First-Order Games is a one-man indie game development studio founded by John Sahas who previously spend the past 12 years with Neversoft. He was a designed / programmer on four different Tony Hawk titles as well as 6 Guitar Hero titles. He then went back to the Activision studio family, after a short stint working with different indie studios, to take a role as Multiplayer Designer at Infinity Ward for 2 Call of Duty games. Needless to say, he has some experience. Well he has now branched off to make his own game development studio and now his first release, called Swipey Rogue, will be heading our way soon.
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About a week ago we reported on Blizzard’s Hearthstone and the fact that the company had begun teasing a rather big announcement that would be happening on July 22nd, 2015. The teasing of this announcement came in the form of a scroll that was sent to PCGamer which also played the Argent Tournament theme song when the box was initially opened.
Hardline Studios has announces what will be their second release onto Android soon with a game called metaBall. Hardline Studios is the company behind the rather enjoyable space shooter Alpha Wave, but their new game is a lot different from that particular genre. After sitting and thinking of a proper way to describe this game, the best way to do it is with how the developer describes it: Marble Madness meets Q*Bert in a Tron universe.
Released by Fancy Pumpkin, The Stupidest Game Ever is a 3D adventure game that’s just been released on Google Play. According to the trailer, as well as its page on Google Play, the game allows players to try and “an answer to humanity’s most pressing question”, though interestingly enough it seems to go out of its way to not tell you what the question is, let alone answer it.
Twin stick shooters – shoot-’em-ups that use one stick for directional movement and another for directional weapon firing – have been around for a lot longer than you might imagine. The current popularity of the genre was ignited by the release of Geometry Wars over a decade ago, first as a mini game hidden in Project Gotham Racing on Xbox and later as a standalone game in its own right. However, you need to go back 40 years to find the first ever example. It was an arcade game called Gunfight, featuring two cowboys intent on each other’s destruction. It was pretty basic stuff so you have to jump forward to 1984 and another coin-op cabinet called Robotron which, with a lone fighter up against hordes of encroaching robots, set the template for the games that were to come.
Developed by the RAD Brothers, the Adventures of Flig is a new Android game that combines a few genres into one title. This game was actually a finalist in a Nokia game development competition as well. Depending on what section of the story you’re in, you’ll either be partaking in a runner style game, an air hockey type of game, or working your way through mazes.
Traitor – Valkyrie Plan from PigFrog Entertainment is a new FPS game for your Android device. Originally this game was released back in June 2015 on Google Play, but that must have been a soft launch or a beta launch as the developer is now labeling the game officially launched as of today.
Last year we reported on an amazing looking game from Uppercut Studios. Uppercut Studios is known for their well-received games Epoch and Epoch 2. Their latest game, which was expected to come out this year on mobile devices, is Submerged. We have been following this game and it looks amazing. Unfortunately, we just received notice that it will be delayed a bit for mobile devices.
Fuel Games Studio has recently released a colorful and entertaining running game of sorts. If you have ever had the desire to participate in a log running contest, then here’s a safe way to do it. Play Thunder Jack’s Log Runner. It is fun, challenging and quite creative when it comes to game play.
Monster Hunter style game The World II begins limited region testing complete with multiplayer finally
We have only had a few games arrive on Android that would be considered a Monster Hunter style of game, and even those games don’t really reach the level that Monster Hunter is at as a franchise. However, there are a couple of them that do come close but unfortunately lack certain elements such as multiplayer. One of those games is called The World II: Hunting Boss which is pretty much Monster Hunter on mobile but only as a single-player game. Multiplayer has been promised for a long time for that game, and now it appears that the planned multiplayer expansion will, in fact, be a separate release.









