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Yoshi shoots atomic snot in this Android rip-off
I heartily enjoy smartphone gaming, but it's hard to defend mobile distribution platforms when shameless rip-offs that steal characters and assets wholesale from other, more popular games can find find shelf space without anyone once saying, "Hey! That's not right!" Enter Era's Adventures 3D, a brand new action game from andev Ltd., whose stellar catalog also includes a universal remote app and... nothing else. In Era, you control an adorable green dinosaur who runs around launching flaming boogers at barrels and crates in search of secret exits. But that's no ordinary dinosaur; it's Yoshi, and by his glazed-over appearance, he's none too happy to be here! But the pièce de résistance is the screen that appears whenever someone tries to play a pirated copy of the game. Oh, the all-too-sweet IRONY! Era's Adventures 3D [Google Play via GoNintendo] Did you know? You can now get daily or weekly email notifications when humans reply to your comments.
12:00 PM on 05.18.2013 Preview: The Last of UsI was skeptical of The Last of Us. Despite all the hype and high promises, to me, it looked like post-apocalyptic Uncharted. I wasn't sold on the dynamic nature of how the game progressed, and as we all know, zombies have been literally done to death in the past five years. Then, I got a chance to actually play it. How many days until June 14th again?
4:30 PM on 05.17.2013 Dust: An Elysian Tail arrives on Steam next FridayDust: An Elysian Tail designer Dean Dodrill has slapped a May 24th release date on the Steam version of his acclaimed, previously-Xbox-exclusive 2D action game. This is only coming to Windows for the time being, but Dodrill h...
12:30 PM on 05.17.2013 It's happening: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance on PCMetal Gear creator Hideo Kojima has announced that Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance will be ported to PC, something many of us desperately wanted but didn't realistically expect to happen given developer Platinum Games' history...
9:23 AM on 05.17.2013 The Wonderful 101 coming to the Wii U on September 15thFinally! Nintendo announced today that PlatinumGames title Wonderful 101 will be coming to the Wii U on September 15th. The game came under some fire recently for being touted as a "short" experience, but I personally can't wait, as PlatinumGames rarely misses. Oh, and it totally has waterslides.
9:30 PM on 05.16.2013 Resident Evil Revelations: What version do we review?[Update: Poll CLOSED! Wii U dominated. Look forward to our review soon. Update: MAJOR upset! It has come to light that a PC copy WILL be made available for review purposes, and will be added as a late starter in the poll. A P...
8:00 PM on 05.16.2013 Diablo III uses the PlayStation 4 touchpad for inventoryIn this video, Blizzard describes the work that's been gone into tweaking Diablo III for console gamers. In a strange turn of events, I feel as if every new detail we hear about the reworked title for PlayStation 3 and PS4 s...
4:00 PM on 05.16.2013 'Hardcore action-RPG' Lords of the Fallen announcedCity Interactive has had an interesting past, but its latest game, Lords of the Fallen, sounds intriguing. Announced as a 2014 title for next-generation consoles and PC, its story is centered around a world where "the gods ha...
3:30 PM on 05.16.2013 Watch the worst Fallout game ever madeJordan and I have started a new game in our Couch Campaign, and it's one that I have been excited to play since we first began talking about the project. As a huge fan of the Fallout franchise and a lover of top-down, exploration shoot-em-up games, the pairing of the two could have been glorious. And Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel is, provided you think train wrecks can be glorious.
2:30 PM on 05.16.2013 Lords of Shadow is the most successful Castlevania everSpeaking to Destructoid at a pre-E3 event, Konami's Dave Cox disclosed that (wait for it) Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is the most successful Castlevania game to date, even surpassing the massive sales of games from 1997 on. ...
1:30 PM on 05.16.2013 Diablo III celebrates its one-year anniversaryWell, it's been a series of ups and downs (that could have all been avoided if the Auction House was taken down), but Diablo III is now one year old. To celebrate, Blizzard is adding 25 percent extra Magic Find and experience...
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| 7:00 PM on 03.03.2013 Android rip-off dev did not know who Yoshi was |

A few days ago, we learned about Era's Adventures 3D, a new Android game that stars an unlicensed character model of Mario's faithful mount Yoshi. It sounds incredibly ballsy that anyone would pull such a stunt and not antici...more
| 10:30 AM on 05.18.2013 Cart Life dev reveals new game, is humble and lovable |
I'd like to pay Richard Hofmeier to talk to me about videogames. During last week's Sup Holmes (now on iTunes), he told me about so many great things, like the free online "game" Geoguessr, surrealist interactive text auteur...more
| 4:30 PM on 05.17.2013 Dust: An Elysian Tail arrives on Steam next Friday |
Dust: An Elysian Tail designer Dean Dodrill has slapped a May 24th release date on the Steam version of his acclaimed, previously-Xbox-exclusive 2D action game. This is only coming to Windows for the time being, but Dodrill h...more
| 11:00 PM on 05.16.2013 Two weeks until The Swapper lands on Steam |
A few seconds into this trailer for The Swapper and I'm reminded of how uniquely gorgeous the puzzle-platformer looks. There is, after all, a reason why we resort to bringing up The Neverhood in these situations; not enough ...more


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