We’ve seen plenty of Minecraft-inspired games ever since the indie smash swept the market, ranging from blatant ripoffs to nifty riffs on the new genre. The Sandbox falls into the latter category and really is a game on its own. Actually, I would rather categorize it under “world creation” and creative tool which is, well, pretty much the same as Minecraft. OK, so the differences between the games are more than that; where Minecraft is a wonderfully immersive jaunt through a three-dimensional block world, The Sandbox is more of a puzzle game based on physics and trickery as it is exploration and creation.
Phyken Media has officially announced their new upcoming tactics style strategy game Wizard Ops Tactics. This isn’t your ordinary military or RPG style tactical game though. For starters all the visuals are rendered in 3D, something you don’t see often with tactical style game. There also happens to be plenty of humor meshed into everything as well.
Interesting news coming from a Japanese Final Fantasy fan site called Final Fantasy Reunion in regards to Square Enix’s Final Fantasy V game that was teased not too long ago as heading our way in the Final Fantasy IV trailer the company released. While the translation of the fan site is a bit rough, it points out a few interesting details you might want to think about.
6waves has published their newest title for Android gamers to sink their teeth into called Raft Pirates, a game which we’ve talked about a few times in the past already. The release of Raft Pirates today actually comes a bit later then the original launch date that was schedule for around March 7th, 2013.
Gameloft has pushed out a rather large content update for their Order & Chaos Online MMORPG which brings with it a whole new race for players to play as. With a new race also comes features like a new starting village, new skills and new gear, all of which is focused on this new race.
By now, if you play Minecraft: Pocket Edition on any sort of level and follow news regarding it, you should already know that true multiplayer will be arriving in the upcoming Minecraft: Pocket Edition 0.7.0 update. This multiplayer will initially be hosted by Mojang and will be called Minecraft Realms. People who want to have their own server can pay a month fee to have one through Mojang.
For those of you waiting to get your hands on Unigine’s naval strategy game Oil Rush 3D, your wait is finally over and it is now available on Google Play. However, before you go running off to Google Play to snatch up a copy for yourself, you need to know that the only devices supported right now are Android phones and tablets that come stuffed with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 chipset.
For everyone who has waited patiently for Crescent Moon Games to release their newest 3D RPG Ravensword: Shadowlands, you’ll be happy to know that the wait is almost over. Crescent Moon Games’ Josh Presseisen announced over Twitter that Ravensword: Shadowlands would be landing on Google Play this Thursday.
For those of you who are more about having a compact, more portable, Android console instead of OUYA are probably more interested in PlayJam’s GameStick which did pretty damn good on Kickstarter and has since progressed nicely including a new design for their controller. We’ve seen plenty of pictures and video of GameStick and now anyone attending GDC 2013 next week will be able to check GameStick out in person as well.
Today Nvidia held their press event at GTC 2013 and the company talked about all kinds of good stuff ranging from information about Nvidia’s GRID cloud gaming system and, of course, mobile chipset goodness was brought up. Nvidia’s CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang,who is always fairly entertaining to watch during Nvidia events, was on stage once again and along with him came a new roadmap for their mobile chipsets.