Archive : Games

Although still in closed-beta, Google‘s team at Niantic Labs added an update to its game, Ingress. Described as a “global game of mystery, intrigue, and competition,” Ingress combines socially-driven interaction with strategic planning. The story involves a controlling, “mysterious...

Today Microsoft unveiled their next genration gaming console that many thought would be the Xbox 720. Assumptions that they would just double the rotations of the last Xbox I guess seemed like the right answer. Microsoft decided to go a different direction. We now have the Xbox ONE! Where is Peter...

Earlier this month, we wrote about the announcement of a game coming to us from Sawfly Studios called Men’s Room Mayhem. Well, that game is almost upon us, coming to the world via the PlayStation Vita, iOS and of course, Android. Publisher Ripstone has announced that the game will be launching...

Entertainment media company, and creators of the Angry Birds series, Rovio, have launched their game publishing initiative Rovio Stars. The program accepts third-party games from developers and gives them the tools needed to promote their game. Starting out, Rovio will release Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage...

Remember that lengthy keynote back in February, when we all were waiting for Sony to unveil the PlayStation 4? We waited through all the speeches, saw a few new games that were coming out, and we all cringed when we found out the controller had a share button. That was all fine and dandy, but where...

About a month ago, we covered a preview for the game Quadropus Rampage, a new game from Butterscotch Shenanigans. In the month since then, the game has entered the Beta stage and quite a few things have changed in the game, so we’ll go through a few of those things now. The menus have been completely...

Fighting games, or “button-bashers” as they are fondly known as, are far and few between on Android as the act of bashing buttons is significantly less satisfying on touchscreens (disclaimer: is probably not the actual reason for lack of fighting games). Also quite rare are games that fully...

If I said the words “random gun generation”, what game does that make you think of? For many of you gaming folk, it would probably remind you of the triple-A title Borderlands, but after this reading about this new Kickstarter project, you might start associating that phrase with a game called...

Rovio’s latest take on Angry Birds Seasons includes 30 new levels centered around magic and circus themes, right in time for World Circus Day. The Angry Birds Seasons edition takes place around the world’s celebrations. With over 300 levels, the birds celebrate seasons like Christmas, Halloween,...

There is one game from my childhood that I got so frustrated with I almost threw away my GameBoy. That game was Karateka. Many of you will remember Karateka from even further back than that and will reminisce about it very fondly. Although there has been a remake released this year for consoles, the...

While watching the live feed of Google I/O 2013 (still bummed I couldn’t go) I saw them demo a game on Google Chrome. This game is called Racer. It is the same concept as the slot car racing games because it allows you to go as fast as you want by tapping and holding down on your screen. Now...

Battlefield and Frostbite engine fans, good news: there has been announcement on the Frostbite website that they will be developing a new engine they’ve dubbed Frostbite Go. Even more exciting is that this engine will used for development on “all major mobile platforms”. This is a...

In an article for Games Industry International, co-founder of Mode 7, Paul Taylor, has opened up about the design process for their upcoming port of Frozen Synapse to mobile devices. In it, Paul confirms that an Android version of the game is being developed by a San Fransisco-based studio called Apportable...

I love casual games.  They’re great.  But Daddy Was A Thief was honestly, a little disappointing. The premise of the game is simple; Daddy gets fired, worries how he will provide for his family, decides to start robbing banks, you have to help him escape. No back story to discover, no intro...

So who has tried this balls to the wall, full throttle mayhem and destruction of a racing game? Carmageddon has been resurrected from the video game cemetery, and thrown onto our Android devices. I hope you guys took advantage of the free promo they had going when it was first launched into the Play...