Al Jackson, Author at Hardcore Droid

Spotlight

Mobile Gaming in 2024: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly and The WDK

Google Play hosts over 478 million games. Unfortunately, for mobile game enthusiasts that is what is known as glut. The reasons for this plastic sea of games are myriad but … Read more

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DevilutionX: Play Diablo I on Android

The Great Granddaddy of ARPGS Comes to Android Back in my college days, my beloved mentor and karate instructor would sometimes say to me: “If you accidentally punch you’re partner … Read more

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Best Offline Strategy Games for Android

The 15 Best Android Strategy Games that Require no Wi-Fi Maybe you’re sitting pretty with five glowing bars today but tomorrow might prove another ball game entirely. Could just be … Read more

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Strategy

Best Android Strategy 2022

According to author, J. Anthony Torino, a vast comet will strike the earth in 2022, funneling millions of pounds of ash into the atmosphere and sending the world into a … Read more

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The Best Android RPGs You’ve Never Heard Of

The Best of the Worst One of the coolest things about Android gaming (and the ever elusive high-end Android RPG) is the direct result of it being the worst gaming … Read more

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The Best Android Strategy Games 2021

Things Can Only Get Better Yes, I know, realistically things could get worse. We could be invaded by a cadre of intergalactic squid or a block-sized asteroid could yet again … Read more

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Tips & Trix

Pascal’s Wager Tips and Tricks

Some Strategies to Get You Started Pascal’s Wager dropped on to Google Play this month providing gamers with a long-sought-after souls-like RPG. What’s more, it is a Souls-like that sings. … Read more

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The Ten Best Android RPGs You Never Heard Of

The Ten Best Android Indie RPGs Indie games in Android land wax rather indie. I am going to tell you now that somewhere below the Android indie cellar is a … Read more

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The Most Hardcore Offline Android Games

The Best Core Android Titles You Can Play Without Wi-Fi Likely the reason you lost your Wi-Fi is not embarrassing. Maybe you’re just taking a trip on a plane or … Read more

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9th Dawn III: Shadow of Erthil Releases on Google Play

9th Dawn Returns to Android with Shadow of Erthil The third iteration of the Valorware’s 9th Dawn series released on Google Play this week and hardcore mobile RPG fans everywhere … Read more

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The Best Android Strategy Games You Never Heard Of

The 10 Best Android Indie Strategy Games Android Indie Strategy? Is this a joke? you ask. Android is the absolute armpit of the gaming industry—a platform so riddled with freemium … Read more

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Stream PC Games to Your Phone, Fast and Easy

Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and to Love the Universal Phone Clip From the moment I realized that my Android was more powerful than my 486 of yore, … Read more

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GeForce Now Gains Control

Nvidia’s Cloud Service Gains Epic Exclusive and Promises a New Game Every Week It’s been a bumpy start for Nvidia’s nascent cloud gaming service. Shortly after GeForce Now went live … Read more

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Best Of

The Ten Best Android RPGs You Never Heard Of

The Ten Best Android Indie RPGs For many, the premise behind a list of the best Android RPGs amounts to a contradiction in terms. Most of us who work and … Read more

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Rewind
RPG

The Shadow Sun Review

A Mobile Gem Ossian Studios’ The Shadow Sun is a rare bird in Mobile gaming. In the main, Mobile gaming does not have vast, resource-rich development houses like Bethesda working … Read more

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Dark Quest 2 Review

The dungeon is wall-to-wall goblins. At first glance, I can’t imagine how my party could possibly survive. But we go to work anyway. My knight casts mass bless, raising … Read more

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RPG
Strategy

Grim wanderings Review

Android games make hardcore gamers snarl, crack sarcastic jokes or just dismiss the whole platform outright. We understand. As hardcore gamers who spend some time scouring Google Play’s endless throng … Read more

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The Best Free Android Games of All Time

Free Android games are crap, most of them at least. Digital detritus, designed to manipulate rather than to entertain. The worst thing about them is that they take something that is good, … Read more

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2018 Hardcore Droid Awards

At Hardcore Droid we celebrate Android titles that offer players PC and console-style gaming experiences. And while such games are admittedly few and far between on ‘Droid, there are plenty … Read more

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Ticket to Earth Review

Back in the eighties there was this very popular and completely demented TV commercial for Reece’s Peanut Butter Cups. Queue funky disco muzak: A circa 1980s youth struts down a … Read more

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