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There is almost no maths involved at all in Threes. It's a tiny puzzle that grows on you. What you need to do is try to shift cards together to make threes or multiples of three; the goal to create higher numbered tiles, each worth more points. Each tile in Threes is also a unique character, with designs that get more elaborate as the point values go up. The game ends when there are no moves left on the grid and the tiles are counted for a final score. Free for iOS and Android.

The player slides numbered tiles on a four-by-four grid to combine addends and multiples of three. For example, ones and twos merge to become a single "three" tile, two threes merge into "six", and two sixes merge into "12". Swiping the screen up, down, left, or right moves all of the tiles one square (if possible) on the grid in that direction and adds a new tile to the grid in the same direction. The color of the incoming tile is shown onscreen. Players can preview moves by sliding the grid without letting go. Each kind of number tile has its own personality, and new kinds of number tiles are introduced with a screen full of confetti when first unlocked.

Games of Threes typically last several minutes and end when no moves remain on the grid (usually when gridlocked with a single high number tile and many low number tiles). When a game is finished, there is no "game over" screen, but players receive a final score based on the rarity of the tiles (rather than the tile number values). The object of the game is to earn a high score. Outside of the game, players can review their scores and set Game Center challenges.

There are a total of 12 kinds of number tiles in the game with values from 3 through 6,144. There is also a 13th character that is unlocked when two 6,144 tiles are combined; this character is marked by a triangle rather than the number 12,288. When this character is revealed, the game ends and points are totaled as usual.

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Nekosan allows you to take on the role of a samurai cat test your reflexes as you infiltrate a dungeon to recover the stars that devious mice have stolen. Using one finger, jump, hop, and parkour your way through deceptive levels, using the walls and shape of your surroundings to help you reach higher and find the stolen stars. Your score on each level is determined by the amount of time it took you to complete all the stages in that level. Free on iOS.

The game starts off pretty easy, but things get a bit more complicated as you get further along, since new obstacles and challenges are introduced at a gradual pace. For example, spikes are thrown at you early on, but like any good gamer knows, spikes are bad, so you have to avoid them or you will lose a life. Eventually, you’ll also stumble across floating switches to toggle walls, swarms of mice, moving platforms, crushing pillars, and much more. If you have had any experience with platformer games in general, then you know the drill. If not, well, it’s pretty straightforward.

Nekosan can be fairly difficult if you don’t take the time to practice, so be prepared to run out of lives a lot. If you run out of lives, you’ll have the opportunity to continue, but at a cost. Otherwise, if you opt to not continue, you’ll have to try the level again from the beginning, and hope you do better the next time.

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The Syfy network and game developer Trion Worlds have debuted Defiance, a story that unfolds simultaneously on a TV show and in an online gaming world. For the first time, gamers have a chance to impact a show by playing an MMORPG. Defiance takes place on Earth 33 years in the future, after an alien war.

The show characters live in St Louis while the in-game characters live in San Francisco. In the first season, there are choreographed interactions between the show and the videogame, e.g., show characters might dictate gamers' missions: a doctor in St Louis might ask a team in San Francisco to find a medical device. In future seasons, gamers' decisions would influence the show, creating a new cross-media storyline.

Instead, Syfy is the one trying to tap a new money vein. Multiplayer online games can be lucrative, with gamers not only paying to play but buying virtual goods within the game. "Rift," the first title Trion made, generated revenue of $100 million within its first 10 months. But these sprawling online games, in which an unlimited number of people can play in one world at once, demand a lot of time from players. Most only commit to a few titles at a time. It's tough for new entries to hit critical mass.

The companies at first agreed to split a budget of $25 million for a game designed for personal computers. But the development schedule ballooned and the game budget nearly tripled as advancing technology made it possible to create versions for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles.

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