About a month or two ago, my good friend Leroy reviewed Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake for PC, and it looked like a game that was right up my alley.  So Cartoon Network Games was gracious enough to give me a review code for the iPad version.  So in honor of MY real birthday, which is today, September 15, here is my own take on this cute little puzzle game.

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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have delighted kids since, well, when I was a kid!  I was a little too old to get into them back then, but boy I sure did love the original arcade game!  Now the four heroes are just as popular as ever, with a computer animated series on Nickelodeon and a new summer movie.  Fans can relive the action of the recent film with a game based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, exclusively on Nintendo 3DS.

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Two adorable little pandas need your help!  They’re trapped between stacks of tiles, and need you to clear them away!  Panda Pandamonium is best described as a fast-action arcade Mah-Jongg style game, and it’s available to download on iOS devices (reviewed on iPad here).

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A tribe of little furballs lives happily in the forest, when all of a sudden an evil wizard kidnaps their princess!  Now the little furries must enter the wizard’s stronghold and save the day in The Brave Furries, a downloadable puzzle game for iOS devices and Google Play (reviewed on iPad here).  I’m not sure how making colored fuzzballs hop into similar colored glowing spheres arranged in a spider web grid will save a princess, but oh well.  This puzzler is like a modern take on those ‘jump-a-peg’ games, you know, like the ones you can play at Cracker Barrel while you wait for your food.

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So for the last day of the show, we’ll wrap up the meetings I attended and take a look at my favorite costumed show goers at PAX Prime 2014!

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PAX is very indie game friendly, so while I wrote mostly about the big companies in my Day 1 article, today we’ll look at some indie game fare.  Plus some great PC and tablet offerings from Big Fish Games and Cartoon Network!

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The Penny Arcade Expo, or PAX for short, is one of the largest public video game conventions in the US.  They have one in Boston, a newly announced PAX South in San Antonio in January (which I will be going to as well), but the big main one was just in Seattle over this past Labor Day weekend.  I just got back from that one, so for the rest of this week, we’ll take a look at what I did and games I played at this year’s PAX Prime!  Let’s get started!

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Minecraft is one of the biggest gaming phenomena in recent history, with versions of it on the PC, consoles, and tablets.  It’s spawned countless products like T-shirts, toys, and keychains, and I think it was even featured on an episode of South Park (I wouldn’t know, I don’t like that show).  ALL my brothers have been into Minecraft at some point, and with its free-roaming nature and retro graphics, it looks appealing even to me!  Only reason why I don’t play it is because I’m afraid I’d get sucked into it too much.  But if you’re looking to get into Minecraft, BradyGames has a book that can help you get started.  Let’s take a look inside.

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DreamWorks’ popular computer animated film, How to Train Your Dragon, has spawned a recent summer movie sequel as well as an animated series on television.  Now your kids can enjoy a digital storybook based on the characters and settings from the franchise.  It’s available for download on iOS devices, but reviewed on iPad here.

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Another one of Cartoon Network’s most popular shows, Adventure Time, is about a boy named Finn and his talking magical dog friend Jake as they go on crazy adventures in the land of Ooo.  In their newest game: Time Tangle, Finn mistakenly breaks the Time Totem and must dash through portals to repair time.  This third-person, continuously running action game is available for download on iOS devices, Google Play, and Amazon (review on iPad here).

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