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Update 1.5 is live: Smash Monster Crush 2017

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Update 1.5: The Summer Housekeeping Update As we previewed early, the changes to remove the floating banner advertisement and tidy up a couple game interfaces is now live. Where do I download the update? You should visit the Apple app store to download the 1.5 update. Click here  to visit the Apple app store to begin downloading the update. What sort of things are in this update? The exciting change for us is the removal of the banner ad showing in the game. We've removed that altogether. Get your puzzle on! In addition to this, we've added a few more buttons and cleaned up a couple game interfaces. We think you'll like the small changes we've done there as we tidy up the title. GET YOUR PUZZLE ON!
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REVIEW: Sky War's Dunkirk Update 1.4 - Gameplay Tweaks

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There are a few gameplay tweaks that we're going to share today. It's been an interesting journey for Sky War and we're excited about some of the changes released recently. If you've not read our post about the new Dunkirk ship, be sure to check that one out next. ENEMY VELOCITY First and foremost is a change to the enemy velocity and speed in the maps. In playtesting, we've noticed that just about everyone is ready to toss their phone in frustration at the inhuman speed of the opposing enemy forces. To that end, we've throttled the speed of the enemy ships. Not all of them, but enough ships to change the nature of the game away from twitch play to maze solving. if you're a casual gamer, the upcoming 1.4 update is for you. RED ARROW WARNINGS There are some enemies that you need just a little bit more time to prep for. We're aware of which ones these are and have added a red arrow indicator to give you enough time to prep. BUGFIXES We fou...
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Tease: 🤔😊😀 Emoji Triple Match Puzzle Game 🎉😎

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Sneak Peek! Coming exclusivly to iOS devices this summer is a new way to work your emoji muscle with a new Emoji match game for Apple devices world wide. Help us ring in the year of the Emoji and break out your Emoji moves. Featuring: Beaux Lucky Meh Pudge Sweetness Wicked Orion Signup for our mailing list to be the first in the know 🍪🎉😎
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DevTalk: SKY WARS 1.4: The one where the advertisements were fed to the sharks

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Want to know more about the REMOVAL of pervasive advertising in the 1.4 update of Sky Wars? Read on, here. In this post we hear from the development team's thoughts on why advertising was completely rethought in Sky Wars. Hello there! There's a balancing act in mobile games. On the one hand, as a player you expect and tolerate a certain amount of intrusiveness for a free game. If it doesn't support IAP, most likely the game has advertising. If the advertising is done well, then you shouldn't even notice. If it's not done well, then you're like Buzz and Woody here: It's not fun to work on skill mastery of a level, only to experience both crushing defeat and then be presented an ad immediately after being blown to pieces. One of our first steps to making Sky War just a better game was to go back to basics and look at what makes it fun. Is it fun watching advertisements on every screen? No. Are there places where advertising is OK? Yes. How we lo...
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Emoji overload! 👍😎😊😄😀🤣

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Coming soon to the iOS App Store are two fun titles coming to celebrate the release of The Emoji Movie starring Patrick Steward and T.J. Miller. 🎉 Bring your game face 😄 and signup for our mailing list to be notified of upcoming news related to our Emoji game titles for Apple devices. We think you'll really enjoy taking them for a spin! Stay Tuned for a sneak peek! Don't miss a thing -  Join our mailing list today!
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Dispatch from the front: Patch notes 1.4 for Sky War: Airplane Cold War Flight Simulator - Air Force Combat Shoot'em Up Game

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What follows are the patch notes for our iOS mobile title version 1.4.* of Sky War: Airplane Cold War Flight Simulator - Air Force Combat Shoot'em Up Game. "New Orders are in, Commander. The planes are ready and prepped for launch!" New Playable Plane : Introducing the Dunkirk, a new playable plane/ship that features heavy armor and health regeneration. Available in the Upgrade store and also available in the Gift store. Free Gift ! FOR A LIMITED TIME: Unlimited chance at a free gift. Participate in the advertiser's ad to collect better rewards. Free gifts may include in-game currency or the new DUNKIRK! Advertising Changes : Removed interstitial advertisements shown at the end of a level Removed interstitial advertisements shown during main menu Removed interstitial advertisements shown during upgrade screen Removed interstitial advertisements shown at the beginning of a level  Gameplay Fixes and Tweaks : Pace of all enemies reduced sli...
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Sky War's Win and Stars

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Have a question about completing a level or just how to get stars, in general? Check this post out. In it, we cover the three basic steps for acquiring all the stars for the levels in Sky Wars - Three steps for stars: Complete the objective Finish above 50% health Destroy as many enemies as possible Need a wingman? Try calling in support! Download Sky War today for iOS mobile. Tap to  DOWNLOAD: Airplane Cold War Flight Simulator - Air Force Combat Shoot'em Up Game .
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PREVIEW: Triple Reel Bonus Slots Victory Nights!

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Coming soon in the newest of our popular Triple Reel Series: Victory Nights! Multiple game modes - including zen meditation ! COMING SOON TO IOS - TRIPLE REEL BONUS SLOTS: VICTORY NIGHTS!  As we near the release of Victory Nights! We'll be sharing more detail of the zen-like meditation mode. Multiple ways to play. Multiple ways to win. Nightly bonus multipliers!
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SKY WARS 1.4 - Gift Box!

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Let's go over the new GIFT available to Sky Wars players. It'll be available as part of the 1.4 update launching late July, 2017 and part of what we're calling "The DUNKIRK Update". NEW GIFT CENTER Here's how the new gift center works. It costs nothing to try your hand for a mystery crate. Opening a mystery crate will have the chance of presenting an advertisement. If the advertisement shows, participate with the advertiser and we'll increase your odds of winning sweet loot from the mystery box. What kind of sweet loot? How about a health regenerating plane, 5,000 in in-game currency, and a number of other sweet rewards? Get ready. 1.4 DUNKIRK UPDATE is coming soon! Commander, join our mailing list to stay updated about these matters.
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SKY WARS 1.4 - The Dunkirk Update

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"What if we patched Sky Wars, removed nearly all the advertising and focused in on just making the game more fun to play?"  The Dunkirk Update (patch 1.4 for Airplane Cold War Flight Simulator - Air Force Combat Shoot'em Up Game ) brings you three achievements: Removes advertising in all the annoying areas and puts in somewhere that makes sense Fixes and adjusts core gameplay to improve the fun factor Adds new content! We've been talking and we'll keep talking about a lot of the new content we're adding to Sky War. Keep an eye on our blog as we roll out more details and notes about this content over the coming days. "Let's add a new plane and make sure anyone can get it, with a little luck and patience."
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Triple Reel Bonus Slots: Victory Nights! New game modes.

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Victory Nights launches in just a few short weeks away. Let's dive into the new game modes and secrets waiting in the latest installment of Arkitome's Triple Reel Bonus Slots series. Game Mode Preview New game modes : - Hard - Intermediate - Easy Hard represents the most difficult spin challenge available with full physics, simulated reels. Here we reproduce the experience of the old fashioned slot games before everything was computerized and "always stops on a symbol". Intermediate represents a simulated real Reel, but one that more predictably stops on a symbol than hard mode. Your odds here are better than hard mode. The payout here is better than easy but not quite as good as hard mode. You choose the mode to win. Easy mode is our recreation of the digital slot experience. This is the easiest mode to win on. The payouts are adjusted accordingly. Check out our Victory Nights' Slot Strategies for tips! Autoplay Bonus A special reward for our ...
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PREVIEW: Sky War's - The DUNKIRK Heavy Armor

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What better way to celebrate the release of The DUNKIRK MOVIE than with our own homage. Introducing the newest available playable plane: Dunkirk! We've placed the ship in the loot crate as a special drop. You have a one in ten chance that any crate you open will contain this ship. Prefer to acquire it with your loot? It's available for purchase in the store. The Dunkirk features a unique special ability to reinforce the idea of "heavy armor". In addition to being the highest class armor for it's tier of ship, the Dunkirk features HEALTH REGENERATION ! Health will slowly regenerate over time up to the maximum purchased from Dunkirk's available upgrades. PRESS GALLERY
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Triple Reel Bonus Slots: Victory Nights - Sneak Peek!

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Triple Reel Bonus: Victory Nights is nearing it's night-time premier!  Two game modes are available.  "Hard Mode" features: More realistic spin action based on modeled, 3d wheels Challenging win conditions Multiple win pathways Multiple symbols Bonus game Best support for newer hardware to take advantage of the physics calculations! AutoPlay "Easy Mode" features: Highest number of possible win scenarios Smaller set of symbols Wins, more often Best support for older devices RELEASE DATE: SUMMER/FALL 2017 Signup for our mailing list to be the first to know.  PRESS ART: Provide us a link to the story and we'll feature it in a future news update on our social channels!
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