the dominant life form in a pond. Read the rest of this entry »

Get ready to sink your teeth into Feeding Time, a casual puzzle game available on iOS today from Toronto’s Incubator Games. Indulge your “tap”petite as Feeding Time challenges you to feed a host of multicoloured animals in frantic, fun levels full of matching food pieces. Simply tap an animal next to their correct foodtype and chain combos together to raise your score. Read the rest of this entry »

Ludia Inc. has announced the launch of Pako King™: DreamWorks Adventures on the Facebook platform. Pako King™ is a never before seen blend of game favorites like pachinko, pinball and breakout, all seamlessly fused with your favorite characters and worlds from DreamWorks Animation. Read the rest of this entry »

A whole new world awaits players in Disney Magical World, launching today for the Nintendo 3DS system. After creating a personalized avatar and a customized dream life, players embark on a 3D fantasy adventure featuring more than 60 iconic Disney characters across a main central plaza and its four surrounding worlds inspired by Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, Aladdin and Winnie the Pooh. It’s all Disney, all the time, as players interact with beloved characters, run a café to earn in-game coins, set off on ghost-hunting quests and even visit friends’ towns via the StreetPass feature. Read the rest of this entry »

Independent mobile game developer Big Blue Bubble Inc invites gamers everywhere to channel their inner adventurer in the new game Finder’s Keep. Available now from iTunes for Apple iPod, iPhone and iPad devices, Finder’s Keep is a dungeon-crawling, monster-slaying, weapon-hoarding experience like no other. Stunning graphics and addictive gameplay come together to create a new world of demonic nightmares and mythical beings to encounter and conquer. Explore the legendary Finder’s Keep while fending off minotaurs, golems and, if you’re lucky, the Hell’s Breath. Read the rest of this entry »

Pixelmatic has announced the worldwide simultaneous launch of Gem Wizard for iOS and Android devices. Gem Wizard is a new match-3 title that uniquely combines blitz gem popping gameplay with RPG item collection and crafting mechanics. In Gem Wizard, players can send free gifts and compete with their friends in a Weekly Battle tournament. Players are rewarded with gems and materials after each game, which can be combined through a simple match-3 crafting system to create mighty weapons and high level mystical gems. By socketing gems into magic wands and other fantasy themed weapons, players can completely customize their abilities to suit their style of play. Read the rest of this entry »