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    The Best Android RPGs of 2013

    The Role-Playing Game is one of the most hardcore genres in video games. Players build up their skills and customize their characters by putting their

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    Talisman Prologue HD Review

    Say what you will about the 80s, the Me generation had board games on lock. Aside from undisputed heavyweights of the era like Axis and

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    Hardcore Droid’s Most Anticipated

    Not too long ago, if you asked us to list our most anticipated Android games, it would have been a list of last year’s iPhone

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    Tentacle Wars Review

    Tentacle Wars is an interesting beast. Its presentation gives off a puzzle vibe, but there’s a lot of strategy to it, too. Furthermore, though you

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    Carmageddon Review

    The 1990s represents gaming’s awkward teenage years. It was during this time that people began to accept that game’s could be more than just kid’s

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    Avernum: Escape from the Pit Review

    Spiderweb Software’s Avernum: Escape from the Pit is an old-fashioned open world RPG adventure for iOs and Android.  Avernum is an underground realm, to which

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    Anthill Review

    I’m a big fan of Worms. You know, that turn-based strategy series by Team 17? That game has you playing as a team of worms

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    Iron Man 3 – The Official Game Review

    Gameloft has been cranking out games based on high-flying superheroes for years now, beginning with their popular Spiderman games, and continuing with last year’s Dark

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Carmageddon Review

Still Bloody Good

The 1990s represents gaming’s awkward teenage years. It was during this time ...

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The Best Android Games of All Time

Android is still young, but in a short time we’ve seen its library grow from a handful of low-rent games to a thriving marketplace with some really impressive titles. Although there are games that raise the bar all the time, it’s a good time to look at the thousands of titles out there and single out the best of the best.1 1 Best Android Action-Adventure Game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City: Android is still awaiting its ...

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They Need To Be Fed 2 Review

Get Diamonds, Get Eaten, Get Busy

A common fear when playing platformers is the fear of falling. Overestimate a jump by just a few pixels and you’ll skid off the next ledge into the dreaded abyss that exists just below the play screen. In the They Need To Be Fed series, however, falling is an impossibility. Gravity pulls you towards whatever object you’re standing on, until you jump close enough to another object that will suck you into its gravitational field ...

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PUK Review

Launching Circles at Other Circles More Fun than Expected

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Iron Man 3 – The Official Game Review

Another Underachiever

Gameloft has been cranking out games based on high-flying superheroes for years now, beginning with their popular Spiderman games, and continuing with last year’s Dark Knight Rises, so it seems reasonable to expect good things from their treatment of the much-anticipated Iron Man 3. Instead, we find yet another reminder of the problems facing the mobile space; a free-to-play “infinite runner” attempting to pair Iron Man’s star power with yet another Temple Run wannabe. This ...

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The Best Android RPGs of 2013

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Hardcore Droid's Best RPG's of 2013 (So Far...)

The Role-Playing Game is one of the most hardcore genres in video games. Players build up their skills and customize ...


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Anthill Review

Look There Goes Another Dead Soldier Ant

I’m a big fan of Worms. You know, that turn-based strategy series by Team 17? That game has you playing as a team of worms bent solely on the eradication of another team of worms. They’ve got guns, bombs, and all sorts of crazy stuff. It’s really fun. Anthill is a strategy game about creepy crawly warfare, much like Worms, and I’m sure I’m not the first to draw the comparison. But for all its ...

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Tentacle Wars Review

Creepy. Difficult. Fun.

Tentacle Wars is an interesting beast. Its presentation gives off a puzzle ...

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The House of the Dead: Overkill – The Lost Reels Review

More Like Underkill.

I look back on my time with the House of the Dead series fondly, having spent way too many quarters on their arcade incarnations in my adolescence. You can imagine my elation in being assigned SEGA’s latest iteration for mobile, House of the Dead: Overkill – The Lost Reels. I was initially impressed, but sadly, I found the title plagued with stability issues. Despite short glimpses of promise, this game broke my heart. House of ...

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I imagine it can be difficult for a game designer to keep a series fresh after a decade of annual releases. I imagine this because it’s not even easy for us reviewers to find the words to make these games exciting, even when they are still genuinely good. Since its debut on the Amiga in 1995, the Worms series has become flagship for Team17, sometimes to the exclusion of all else. Worms 2: Armageddon is a port of the 12th game in a series that is now up to around 16 or 17. In the grand scheme of things, that might not sound very exciting, but it’s the little night ... Read More →

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Dungeon Hunter 4 Review

“Greed destroys everything.” –Eartha Kitt

I’m not on a crusade against in-app purchases or the “freemium” games driven by them. Plenty of these games manage to be enjoyable, and their paid premium features are well worth the money. If a game is good and it offers paying customers some value, I will always give it a fair shake. But I can’t extend the same forgiveness when developers use intentionally bad game design to punish those that don’t pay, while offering ...

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Not Just Another Zombie Apocalypse

by Meg Stivison

An Interview with Sarah Northway of Northway Games

After playing and loving the blend of solid strategy and post-apocalyptic narrative in Rebuild 2, I was thrilled to hear about Sarah Northway’s plans for Rebuild 3. Major differences, Sarah says, will overlay more levels of strategic number crunching and a longer, more detailed narrative of zombie survival. Other factions existed as storyline events in Rebuild 2, but players of Rebuild 3 will be able to see and interact with factions’ in new ways. “You’ll actually see them out there in the city,” Sarah Northway says, “and might even be able to intercept them before they raid you, or take the fight back to them.” I’m looking forward to finding where the Last Judgement bikers ... Read More →

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The Best Android Tablets

by John Markley

Spring 2013

The selection of available Android tablets has grown impressively in a very short time. In the face of such variety, it can be difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff. In keeping with our tireless dedication to organizing everything worth knowing into lists of 8-12 items,  Hardcore Droid is happy to bring you this list of some of the most noteworthy Android tablet devices of the past and present. Nexus 7 The Nexus 7 was the first tablet in Google’s Nexus series of mobile devices, and continues to routinely appear on critics’ lists of the top Android devices. (Actual respectable critics’ lists, I mean, not just mine.) It has a 7-inch 1280×800 pixel display, ... Read More →

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Hardcore Droid’s Tips, Tricks and Strategies Goes Live!

Welcome to Tips, Tricks & Strategies. Here we’ll do our very best to bring you walkthroughs, cheats and strategy guides for the most popular hardcore Android games. To start the fire burning, contributor Eric Miller has busted his hump (I mean that literally, his hump is broken) to bring us walkthroughs of two seminal Android games, Final Fantasy III and GTA III, to get any more seminal than that would be downright pornographic He’s also ...

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You Review It

If you want to write a You Review It review for practice, to vent or just for the fun of it, head back here and enjoy. If you’re interested in writing for Hardcore Droid check out our opportunities page. If you’ve never been published and you think you’d like to give games journalism a try, you might try your hand at writing a You Review It review or two. The reason we started You Review It has a lot to do with our humble beginnings. When we were in the earliest stages of development we put out an ad looking for writers, stating that: “Likely candidates need not have experience writing ... Read More →

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