Sunside has announced that their upcoming alien abduction game, appropriately called Abducted, will be arriving onto multiple platforms including Android and Ouya. The company says that this game combines elements of RPG mechanics, horror themes and action-adventure gaming into one title.
One of the original Fighting Fantasy adventure books is making its way to Android from Tin Man Games. Forest of Doom was one of the original ten books in the Fighting Fantasy series and became a lot of people’s favorite one in the series. Now it is coming as an interactive RPG book next week to Android.
A small indie studio out of Sweden called Glowingpine Studios is gearing up to release a neat little retro style physics-based puzzle game called Little Luca onto Android soon. In order to get the word out about their upcoming game ahead of time, the developers have released a trailer for Little Luca featuring some of the 8-bit inspired music that will be coming with the game.
One device a lot of people are actually looking forward to but have had to wait a long time for already is the gaming-centric Android tablet called the Wikipad. Having undergone a few redesigns in hardware department, that has been the biggest cause for the delay. It finally looks like the Wikipad may actually be launching soon though as the device has passed through the FCC.
Tomorrow is Thursday and if you hadn’t noticed lately it seems like Thursday has become the designated day in each week where a lot of games get released onto mobile. One such game we have already talked about is Apoc Wars, an extremely popular Facebook game that will be coming to Android and iOS through DeNA’s Mobage social gaming platform.
Super Ping-Pong by Urara Works is one of those games that ends up flying under everyone’s radar until someone comes up to you and tells you to check out this cool little game. Well that is basically what has happened here, where Super Ping-Pong slipped by most people until someone posted about it on our forums and we checked it out.
Nvidia has published a blog post going into detail about the behind-the-scenes effort regarding their Android-powered handheld gaming device called Shield. In case you’ve missed it, the pre-orders are live for these devices as of May 17th and will run you $350 to snag one right now. While the behind-the-scenes look is pretty interesting, Nvidia has posted another video which showcases the final firmware of Shield, pre-loaded games that will come with it and more.
Gameloft has updated their top-down zombie massacring game Zombiewood today and with this update comes a bunch of new content including a new game mode, new maps, zombies and weapons. In a video released yesterday, Gameloft has also begun teasing ‘something big’ which looks like it will be multiplayer features coming soon.
Retro Dreamer already has a few games available on Android, most of which seem to be endless jumping games themed around a little Ice Cream character or one that is made out of crap… literally. Their newest game is Slambots and its quite the entertainment retro style game without all the crap.
American McGee’s Spicy Horse Games studio will be hitting up Kickstarter for funding their next game, they just don’t know what game that will actually be just yet. The company will be going onto Kickstarter in July to either fund the recently announced OZombie game, the Oz themed zombie game we reported on recently, or a new Alice game called Alice: Otherlands. However they will not make both.