‘Tropico’ Publisher Kalypso Media Pushing Into Mobile With Three Games This Year
Kalypso Media has formed a sister company to develop and publish games on iOS and Android, according to a press release sent out by the German publisher. The newly-minted Kalypso Media Mobile (what...
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Just for Kicks: ‘Kind of Soccer’ Coming Out This Month
Kind of Soccer, a new game by Swiss designer Christian Schnellmann, isn’t soccer at all, or even kind of like soccer. Sure, everybody’s got a little soccer kit on, but it could be called Kind of Elves,...
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Sugar High: Cartoon Network to Publish ‘Zelda’-esque ‘Monsters Ate My...
SleepNinja Games is teaming up with Cartoon Network to publish Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake, an upcoming “environmental puzzle" game for PC, Mac, and iOS in the vein of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to...
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‘Street Fighter’ Dev Releasing Card-Battler ‘Yomi’ on iPad Next Week
Yomi is a tabletop card-battling game that takes place in David Sirlin’s Fantasy Strike universe. At some point, Sirlin made a Unity-driven version and threw it up on the Fantasy Strike website, but...
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PAX East: Single-Player Mode ‘Curse of Naxxramas’ Coming to ‘Hearthstone’...
Earlier this morning at PAX East, Blizzard announced a new single player campaign for their breakout free-to-play card battler game, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. The new mode is called “Curse of...
View Article‘Wayward Souls’ Is Finding Its Way to the App Store Later This Month
In a late-night post on its Facebook page, Rocketcat Games officially announced that Wayward Souls will hit the iOS App Store on April 24th. This isn’t entirely unsurprising—the game was submitted to...
View ArticleIn ‘Severed,’ You Dismember Your Enemies and Use Their Limbs as Your Own
DrinkBox Studios, best known for last year’s Guacamelee!, are making their mobile debut in 2015 with Severed, a first-person exploration and combat game with a killer art style and a soundtrack to...
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Introducing ‘Miniverse’: A Clever Puzzle Game About Saving People in Space
Here’s something neat I found over the weekend: it’s called Miniverse, and it’s an action-puzzle game in development from a two-person team calling themselves Coding Cat Games. In Miniverse, your goal...
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Hexual Urges: Release Date Announced for Dinofarm’s ‘Auro’
Auro is a turn-based tactics game about, well, pushing monsters out of their hexagonally-tiled dungeon and into a huge underground lake. It’s also the new project from Dinofarm games and designer Keith...
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‘Boom Beach’ Update Looks to Restore Challenge and Rebalance Resources
This morning a new update washed up on Boom Beach’s (Free), uhh, beaches. Supercell is calling the update “A New Hope for Victory Screen Enthusiasts," and it includes, of course, a new victory screen....
View ArticleGorgeous Strategy Board Game Hybrid ‘Armello’ Coming to iPad Next Year
Armello sounds like a candy bar stuffed with caramel and, like, nougat, but it’s actually a gorgeous strategy game coming to iPad next year. Developed by Australian indie conglomerate League of Geeks,...
View ArticleStylish Runner-Platformer ‘Crowman & Wolfboy’ Goes Freemium
[appicon url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/crowman-wolfboy/id836610482?mt=8"] We dug on Crowman and Wolfboy($0.99)when it was released as a premium title late last year, but the invisible hand of...
View ArticleFirst Three ‘Blackwell’ Adventure Games Coming to App Store July 10th
We’ve known since late last year that Wadjet Eye Games was in the process of porting its back catalogue to iOS, but the indie developer and publisher announced its latest crop of games today: the first...
View ArticleGorgeous Tactical RPG ‘The Banner Saga’ Coming to Tablets this Summer
This morning Versus Evil, a publisher-consultant for independent games, announced via Twitter that Stoic Studio’s The Banner Saga was making its way to tablets this summer. The Banner Saga is a...
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New Dogs, New Tricks: Trichotomy Games Brings Mushing to iOS with ‘Dog Sled...
Lisa Bromiel and Dan FitzGerald are the two-person team from Chicago-based Trichotomy Games, and they’re making a game about dogsledding. If the idea of throwing biscuits to a team of pixelated...
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Check, mate: ‘Chess 2: The Sequel’ Coming to iPad
According to a short and sweet post on the Ludeme Games website, Chess 2: The Sequel is iPad bound and apparently “coming soon." The somewhat obviously-titled game was until recently an Ouya exclusive,...
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Everybody Is Salty About the New ‘Marvel Puzzle Quest’ Update
If you’re not playing Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign (Free), now’s as good a time as any to start: with a steady stream of updates, content, characters, and tweaks, the game is better now than it was...
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Solid as a Rock: David OReilly’s ‘Mountain’ Now Available
Last week, we got wind that animator and designer David O’Reilly, famous for his work on Spike Jonze’ Her, Adventure Time, and shorts like The External World, was submitting his first game to the App...
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Mo’ Money, Mo’ MOBA: CD Projekt RED Announce ‘The Witcher Battle Arena’
Yesterday CD Projekt Red, in conjunction with Fuero Games, announced The Witcher Battle Arena for iOS. As the name suggests, the new game is a multiplayer online battle arena game (MOBA), in the vein...
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British Advertising Watchdog Rules that EA’s ‘Dungeon Keeper’ Misled Consumers
[appicon url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id659212032?mt=8"]This morning, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled that an e-mail ad for Electronic Arts’ much-maligned Dungeon Keeper (Free)...
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