Shogun Arts has released their second title onto Google Play, this time featuring an Origami theme to it as you play as a paper crane and other creatures. Volplane Crane, as it is called, has you trying to fling your paper crane as far as you can, collecting cherry blossoms along the way to earn extra points.
Popcap Games has gone ahead and sent out the official word that a sequel to their hit tower defense style game called Plants vs Zombies is in the works and will be arriving in late 2013. Whether it will simply be called Plants vs Zombies 2 or something else remains to be seen, PopCap is promising a ‘bevy of new features’ will come with the game.
Since Halfbrick Studios mentioned they were making a game called Machine Gun Jetpack, which later was changed to Jetpack Joyride, we have been telling our readers that it would be coming to Android at some point. We knew it would be arriving, we just didn’t know exactly when. Well after a rather long wait, Jetpack Joyride is finally here.
Sega just released a post on their official blog reminding everyone that their hit Dreamcast game, Jet Set Radio, is still heading to iOS and Android this Summer. For those of you who missed our initial posting about this game coming to mobile, this will be a mobile optimized version of the game but the version that will hit the PS3 this September.
One of the two Shadowrun games that are coming our way soon, both having had successful Kickstarter campaigns, is Shadowrun Returns. This particular game will be more of a single-player title, although co-op play will more than likely arrive when it is launched, while Shadowrun Online is a straight up MMORPG.
The Adventures of OnLive: Buy-out company revealed, HTC to lose $40 million and other fun quests
While the title may seem a bit sarcastic, or humorous depending on your sense of humor, no doubt a lot of people have been following what has been going on with OnLive over the past few days since rumors began that the company would suddenly be closing its door to massive lay-offs and it being bought out. Since late Friday, after all the dust settled, we knew more about the situation and the impending buy-out of the game streaming service.
During GameCom 2012 Sony held a press event at the beginning of it during which they announced Playstation Mobile, basically a re-branding of Playstation Suite. Along with that, Sony also announced what this new service will do, which is to offer games to the PS Vita and Android Playstation Certified devices. Now we already know at least 11 games that will be arriving on Playstation Mobile.
So as the dust settles through a flurry of rumors and half details earlier this afternoon, it seems as though some sense is now coming out of the whole OnLive fiasco. Rumors from OnLive shutting down today and entire staff lay-offs, Bankruptcy filing and pretty much everything else you can stuff in there have been floating around.
Among all the tower defense games you can find in the Android ecosystem nowadays, there is one that almost every TD development studio has sunk their teeth into: Castle Defense or Siege is a genre that has gone mainstream lately, and that should be no surprise since it’s the perfect fit for both casual and hardcore players. While people might think it all boils down to hitting that touchscreen as fast as you can to get an arrow or bullet through every moving thing out there, there will always be an Upgrade system, or a full arsenal to be unlocked or bought through IAP.
Moments ago a wild rumor spread across the Twitter space about OnLive apparently closing their doors today out of nowhere and that they were laying off their entire staff. The rumor also suggested that a new company would be formed but all OnLive staff would be laid off.