Herocraft, a company with plenty of good games who also likes to have a sale any chance they can, have discounted three games over on Google Play in celebration of Valentine’s Day. Each of these games happens to be one of their more popular recently released titles so if you haven’t snapped up a copy of these games yet, now might be a good time to do so.
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A rather neat looking free running platformer has arrived on Android called Grudger. Developer by Noble Muffins, Grudger puts players in charge of the main character who’s name is Grudger. However, Grudger’s job is a bit more on the shady side of things, delivering goods to the morally ambiguous people he called customers.
Former Infinity Ward creative strategist Robert Bowling is working with Gun Media who will be publishing Mighty Rabbit Studios’ newly announced tactical strategy game that will be heading to Android and iOS this Spring. Officially called Breach & Clear, players will be charged with the task of taking out various terrorist groups from around the world.
The deck building RPG strategy game Ascension and Ascension Online could be heading to Android around the end of this year. Currently available as both a tabletop and iOS game, the developers are planning to start up a Kickstarter campaign with the goal being to bring both games to Android and Steam, with a release time of round the end of 2013.
Information is beginning to surface today over possible layoffs at Valve who are the developers of the Half-Life franchise and Steam. Details right now are pretty scarce as to what is going on and regarding the number of employees let go as of Tuesday morning. While the number of staff who have been laid off is currently unknown, some terms describing the situation being thrown around include “great cleansing” and “large decisions.”
Last week we reported on Zen Studios who are the developers of Zen Pinball HD which is one of the two great pinball platforms available for Android on Google Play. They had announced a new series of pinball tables that would be heading our way that isn’t related to Marvel and is instead themed around a different universe, that being the Star Wars universe.
If you aren’t already agitated at the news that Real Racing 3 will be a free-to-play game when it lands on Android on February 28th, 2013 then maybe this will push you there finally. EA is planning to release the first ever freemium Tetris game onto Android and iOS this Spring. This Tetris game will officially be called Tetris Blitz which EA is saying will off a new twist to the original game mechanics.
For those of you who used to spend hours and hours playing video games in arcades in the not so far gone past, you may remember how the racing games used to be back then. Well a two-man team of game developers wants to bring that arcade racing experience back to life across multiple platforms with Android being one of them with their game The 90s Arcade Racer.
An endless jumping game called Flying Boy that was release last month has received a new update that brings with it a new Daily Mission feature. Developed by a two-person team going by the name of Cucumber, Flying Boy is a Mega Jump style of game where you control a small boy who wants to keep jumping to see how high he can get.
We’ve talked a couple of times about this game already in the recent past, between plans for Whispering Willows to come to Android and it being nominated for three category awards in Killscreen’s OUYA CREATE challenge, and now we get to mention the game once more but this time it’s about the fact that it has hit up Kickstarter for funding.









