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Maniac Mansion creators Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick have successfully crowdfunded their new adventure game Thimbleweed Park, raising more than a quarter of a million dollars over the campaign’s funding goal. The recently concluded Kickstarter effort – and true spirtual successor” to Maniac Mansion and other Lucasfilm Games from decades …

Tales from the Borderlands – Telltale’s episodic point-and-click adventure game take on Gearbox’s FPS franchise – has launched for iOS and Android devices. Tales from the Borderlands first episode ‘Zero Sum’ is out now on Google Play and the Apple App Store. The mobile edition is available for $4.99 on …

Action-RPG Lords of the Fallen is being developed for a 2015 release on mobile platforms. "Console and PC RPG [Lords of the Fallen] will be released on iOS and Android devices in 2015,” a post on the game’s official Twitter account reads. It’s not clear if the game in question …

Blizzard’s World of Warcraft spin-off Hearthstone has been released on Android tablets at last. The game is currently only available in a few territories – namely Australia, New Zealand and Canada – but will likely rollout to all in the coming days. Those who download the Android version will get …

Forge of Empires developer creating 3D RPG for mobile devices

Voice, video and messaging service Viber has launched its own mobile games client, Viber Games. Viber Games has already launched in Belarus, Israel, Malaysia, Singapore and the Ukraine. A staggered global rollout is planned over the coming months. Viber’s messaging service boasted more than 100m monthly active users at the …

The Advertising Standards Authority has dismissed a compliant made regarding the in-app-purchases in Gameloft’s Littlest Pet Shop. The free-to-play game, available on Google Play, uses two currencies – Kibble and Bling. Players were tasked with housing and taking care of virtual pets and while some activities were perfectly possible without …

EA has released Peggle Blast – a free-to-play take of PopCap’s Peggle franchise – on iOS and Android. The gameplay largely mirrors Peggle’s standard mechanic of launching pinballs at pegs across a variety of levels. The game utilizes an energy system” for the microtransaction portion. When the player fails to …

Telltale’s Game of Thrones episodic adventure game is set to roll out to its various platforms this week, and the studio has let loose the first trailer to mark its arrival. The adaptation focuses on the family members and those in service to House Forrester, and takes place between the …

The bloatware that ships pre-installed on phones could be about to get a whole lot worse. AndroidPit reports that a service from Digital Turbine known as Ignite is being touted to mobile operators. It allows networks to force install apps on an owner’s device remotely at any point after purchase. …