Back during GDC 2012 we got confirmation that the Total War series from Sega would be making its way to Android soon. Now, after a fair amount of time passing, Total War Battles: Shogun has finally arrived onto the Google Play store so you can hack up your enemy clans with ease.
Day: 5 September 2012
While it may still be an illegal activity almost everywhere around the globe, the wonders of weed growing were unveiled by the Grow Brothers, a dev studio that brought us their Weed Farmer sim game which fits somewhat nicely into our running theme every Wednesday of weird games to post about, appropriately named Weird Wednesday. This time, they’re coming back with the sequel of the green plants harvesting hit. Currently in Open Beta phase, we present you Weed Farmer Overgrown.
Square Enix has announced their game line-up that will be on display during the upcoming Tokyo Game Show 2012 and two of the games are Android titles, one of which we new about while the other one is a new game we were unaware of. Unfortunately it looks like both games will be released onto Android but location restricted to Japan only, at least for right now when they are initially released.
[Updated: Bombshells now available] Glu begins teasing two upcoming games for Android, Bombshells and Campers!
Glu Mobile seems to really be making a strong push on Android these days with quite a few game releases already in the past couple of months and now we have two more that are being teased. One game is geared towards those who like eye candy and aerial dogfighting while the other is more of a casual adventure game.
You may not know this about me, but I am a huge fan of dual-stick shooters. Age of Zombies, Monster Shooter, Weapon Chicken. I have literally played them all and probably spent way too much time with them, but there’s just something about the addictive gameplay in dual-stick shooters that I can’t put down. And the fact that I can play some of the greatest dual-stick shooters (In recent years) on my phone/tablet is amazing in itself. Dual stick controls shouldn’t be a problem on touchscreens, because of the simplistic control-scheme. But that isn’t always the case, so let’s look at what’s up for review today: Call of Mini Zombies!
From the publishers of Harebrained Schemes’ Strikefleet Omega Android game, 6Waves will be soon releasing a new mech battle game on Android called Offworld. Currently being released onto iOS today, Offworld will have players collecting, training and upgrading a variety of mechs before battling it out with other mechs for glory and riches.
One game a lot of people are waiting for happens to be Gameloft’s first Unreal Engine built game called Wild Blood. We have already seen a bit of the gameplay thanks to a previous trailer that they released. However today we get to see a bit more of the game along with learning a bit of the storyline behind Wild Blood.
Electronic Arts have been speaking a lot over the past few days about their stance in the gaming industry in general, talking about how they are saving any new IPs for when the next-gen consoles are released and that they won’t be making the same mistakes next year as they did this year. Now word has come out that they have completely dropped the notion of single-player games and are now, instead, focusing solely on multiplayer games and interconnection between platforms, something we have seen slowly making its way onto their mobile games lately.
A new game is heading our way soon which, aside from the introductory video which also acts like a teaser, is remaining a bit of a mystery as to actually what it is. However, thanks to the video, we do know a few details about Life is Magic, mainly that it will most likely be an MMO although as to what kind of MMO is unknown.
For those of you fans of small yet fun games, a new one has recently came in to try and steal some of your free time away from you. This time, you’ll be feeding that craving to be a ninja with eggbones’ Blind Ninja: Sing. All you have to worry about is running, jumping and hitting things but there is a catch, you’re blind.