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Nice to see that Uplink was ported to Android! It's an interesting and fun game where you get to play the kind of fictional hacker portrayed in hollywood movies, working against the clock to get the data without being tracked.


Uplink is one of my favorite games of all time and Introversion is an awesome little game development studio.

I tried to submit this a while back but it didn't go anywhere (it's about their painfully protracted development on a project that nearly bankrupted them): http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-07-11-rezzed-sessions...


Note the ' * ' on Uplink and SpaceChem: * Note that the Android version is only compatible with tablet devices.


"Compatible" is actually a kind of strong word to use. You may actually be able to play these on a phone, the UI elements are just REALLY TINY.

I just tried Spacechem on my SGS3. It does at least run, but you better have tiny, tiny fingers to hit some of those UI elements. :)


I imagine the SGN's stylus (and extra inch over the ordinary SGS) mitigates that a bit.

There's also Bluetooth/USB mouse support in Android 3.1+, which just brings this to a whole new level of silly.


Ok good to know, thanks :)


It's pretty timeless in itself, but if you want more replay value check out http://modlink.net/ - people have extended the game in interesting ways.


If you play it on a tablet in public you should get the "Swordfish" achievement.




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