Warner Bros. is holding a bit of a Summer sale starting today on their games. While iOS will see more of a sale than Android will, mainly because there are more Warner Bros games on that platform, Android isn’t being left out in the dark either. Both Batman: Arkham City Lockdown and Man of Steel have gone on sale for only $0.99 for a limited time.
Crescent Moon Games happens to be continuing their consistent releasing of games onto Android with Gears landing on Google Play yesterday as a temporary exclusive for Sony devices and now today we have news that Evertales will be arriving onto Android at some point this week. It could even be as early as tomorrow.
Vincent Belorgey who happens to be knows as the french house artist and Outrun album producer Kavinsky, will be releasing a game onto multiple mobile platforms in the near future. The game itself will also be called Kavinsky and is apparently the first game to be based off of an actual music album. However this isn’t some Rock Bands type of game and is, instead, an old school style brawler with some rather interesting features.
It was not too long ago that Amazon went after the whole centralized game hub idea for things like leaderboards and achievements. Similar to the newly released Google Play Games service in some ways, Amazon’s GameCircle doesn’t have all the features that Google’s service provides and until now the GameCircle service was completely limited to Amazon devices only and games purchased through Amazon’s AppStore.
A nuclear apocalypse is serious business usually, half the time resulting in the end of the world while the other half of the time it results in zombies or mutated monsters overrunning the planet. At least that is what the usual scenario is when it comes to nuclear apocalypses and video games. Nuclear Outrun by Nerdook Productions and Nightspade (a.k.a The Gamenauts) follows this mindset but adds a healthy dose of humor to the mix to liven things up a bit.
Back in the beginning of June Fallen Tree Games released their third installment into the Quell puzzle series called Quell Memento but the release was strictly for folks with access to Amazon’s AppStore. Well a couple of days ago that exclusivity ended and Quell Memento is now available on Google Play as well.
Square Enix’s Chaos Rings series will be getting a new installment soon and this time it will be getting social gameplay elements added into it. This isn’t the first franchise announced by Square Enix that will be getting social features added to it. Final Fantasy Tactics S is also on the horizon and will be arriving at some point in the near future as well.
Unity publishes their first game under their new brand – Gears by Crescent Moon Games. Sony devices only for now.
Some pretty big news today as Unity, the company behind the Unity3D game engine which is extremely popular to use because of its cross-platform capabilities, has released their first game under their new publishing brand called Unity Games. This will be the label that Unity will be using to publishing games onto Google Play and their first release happens to be a game called Gears which was made by Crescent Moon Games.
Earlier this year we covered some of the Kairosoft games that we were hoping to get translated and ported to Android OS. Kairosoft has released the Japanese version of their new farming simulation loosely translated as Firmament Hectare Farm to the Play Store. The game seems like it is more of a sim management game unlike thier last release Ninja Village. It focuses more on growing and selling foods and trying to become the number one farm. During your growing of vegetables and fruits you will have to attract tourists by building facilities and for them to stay at and use. As usual there will be the contests to see which farm grows the best quality items and becoming more profitable.
While Kemco were testing the water outside of the retro-style RPG with their last release where the game was almost completely rendered with 3D graphics, except for the map screens, the company’s newest release sticks to what they are used to, a full retro-style RPG. This particular one is called Cross Heart Arcadia.