Tag Archives : games

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...

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...

Today at Google I/O, Google officially announced its new games service, Google Play Games, and this was very exciting because we didn’t see this coming. Google announced that Google Play Games would have features such as achievements, leaderboards, cloud data sync and real-time multiplayer which...

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...

I am a huge sucker for Nerf guns. Something about pelting people with foam darts gives me immeasurable glee and my immense arsenal of Nerf guns (count: two) is testament to that. It was natural then that the Kickstarter campaign of Tek Recon would have caught my attention. And don’t worry, this...

  Happy Mother’s Day to all those mothers out there! And if you’re not a mother, hope you’re treating your mother right, like for instance looking at some bargain games this weekend so that your mother is never bored with her Android device. Hmmm, ‘mother’…   New...

Android gamers rejoice! AndroidPolice have uncovered what could possibly be system files that will probably be used for a new Google Play service specifically for games. And of all places to find these system files, the files were found on a routine teardown of the MyGlass app. Yes, that is the Google...

  In an article last week, I told everyone about a budget gaming controller that banked in UNDER $10.00, something unheard of in the tablet controller realm. I also promised that once I got it, I would do a review on it, talk about what I do and don’t like, how does it feel, the whole shabang....

The Ouya has captured worldwide attention with its Kickstarter campaign and has properly introduced the possibility of affordable Android gaming in the living room. The reactions to the device itself and its delays have been mixed, but the anticipation of its June launch has not abated mainly because...

Who would have seen this coming? Rumours coming out of Japan have said that Nintendo is currently looking at ways of converting their consoles so that smartphone apps and games can be utilized. This is big news for the games giant as its latest ventures into the console industry, the Nintendo Wii-U and...

Rovio has announced a new addition to their portfolio that will have many Android gamers around the world breathing a sigh of relief. Rovio Account is a new system which will be eventually implemented into all of Rovio’s games and allows gamers to save any progress they achieve in games and have...

In a move that surprises no one except for how long it’s taken to make it, Popcap has announced the sequel to it’s smash-hit game, Plants vs Zombies. Not much has been divulged regarding the gameplay itself, instead all we have is this teaser trailer of people including the likes of Angry...