Oddworld is a successful video game franchise that has been released by a handful of developers, and has been around nearly twenty years on various platforms, with this game debuting for the original Xbox in 2005. This was a franchise that I’d heard of and was vaguely familiar with, yet hadn’t experienced any (coming in “clean”, in essence). I was looking forward to reviewing this one when I saw that it went on sale, so let’s see what I walked away with.
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If you have a hankering for Monster trucks, Stickman Downhill Monstertruck might be able to help out. From the dev that has released a variety of stickman games (motocross, ice hockey, Rope’n’fly, etc) comes a downhill monster truck. There are over fifteen different models to choose from, which include the likes of a school bus, a shopping cart, and a moving crane; all of the trucks are designed by hand.
This week we have already posted twice about the next upcoming episode for Game of Thrones called Sons of Winter. This will be the forth episode in the series leaving two more to come before it is finished. Today Telltale Games has released a trailer for Sons of Winter as well as a more official release date for when it will be arriving, which will be next week.
Back in October 2014 we reported on Amazon Game Studio announcing three games that would be heading our way soon. One of those games is called Till Morning’s Light, which was developed by WayForward, and after a somewhat lengthy wait, it is now available for Amazon Fire devices over on Amazon’s Appstore.
Since it originally launched on PC and Mac back in March of last year, Blizzard’s fantasy-themed digital collectible card game, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, has amassed a rather large community of players around the world that encompasses everyone from casual players to professional gamers competing in large tournaments for real cash prizes. The game is also continuing to reach new audiences now that it has hit new platforms including Android tablets like the NVIDIA Shield at first, before finally being updated to include Android phones as well.
[Update: Released] Dark arcade-puzzle game Ember’s Journey will be finding its way to Android this July
A rather interesting and dark looking puzzle arcade game will be making its way to Android soon called Ember’s Journey. When we say dark looking though, we don’t mean creepy or that kind of ‘dark’. Instead we literally mean dark and this is because the only light in this game comes from your character.
RESCUE: Heroes in Action firefighter simulation strategy game will be landing on Android next month
RESCUE: Heroes in Action is an upcoming strategy simulation game that will be arriving next month onto mobile devices. Currently in development by Fragment Production, RESCUE: Heroes in Action is all about saving people as a firefighter before they burn to death horribly. Well maybe it isn’t that gruesome but the goal is to work with your team of firefighters to save before who happen to be in trouble.
Bloxels is up on Kickstarter with hopes that even the most code-illiterate people can make video games
There are already a decent amount of drag n’ drop game engines and other styles of engines that aim to make developing video games a whole lot easier. Bloxels is a new system that is looking for funding on Kickstarter and this system aims to allow even the most code-illiterate kids and adults the ability to make video games.
Claiming its inspiration from the Fallout series, Hardboiled is about surviving life after nuclear war. In Hardboiled, players will assume the role of Max, one of the survivors of a nuclear holocaust. As one might expect, the blast itself killed many people, and the ensuing radiation and disease wiped out more, after the fact.
For those of you who enjoy street racing as well as dating sim games, there is some good news for you today as TOAST has opened up pre-registration for what they are dubbing as the “World’s first Racing/Dating Sim” game. While we are not exactly sure if this is a world first for all platforms, we certainly can’t think of any racing/dating sim hybrid games off the top of our heads for mobile at least. This is what is called Drift Girls.









