Gameloft is back with a brand new shooter, and it's called Blitz Brigade. Actually, the full title is Blitz Brigade - Online multiplayer shooting action!, because Gameloft has forgotten what subtlety is. A freemium, primarily online multiplayer game, this is Gameloft's long awaited take on Team Fortress 2, with all the fun classes and unlockables you'd expect to find within. While it's a great looking game, with colorful visuals, and smooth, refined gunplay, the primary component, as of this writing, is pretty much broken. The server stability is seriously lacking, and actually playing online is very hard to do. more »
I feel confident in saying that the world was not ready for the magic of Robot Unicorn Attack back in 2010. The game is ridiculously addictive and topped [adult swim]'s charts for the longest time and made Erasure a household name. It had some spin-offs and a quasi-sequel in "Evolution" on the web, but now, PikPok is here to bring us a fully fledged sequel, with a '2' on the end and everything! As a side note, I'm glad PikPok was given this job. They've definitely got the chops for this kind of game. more »
When your pedigree of games includes Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride, pretty much everything you release from then on will have certain expectations, and will probably see some measure of success. It's times like these that a developer has the freedom to really experiment and try some new things, and that's exactly what Halfbrick Studios has done with their charming new title, Fish Out Of Water!. more »
The Dungeon Hunter series from Gameloft has a sordid and controversial history, and it's about to get worse. The first two games, while not paragons of the dungeon crawling genre, were well made and fun to play. Then, Dungeon Hunter 3 came along and introduced freemium elements alongside a more fast paced twin stick combat style in what was essentially Gun Bros. in a Diablo type setting. Now, with Dungeon Hunter 4 we're back to a fully fledged game with a plot, decent voice acting, and all the rest, but the freemium elements have been ratcheted up to a comical degree. more »
Since a certain plumber named Mario completed his apotheosis and ascended to the official seat of Platforming God decades ago, there have been tons, and I mean tons, of imitators. But every now and then, you get less of an imitation and more of an homage, and even less of the time, those homages happen to be really fun games. The Other Brothers from 3D Attack Interactive and Simian Squared is just such a game, with tight platforming and some of the most eye popping hand painted pixel art this side of Brooklyn. The controls really hold the rest of the game back, but they aren't bad enough to ignore this platforming gem. more »
Many people enjoy the peaceful calm that goes hand in hand with a long morning of fishing. Others find it boring to the point of pain. But what if your fishing session included narwhals, chainsaw fishing lures, and loads upon loads of guns? Welcome to Ridiculous Fishing from Vlambeer, better known for the excellent Super Crate Box. There is a lot of clone controversy surrounding this game, but more on that later. What needs to be made perfectly clear right from the first cast is that this game is ridiculously well made. more »
The original King Cashing was something of a sleeper hit that garnered a serious cult following after its initial 2011 release. Now, Productions Multimage has come back with King Cashing 2, and it fixes all the flaws of the original game, and then some. Also, it adds more zombies. Nothing wrong with adding more zombies. It's a crazy slot machine RPG with a unique battle system and an even more unique premise, and it should not be skipped over. more »
If there is one thing on this planet that people will never get sick of, that thing is probably cats. If you also happen to like new takes on classic board games that you don't really see much of anymore, Flip the Cats from Kwalee is the absolute perfect game for you, featuring deep, turn-based strategy gameplay, plus all the brightly colored cats you can stomach. more »