Rovio, makers of all things avian and angry, have released a new game into the Angry Birds franchise called Angry Birds Action! The game is currently being rolled out softly in a few select regions, so I haven’t had the opportunity to try it out yet. That being said, the game fits the mold of prior releases, where players will pull back on Red, and then let him loose to bounce around a variety of outdoor structures (sound familiar yet?), to see what can be taken down.
Tag: Arcade Games
Back in October 2015 we reported on a new puzzle game called Ghosts of Memories. This particular game follows in the footsteps visually of other popular games such as Monument Valley and Lara Croft GO. However, with this game everything seems themed around a more mythological ancient civilizations.
If you’re a fan of old school style of platformers, such as Super Mario Bros and other similar games, then there’s a bit of good news for you today. One of the games we checked out at GDC this year was a game called Super Phantom Cat, which takes a lot of inspiration from some of the classic platformers to have ever been released, but has a bit of a unique visual look to it.
Following the successful funding of a Kickstarter campaign, Montreal-based Thunder Lotus Games launched the Viking action platformer Jotun on PC last year. PlayStation 4, Wii U and Xbox One versions are also releasing later this year, but you don’t have to wait that long if you have an Nvidia Shield device. Shield owners with a GeForce Now membership can stream the game today at no additional cost.
Kiloo is primarily known for their gargantuan hit Subway Surfers. They have other really good games too. They plan to add to their impressive list of games with a new MOBA called Spellbinders. It will arrive for Android and iOS, April 28th.
Soon to be released by Cherrypick Games, Now Escape! is a new endless runner game for Android devices. The idea of this runner game is fairly simple. Players will be dragging their shape, in this case an orange star, around the screen as it moves forward. There are various obstacles that need to be avoided, but they are also capable of rotating, pivoting, or otherwise transforming, and they do so without notice. This means you’ll need to have some pretty decent reflexes as well.
Released by Timothy Miller Corona, Ether Wars is a new shooting game released on to Google Play. The game is a radial shooter, so players will be circling the target area, and trying to destroy its contents while navigating around it in a clockwise or counterclockwise fashion.
Last weekend my youngest daughter mentioned she wanted to play Roblox more than a few times and as she usually talks almost nothing but Minecraft, I decided to find out why the sudden change. Roblox is an adventure game by Roblox Corporation and was originally released in 2006 and then on July 16, 2014 for the Google Play store.
Large Minecraft fan site Lifeboat hacked with over 7million accounts affected, mainly for Pocket Edition
Fan sites and generally anything online getting hacked isn’t always news, even when it is video gaming related. However, when they are big in terms of accounts affected, like the Playstation hacks, it tends to get noticed. So far Minecraft on any platform has managed to stay fairly secure but unfortunately that isn’t the case anymore as a major fan site for Minecraft: Pocket Edition, called Lifeboat, was hacked.
Released by Woof Games, Rush Fight is a simple but fun side-scrolling brawler. Players will choose what they would like their character to look like, though of the five characters, four of them needing unlocking. Once that’s settled, they begin with their character in the middle of the screen, and being rushed by untold numbers of assailants.









