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The 7 Best Tower Defense Games for Your Mac

Enjoy a great selection of tower defense games on your Mac when you want to take a break from work.

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Mission Impoppable: Bloons TD 5 Is Mobile Tower Defense At Its Best

Bloons TD 5 looks like a child's tower defense game, but it's surprisingly deep, entertaining, and rewarding. Plus, Impoppable mode will challenge even the most veteran of the hardcore tower-defense crowd.

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Tower Defense? Boring! Tower Offense Is Where It’s At

The tower defense genre is one of the biggest success stories of gaming’s last decade, but now gamer's want something different and are turning to tower offense instead.

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4 Perfect Games to Introduce Your Toddler to the World Of Gaming

Are you the parent, aunt, uncle, or guardian of a child who’s interested in video games? That can be a precarious situation to be in, especially if you aren’t a big gamer yourself. There’s so much sex and violence in games today - even in games that aren’t marked M for Mature - that it can be difficult knowing which games are suitable for young children. But rest assured, suitable games do exist!

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Plants vs. Zombies 2: Does Going Free-To-Play Mean The Death Of The Series?

Since EA has taken the reigns at PopCap, Plants vs. Zombies 2 has been released for free. By free I am referring to the game being free to download initially, with plenty of in-app purchases to keep the money flowing in. This is a delicate issue but it's usually something that happens with new games, not established franchises. Seeing it happen to Plants vs. Zombies 2 is a big shock, and it leads to the ultimate question: did EA make a mistake, or is going free-to-play the smartest move for the franchise?

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Tower N' Trolls Versus Fieldrunners 2: The Battle Of The Tower Defense Games

Tower defense games are one of the most well-suited genres for playing on the go. Relative to other genres, they are fairly passive, and they allow the player to plant their towers, defend their bases, and only half focus. Today, we're putting two of the more popular tower defense games on the App Store head-to-head: in an interesting clash we have Fieldrunners 2, which comes with a $2.99 price tag, and Towers N' Trolls, which is a free-to-play.

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Kingdom Rush Is As Addicting As A Tower Defense Game Comes [iOS]

I should have started writing this article about two hours ago, but I didn't. Why? Because I could not stop playing Kingdom Rush. I knew I needed to write about the game, and before each round I kept telling myself, "this will be the last one and then I would get to work." Finally, I have managed to put the game down, and alas, here we are.

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Strategize Using Simplicity With Tower Defense: Lost Earth [iPhone]

I enjoy strategy games for the very same reason that I enjoy sabotaging high profile companies - you set up a few patsies to do your bidding, hike away to a safe distance, and watch all of the action happen without having to lift another finger. Well, in the case of the Com2US’s Tower Defense: Lost Earth for iPhone, you actually have to lift a finger....just one, though. Sometimes two.

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The Creeps Is A Tower Defense Game With Some Awesome Twists [iOS]

The Creeps is a great example of a free tower defense game that is really good. It features the standard tower defense gameplay that you expect, but it does it in a fun package. If you still love sitting down and taking part in some good old-fashioned tower defense gameplay, then you will love The Creeps, especially when you consider that you can get the core game without spending a dime.

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