Gameloft has released another game onto the Android Market, this time in the form of a side-scrolling western themed game called Cowboys and Aliens. This particular game isn’t one of Gameloft’s usual 3D games and is actually a bit more of a simple game.
Day: 18 August 2011
Revolution Software is getting ready to bring Broken Sword over to Android very soon. Even though the Broken Sword series has been on consoles before the PSOne, most people will remember the PSOne version of the game that was very popular called Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars.
Continuing on with news about the Amazon App Store but on a much lighter note, Angry Birds Rio has just received an update called Airfield Chase. This new update takes place on the airfield where, in the movie, the main characters chase the poachers onto the airfield before they take off to escape.
You may or may not have heard about the whole Shifty Jelly saga that has been going on for a few weeks between them and the Amazon App Store. Specifically it was regarding the free app of the day promotion and how it failed them miserably.
Crytek, developers of games such as Crysis, have come out to give their opinion about the mobile gaming industry and that they will not be making games for the new PS Vita anytime soon. Why is that? Because of mobile platforms like iOS and Android being where the mobile gamers are going.
It’s hard these days to come up with something completely unique in the gaming industry but developer Xlabz Technologies may have actually done that with their new GPS social game called GeoSocials. This is a location-based social game where all the players control what happens.
We love hidden gems but lately with the recent Android Market app update it is a little harder to find hidden gems with the “Just In” section being non-existent now. What is nice though is when our readers point out a game as a hidden gem. Such is the case of GravitreX by Martin Hjerne.
When it comes to empire building sim games most stick to the usual formula of either a city or country, politics, energy and commerce and all the other topics that come along with your typical Sim City or empire building style game. Well Game Insight is bringing a new theme to the genre in a new game called Crime Story.
Pulling in another temporary exclusive, the Xperia Play seems to be landing a lot of solid titles these days. Granted any developer can add support for the Xperia Play controls to their games at any time, these exclusives are what starts to make the Xperia Play look better and better every day.
One game we have reported on a few times in the past and are eagerly waiting to get our hands on is a tablet game called Skillz: The DJ Game. As the title suggests you play as a DJ and your job is to get the crowd going as hardcore as you can. We now have new screenshots, trailer and more music to report on.