Vector Unit are no strangers to the Android gaming world. They have had two hit games previously, namely the graphically-awesome Riptide GP and the moonshine-smuggling Shine Runner. Now, they’ve got a third game added to their arsenal, Beach Buggy Blitz. Racing a buggy on a beach (yes, they still haven’t completely left the water) sounds awesome, but how does it turn out actually?
Day: 7 September 2012
Finally some solid news about the Wikipad and its release date, at least for when it goes on say at Gamestop. The Wikipad, as you may or may not know, is a gaming focus Android tablet with detachable gaming controls you can add to the side of the tablet. It provides a full set of gaming controls so you can play games using actual physical controls.
Full Fat games have made themselves a name on Android with their flick games. Other than Agent Dash, which we reported about some time ago, all of their titles are known for their use of flick movements, mostly to control balls (golf balls, rugby balls and footballs). Well, they’re coming back this time with yet another NFL game called NFL Kicker 13.
We aren’t even 24 hours past the media event that Amazon held where they announced a range of devices from a new eReader to a line of Kindle Fire HD tablets. Now we have two more companies adding support for the new Kindle Fire tablets. Both Activision and Crytek have announced games for all of the new Kindle Fire devices, Skylander Cloud Patrol and Fibble Flick n’ Roll.
Kairosoft, like the stealthy ninjas they have gone back to being, have quietly released another game onto Google Play ensuring that your free time is minimal this weekend. Their new game is called Venture Towns and is a rather large sim city building game which is a slight deviation from their usual, more specifically themed, games that they release.
About a month ago Ludia Inc released an official game based off of a television game show. This game was something a lot of people were hoping would make it over to Android and indeed it has. So what is the game we are talkinng about? The Price is Right Decades. In an interesting twist, all I can think about is the movie Happy Gilmore while writing this when Adam Sandler and Bob Barker fought.
For those of you who don’t have enough TCG titles to play on your Android device, you’ll be happy to know that there is yet another brand new one available on the Google Play store called Demon Busters. Developed by Nubee, Demon Busters is a social RPG card game where you will be saving the world from demons and monsters.
The massively popular iOS game Dark Nebula recently made the jump over to Android with the release of Episode One of this episodic series of games. Developed by three different studois, the second installment into the series looks to be close to ready and is gearing up for release onto Google Play soon.
Good news for future Kindle Fire HD tablets owners and annoying news for those of you who own a device that EA hasn’t brought game compatibility to yet, they have announced that they have already begun making their games optimized for the new line of tablets from Amazon.