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James Christy

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Contributor, James Christy, is a blogger and lifelong gamer living in Philadelphia, PA. His other writings can be found at GadgeTell.com. When not writing about gadgets or Android games he spends his time reading about the Singularity, playing in a rock band, and writing a graphic novel.
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Overlive Review

  • January 13, 2014
  • James Christy
The dead horse that is the zombie apocalypse genre gets the boot so often that just mentioning its ubiquity in a game review reads like something of a cliché in…
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Gurk III Review

  • August 30, 2013
  • James Christy
Originally designed for a primitive Nokia cell phone, Gurk, the 8-bit RPG was a minor hit when it was ported to Android devices as a free app in 2011. Larva…
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Castle Clash Review

  • August 27, 2013
  • James Christy
Castle Clash is great example of everything nauseating about freemium gaming. Sure, it may look like an intriguing mix of social game, grindy RPG, and competitive tower defense/RTS from the…
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Age of Pirates Review

  • August 16, 2013
  • James Christy
If games were like family, Age of Pirates would be that geeky cousin you interact with most at boring family functions. You know, the one with encyclopedic knowledge of Star…
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The Walking Dead: Assault Review

  • July 30, 2013
  • James Christy
In the spirit of the comic book, I’m going to abstain from using the zed word for this review. You know the one I mean. Personally, I relish the opportunity,…
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Rage of the Gladiator Review

  • July 17, 2013
  • James Christy
There are a handful of swipey fighting games for Android, making the style prevalent enough to practically be a genre unto itself. Since these generally involve one-enemy-at-a-time combat (Whether it…
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Shelter Review

  • July 3, 2013
  • James Christy
Shelter is an indie-bred hybrid of the turn-based collectible card game and tower defense genres set in a zombie apocalypse. Try explaining that concept to your grandmother. The description might…
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Green Force: Zombies Review

  • June 18, 2013
  • James Christy
Green Force: Zombies is a first-person zombie shooter for Android. That description alone should be enough to make you wary. Aside from the fact that zombie-themed shooters are a dime…
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Batman Arkham City: Lockdown Review

  • June 11, 2013
  • James Christy
Batman Arkham City: Lockdown has some big shoes to fill, deriving both title and aesthetic from one of the best action games in recent memory. The console version of Arkham…
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Kingdom Rush Review

  • June 9, 2013
  • James Christy
To be perfectly honest, I’m not really a fan of tower defense. Even the best tower defense are to real-time strategy what a chess puzzle is to an actual game…
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Tales of Illyria Review

  • May 30, 2013
  • James Christy
There’s a strong undercurrent of nostalgia in the gaming industry these days, and Android is no exception to the rule. Throw a rock into the Play store and you’re bound…
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Talisman Prologue HD Review

  • May 15, 2013
  • James Christy
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 Allies and Pictionary, a slew…
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The House of the Dead: Overkill – The Lost Reels Review

  • May 4, 2013
  • James Christy
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…
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Dark Quest Review

  • April 26, 2013
  • James Christy
In our modern, workaday world, where big budget RPGs like Skyrim and Diablo III dominate the gaming landscape, it’s easy to forget that the forebears of the RPG genre came…
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Relativity Wars Review

  • April 18, 2013
  • James Christy
Relativity Wars is an action strategy game which incorporates Einstein’s theoretical physics as a central game mechanic. That means worm-holes, space-time waves, time-dilation and the like, all bringing much-needed spice…
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bit Dungeon Review

  • April 2, 2013
  • James Christy
Hewing closely to a well-established action RPG tradition, bit Dungeon owes a lot to the past. With aural and graphical nods to early console gaming and a top-down, room-by-room dungeon-crawling…
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Die For Metal Review

  • March 5, 2013
  • James Christy
Megadeath Die For Metal is a 2D platformer that will appeal to hardcore gamers with a masochistic streak. The goal is to navigate a cartoon pagan warrior through 45 levels…
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