Mobile

‘Free+’ Seems More Honest Than ‘Free-to-Play’

People who are fans of words that mean what they’re supposed to mean are probably not fans of the rhetorical loophole exploited by the term “free-to-play”.


August 31, 2011
In Real Life

Gameloft Games Look Better At The Concept Art Stage

Mobile publisher Gameloft gets a lot of bad press for the way its games borrow visual and design cues from popular console titles. Its popular NOVA series, for example, is really HALO in all but name.


August 26, 2011
Mobile

Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation Offers Spectacular Eye Candy

The mobile first-person shooter that is totally not Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is getting a new iteration later this year.


July 18, 2011
In Real Life

Rumor: Gameloft Working Employees To The Bone

Mobile publishers Gameloft are known for making blatant, if high-quality rip-offs based on other people’s intellectual property. Might they also be known now for shitty work practices? [games.on.net]


June 24, 2011
Mobile

Backstab Delivers Buggy Free-Running, Cannon-Play And Piracy

Whenever a Gameloft title hits the iPhone I play a little game before the game: I try and guess what popular console game it’s trying to mimic.


May 10, 2011
Mobile

Gameloft Finally Gets Around To Cloning FarmVille For iPhone

Gameloft, pioneers of exploiting hit games for thinly veiled clones for Apple’s iPhone and iPad, have reached an important milestone. The company has finally released its take on FarmVille for iOS.


April 29, 2011
Mobile

Just How World Of Warcraft Is Order & Chaos Online?

Gameloft has finally turned its uncanny game mimicking powers of World of Warcraft, Blizzard’s immensely popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game, and the result is a surprisingly enjoyable iPhone MMO with a great deal of potential.


April 21, 2011
PC

N.O.V.A.: Elite, The Facebook FPS Where Paying Is Winning

Gameloft takes its iPhone Halo clone to Facebook with N.O.V.A. Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance: Elite, a competitive first-person shooter that eschews balance for the sake of getting paid.


March 19, 2011
Mobile

Order & Chaos Online Is Gameloft’s Answer To World Of Warcraft

Known for its shameless copies of popular games, Gameloft takes copycat gaming to a whole new level with Order & Chaos Online, a massively multiplayer World of Warcraft clone for iOS.


March 18, 2011
Mobile

Rainbow Six Infiltrates The iPhone

The squad-based shooting action of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six series finally makes it to the iPhone and iPod Touch, as Gameloft releases Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Shadow Vanguard, complete with three-player online co-op play.