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  Hey, there’s a blue bitizen who looks familiar! Tiny Tower is one of those games I’m not really sure I can recommend despite the fact that I’m obsessed with it. It’s an adorable and addictive free iOS game. But there’s not much to it. You build a tower composed of stores and residencies. Bitizens move [...]

Guys, I can’t recommend Battleheart enough, especially to an MMO-playing crowd. Or even to a crowd that doesn’t like MMO’s because they think there’s too much grinding and not enough fun stuff. Battleheart is all fun stuff. More specifically, it’s all about the party combat mechanics. But before I get into that, first things first. [...]

Things that have been occupying my mind time since I got back from Iceland! Well, besides work and comics. First, the timely thing: Chu Chu Rocket is an old fun puzzle Dreamcast game and it’s free today for iPhone/iPod Touch! I never played the original but had heard a lot about it. I downloaded it [...]

Boardom is the regular blog feature in which Mary geeks out on table top games. Carcassonne was one of my own “gateway” games that got me into Euro board games and it remains one of my favorites. It’s an easy-to-learn tile laying game named after a medieval French town. You lay down one randomly drawn [...]

Plants vs Zombies is a pretty easy tower defense game, as tower defense games go. But HOLY CRAP the difficulty jumps up at the very last level. I really want to beat it so I can move on to trying for achievements and such, but every time I try, I lose, get frustrated, and play The [...]

The Creeps is my latest form of Tower Defense addiction. I downloaded this iPhone game for free when I saw Nicole Spagnuolo of the great girl-gamer podcast, Ladies of Leet, tweet about it. For the first thirty minutes, my reaction was similar to that of Defender Chronicles. I hated the visual design and the game was too [...]

First Impressions is a regular feature in which Mary shares her -surprise! – first impressions of a game she’s been playing while she should have been making comics. I’d heard a lot about Plants Vs. Zombies, but didn’t get this single player Tower Defense game until it hit the iPhone app store this February. I’m [...]