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KartRider Drift is Nexon’s latest entry in their series of kart racers, and it’s a lot of fun for anyone who doesn’t have a Nintendo device that they can play Mario Kart on. KartRider Drift also has the benefit of being cross-platform, meaning you can play the same account on your computer and your phone […]
Fellow KartRider Drifters: Please Play Speed Mode! Read More »
If you’re like me and put hours and hours into Marvel Puzzle Quest a few years ago, you might have been sitting around wondering what to do next. Well, worry no more, because DC is here with Heroes and Villains, their own Match 3 RPG for smartphones. It’s a lot of fun, but before long
Stuck In DC Heroes And Villains? Try These Steps. Read More »
If you’re into video games, you know Doom. Whether it defined your childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, or whether you just like seeing people trying to get it to run on increasingly ridiculous devices, the game that spawned the FPS genre (well, along with Wolfenstein 3D) is unarguably one of the most influential of all time.
John Romero’s Book, Doom Guy, Is Excellent Read More »
Update: On January 6th, 2026, I published an updated version of this list that includes well over 50 games: The Best Paid Android Games in 2026 (50+). Like I wrote in my intro to the companion piece about free games, I have quite a bit of experience going through the great and not-so-great games on
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Here at My Dpad, I’ve been writing about video games, and particularly mobile games, for over 5 years. In that time I’ve played a lot of mobile games for articles I’ve written here, and I’ve played a lot more games that I haven’t written anything about. In other words, I’ve spent a lot (and I
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Steam Game Festivals are one of my favorite new additions to the platform. Every so often, they’ll gather a group of released and unreleased games that are tied together by some common theme and carve out a little area of the Steam Store for them, then show off demos/livestreams of those games and sometimes even
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Slay the Spire. Dicey Dungeons. Griftlands. All great roguelike(/lite, whatever) deckbuilders AKA card battlers, and all games I have put plenty of hours into. However, I’ve recently come across what might just be my favorite. It’s called Urban Cards, and it feels like both a reach back into traditional board games and an evolution of
Urban Cards: A Unique Roguelike Deckbuilder Read More »
Some people have a love-hate relationship with Kickstarter games. Sure, there have been some stinkers that didn’t live up to their potential (I won’t name any names), but there have also been plenty of wildly successful games that probably would not have been made if it wasn’t for Kickstarter (such as Divinity: Original Sin, FTL:
SURQUEROR: A Promising Kickstarter Game Read More »
One of the best parts of being a PC gamers is that you can buy games from a number of digital storefronts. However, some of these storefronts are gray market retailers that sell keys that are essentially stolen through credit card chargebacks or other means. G2A is one such example, and people have even said
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GOG, Steam’s DRM-free competitor, is currently running their winter sale until January 2nd. There are a bunch of great deals on games new and old (like Dex and Unreal Tournament 2004, both of which I bought yesterday for about $3.50), but the real star is the Ultimate Red Collection. The Ultimate Red Collection includes a
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