If you’re a fan of shooing Nazis and Zombies, then this game might be what you’ve been waiting for. Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies brings the consoles’ ever popular “Night of the Undead” map pack, where you and your teammates work together to defend a point from wave after wave of Nazi Zombies, and brings it to the iPhone.
Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies features 2-player co-op over bluetooth, as well as 4-player co-op over Wi-Fi. Players can also create public or private online matches, so fight alongside strangers or your your best buds to fight off the zombie invasion. Controls are all on-screen and offer auto-targeting of the shooting reticule, but players can also zoom in and shoot from a more accurate perspective.
Activision also notes that Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies will feature new downloadable content in the future which will keep you Nazi Zombie murdering SOBs coming back for more! Jawohl!
One more game I’d like to tell you about today. Heck, it’s Friday… let’s have some fun, right?
Bplay has announced the launch of their new Sonic the Hedgehog 2 game for BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM). If you’re into retro-gaming at all (I’m talking Sega Genesis here), this one should probably be on your radar.
Official description:
With Dr. Eggman’s return to take over the world and turn the animals into mindless drones, Sonic the Hedgehog teams up with Miles “Tails” Prower to foil his evil plans! With a new Spin Dash Attack, defy the forces of gravity, blaze through 10 unique levels, and dash through half-pipe courses. Race to find all 7 of the Chaos Emeralds before Dr. Eggman uses them to fuel his Death Egg warship!
TGIF, right? Because it’s Friday I feel like covering a little more game action than usual. Just happened to check out a game from Battery Powered Games called ‘Light Racer 3D’ for Android. It has gone to version 1.2, and is a lot of fun…
There’s a definite TRON flavor to this one, as the object is to race your motorcycle to the death against an opponent in a 3D arena. Hem your opponent in to your ‘light rays’ left behind as you travel around the board… But there’s more to watch out for than just that. There are obstacles, walls and more that you’ll need to evade. Who can last the longest without crashing? That’s the whole idea for this one.
I think the video above explains it all, really. If you’re intrigued, hit up the Android Market for all the details.
In its latest video podcast, Gameloft released the trailer for its upcoming free-roaming iPhone skating game – Skater Nation. As you’re about to see – the game rocks, or at least promises to deliver tons of fun for skate-lovin’ folks.
You can select from eight different street surfing board jockeys and then browse around the city. Both accelerometer and touch controls are used, so you can show-off all the tricks you’ve learned… And now the mentioned video podcast featuring Skater Nation trailer. Enjoy!
Need For Speed played the poster boy role for RIM’s OpenGL ES announcement, but they’re definitely not the only ones who are excited about the new options for developers. Here’s a quick demo of Concrete Software’s PBA Bowling, coming to the BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Storm2. Sega also said that they have started work on getting their extremely successful Super Monkey Ball franchise onto the Storm2. The OpenGL support is limited to certain hardware constraints, so right now only the Storm2 and Curve 8530 (oddly enough) will support the enhanced graphical capabilities. It’s worth noting that though 3D is the big thing, OpenGL can also do some good work on the 2D front. Check out the earlier announcement from the BlackBerry Developer Conference for more info.
Gaming on BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) has never been what you would call breathtaking – a few low-key casual games here and there and the preloaded Brickbreaker could handle the lion’s share of twitchy boredom. Well, the platform is taking a big jump as OpenGL ES support has gone official and is currently available in the beta BlackBerry JDE we had mentioned earlier.
The in-app purchacing sounded vaguely iPhone OS 3.0, and OpenGL even moreso, but between these multimedia improvements and BlackBerry’s existing expertise in productivity, the whole platform is feeling a lot more balanced. Shown here is Need for Speed, which we’ll have some hands-on footage of shortly, complete with gesture controls for brake and boosting, and accelerometer use for steering. There’s going to be at least one other big name game showing off what OpenGL on BlackBerry can do, and we’ll be sure to check it out.
The post-apocalyptic massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Fallen Earth, has just announced an in-depth iPhone app that lets you take care of quite a bit of in-game business from your mobile. For those not familiar with the genre, MMOs are generally subscription-based computer games that take place wholly online with other players (either cooperatively or competitively, as the case may be). Players control characters in the shared game world to embark on missions, gather equipment, craft items, and a bunch of other stuff. If you’ve heard of World of Warcraft, then you know what an MMO is.
Anyway, Fallen Earth is working on an app that allows players to do a few things in-game without having to be at your computer, which is actually really handy since things keep happening in the game even when you’re not playing. Folks will be able to view character information similar to WoW’s Armory app for iPhone, but the real kicker will be talking to clan members, managing auction house sales, and crafting queues remotely; that’s changing the mobile app from an MMO companion reference to an actual part of the game, which I really like. To stay updated on the app’s progress and learn more about the game, hit up Fallen Earth.
Here’s one for hard-core back-from-the-days Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) dans – the Apple II classic text adventure Transylvania has been ported to iPhone!
Those not familiar with the game should check out a dedicated Wikipedia page for all the details. I’ll only point out key facts about the iPhone version:
The game was remade in collaboration with Antonio Antiochia, the original author of Transylvania!
Gameplay has been updated and you don’t have to text input commands. Using the magic of touch is enough, but if you’re so nostalgic that options still exists.
The graphics has been updated, which is kinda expected.
The price is 99 cents which is like nothing for the experience of time travelling.
There’s no recession for the leading mobile games developer Gameloft. During the first nine months of 2009, the company’s consolidated sales went up by 18%, reaching 90.2 million EUR. On a constant exchange rate basis, that’s actually 16%, which is still impressive.
Here’s how the numbers went from quarter to quarter compared to the last year (in millions EUR):
Q1 2009 – 30.8 vs Q1 2008 – 25.3 (+22%)
Q2 2009 – 29.3 vs Q2 2008 – 25.0 (+17%)
Q3 2009 – 30.1 vs Q3 2008 – 26.2 (+`15%)
9-month total – 90.2 vs 76.5 (+18%)
During the first nine months of 2009, Europe, North America and the rest of the world represented 38%, 33% and 29% of total sales, respectively…
Highlights for Children is launching its first iPhone app – the original Highlights Hidden Pictures game, which (as you can presume) targets iPhone and/or iPod Touch-ownin’ parents.
The seek-and-find game is designed to challenge child’s visual skills to allow him/her to locate hidden objects within Highlights’ classic kid-friendly illustrations. There are over a hundred hidden objects to find and when each is located, it turns from black and white to color and a sound chimes to announce the discovery.
In total, Highlights Hidden Pictures features eight puzzles, and two free additional puzzles are available after registration. The price is $1.99. (iTunes link)
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