As we mentioned a week or so ago, Square Enix has been gearing up to release a few games on Nvidia’s GeForce Now service. Today sees another one making its debut which is Murdered: Soul Suspect. This is the gripping tale of a ghost detective attempting to solve his own murder, and it’s now available to stream on Nvidia Shield devices using GeForce Now.
Day: 8 March 2016
Minecraft is a game in particular that could be quite fun, if done properly mind you, in a Virtual Reality format. If you’re nodding your head in agreement while reading this, then you’ll be happy to know that this is actually becoming a reality. During GDC 2016 next week, Microsoft and Oculus will be unveiling Minecraft for the Gear VR.
Scopely and WWE have announced a new partnership between the two companies, and coming out of that partnership is a new wrestling themed game called WWE Champions. You may be thinking, “Well of course it is a wrestling themed game, WWE is involved right?”. Well you’re right, except that this isn’t your standard wrestling title.
FlipSide, developed by jcstranger, is a new indie arcade game with not only a unique visual look to it, but also a bit of a unique style of gameplay as well. In this game players will need to split their attention between two characters that you’ll be controlling at the same time.
Released by Pixel Mystique, Ninjet is a new vertical arcade shooter for Android. Players will assume the role of a pilot who’s tasked with the objective of single-handedly stopping an endless alien invasion, flying something akin to a transformer. The ship is normally a starfighter, but for short periods of time can transform into a giant, sword wielding robot.
Bar Oasis 2 Aftertaste 1 visual novel / time management game hybrid will be landing on Android later this year
In the time we have been doing DroidGamers we have run into many types of hybrid games, some of which make you sit back in your chair and think to yourself ‘huh, there is a neat idea right there’. Well this is one of those times where that happens with this new game called Bar Oasis 2 Aftertaste 1. This is a visual novel that meshes some time management gameplay into it.
Reactor – Energy Sector Tycoon is a new tycoon style of game but not in the traditional sense. With most tycoon games you are building something, whether it is an amusement park, a zoo, or an entire city. While this is sort of true for Reactor, this particular title takes that style of gameplay and combines it with idle genre mechanics.
It always seems like games in a particular genre seem to get released or talked about all within the same time frame. For example, one week a bunch of RPGs will get released or talked about, while another week would be strategy games. It’s never planned, it just works out that way. So far this week seems to have a lot of arcade shooters and the Kings of Steam is a new one for Android devices.
Lionsgate has announced that they are developing a pair of mobile games based off of the Now You See Me franchise which, if you’re not immediately familiar with what that is, was a movie last year that did quite well in the theaters and has a sequel arriving this Summer. One of the game will be a normal mobile game, while the other game is going to be a mobile Virtual Reality game.