Released by Fancy Pumpkin, The Stupidest Game Ever is a 3D adventure game that’s just been released on Google Play. According to the trailer, as well as its page on Google Play, the game allows players to try and “an answer to humanity’s most pressing question”, though interestingly enough it seems to go out of its way to not tell you what the question is, let alone answer it.
Day: 13 July 2015
Released by Mob in Life, City Domination is an RTS game in a Mafioso setting. Players will assume control of their own gang, and will align with, back-stab, and wage war on the gangs belonging to other players. What’s interesting is that this game will geo-locate players, so players will compete to control their own city. As of July 16th, City Domination is set to receive a significant update.
Twin stick shooters – shoot-’em-ups that use one stick for directional movement and another for directional weapon firing – have been around for a lot longer than you might imagine. The current popularity of the genre was ignited by the release of Geometry Wars over a decade ago, first as a mini game hidden in Project Gotham Racing on Xbox and later as a standalone game in its own right. However, you need to go back 40 years to find the first ever example. It was an arcade game called Gunfight, featuring two cowboys intent on each other’s destruction. It was pretty basic stuff so you have to jump forward to 1984 and another coin-op cabinet called Robotron which, with a lone fighter up against hordes of encroaching robots, set the template for the games that were to come.
Developed by the RAD Brothers, the Adventures of Flig is a new Android game that combines a few genres into one title. This game was actually a finalist in a Nokia game development competition as well. Depending on what section of the story you’re in, you’ll either be partaking in a runner style game, an air hockey type of game, or working your way through mazes.
SNK Playmore will be removing their music fighting game The Rhythm of Fighters from mobile markets
SNK Playmore has done rather well for themselves with bringing their older franchises to mobile devices. So it is a bit weird when the company has announced that one of their games will be removed from both Apple and Android platforms this week. The game being removed is their rather odd The Rhythm of Fighters game.
Traitor – Valkyrie Plan from PigFrog Entertainment is a new FPS game for your Android device. Originally this game was released back in June 2015 on Google Play, but that must have been a soft launch or a beta launch as the developer is now labeling the game officially launched as of today.
Sad news today as Nintendo of Europe has released news of the passing of Nintendo’s Global President, Satoru Iwata at the young age of 55. Mr. Iwata passed away on July 11th, 2015 with the cause of death being a bile duct growth, but that seemed to have not affected his work as up until recently Mr. Iwata had been vocal in how Nintendo would be entering the mobile gaming space.
OrangePixel’s next title that will be eventually getting released soon is Space Grunts. We’ve reported on this game a few times already during the development process and now we all get to check out plenty of gameplay thanks to a new video from OrangePixel. If you’re unfamiliar with this game, it is a pretty unique hybrid of a roguelike turn-based action game.
Last year we reported on an amazing looking game from Uppercut Studios. Uppercut Studios is known for their well-received games Epoch and Epoch 2. Their latest game, which was expected to come out this year on mobile devices, is Submerged. We have been following this game and it looks amazing. Unfortunately, we just received notice that it will be delayed a bit for mobile devices.
Fuel Games Studio has recently released a colorful and entertaining running game of sorts. If you have ever had the desire to participate in a log running contest, then here’s a safe way to do it. Play Thunder Jack’s Log Runner. It is fun, challenging and quite creative when it comes to game play.