2K Games are renowned for their sports simulation games, including the NBA 2K series on PCs and consoles. Last week, many Android gamers (including me) were caught off-guard when 2K Games decided to unleash a mobile version of their latest title, NBA 2K13, on Android. Coming from such illustrious developers, is the mobile version of the latest addition to their basketball franchise worth buying?
There are plenty of applications out there that deal with game discovering such as Hooked but there is a new one out now that basically turns game discovery into a game itself called Giftiz. Developed by Purple Brain, Giftiz is an interesting little game discovery platform where as you find and play games, completing missions, and you will earn experience points. Using these points, you will be able to level your account up.
Before we dive into this new release for Android, we will just say this in advance that this will be one of those double edged stories. It’s an awesome game with plenty of potential but there is a bit of a set back with it. So what is this new game? It is a new action RPG from Netmarble, a game publisher in Korea, called Justice League: Earth’s Final Defense.
Back in September the iControlPad 2 hit up Kickstarter to try and get funding to finish off this new mobile gaming controller which has a much better design than the original iControlPad had. Well with a little under 2 days to go the iControlPad 2 has reached its funding goal and will soon be available for purchase once the prototype gets sent out for mass production.
A couple of week ago we talked about a new Phoenix Wright inspired game that would be heading our way soon called Devil’s Attorney. Developed by Senri, this game takes the whole ‘lets battle it out in court’ saying to a whole new level. You won’t be screaming OBJECTION while pointing your finger at everyone but you will be kicking some ass while in session.
Perhaps it is the belief that some developed have that rooted users are the cause of piracy one Android or maybe it is something else, but when you segregate a rather large demographic of the Android population, you’re going to get lash back. It’s happened in the past and now it is Square Enix’s turn as they recently changed their market description to include one new tiny sentence. That sentence informs everyone that rooted users will be unable to play Chaos Rings, their newest game released yesterday.
There is a new game out on the Google Play store today that is a free-runner platformer but with a Tron flare to it with it’s futuristic visuals. Developed by Hope This Works Games Inc, Polara will have you playing as Agent Lara who is trying to escape from one hell of a security system. There is a rather unique color switching game mechanic in Polara that you’ll need to master if you play on surviving long enough to get through the game.
“Want to balloon hop a motor home to clear the Grand Canyon? Use your sports car and escape Alcatraz by leaping as far as you can and landing on a barge? Speed through a roller-coaster on a New York skyscraper with a cow on your pickup? You can do all this and more in Top Gear: Stunt School Revolution.” With an introduction that tells a bit of everything you’ll find in it, BBC Worldwide Limited and Supersonic have released Top Gear: Stunt School Revolution on Amazon’s Appstore.
A new first-person shooter has popped-up under the ‘upcoming games’ section on TegraZone. It’s called Razor Salvation THD by Blowfish Studios. Blowfish, if you may recall, also developed the game Siegecraft that released late last year for both Tegra and non-Tegra devices and did pretty well for itself.
For those of you out there who are fans of HTC and were hoping that there would be future tablets coming to the market here in the U.S. for you to buy, HTC has announced some bad news for you. According to the online communications manager for HTC, Jeff Gordon, the company will be pulling out of the tablet market in the U.S. which means no more HTC tablets here.