The folks who built DotEmu eventually sold that company off back in 2014 and have since started a new company called Playdigious. This new company has already released a few titles onto Android including Stardunk, Evoland, and a few others. Their newest game is called Take Cover and it has just entered into a closed beta testing phase with sign-ups for it going live.
Day: 20 April 2016
Indie developers Power Up Game Studio have released their debut Android game today called Orbitron Arcade. This particular game is a fast-paced arcade shooter that takes place out in space. Out there in the depths of space, somewhere between the edge of the Old Galaxy and beyond the Federation borders, is a dark moon called Orbitron, which isn’t a friendly place.
Telltale Games has announced the release date for the third episode of The Walking Dead: Michonne game for all platforms, along with screenshots and a trailer for everyone to check out. In case you are new to this series, this is a three-part story that follows Michonne during the time where in the comic books (between issues #126 and #139) she left the group of survivors and disappeared.
Released by Tin Man Games, Choices: And The Sun Went Out is a new gamebook that they’ve just released. In other Tin Man games, players are navigating their way to a predetermined ending or two. In Choices, Tin Man is trying something different. This is going to be a game that has no scripted ending, and no single player can discover the entire story in a single sitting through the game, but rather that the game is “ongoing”.
Exploding Kittens is the popular card game that began on Kickstarter, has finally been released on Android. As we previously covered it here, this is a digital rendering of the physical card game that was also recently released. For the uninitiated, this is all about being the last person alive and not having a kitten explode while you have it.
HandyGames is an Android game developer with a slew of games available on Google, Play, mostly offered for free. That being said, they also have a bunch of games that are premium versions of their free ones, and now many of those games have gone on sale. All of the games on sale are priced at $0.16.
NetEase has announced today that they will soon be launching a new MMORPG onto Android called Tome of the Sun. This particular game features a lot of character development, as well as over 35 different ways to play this game. This can be anything from running through a solo dungeon, to running a team-based one, and a couple of different PvP styles.
Back in 2014 The Pokemon Company released the official Pokemon TV application for Android. Then in 2015 it received Google Chromecast support. Today the Pokemon TV app has received another update which brings with it a few new features, as well as new episodes for one of the bigger series users can watch.
[Update: Game Released] Games Workshop and Pixel Toys team up and announce Warhammer 40K: Freeblade for Android
Games Workshop has teamed up with developers Pixel Toys to make a new Warhammer 40K game for mobile devices. Officially called Warhammer 40K: Freeblade, this will be a very different type of Warhammer 40K than we have seen for mobile devices so far.
Goodnight Games has released their new old school style side-scrolling arcade game called Ernie vs Evil. This particular game has players assuming control of Ernie, who is apparently the only person on Earth who can defeat the greatest evil we have ever known and faced, Bob.