Tower defense games have been all the rage for the past couple of years. There’s something about setting up towers to defend against wave after wave of increasingly difficult enemies that can be very satisfying. But what happens when you take a tried and true gameplay type and have it developed by a video game…
Rumor: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater Coming to an iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad Near You?
Mike over at Redmond Pie made a little post the other day, one that iPhone gamers will want to take in. He noted that Tony Hawk leaked a photo on Twitter the other day… a photo of him (or someone) playing what looks to be a very familiar skateboarding game on the iPhone. Cool beans!…
This week Verizon is all about gaming on the Palm Pre Plus
This week Verizon Wireless is showcasing webOS games. As far as I’ve understood from their press release, some of the titles mentioned won’t work on the Pixi Plus, hence they only talk about the Pre Plus and its gaming capabilities. In total, the Big Red is suggesting 18 titles: Asphalt 5, Brain Challenge, Glyder 2,…
2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa coming to iPhone on April 27th!
Right from the floor of GDC, EA Mobile announced that 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa will be released for the iPhone and iPod Touch on April 27! Those attending the event (unfortunately I wasn’t there) had a chance to play the game, though I’m guessing it was not the build EA was demoing. PocketGamer…
SPB Software brings SPB Quads to Symbian touchscreen phones
SPB Software is bringing its popular puzzle title SPB Quads to Symbian S60 touch-enabled smartphones. The game, which is already available for the iPhone and Windows Mobile platforms, sees you putting together “all your pattern-finding skills to succeed.” The goal is to reveal and mark rectangles’ corners of the same colors in a field filled…
Hands-on video: 3D gaming gets serious on webOS
We were at the Game Developer’s Conference this week in San Francisco and we got some good hands-on time with the latest games for webOS. The platform was originally launched with a relatively simple software development kit: it was based around Internet standards like HTML and CSS in order to target the millions of web…
Scrabble Arrives for BlackBerry via EA and Bplay
I’ve never been that great at Scrabble. Not that I’ve played it too much, but when I do, I always seem to run up against people that pull out works like ‘Quartzy’ and ‘Zyzyxx’. Ugh. Maybe it’s time I did a little practice… and now I can thanks to the folks at EA and Bplay.…
Telect launches Telecom Tycoon in the AppStore
Again we have an example of a company making an iPhone game as part of its marketing activities. The company is Telect, which is the “service connectivity and power solutions provider for the global communications industry,” and the game is called Telecom Tycoon. As you can guess, Telecom Tycoon sees you building mobile networks to…
webOS to Work with Unreal Engine 3
Palm has pledged that Unreal Engine 3, the beast which powers such popular video games as Gears of War, Army of Two, Batman: Arkham Asylum, BioShock, Mass Effect, Rainbox Six: Vegas and more, will work with Palm’s recently-announced plug-in development kit. This will allow for easy ports of established games, as well as a rich…
Review: Street Fighter IV iPhone
When it comes to fighting games, Street Fighter has always been the pinnacle series for both casual and hardcore gaming fans. Street Fighter IV was released last year on the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and PC and it was a breath of fresh air for the fighting game genre as a whole. Now Street Fighter…