Over the course of the last week and a half we have had the pleasure of reporting on lots of Square Enix news regarding Final Fantasy as well as some of their other franchises like most of their Dragon Quest series. When we reported that Final Fantasy VI was heading to mobile this Winter we also mentioned that Final Fantasy VII had promising prospects in regards to arriving onto mobile in the near future. That near future seems to be longer than we had hoped… a lot longer actually.
So NY Comic Con happened over the weekend and during the event Warner Bros and DC Entertainment announced that Batman: Arkham Origins would be making its way to mobile devices in the near future. Not only will the game be arriving onto Android and iOS soon, you’ll be able to unlock additional suits in the console version of the game when playing the mobile version.
Welcome to another end-of-the-week round-up of Android games that are on sale right now. Usually we talked about how either the list is small but full of quality games or that the list of games on sale is big with some good titles thrown in there. This week however is a little different because the list is pretty good in size and just about every game on sale in this list is a good one.
The title may seem a bit weird but Google has been wanting developers to make sure their games and applications look and run good not just on Android phones but on tablets as well. Starting November 21st, 2013 when you log into the Google Play store from a tablet you will automatically be directed to a new section called ‘Designed for Tablets’.
Back in June of this year we mentioned that a rather good looking tactical MOBA game calledĀ Arena of Heroes would be making its way to a variety of platforms including Android and Ouya. We the Ouya version of the game is now live and available for download for anyone who owns one of the Android-powered game consoles. To celebrate the launch of the game on Ouya, the developers are also giving away an Ouya as well as a bunch of secondary prizes as well.
For those of you who are fanatics about typography and cool fonts there is actually now a game out that focuses around the subject of fonts throughout different time periods. Developed by European cultural TV channel Arte and published by Bulkypix onto Google Play, Type:Rider will appeal to your love of fonts even though you’ll be playing as two dots.
Fishlabs’s Galaxy On Fire – Alliances delayed till 2014, closed beta tester positions available now
Fishlabs has been working on the next installment into their Galaxy on Fire franchise officially called Galaxy On Fire – Alliances. While the game was originally slated for release this year, Fishlabs has announced that the game’s release has been delayed until sometime in 2014. The game is, however, currently running in a closed beta testing phase and an open beta phase is slated to start in November.
One of the finest strategy games you can come across on Android is Anomaly: Warzone Earth, and its follow-up Anomaly Korea. For the uninitiated, both these games put a twist to the age-old tower defense formula, where instead of you being on the side of the towers, you are now in control of a convoy making its way through a maze of alien machines.
While there is no shortage of endless running game there in the mobile gaming world, there isn’t a whole lot of them that has you playing as a chicken. In fact you aren’t just playing as a chicken inĀ Headless but as a chicken with its head cut off and blood spurting out of it. While the game overall has a white, grey and black visual style to it, you’ll be pleased to know that your spurting blood does, in fact, show up red.
Noodlecake Studios finally lets The Blockheads invade Android, complete with multiplayer servers
Back in September of this year we announced that Noodlecake Studios and Apportable had joined forces and during that announcement it was also mentioned that The Blockheads would be arriving in September as well. Even though it is a little late The Blockheads have finally invaded Android and it does indeed come with multiplayer servers.