PC

New Characters, Monsters, Traps Ensure That Orcs Must Die Again

Here’s the PAX East demo of Orcs Must Die 2, the sequel to last fall’s popular downloadable tower defence game.


January 18, 2012
Mobile

Little Empire Is A Massively Multiplayer Backstabbing Simulator

Camel Games’ high-polished “massively multiplayer online” empire building game Little Empires neatly demonstrates why we should never open ourselves up to the inevitable pain that friendship brings. Pretty heavy for a game with cartoon elves, right?


April 13, 2011
Mobile

Anomaly Warzone Earth Turns Tower Defence On Its Head

I think the moment where Anomaly Warzone Earth – I don’t see a colon on the game’s website; letting all three words of the title evenly plod from the mouth pleasingly highlights its Eastern European pedigree-really grabbed me was the first time I rerouted my caravan of tanks and mechanised walkers to loop to endlessly pummel a poor, doomed laser turret.


August 23, 2010
News

Plants Vs. Zombies Has Been Released For…

Plants vs. Zombies has already been released for the PC, iOS and Xbox 360. According to a < href="https://twitter.com/lauriethornton">PR mouthpiece (via Dtoid) involved with the Xbox 360 port, the game is headed to the Nintendo DS!


July 30, 2010
News

This Is Undead Michael Jackson’s Replacement For Plants Vs Zombies

Michael Jackson’s estate wasn’t too thrilled with the zombie King of Pop lookalike featured in Plants Vs Zombies. Not wanting to be startin’ something legally with Jackson’s legal team, PopCap opted to drop that moonwalking zombie for something less litigious.


July 19, 2010
News

Co-Op And Versus Coming To 360 Plants Vs. Zombies

The recently revealed achievement set for Plants vs. Zombies coming someday soon to Xbox Live Arcade, hint that the game will have cooperative and competitive multiplayer modes.


May 6, 2010

LunchTimeWaster: X-Com: Tower Defence From The Deep

Kotaku AU

Isometric perspective. Squad-based tactics. Between mission upgrades. It looks like a modern remake of X-Com at first. But no, it’s another tower defence game!


May 4, 2010

LunchTimeWaster: Where Too Much Tower Defence Is Barely Enough

Kotaku AU

Here’s something new: a tower defence game! No wait, come back, this one’s a little unusual, offering up a fresh take that might just hold your interest.


February 23, 2010

Plants Vs. Zombies IPhone Micro-Review: The Touching Of The Dead

PopCap Games’ unlikely match up between the walking dead and the powerful flora that keeps your brains and well-kept lawn intact is more than just an attention-grabbing title. Plants Vs. Zombies is simply an excellent “tower defense” game.


February 15, 2010
News

Plants Vs. Zombies Has Sprouted On The IPhone

Tower defence game Plants vs. Zombies was slated for the iPhone this January, but then got delayed to February. It’s February now, and the game is out.