BulkyPix, the publishers behind the upcoming iOS game Type:Rider, released an interview video with author Joe Dever today regarding his upcoming title Lone Wolf: Blood on the Snow.
While the Lone Wolf adventure game book series has been around since 1984, the newest game from the award-winning series will blend both books and video games together. Blood on the Snow will be the first act of a completely new story written by Dever. It is being developed by Forge Reply and Atlantyca and will be released on iOS and Android platforms this coming November.
For more information, you can check out the game’s official website here. Also be sure to check out the video player below this article for the interview with Joe Dever.
Titan Comics is going to kick it off in a huge way this year at the New York Comic Con with the release of brand-new comics, brand-new collections, crazy panels and awesome guest signings! Advanced copies of comics like “Miranda The She-Wolf” by Chris Claremont, famous for The Uncanny X-Men, and John Bolton who is famous for Man-Bat as well as others, will be available to the public! Monty Nero and Mike Downling’s “Death Sentence” will also make it’s début which is going to be a fantastic comic for crowds to get their hands on. On the Saturday of the Con, Jim Steranko will join Dave Elliot at the Titan Comics booth for an exclusive signing. He will be signing 300 A1 Annual prints with the money going to the “Heroes Initiative”. Si Spurrier will also be at the Titan Comics booth to sign his fantastic, smash-hit comic “Numbercruncher”.
On the Sunday of the Con from 3:45pm to 4:45pm, Titan Comics Senior Editor Steve White will be holding a panel with Si Spurrier, Dave Elliott and Monty Nero. Audiences will get a taste of what it is like behind the scenes of comic book creation and will be hearing about some cool announcements from the creators of comics themselves. Now that was just a little bit of an overview but if you are going to NYCC this year I suggest you look at the list below this paragraph to see all the Titan Comics events and activities. For any and all other information on the event or on Titan Comics themselves remember to follow them on Facebook (Here) where updates about what is going on will be frequent so you can always stay on top.
Portfolio Review: Titan Comics
Friday October 11, 1:45PM – 2:45PM, Room 1E05
Steve White, Titan Comics Senior Editor will be holding portfolio reviews on Friday at 1:45PM – 2:45 PM.
Signing: Death Sentence – Monty Nero,
Location: Titan booth 2142
Saturday October 12, 10:30AM – 11:30AM
Signing: A1/Hero Initiative NYCC exclusive print – Jim Steranko
It seems like SEGA’s little blue hedgehog just hasn’t been able to stay out of the limelight for these past few weeks. With the impeding release of Sonic Lost World less than a fortnight away, and with the recent announcement regarding Sonic’s appearance in Smash Bros WiiU/3DS, fans of the blue blur have plenty to look forward to game-wise. But in other news of a more TV oriented nature, SEGA made an official announcement on their official blog page yesterday that Sonic and friends have also been slated for a new Cartoon Network television series in 2014!
The working title of the series is called “Sonic Boom”, and is planned to be a large 52 episode series of shorts, running at eleven minutes each. This short-cut story formula is a pretty familiar one to Cartoon Network, airing shows like Teen Titans Go! in a similar capacity. Aside from the blog post detailing the aims and aspirations for the Sonic Boom series, the SEGA post was also accompanied by the screenshot above, showing four very clear silhouettes, easily recognisable to members of the Sonic fanbase.
Or are they? Sonic’s and Tails’ designs look pretty standard, but Amy Rose and Knuckles have undergone a serious re-design, with the former appearing a bit more… shapely than her video game counter-part, and the latter looking like he’s really been working out. With Sonic TV series in the past meeting with relatively strong success, one can only hope that this series is also one to put under Sonic’s “HITS” as opposed to “MISSES”.
You can check out the official announcement for more details at the SEGA blog page HERE.
Welcome back for this week’s iOS Game Suggestions. If you missed last week’s, or are new to the suggestions, click on the link below and check out what cool games you should be picking up for your iOS device along with the introduction on how the suggestions work. (suggestions 1 has how it all works)
A great week on iTunes! As always, it started slow and but ended with a bang! There are many must-buy games this week in all departments, FREE, 99c and over 99c. This week I’ve suggested a total of 20 great quality titles. Make sure you check them all especially… The Cave, Lost Echo, Nascar: Redline, Dead Man’s Draw, NBA 2K14, Level 22, Gunner Z, Hills Of Glory, Pocket Mine just to name a few.
Break down below :
8 – FREE Games
2 – $0.99c Games
10 – Over $0.99c Games
We also have game play video for Level 22 at the end of the article
As always for this week’s suggestions are all new titles that you should take a look at and consider spending your hard earned iTunes cash / time on. Well the Free games just below certainly should all be given a shot as they won’t cost you anything!
For The Cheapskates – FREE GAMES
MASTERABBOTT’S FREE GAME PICK OF THE WEEK!
Gunner Z – Price : FREE – Publisher – BitMonster (Take your fleet of customized “AC-HMV” armored assault trucks into a city overrun by an undead army! However, the enemies aren’t merely mindless zombies; a powerful enemy military is using the engineered threat as a tool. Run by General Thacter, this twisted army utilizes undead soldiers and huge biological beasts as weapons alongside remotely operated mechanized units such as aerial drones, tracked RPG turrets, APCs, tanks, and more. The only force capable of stopping the undead army is YOU!) on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Hills Of Glory 3D – Price : FREE – Publisher –Chillingo (It’s time to save Europe and make history! Land in Italy and fight your way to Germany to put an end to the War. With stunning 3D visuals, multi-touch control tactics, and hilarious nods to war movies, this is one war game you won’t want to miss!) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Pocket Mine – Price : FREE – Publisher –Roofdog Games (The new game from the makers of Extreme Road Trip! It’s mine o’clock, time to dig! Tap the blocks to delve deeper and deeper in your Pocket Mine. Find treasure chests, rare artifacts and trigger explosive chain reactions! Build your deck of booster cards to reach your maximum digging potential and reach the top of the leaderboards! Trade with your friends to complete museum collections and get sweet rewards!) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Brightstone Mysteries: Paranormal Hotel HD – Price : FREE – Publisher –G5 Entertainment (Unravel the secrets of the Templars and an ancient Egyptian cult in this thrilling adventure! New York City Detective Bridget “Biggi” Brightstone has come to France to crack the case of a missing necklace in a haunted castle-turned-hotel. But her investigation is about to turn up much more than she bargained for! When the victim of the robbery suddenly dies, she must track the killer using clues left by ghosts.) runs on iPad. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Samurai Siege – Price : FREE – Publisher –Space Ape Games (Lead an army of Samurai, Ninjas, and fantastic monsters of the East to glory! Build your village into a mighty stronghold! Raise powerful armies! Fight against other players! Please note that Samurai Siege is free to play. Some in-game items can be purchased with real money. You can turn off the payment feature by disabling in-app purchases in your device’s settings.) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Edge Of The World – Price : FREE – Publisher – Central Core Studios(Take turns launching your ships to the Edge of the World! Challenge your friends to a local or online game, and see who can score the most points and win! And best of all, it’s free!) on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Grumpy Virtual Pet – Price : FREE – Publisher –Koyoki Limited (Grumpies are mischievous creatures who love raiding each other’s homes in search of treats.
This has become an international sport and every well trained Grumpy dreams of topping the global leaderboard with their mischievous skills.) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Battlepillars – Price : FREE – Publisher – Hitcents (Those aren’t butterflies in your stomach! You’re feeling the urge to command battle ready caterpillars on a mission to take a bite out of the red caterpillar army!) on iPhone & iPad. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
For The Bargain Hunters – 99c Games
Space Qube – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – Playground Publishing (The universe is infested with dangerous monsters threatening all life! Build your personal spaceship and join Space Jack’s quest in saving the universe. Blast your way through endless levels of Alien mayhem. Can you beat them all to become the best of the best and score some rewards while at it? Find out now! ) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Happy Hills 2: Bombs Away – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – Thumbstar Games (Free the Happy Hills in challenging physics puzzles and defeat the cheeky blocks that occupy them and their homeland! Once again the home of the Happy Hills faces imminent danger! Mount Majestic, the kind and gentle guardian of Euphoria, starts rumbling, bloating and belching out smoke – it seems a dark force is building up deep inside him. Then, after a sudden and tremendous explosion, he bursts out hundreds of vicious blocks, falling down and pressing down the poor, no longer happy hills. ) runs on iPad & iPhone. BUY NOW
For The Millionaires – All games over $0.99
MasterAbbott’s over 99c Pick Of The Week!
The Cave – Price : $5.49 – Publisher – SEGA (Descend into the mysterious depths of The Cave in this adventure game from Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert and Double Fine Productions. Assemble a team of unlikely adventurers – each with their own unique personalities and stories– and descend into the heart of a sprawling, sentient cave in order to find that which is most important to each of them. The Cave has had millennia to spruce up the place so prepare to dive deep and solve the puzzles hidden within exotic locations including a subterranean amusement park, medieval castle, and fully armed nuclear research facility. The Cave is waiting. ) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Lost Echo – Price : $2.99 – Publisher – Kickback (In the near future Greg’s girlfriend Chloe mysteriously disappears in front of him. He starts a desperate search for her. What happened? Why does no-one else remember her? In this indie adventure game you explore fully 3d environments using an intuitive point and click interface. Solve puzzles, explore, play minigames, interact with numerous characters and find out what really happened!) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Dead Man’s Draw– Price : $1.99 – Publisher – Stardock (The ULTIMATE game of risk & reward, where a single card can pile up gold or lose everything! Draw cards, win gold, and unlock exciting new adventures in this addictively fun game of chance and skill. Join Scurvy Pete, Black Bonnie, and the dashing Sir Lovesword in a quest for pirate booty.) runs on iPad. BUY NOW
One Piece: Running Chopper– Price : $1.99 – Publisher – Namco Bandai (Now fans of the Anime and Manga hit, One Piece, can get in on this endless running action with the new game by Namco Bandai called “One Piece: Running Chopper and the Island of Bonds”, yes it’s true but did you expect any different from One Piece? We live in an age where One Piece is in almost every for of media so why not smartphone games too?) runs iPad & iPhone. (NOTE THIS GAME IS IN JAPANESE) BUY NOW
Chickens Can’t Fly – Price : $1.99 – Publisher – Amused Sloth (Plunge towards the depths of a chicken-powered science facility! Chickens Can’t Fly is here to give you endless free-falling excitement in a wacky world.) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Totems: Game Of Conquest – Price : $1.99 – Publisher – Timecode. (Totems is a new board game featuring: maps, topology and of course strategy! If you enjoy Risk, Carcassonne, Go, Stratego, or even Uno or Solitaire, you will love the “easy-to-learn, hard-to-master” fun of this game.) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Apple Dash HD – Price : $2.99 – Publisher – Strange Flavour. (Evil Corp’s gloopers have captured all the bees and it’s up to Dash to save them! Enjoy some good old fashioned platforming fun, brought to you by the team of vintage game programmers at Pixel Pyro. With glorious hand drawn high resolution retina artwork and ridiculously easy to learn controls. Play your way through 100 different levels set across 4 worlds and collect all Dash’s strange hats. See if you can unlock the hidden moon boots and leap around like an astronaut. As tested by NASA (no, really, we actually had someone at NASA testing Apple Dash!).) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
NBA 2K14– Price : $8.49 – Publisher – 2K Sports (NBA 2K14 is the latest installment of the world’s biggest and best NBA video game franchise. With more than 38 Sports Game of the Year and “Best Of” mentions last year on console, 2K14 is set to rule the virtual hardwood on iOS. This year, we’ve joined forces with the league’s most dominant force: LeBron James. NBA 2K14 will raise the bar, yet again.) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Level 22– Price : $4.49 – Publisher – Noego (Are you late for work? Start panicking! Gary is an office worker who oversleeps after a drunken night out on the town. Here’s where it gets tricky, because this isn’t the first time Gary’s been late for work, and he could be fired if he’s spotted arriving at his desk after everyone else yet again. So he’ll have to prove he’s smart and sneaky enough to make his way up all the 22 floors between him and his office without being seen. ) runs iPad & iPhone. BUY NOW
Nascar: Redline– Price : $5.49 – Publisher – Eutechnyx Limited (NASCAR®: Redline™ is a unique strategy game that lets you live the life of an up-and-coming NASCAR star for the first time on iOS. Start out as a rookie in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and work your way to the top by training your team, upgrading your car and making the right moves during the race at critical moments.) runs iPad & iPhone. BUY NOW
There you have it folks these games should keep you busy for quite some time well until next week at least. I’ll be back next week for another dose of iOS goodness, in the meantime if you would also like to suggest your own suggestions, please feel free to share them in the comments section below or in the iOS forum section on the site here.
F1 2013 has finally launched in the UK just in time for the Korean Grand Prix this weekend and showing off one final time with a launch trailer. Now players will be able to experience the latest in the F1 series, with better visuals, immersion, and the additions of classic content.
Codemasters has also set up a special event for the Korean Grand Prix in the form of a time trial that players will be able to compete in via RaceNet, the community hub. Those that wish to take part can simply race on the Korean track in dry conditions in a Williams car to try and get the best online time. Though all those that compete will receive 1000XP to use on in-game rewards.
Those that want to watch the launch trailer can find it embedded below, while those in the UK wanting to get their hands on F1 2013 can find it at retailers for Xbox 360 and PS3, as well as through Steam on PC. Don’t forget to weigh your options between the standard and Classic Edition though.
GAMEVIL has just gotten bigger in the mobile game world now that they have acquired Com2uS another mobile game developer and publisher. By purchasing the controlling shares of Com2uS from shareholders, GAMEVIL will be able to combine their efforts as major components of global mobile games.
What does this means for fans of GAMEVIL games like Dark Avenger and Steel Commanders or Com2uS games like Heroes War? Only that the two companies will be leveraging their user bases, such as the GAMEVIL Circle and Com2uS Hub. In fact for players this acquisition may prove beneficial as the two work together to be more competitive in the market.
What do you think this means for you? Let us know what you think of GAMEVIL acquiring Com2uS in the comments below and what it might mean for the future of their past and future games.
During EB Expo 2013, we popped in at Namco Bandai Games’ booth for a chat about their latest releases, upcoming titles and some popular Japanese titles not yet set for release down under.
We spoke with Namco Bandai Australia’s Production Manager Steven outside of their booth about all of their titles on show. He was more than willing to answer all manner of questions posed including those regarding the two hottest topics for Namco Bandai fans at the moment: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle and J-Stars Victory VS.
You can check out our interview with Steven of Namco Bandai in the video below. Be sure to let us know what you think of our interview in the comments section.
We discussed the game’s unique features, freemium elements, what makes Mighty Quest for Epic Loot so special, where its sense of humour comes from and how gamers can join in on the quest for that epic loot.
Mighty Quest for Epic Loot looks like a mighty fine game and one that will undoubtedly impress fans of the action genre. You can check out our interview with Corentin in the video below.
While there is still no release date in sight for the second Bioshock Infinite DLC, “Burial at Sea – Episode 1”, 2K Games and Irrational Games have put out a new teaser for the DLC. Though don’t get too excited, as this new teaser is more about world building than showing off anything actually in game.
Titled “Rapture: A Modern Day Atlantis?” the teaser is made in the style of the previous Infinite teasers “Columbia: A Modern Day Icarus?”. Even going so far as having an alternate title of the fake series it is on, here “Fake from Myth” instead of the previous “Truth from Legend”. While, it doesn’t give an real information it will interesting to see what more they do with these as they come closer to having a release date.
Those wanting to see the teaser can find it embedded below. The Bioshock Infinite DLC “Burial at Sea” will see Booker and Elizabeth on Rupture as it falls apart, though it is still be produced and no release has been announced yet. It will be available on Xbox 360, PS3, and PC when it does though.
An interesting bit of news pertaining to Pokemon and pop culture has just been released in that as a honor of the release of the upcoming Pokemon X & Y boy band Union J will be changing their name for one day. The day will of course be October 12th, the release date of the games, and their name will be changed to Union XY.
The boy band, known from the British version of The X Factor, all have close ties with the Pokemon series, some even playing it on set of X Factor. The idea of the name change came from band member George, who is coincidentally the only member whose name doesn’t begin with “J”, but the other three members did approve of the idea.
It will be interesting to see what Union XY does on release day, whether doing a performance for Pokemon X & Y or off playing it themselves, but regardless it is nice to see artists celebrating their favorite things. Pokemon X & Y will be releasing October 12th exclusively for Nintendo 3DS.
