Ninja Chicken Review

Ruan Shiels·
Kongzhong get so much right with Ninja Chicken - an appealing visual style, utterly delightful characters (think the Angry Birds with a manga twist), a bunch of OpenFeint powered extras, and a two-player versus mode - that it really is a shame the game's central mechanic has all the sophistication and longevity of one of those educational, shape matching games for pre-schoolers.
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Train Conductor 2: USA Review

Ruan Shiels·
The Voxel Agents chug back into town with a superbly designed followup to their original "Train Conductor." As a standout traffic management game it oozes style and quality in equal amounts, but most who step aboard this train will wish the ride were longer.
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First Look: Vampires Until Dawn

Ruan Shiels·
BeCush have just unveiled an intriguing little teaser for their upcoming game Vampires Until Dawn.While the trailer gives precious little away about what we can expect gameplay wise from the title, it does give a taste of the cutesy art style and introduce us to the main protagonist, a vampire hunter out for revenge...
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Prisoner 84 Review

Ruan Shiels·
Survival horror is dead. Bludgeoned into non-existence by next-gen consoles capable of delivering more eye-ball scorchingly true to life explosions and in your face carnage than ever before, developers forsaking creepy camera angles and unseen terrors in favour of infinite ammo and photo-realistic monsters, and action cinema's increasing influence on video games in general.
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Drift Mania Championship Review

Ruan Shiels·
Drift Mania is a racing game where instead of speeding to the finish, you drift to it. The point of this game is simple: get as many points as possible and finish the track within the time limit. You gain points by drifting around corners, and earning points faster by having longer, and faster drifts.
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Project Sanctuary Review

Ruan Shiels·
Thus far Project Sanctuary has been inexplicably overlooked by the dual-stick shoot 'em up junkies who normally lap this this type of thing up. I say inexplicably because from the off Salient Holding's action packed App Store debut delivers the sort of feature rich, story driven, RPG riffing, multiplayer enabled experience it took fan-favorites such as Minigore umpteen updates and a pseudo spin-off (Guerrilla Bob) to achieve and Alive 4-ever a sequel to fine-tune.
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Insanely Good Giveaway: Prisoner 84 Up For Grabs!

Ruan Shiels·
I've locked my bedroom door, turned out the lights, and am skulking my way through the dank, gore-stained corridors of the phenomenally frightening Prisoner 84 in preparation for a full review of the game. Can't wait for the official iFanzine verdict? Well, never fear because courtesy of the (surprisingly) lucid and friendly folks at Hidden Games we've got two copies of iPhone's hottest new fright-fest to give away!
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Portal Rush Review

Ruan Shiels·
Gamers hankering after some honest-to-goodness old school action, unfettered by fancy schmancy 3D visuals or ground-breaking gimmicks have been well served by Apple's iDevices of late. The latest addition to the App Store's ever-swelling ranks of retro flavored titles is After Dark Studios' arcade puzzler Portal Rush.
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Psychoban Review

Ruan Shiels·
We're all used to those cutesy little puzzle games where you move unidentifiable colorful objects into other unidentifiable colorful objects to save a princess, get back a piece of cake, save a precious animal, or even just for the hell of it. In Psychoban, Dedalord gives a big "screw you" to the traditional "cute" block pushing game, and instead you'll find a much more atmospheric experience with a LEGITIMATE motive. But, is this newfound theme enough to make the game a classic, or is it only a ruse for more of the same thing?
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