Now, I’m not exactly in the iPhone-toting 14-year-old girl target demographic for this kind of game, but the concept struck me as really original: players adopt the role of artsy, nerdy, rebellious, or slacker high school students, and employ either flattery or abuse to curry loyalty from a variety of cliques. The tactics you use…
Achtung! Braaaains! Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies Brings Nazi Zombies to iPhone
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,…
Fun Friday: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for BlackBerry
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. 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…
Light Racer 3D for Android
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…
Video: Gameloft’s Skater Nation for iPhone is in works
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…
More BlackBerry OpenGL in Action: PBA Bowling and Super Monkey Ball
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 Storm2. Sega also said that they have started work on getting their extremely…
OpenGL ES Arrives on BlackBerry, 3D Gaming in Tow
Gaming on BlackBerry 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…
Fallen Earth MMO Getting an iPhone App
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…
Classic Apple II game Transylvania ported to iPhone
Here’s one for hard-core back-from-the-days Apple 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…
Gameloft: What recession? We had 18% growth in sales in the first nine months of this year!
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…