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Interview With Steve Miller and Bad Ass Games

We don’t usually cover Kickstarter campaigns here at Gaming on Batteries so you know, when we do, there is something pretty special about the game in question.  That is the case with Temple of the Sun and Moon by Bad Ass Games and this interview with Steve Miller, the man behind the very interesting title [...]

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5 8-Bit Retro Throwback Titles to Play on Your New JXD S7300 Android Tablet

Retro is all the rage right now with everyone throwing stuff up that used to be old from Pepsi doing the “throwback” thing with their two most popular soda lines to game companies really getting behind the act of releasing old games on new hardware (shame none are doing it for magazines yet).  Here are [...]

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Don’t Die Hard When You Can Enjoy These Movie Games Instead

Die Hard, a rather questionable in quality movie licensed/tie-in game, hit Google Play and iTunes recently and well, it is not being received that well by critics.  Basically the game is being rounded for various things such as in app purchases and lack of any real originality but personally, I don’t think the game was [...]

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Coverall Win With These 5 Android Bingo Games

Bingo that age old game that people play at churches, the local VFW or kids play when they are really young or on road trips.  We have collected five interesting Bingo games off of Google Play (some are available on iTunes but not all) that are worth your time to check out- keep in mind, [...]

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Video Game Collection Apps For Most of Your Classic Gaming Needs

Retro video gamers that have been playing for awhile will undoubtedly acquire a large number of titles across many platforms.  While the Apps we are featuring here don’t cover ALL possible retro platforms, they do cover a good breadth of the more popular, and smaller (read- easier to complete), platforms.

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Editorial: Are Mobile Gamers Spoiled by Low Prices and Throw Away Content?

In today’s mobile gaming market there seems to be a rift growing within the gaming community between gamers that want games to stay as close to free as possible and game publishers wanting to make as much money as possible off of their hard work.  Many would argue this rift has been there since the [...]

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Rock Your S7300 Tablet #1: Beach Buggy Blitz

Beach Buggy Blitz and me go way back, well, not THAT far back but far enough to know it is a great title to use as a benchmark for graphics and control across various Android devices.  That is why I have chosen it for the first post in our new series: Rock Your S7300 Tablet. [...]

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3 Pinball Games Worth Your Time on Android

Pinball is a genre that I never really got into growing up, partly because of the high cost of entry and the speed in which the game was over (a buck for three chances was NOT a good deal to a youngster that could own Strider for a good 10 minutes on a single quarter). [...]

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Five Titles that Rock on the JXD S601 Android Hand Held Device

The JXD S601 is essentially, a sub $75 Android hand held manufactured by JXD of China. What you get under the hood is an ARM A9 CPU, a Mali400 3D chip and 4 gigs of memory total powered by 512 megs of RAM on a 4:3 resistive touch screen (for dual touch check out the [...]

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Android – Dreamcast Deja Vu Part 1: The Situation

It is quite a hot debatable topic, why the Sega Dreamcast died so quickly and resolutely as far as commercial publishers are concerned.  One of the popular reasons is, quite simply, piracy.  Sega made some effort at keeping the Dreamcast unique and hard to break into but crackers and hackers will do as they do [...]

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Five 3D Running Games Worth Your Time

3D Running games are quite popular and don’t show signs of slowing down as gamers constantly push the latest to the top of the charts.  Publishers are all too happy to provide yet another game, usually featuring In App Purchases, to eager fans on iOS and Android.  We have gathered several 3D running games that [...]

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PSP Horror Titles Feature- Manhunt 2

Continuing the horror titles on PSP from the third issue of Gaming on Batteries Magazine, we have Manhunt 2 – Otherwise known as that murder simulator from Rockstar by more squeamish media types, the second game in this series doesn’t try to scare you with hordes of rampaging zombies or blood-thirsty vampires.  It just puts [...]

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PSP Horror Titles Feature- Dead Head Fred

Continuing the horror titles on PSP from the third issue of Gaming on Batteries Magazine, we have Dead Head Fred –  It’s often said that game designers must have a screw loose somewhere, but nowhere in the portable gaming scene is this more accurate than this utterly unique tale of a hard-boiled detective who gets killed [...]

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PSP Horror Titles Feature- Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles

Continuing the horror titles on PSP from the third issue of Gaming on Batteries Magazine, we have  Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles from Konami: Side-scrolling adventure games usually aren’t scary per se, but they can deal with themes and locations which are.  For our money,

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Snake in Real Life (Video)

Every once in awhile you come across something really cool on Youtube or other sites in general and just have to share it.  That is what I thought about this video, it is basically a bunch of friends that got together and recreated the classic mobile game, Snake, in real life (hence the name) using [...]

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