Tower defense games are a dime a dozen, so normally their release isn’t worth a news article. However, SteamPunk Tower has a unique take on the genre, and it isn’t just that it takes place in everyone’s favorite alternate geek reality.
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Facebook buys Oculus Rift for $2 billion, Google buys Twitch.TV for $1 billion. This is certainly the time to be a gaming start up. Whilst many sites have spoken of this as a rumor Variety.com has reported that the deal has already been made. Either way, there’s no smoke without fire, especially if the reports of Twitch turning down Microsoft in favor of Google are true.
Glu Mobile’s wildly popular high fantasy ARPG, Eternity Warriors 3, has been updated with an all new PvP mode. Players will now have the ability to crush their enemies and see them driven before them as they square off in arena based combat in order to earn points, seasonal awards and an ever coveted position atop the new worldwide leaderboards, once and for all proving what is best in life.
Eclecto Bird and Rudy Kong need your help! As guinea pigs sent to find life on Mars, the unthinkable happens when they land and unexpectedly fall into underground caverns. It is here that their journey for home begins from the abyss below. In what can be described as a platform adventure, the Italian software house Youmble, hope to take you on a fantastical journey with their two protagonists.
Whispering Willows is a game we’ve been following for some time now, from its original announcement to its Kickstarter funding and even when it was part of the Kill Screen CREATE competition for the Ouya console. Now it seems this game is finally getting closer to release as the developers have released a new trailer for it.
What do you call a man with a spade on his head? The genre of mining or maze building has been popular since the classic Dig Dug was released by Namco in Japan, and Atari Inc in the West. There have been numerous popular remakes of the formula including countless flash games, the widely popular Motherload, a personal favorite of mine Gem Miner for android, and even something like Terraria has arguably just subverted the old formula.
Thinice, developer of the previous Android title Save Sea Turtles!, returns to the Playstore with his new platformer, Twin Robots. Twin Robots was originally released for Ouya in December 2013 and was then offered as a launch title for the Amazon Fire this past April. Thinice has now launched a full-blown release, making it available on Windows, Mac, Linux and of course – Android.
Aside from bringing Flappy Bird back to mobile devices, developer Dong Nguyen has begun teasing his next game which apparently doesn’t have a name just yet, or at least one he isn’t willing to share just yet. However he did decide to share a screenshot of the Flappy Bird follow-up on Twitter.
Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla remake tore its way through the competition this weekend, earning an impressive $93 million at the domestic box office and an additional $100 million overseas. Now, the King of the Kaiju has smashed his way onto Android devices in two new video games.
Following the recent trend of games made from new movie releases, Transformers: Age of Extinction from DeNA, will be hitting mobile platforms later this year. This will be the second title in a three year agreement between DeNA and Hasbro Gaming to create mobile games based on the Transformer franchise.