A new turn-based multiplayer combat game, similar in style to games like Worms, will be making its way to Android in early 2013. Officially named TurtleStrike, this game has players create three different formations using a total of 10 turtles each. From there players will then use their turns by doing one of the three actions each turtle can do: Move, Shoot a Missile or Shoot a Torpedo. You also have special moves like Shield and “Use Secret Special Weapon”.
Day: 3 December 2012
A really neat arcade game has arrived on Android from Thomas M Krall called Polygone which has players flying around a little spaceship with the goal of destroying the monochrome shapes that are floating around. To do this though, you will have to fly your ship into the one open spot that each shape has and fly into the color dot, which is basically its nucleus, in order to destroy the shape.
Last week a copy of Gameloft’s newest installment into the Modern Combat series got leaked out onto the internet. Whether this has prompted Gameloft to announce a release time frame or not is unknown but either way we now have a better idea of when Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour will be arriving on Google Play.
A new full 3D RPG has arrived on Android called Everlands: Unleash the Magic which brings with it powerful spells and melee combats for you to use against the forces of darkness. As the story goes, the kingdom of Everland is under attack by these evil forces and you are the hero who has to save everyone.
Retrobomb recently released onto Android a re-vamped and re-images version of the classic Dreamcast game called Expendable. While the game is pretty slick as it is, Retrobomb has been working hard on improving it even more and they have done it by adding controller support to Expendable Rearmed.
Fans of Tower Defense games have another title to check out today from i-FREE Innovations called Total Defense 3D. This is a military themed tower defense game where you won’t just be going up against other human armies but also alien ones as well. You’ll be conquering planets, upgrading technologies and holding off enemy advances.
Let’s be honest, OK? If you’ve played one of these casual, hidden-item, Big Fish-style games you’ve really played them all. Well, sort of. While I’ve become very good at pointing out how many titles repeat the same designs over and over, and how this repetition has begun to wear even my battle-hardened gamer senses down, I still keep in mind that some genres will always be what they are… that’s what makes them genres. Sci-fi will probably always have spaceships and robots, Westerns will have cowboys on horseback and fantasy will keep it up with swords, dragons or orcs. It’s just how it is a lot of the time.
Alright maybe it isn’t Black Ops specifically that is combined with Minecraft in a new game called Block Ops from Rory Harvey. However it is a play on the whole FPS genre and combining it with Minecraft has created a rather neat FPS game to play on your Android device. While the world waits for Brick Force to release their Android application, we can play a little FPS action in this game which resembles an actual Minecraft mod.
Last week we talked about a new sequel that Kemco was planning to release soon on Android called Alphadia II. Taking place over 200 years after the first game, Alphadia II will have you hunting down evil that is once again threatening the peace and safety of your world. Energi has once again made an appearance in the world after being gone for 200 years and everyone, good and evil, happen to be scrambling for control over it.
Over the weekend a Kickstarter campaign for a game called Alpha Colony ended and unfortunately for the developers they have missed their goal by a mere $28 dollars. This means that they will get absolutely nothing in terms of funding due to Kickstarter’s policy that, in order to actually get all the funds, you have to reach your goal. In this case the goal was $50,000.