The most recent Humble Bundle is about half way through its sale time and just like when it always hits the mid-way mark for the allotted time each bundle is on sale, a few more games have been added to the list. This brings the total amount of games available for the Humble Bundle to nine in total if you opt into paying more than the average price people are paying at the time of you purchasing your bundle.
Tag: retro
The Mario inspired platformer called The Other Brothers has been a game in the works for some time now, being slated for release onto iOS this week while the Android version is supposed to arrive at some point in the near future. While the game is inspired by the plumber brothers of the Nintendo generation the art is vastly different, featuring a more retro pixel art style to it.
Not too long ago we talked about OrangePixel who happen to be working on their new title that was a throwback to one of the more popular arcade games from back in the day called Gauntlet. This arcade game featured up to four players who would basically dungeon crawl through as many levels as they could before dieing enough times and ending the game.
There are plenty of emulators already available for Android gamers to use when looking to play some of your more old school favorites. Pretty much a majority of the consoles and computer systems already have at least one emulator available for people to use. Well you can add another one to the list and that is the VICE Commodore VIC-20 emulator which has just been launched as an Alpha stage build.
There are a couple of games that will be arriving for Playstation Mobile in the near future. The two titles slated for release onto Playstation Mobile were both part of a recent indie game jam and are called Oh Deer! and Gunhouse, both of which will be released by Necrosoft soon. So what exactly are these two games about?
There are plenty of hybrid games out there that do a good job meshing together two or more standard genres of gaming to form their own little niche in the market. Another Castle by Uncade is about to finish a successful Kickstarter campaign and is a prime example of two genres being meshed together to create something really damn cool.
Sonic fans have yet another game filled with blue hedgehog goodness to look forward to as Sega has announced during GDC that thy will be bringing the original Sonic the Hedgehog game to Android sometime next month. This is the original game but has been reworked with controls for touch screens devices.
Back in October of last year we talked about a rather cool and unique retro-style RPG called Knights of Pen & Paper. This game allowed players to not only create their character and explore a fantasy world but also allows for players to act as the dungeon master within the game itself, sort of like a tablet top RPG but in digital form with pixel art.
A few months ago Kairosoft release their highly anticipated Ninja Village to the Japanese Play Store and and made us drool over Ninja warfare in Japanese. It is now 2 months later and true to from Kairosoft has just released the English translated version to the masses. For those of you who are not familiar with Kairosoft it is a company that releases city management style games (some of them with a flare of combat others with out) done in a lighthearted cute pixel-art format. In the case of Ninja Village your job is to lead you Ninja Clan and unite Japan.
One of the more neat retro style platformers we’ve seen has gotten an update pushed to it. Life of Pixel by Super Icon is a Playstation Mobile game and after a lot of feedback from players of the game Super Icon has issued an update to address some of the issues people have brought up. Oh, and there is a whole new console world to explore as well.








