Tag Archives : games

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...

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...

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...