For those of you who are not familiar with GREE, they happen to be quite a large social gaming platform based out of Asia on Android. Last year they purchased OpenFeint for around $104 million but haven’t actually released any of their titles onto the U.S. Android market until now.
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One game we got to check out during GDC 2012 was Game Insight’s Rule The Kingdom game which is a sort of city building / RPG type of mash-up for Android. The city building aspects are sort of a side note with this game while the RPG elements really are the focus.
One game a lot of people have been waiting for lately happens to be from Phosphor Games called The Dark Meadow. This game has been in the news a lot lately, especially after receiving ‘The Pact’ update on iOS. Well after waiting all this time, we get to grab both the original and ‘The Pact’ all at once as of right now.
Dubbed a ‘Survival Comedy’ game, Zynga’s newest title ZombieSmash has just landed on the Google Play store where you will be flicking and tapping your way through hordes of zombies. On top of that, it is in a castle defense style of gameplay with a little physics-based gaming mixed into it all for good measure.
Gamevil is certainly making a push this month on Android with multiple game releases already. Today they have released yet another title onto the Google Play store, this one being a ‘social’ war game called Last War. I will say the term ‘social war game’ does make me chuckle a bit.
Following up on yet another story today, a few weeks ago we also talked about Glu’s upcoming addition to the Deer Hunter series of games called Deer Hunter Reloaded. Well that game as well has been released today onto the Google Play store for those of you who enjoy creeping around a virtual forest and shooting animals.
After the recent news regarding Amazon’s App Store now supporting in-game purchases we figured this would start to bring a lot of freemium and free-to-play games over to that App Store and it seems that it is happening already. PlayMesh has just released their free-to-play MMORTS (Massive Multiplayer Online Real-Time Strategy) game called Valor.
It seems a lot of classic games are being remade and revamped for release on mobile. Another one in currently in the works called The Bluecoats – North & South which is being remade for mobile by Microids. For those of you unfamiliar with this game, The Bluecoats is an action-strategy game set during the Civil War period.
Back in the beginning of February 2012 SilverTree Media released a new Cordy themed game onto Android called Cordy Sky. Shortly after reporting on the game’s release it mysteriously disappeared from the Google Play store for some reason. Well it now seems to be back and staying put this time.
Only a few days ago Hexage, developers of some great Android games like EVAC and Robotek, announced that their newest game would be a tower defense title called Radiant Defense. Built around the Radiant world, which you may have first experienced in the shooter of the same name, Hexage has announced that Radiant Defense is now available on the Google Play store.