Carmageddon is a PC classic from the glory days of the vehicular combat genre. Even among a crowded market with games like Twisted Metal and Vigilante 8, Carmageddon stood out with how it approached combat, its use of black comedy and the sheer amount of gore. But how well does this PC game from 1997 port to Android?
Heavy Sword is a new retro-inspired platformer from Monster Robot Studios. The game combines great modernized SNES-era graphics with traditional platforming elements to create a solid game that is worth playing. The game borrows heavily from the classics in the genre, but does this end up helping or hindering it from being a must play experience?
Earlier this week Nvidia announced that their Android-powered handheld gaming device called Shield would be going up for pre-orders on May 20th, 2013 except for those of you who signed up for the newsletters for Shield update. If you did that you were able to pre-order one at the beginning of the week.
Nvidia officially announced the pre-orders were now live for some folks along with the $350 price and June shipping date only a couple of days ago. The company’s Android-powered handheld gaming device has somehow already made it onto TV but not in a commercial. Instead the device has made a cameo appearance in a sitcom called Modern Family.
Spry Fox, the developers of the widely popular puzzle game Triple Town, have announced what their new game will be and it is another puzzle game called Road Not Taken. This particular game has a rather deep theme to it regarding life and loss but does not do away with the cuteness found in Triple Town.
Infinite Dreams’ Can Knockdown franchise has seen quite the success and popularity on both Android and iOS. The company has been working on a new addition to the franchise which we have talked about in the recent past but now we have an official release date of May 16h, 2013 for Can Knockdown 3.
Some of you may have heard of Butterscotch Shenanigans. They’re the guys behind Towelfight 2: The Monocle of Destiny, a twin-stick shooter that some say is reminiscent of The Binding of Issac. I enjoyed it pretty much. You go from room to room, clearing out baddies while shooting an assortment of animals out of your face.
Rovio has been hinting at getting into publishing third party games onto iOS and Android for some time now and it looks like these plans may finally be coming to life. In fact the company has announced what this spin-off will be, officially naming it Rovio Stars. Under Rovio Stars, the company plans to release third party games submitted to them.
While N3V Games’ upcoming zombie shooter Dead On Arrival 2 is already underway with its pre-beta testing phase, the company has announced when the next beta will begin and what it will entail. For those of you already in the beta, you won’t have to worry about signing up again or anything like that. When the new version of the game is released, you’ll have access to it.
Nvidia’s Tegra 4 Android-powered handheld gaming system called Project Shield has finally become a real thing instead of just a demo device seen at conferences and on video. Today the company has announced that pre-orders will begin on May 20th, 2013 with a shipping date happening sometime in late June 2013.