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Retroarch Android is just about the only emulator app you need on your phone, but the touchscreen retropad can be annoying if you like to play in portrait mode, like I do. If you’re like me, you’ve also searched high and wide for a way to make the retropad default to portrait mode instead of […]
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If you’re running Steam on a GNU/Linux distribution, and you try to set a new library location on an SD card, you’ve probably run into this dreaded error message: “New Steam library folder must be on a filesystem mounted with execute permissions”. This happened to me with a FAT32 SD card, but as far as
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If you’re an Animal Crossing lover, you’ve probably been waiting for the game to hit smartphones for years. If you’re like me, you’ve been especially waiting for Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp ever since it was first announced a few months ago. Well, it’s out now, and it’s pretty good. It’s nowhere near as good as
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If you’re like us here at My Dpad, you haven’t been able to put down DigimonLinks since it first came out. It exceeded all expectations on launch, as it was clear that Bandai Namco had created a real Digimon game for your smartphone, rather than a typical, watered-down mobile experience. Here we are now, a few
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Dwarf Fortress is a simulation game that is probably most widely known as an ASCII game that is prohibitively complicated. While the graphics are ASCII-based, and while it is one of the deepest, most complicated simulation games out there, Dwarf Fortress is not nearly as hard to get started with as people think it is.
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Nowadays, there are nearly countless ways to play retro video games, with some being free and some costing money, and with some being legal and some being less so. If you want to play Sega classics on your smartphone, you can do that with SEGA Forever. If you’re lucky enough, other, non-SEGA Forever games have
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Who likes free games? If you don’t, maybe this isn’t exactly the site for you. If you love completely free games like I do, though, let me tell you about the deal that Origin is currently running on SteamWorld Dig. Free Games On Origin, No Strings Attached Every so often, Origin will offer one of
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If you have an Android phone, you probably get all your game and app downloads from Google Play. After all, Android is Google’s operating system, and most Android phones nowadays come preloaded with dozens of Google apps. While Google Play is definitely the biggest Android app store out there, there is another way. I’m talking
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If you have an Android smartphone, you’re probably well aware of the fact that you can emulate dozens of old game systems on it. In general, the sweet spot for Android emulation is GameBoy Advance, since the games are both modern enough to appeal to a lot of people and old enough to run on
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When it comes to gaming, there are a few sub-factions. There are PC vs console vs handheld (vs mobile) gamers. There are people who exclusively play sports games, others who only play multiplayer shooters, others who want point-and-click adventure games that tell a great story, and still others who only want to play colorful puzzlers.
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