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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds: Battlefield - Review

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds: Battlefield - Review Controls are obviously an issue, but it's amazing to see this full-fledged battle royale on mobile. If you’d said a month ago that PUBG Mobile would run better than PUBG on Xbox, and that it’d be free, you’d have gotten a lot of strange looks. Yet here we are, and mobile gaming’s future has never looked brighter. It’s absolutely remarkable that it runs so well and manages to fit all of PUBG’s features onto tiny touch-screen displays. Make no mistake: this is the real PUBG experience. One hundred people hunched over their Android or iOS phones and tablets fly over a deserted island and skydive down from a plane to loot abandoned buildings, gather up resources, and duke it out until there’s only one person left standing. The first time you drop onto a map and see all of the island of Erangel sprawled out before you in real-time, on your phone, is a surreal experience. While the mobile version only has the original map a

Asphalt 9 mobile review

Asphalt 9 mobile review If you make it to the ninth game in a series, you must be doing something right. Gameloft has hit that mark with Asphalt 9: Legends, the latest installment in a racing game series that started all the way back in 2004. The franchise has come a long way since then, when it was on mobile, the N-Gage (remember that, kids?) and a Nintendo DS launch title, but one thing has remained constant, which is that Asphalt 9 does a great job reminding us right off the bat what it’s not. Namely, this is not a racing sim, even though it features beautifully rendered real world cars from a wide variety of manufacturers. Asphalt 9 features full-on arcade racing, complete with jumps, 360s, destructible environmental features and copious amounts of nitro. It’s not even trying to be realistic, which is part of what makes it so universally appealing. The accessibility has taken another step forward this time out with the addition of Touchdrive, a new control scheme tha