Thanks to titles such as SolForge, Order & Chaos: Duels, and Heartstone, collectible card games have emerged as an incredibly popular genre on mobile platforms. That EA wished to capitalize on the popularity of the genre and add to the proliferation of TCGs in the Play Store is no real surprise. However, that EA decided to put forth a TCG in the form of the Base Command mini-game included in the Star Wars Battlefront companion app, is quite the surprise.
Day: 29 January 2016
Players who like the ever popular retro look will enjoy a new entry in that style. Dubbed The Moon Awaits, this game is a retro style platformer. Players will assume the role of a space farer named Aaarg! who is known as the worst deliver person in the universe.
Adventure game fans, take note: One of the genre’s best specimens, Grim Fandango Remastered, is now available on Nvidia’s Shield family of devices including the Shield Android TV via Nvidia’s cloud-based game streaming service GeForce Now.
Square Enix Montreal has decided to put Hitman: Sniper on sale for a limited time, all to help kick off a rather cool in-game event. This event is all about killing a lot of people in a certain amount of time. If players manage to accomplish this goal, everyone will receive a rather large in-game prize.
Released by E-Link Entertainment, Air Force Fury is a new action-strategy game for Android. Players will look to oversee an air force that is vying for global supremacy. Players will need to manage their own base, create a fleet of fighter jets, gunships, bombers, and even mechs, en route to aerial supremacy.
Studio Baikin is an independent game studio based in Lyon, France. What we know about this studio is that they produce good games that have a visual aesthetic that captures you. They are the creators of Dark Guardians, Climax and Slashing Demons. Their latest game Atomi, is a logic-puzzle game that is just as enjoyable as their last puzzle game Climax, though they are a bit different from one another.
Generally when talking about multiplayer shooters, it is usually in the form of an FPS game. When it comes to Hero Forces, it is actually a third-person shooter instead. Up until today this game had been in a limited release, but as of now it is available globally on Android.
Released by pH Works, KILL is a new shooter that’s now out for Android devices. KILL has little for a story, but what it does have is somewhat philosophical, entertaining the notion that people are ideas, as opposed to being defined by their corporeal aspects, so each of the geometric shapes represents a thought.
Earlier this month Square Enix announced that Final Fantasy IX would be heading to mobile devices this year. Since that announcement there hasn’t been too much in the way of details about what exactly would be arriving in the mobile version. It’s a safe bet, however, that all of the content should make it into this version, it was mentioned that the graphics would be getting an upgrade and the ATB system will remain intact.