There is definitely a trend going on right now with resurrecting the classics from back in the day that a lot of us used to play. This trend doesn’t really seem to be slowing down, keeping a consistent pace with new titles being brought to modern times. The latest title looking to make a comeback is Wings, a classic game for the Amiga and yes, there is a Kickstarter for it.
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Gamescom is just around the corner and already we have had plenty of announcements about companies and their games that they will be displaying during the event. One such company is 11 Bit Studios, developers of the rather awesome tower offense game Anomaly: Warzone Earth, which have now announced three new games heading our way including a sequel to Anomaly: Warzone Earth.
One game we have reported on a couple of times in the past month or so is a new game from Gamevil called Punch Hero. Breaking away from their usual casual puzzle or RPG releases, Punch Hero brings a little sporting action to the Gamevil catalog of mobile games, rendered in 3D visuals.
Back in April of this year we talked about a cross-platform multiplayer RTS game geared a little bit more towards the hardcore gamer called AirMech coming to Android this year. Developed by Carbon Games, this RTS title looks like it could be nearing it’s release thanks to a press release Carbon Games put out detailing the upcoming beta.
Last week we broke the story about Gameloft’s first Unreal Engine built game and the fact it would be called Wild Blood thanks to a little sleuthing on the part of one of our readers. Gameloft has decided to just come right out and announce that the game’s name is indeed Wild Blood. Along with this, Gameloft has released the first trailer for it.
Last week we talked about Rovio teasing a new female character that would be making its appearance in the Angry Birds franchise. We guessed it would be a bird, mostly due to the fact Rovio has really never teased a new pig character ever. Well now it is official, there will be a new pink bird and she will be arriving in soon first in Angry Birds Seasons.
One thing that iOS users have had for awhile now is the iCade, a mini arcade cabinet you can hook up your iPad to and play games just like you would if it were a full arcade cabinet, with a joystick and a selection of buttons. One crafty Android user however has built his own iCade style cabinet for his Android tablet.
You may have noticed that over the past month or two a few new author names popping up here on DroidGamers in articles. That is because over the past couple of months we have been slowly adding new writers to our staff and now seems like a good time to officially welcome them all.
Interesting little bit of news coming from Crytek regarding tablets and next gen consoles. It seems that Crytek holds the belief that if next gen consoles don’t come out soon, that tablets could very well surpass consoles in terms of being the first device people reach for when wanting to play games.
Developers of the vintage themed arcade game called Jumping Electron have pushed out a couple of updates recently which brings quite a bit more content to it. In total, there is now 80 levels in total to delicately work your way through as fast as you can.