Nomad Games has been working on bringing the classic Talisman tabletop game from Games Workshop to Android and iOS tablet over the past little while and it looks like it is almost ready to be released. Officially called Talisman Prologue, this game will be a full single player campaign that is being created from the original tabletop game.
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Square Enix seems to be keeping their steady stream of game releases going with plans for more games to head over to Android in the near future. Currently slated for release on the Square Enix Market in Japan for Android users this month, Drakerider and Chaos Rings II are gearing up for release if you happen to live in Japan.
For those of you waiting to grab a Tegra 4 device the moment they begin arriving for consumer consumption it looks like you will be waiting a little bit longer. nVidia’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has come out to say that their next-gen chipset won’t begin shipping until mid-July.
While we all continue to wait for Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy V and future Final Fantasy titles to arrive on Android, which Square Enix recently teased would happen, it looks like the company is now gearing up to release Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions onto Google Play soon. The game is already available for Android users in Japan through Square Enix’s online marketplace.
Former Infinity Ward creative strategist Robert Bowling is working with Gun Media who will be publishing Mighty Rabbit Studios’ newly announced tactical strategy game that will be heading to Android and iOS this Spring. Officially called Breach & Clear, players will be charged with the task of taking out various terrorist groups from around the world.
The deck building RPG strategy game Ascension and Ascension Online could be heading to Android around the end of this year. Currently available as both a tabletop and iOS game, the developers are planning to start up a Kickstarter campaign with the goal being to bring both games to Android and Steam, with a release time of round the end of 2013.
Information is beginning to surface today over possible layoffs at Valve who are the developers of the Half-Life franchise and Steam. Details right now are pretty scarce as to what is going on and regarding the number of employees let go as of Tuesday morning. While the number of staff who have been laid off is currently unknown, some terms describing the situation being thrown around include “great cleansing” and “large decisions.”
By now, you would’ve known that Real Racing 3 is due to be a freemium game employing a timer-based mechanic. I had my reservations about it, but reading the initial impressions of journalists from established gaming publications regarding the way the timer-system worked, I thought it won’t be so bad after all.
Last week we reported on Zen Studios who are the developers of Zen Pinball HD which is one of the two great pinball platforms available for Android on Google Play. They had announced a new series of pinball tables that would be heading our way that isn’t related to Marvel and is instead themed around a different universe, that being the Star Wars universe.
If you aren’t already agitated at the news that Real Racing 3 will be a free-to-play game when it lands on Android on February 28th, 2013 then maybe this will push you there finally. EA is planning to release the first ever freemium Tetris game onto Android and iOS this Spring. This Tetris game will officially be called Tetris Blitz which EA is saying will off a new twist to the original game mechanics.









