Yesterday in our article about King and all the crap they are going through, we comments that it is always fun times in the gaming industry and apparently Rovio is having some fun times of their own. An article in the New York Times has posted that “spies could be lurking in the background to snatch data” when you open and play popular games like Angry Birds.
Tag: Android
Last week King, the developers of Candy Crush Saga and publisher of numerous browser-based games, made headlines a few times for a few different reasons. First it was about the company trademarking the word ‘Candy’, then going after another game called The Banner Saga for its use of the word Saga, and then it was about a developer accusing King of publishing a copy of their game.
Puzzle & Dragons by GungHo Entertainment has already held some pretty interesting cross-over events in the recent past. So far we have had an Angry Birds cross-over event as well as two Batman Arkham Origins events in Puzzle & Dragons as well. Now we get to announce another cross-over event of epic cuteness, Hello Kitty is invading Puzzle & Dragons.
Ravenous Games has apparently been keeping themselves busy with a new game the company has been working on called Devious Dungeon. For those of you who do not recognize this company right away, they were the folks behind the League of Evil series of games. In fact this new game is somewhat styled after their previous release called Random Heroes.
Melesta Games has done a bit of a double header today as they have pushed out a rather large update for Toy Monsters while also releasing a whole new game in their Toy Defense franchise, appropriately named Toy Defense 3: Fantasy. If you play Toy Monsters, you have a lot of new content that is now available with the update.
Well it is that time again for another round-up of Android games on sale this weekend. There is actually not a huge difference between this week’s mid-week round-up and this one besides a few additions to the list like the shmup title Sine Mora.
The old school Atari tank battle style of game has been around forever and a day, along with numerous remakes of the game as well. A new game called Dragon vs Robots breathes new life into this old school style of gaming by totally changing up the theme of the original to include dragons and robots.
For those of you who used to play the FPS games from back in the day, you’ll be happy to know that there is a new FPS game on Google Play that inadvertently pays homage to those old school games. In fact CrossGuns 3D has a very Doom-like feel to it, especially when it comes to the visuals for the game.
In the world of mash-up games there really is no end to the possibilities that can come about from mixing multiple genres into one title. Most of the time it works out rather well although there are a few mash-ups that end up being pretty bad. Pinball Block Breaker Craft isn’t a bad mash-up by any means but it certain is one of the more unique ones we’ve seen so far.
[Updated] Candy Crush Saga developer accused of copying another developer’s game called Scamperghost
The developers of Candy Crush Saga have been in the news a lot over the last few days and not for any particular good reason. King made headlines over the recent trademarking of the word ‘Candy’ and then made even more headlines by trying to go after the developers of The Banner Saga because they used the word ‘Saga’, another word that King has trademarked.








