A couple of new additions to some current franchises have been announced. Infinite Dreams have officially announced that Can Knockdown 3 is under development and will be heading our way fairly soon. Game Insight also announced a new addition to their My Country franchise with 2020: My Country.
Day: 20 March 2013
Avabel Online, one of the latest games from Asobimo, creators of Iruna Online, has finally been released in English! Players can now download the English version of the game off of Google Play and if you were playing in the Japanese beta, your character should be perfectly fine.
NimbleBit is probably a familiar name to a fair amount of people, mostly thanks to their previous games Tiny Tower and Pocket Planes. There next game follows their retro pixel art theme that the company tends to go with, takes inspiration from the classic game of Snake, and meshes it together with a healthy does of action on top of it all.
We’ve seen plenty of Minecraft-inspired games ever since the indie smash swept the market, ranging from blatant ripoffs to nifty riffs on the new genre. The Sandbox falls into the latter category and really is a game on its own. Actually, I would rather categorize it under “world creation” and creative tool which is, well, pretty much the same as Minecraft. OK, so the differences between the games are more than that; where Minecraft is a wonderfully immersive jaunt through a three-dimensional block world, The Sandbox is more of a puzzle game based on physics and trickery as it is exploration and creation.
Phyken Media has officially announced their new upcoming tactics style strategy game Wizard Ops Tactics. This isn’t your ordinary military or RPG style tactical game though. For starters all the visuals are rendered in 3D, something you don’t see often with tactical style game. There also happens to be plenty of humor meshed into everything as well.
Interesting news coming from a Japanese Final Fantasy fan site called Final Fantasy Reunion in regards to Square Enix’s Final Fantasy V game that was teased not too long ago as heading our way in the Final Fantasy IV trailer the company released. While the translation of the fan site is a bit rough, it points out a few interesting details you might want to think about.
6waves has published their newest title for Android gamers to sink their teeth into called Raft Pirates, a game which we’ve talked about a few times in the past already. The release of Raft Pirates today actually comes a bit later then the original launch date that was schedule for around March 7th, 2013.
Gameloft has pushed out a rather large content update for their Order & Chaos Online MMORPG which brings with it a whole new race for players to play as. With a new race also comes features like a new starting village, new skills and new gear, all of which is focused on this new race.