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Originally Posted by wraggster

Double Fine's Middle Manager of Justice is now available on the App Store, and at a cost of $0.00 it shouldn't significantly impact your outlay. Yes, that was our attempt at being Scott Adams.

Double Fine's iOS debut throws you into the over-referenced world of superhero management. As a middle manager at Justice Corp. it's up to you to train your super-powered lackeys, upgrade their super-equipment, all while keeping the super-paperwork in check. With the game being super-free-to-play,

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Originally Posted by wraggster

We first saw Guardians of Middle-earth in action back at E3 this year, and it was quite impressive even then. Monolith has taken the PC-centric gameplay of the emerging MOBA (or DotA, or LoL, or even action RTS, whatever you like to call it) genre, and translated it over to a console and a controller. But since that first play at E3, I've gotten a few more chances to play the game at Comic-Con and PAX. GOME

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Originally Posted by wraggster

In more shenanigans around quiet releases, Ubisoft today stealthily brought forward the PC release of I Am Alive by one week, meaning it should be out tomorrow. Ubisoft originally scheduled the urban disaster game for a September 13 release, but quietly altered Steam and Ubishop pages to say otherwise. We've reached out to Ubisoft for comment on the changed release date.

What seems like more bungling

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Originally Posted by wraggster

FarmVille. Just the name likely conjures up some vivid thoughts and opinions in the minds of gamers everywhere. As the flagship casual social game for both Facebook and Zynga, FarmVille can't help but be a lightning rod for debates about gaming's audiences, game design, and the role that video games can and do play in our daily lives. Time labeled the game one of the "fifty worst inventions" of all time,

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Originally Posted by wraggster

The puzzle of Level-5's unannounced TGS games may be partly solved already. News out of Famitsu (via Siliconera) reveals a new Professor Layton game for iOS and Android. Professor Layton and the Century of the Seven Phantom Thieves puts players in the role not of the top-hatted archaeologist, but a user-created avatar who searches for information on thieves in London.

Players also gain an unspecified advantage

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