Mobile

Gameloft’s Newest Mobile Game Looks A Lot Like… Crysis 2?

People give the mobile-game developer Gameloft guff for making games that are perhaps overly-”inspired” by other popular games.


Mobile

Word Off Makes Spelling Into A Territorial Death Match

Word Off is, well, a face-off… with words. It’s an asynchronous Scrabble-scored Boggle fight, played on a strategy game’s grid and covered in a Roy Lichtenstein touch.


April 26, 2012
Mobile

You Can Get 10 New Angry Birds Levels For Free Right Now

A free new update is available today called “Fry Me to the Moon”. Ten free new levels! Lots of space eagles! Android and iOS! [Rovio]


April 16, 2012
Mobile

Fake Angry Birds Space Android App Has Malware

Kotaku AU

For those of you using Android, this is probably worth looking out for: a fake version of Angry Birds Space, doing the rounds on some alternative Android stores (not Google Play). Apparently this app can potentially install malware onto your Android device.


April 12, 2012
Mobile

Star Command Looks Like The Best Thing To Happen To Phones Since Operators

Star Command, a mobile game we’ve been keeping a very close on lately, has its first trailer. And it’s everything you’d hope for from a game that combines space strategy with ship management, two things that are way cooler combined than they sound individually.


April 7, 2012
Mobile

The Original Hard-Boiled, Slow-Motion Max Payne Goes Mobile Next Week

We’ve still got another month before the third instalment of Max Payne hits the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. Why not spend that time reliving the original on the iPhone or iPad?


Mobile

Joe Danger Coming To iOS, Bringing Shark Wrestling With It

Slowly but surely, Hello Games’ loveable stuntman Joe Danger keeps making his way to new platforms. After debuting on PS3 and then hitting Xbox 360 last year, the Super Dave of video games will be defying death on iPads and iPhones soon.


Mobile

Can You Defeat 99 Computer Controlled Bombermen? Only If Your iPhone Doesn’t Crash.

Ever wonder what it’d be like to play a massive 100-person game of Bomberman? Well Konami read your mind and released 100-Person Battle Bomberman late last month for smartphones in Japan.


April 5, 2012
Mobile

The Shadowrun Video Game You’ve Always Wanted

For more than two decades pen-and-paper role-players have been losing themselves in the dirty streets and glimmering megacorps of Shadowrun, yet only four largely forgettable video games have explored the setting’s unique mix of cyberpunk and urban fantasy. Series creator Jordan Weisman would like to fix this oversight.


April 3, 2012
Mobile

New Penny Arcade Game Looks A Lot Like Old Final Fantasy

No, the third Penny Arcade game will not be released on Super Nintendo. Despite its resemblance to 16-bit games of the early ’90s, Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode 3 is coming to PC, Mac, Xbox Live, iOS and Android. Not SNES.