Playing Zen Bound 2, the new puzzler from developer Secret Exit, is a wonderful example of how a game is not always a game. Not really. Sometimes these funny things we talk about are really just activities, things to do while we lay or sit around the house. If we’re lucky these titles we buy and download become something more than just a series of button pushes. If we’re really lucky they lead us to a familiar place or wonderful new area. Zen Bound 2 really does more for me than many games that are much more, well, game-like.
Every now and then one gets his hands on a game that makes lots of fun by using just a simple yet entertaining idea. That’s precisely the case of Burger, Magma Mobile’s latest release in the field of time-killing games.
The poll for this week is going to be short and simple. It’s on the control scheme for games that require dynamic movement. Traditionally, we’ve used joysticks on controllers to move our characters on consoles, while on PC it’s done via the keyboard/mouse combination or a connected controller.
Usually big popular games get some sort of community page whether they are fan made communities, wiki type pages or even just a forum board where people can go to talk about the game, help other people and look up information in case they get stuck. Well it seems that Dead Trigger has quite the active fan base as their is now a Wikia page for the game.
Legendary rocker Freddie Mercury will soon be joining the Angry Birds family at some point this week thanks to a partnership between Rovio and Freddie For A Day. In order to celebrate the late rocker’s life, who’s birthday is on September 5th, the partnership will have Freddie Mercury joining the cast of Angry Birds as an honorary member.
When we first reported on Penny Arcade’s third installment into their retro style RPG series, it was told that the game would be arriving shortly after the June, 2012 release of the Xbox and PC versions. Well June has come and gone with no real word about when Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 will arrive on Android or iOS. Well the Penny Arcade crew are showing it off at PAX and now the mobile version has a release time frame.
You may or may not have noticed a new trend happening over the past six or so months and that is the rise of card battling social games for mobile devices. Over the course of the last six months, roughly anyways, the popularity of social TCG titles has steadily increased which also show no signs of slowing down with all the latest TCG titles announced as of late. Well Atlus is getting into the mobile scene with Persona 4 but as a social card battling game as well.
Horn has been one of the most awaited titles to hit Google Play in recent times. After being shown at the Google I/O running on a Nexus 7, Horn has been creating the buzz in the Android gaming world. A console-like gameplay on a touchscreen device was what it touted. Developed by Phosphor Games and published by Zynga, does Horn deliver?
Gamevil has decided to try and spread their wings a bit with their latest release onto Google Play called Kingdom Royale. This particular game could almost be considered an RTS (real-time strategy) game considering that you have to build up your kingdom and harvest resources while building up your troops.
Continuing on with more coverage of sales this weekend, Glu Mobile has also jumped on board to help celebrate this weekend by offering up a sale on all VIP subscription packages for this weekend only. Since the majority of Glu games are Free-to-play or freemium, their sale is for their VIP Club packages which are all 50% off right now.