One game we rather enjoyed a great deal was the minimalistic game called LAD. This game featured visuals similar to what you would find in other minimalistic art styled games such as Limbo. Well Black Chair Games have brought us the second installment into the series called LAD: Run. With this new addition though we are brought back to the beginning to where it all started.
Noodlecake Studios have been doing an excellent job bringing some of the more popular iOS games over to Android over the past while now and one of their next releases will be the ever popular Minecraft-inspired The Blockheads by Majic Jungle Software. This particular game is pretty interesting as it looks like a spin-off of Terraria but actually plays out a lot like Minecraft, especially when it comes to building things.
A few days ago we brought everyone the first screenshots and trailer for Gamelion’s upcoming sequel to their rather popular dual-stick shooter called Monster Shooter. The sequel, named Monster Shooter 2: Back To Earth, will have you defending Earth from alien attacks instead of going after them yourself when they kidnapped your cat. Now the aliens are on the attack trying to get all the cats at once.
The rather strange concept of what would happen if a city, say Tokyo, happen to suddenly be overrun with a jungle and the animals took the city back over landed on Playstation 3 not too long ago. It’s a game you’ll either love or absolutely hate, there really isn’t much of an in-between with this title. However, it’s popular enough that a mobile version is heading to Playstation Mobile in the very near future.
HyperDevBox, for those of you unfamiliar with this development company, make some pretty epic games not only with the game itself in terms of content and visuals but also in actual size, with the average game weighing in at over 1.5GB in size. While things have been a little quite from HyperDevBox, they have finally broken the silence and it shall be the Xbox/PS3 game Record of Agarest War.
Mojang has finally pushed out the 0.7.2 update for Minecraft: Pocket Edition and while this particular update is mostly geared towards bug fixes, there are a few little new features to check out. For starters, player nametags should be available now with multiplayer. Also each server will now show what seed was used to render the map it is hosting.
A couple of additional sales going on right now that you may or may not know about this 4th of July. To celebrate today, a couple more developers are offering up a bit of a sale on their games. Lemegeton Master Edition by Lantansia is currently 50% off it’s regular price while the dungeon crawling game DeProfundis is offering up 25% off its premium package.
QWOP is an interesting game that has gained quite a following since it hit the internet. The popularity of this game isn’t because of an array of stunning visuals or deep gameplay but because everyone and their mother sucks at playing this game. Granted a few brave souls out there have learned to master QWOP, but for he general population, getting your athlete to even move five feet is a chore upon itself.
It is time for another mid-week Android game sale round-up and even though July 4th is tomorrow there are a few titles on sale today you might want to check out. If there is going to be any big sale though, that will happen tomorrow. Until then though, here are a few good games on sale a bit early.
One of the more popular emulators for Android has been updated with some rather cool features. eSPXe‘s update now will support that MOGA controller you happen to own and is able to sync up with the MOGA Pivot app. It will also support wireless Xbox controllers as well now with Ms USB Receiver.