Qwirkle is the more popular and award winning precursor to Iota, a game I reviewed not too long ago. They share a similar premise and more or less the same strengths and faults. However, I can’t play Iota on my iPhone or iPad. Meanwhile, Qwirkle is readily available on iTunes. Wanting more of this style of gameplay on the go, I gave Qwirkle on iOS a shot.
My Optimus Prime takes a beating at the hands of the Decepticons.
A grudge match between myself and a rival is the backdrop for an X-Men comic book discussion. I talk about a number of current X-Men comic book series’ and recommend the ones worth checking out.
If memory serves me well, I’m pretty sure Blokus was one of the first board games to make the jump to iOS. Despite all of the positive things I heard about it, I never bothered to give it a chance until I played and bought the physical game. At first, I downloaded the free version to try it out and was immediately put off by the ad implementation. I understand the need to include ads to subsidize a free version of the game, but the full-screen video ads that would interrupt my game every three moves or so are obnoxious. Instead, I put down the $1.99 to play uninterrupted.
Just a heads up that in the next few weeks, there’s going to be a flurry of comic book content on In Third Person. There’s already been some comic book stuff on the site, but things will kick into overdrive going forward. I still haven’t been playing much in the way of video games and most of the gaming content I had has already been published. Meanwhile, I’ve been devouring comic books like a madman and have a lot to say about the things I’ve read.
I’ll do my best to pepper in video game content where I can, though this is just the way my life is ebbing and flowing right now. Video games just aren’t all that interesting to me right now and it’ll probably be that way until I’ve got something to get excited for shows up. I’m not really interested in opening up separate blogs to write about my digressions in comic books, board games, apartment hunting or whatever the heck I feel like writing about at the time, so I hope that this shift isn’t a turn-off for you. At the end of the day, I’m going to keep writing here about things that I find interesting, so I hope you stick around for that! If anything, maybe this next little stretch will open your eyes to some comics you’ll enjoy in the future!
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Best known for making hit games exclusively for Sony such as the Ratchet & Clank and Resistance series’ of games, Fuse was their first attempt at a multi-platform title. Heavily influenced by the likes of Gears of War and Mass Effect, this game sounds better on paper than the actual execution. Not to say that it’s bad, but it’s not going to make any of its competitors lose any sleep from its presence.
After a successful reboot on the Wii, Nintendo’s prime primates are back in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. A new set of enemies have frozen Donkey Kong Island, and its up to the Donkey, Diddy, Dixie and Cranky Kong to put a stop to their shenanigans.
This set of matches proved to be quite the slobber-knocker against a worthy Dudley and Akuma player!
Strider to me is the cool ninja guy in the Marvel vs. Capcom games. Sure, I know he has his roots in manga as well as in his own 2D side-scrolling action games, but I’ve never actually played them before. I didn’t come across a Strider game in my lifetime until I picked up an NES copy of the original game a few months ago. With the reboot of Strider on modern consoles, this is really my first crack at Capcom’s brand of 2D side-scrolling ninja action.
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