Fans of the wonderful Professor Layton series should be interested in another game from the same company. The news from Level-5 International America is that their game Aero Porter will be gracing the North American and European markets at the end of the month.
Aero Porter combines simulating running an airport with puzzle solving by designer Yoot Saito of Seaman, The Tower, and Odama fame. Aero Porter was first released back in Japan in the multi-game pack GUILD01 and will be the second game of that pack to be making the journey to the North American market.
Designed to be fun and enjoyable for players of ranging ages and skill levels, the game features gameplay varying from sorting luggage by color, to ensuring planes leave on time, to earning money that can be spent increasing passenger limits to get more and more flyers. As an added bonus players can customize their planes with different colors and patterns, which can be shared through StreetPass.
Aero Porter will be available on Nintendo 3DS for $4.99 (€4.99 / ₤4.49), in the North American and European Nintendo eShop on November 29th, 2012. Be sure to check out some of the screenshots in the gallery below to get a glimpse of what else the game will include.
Welcome back for this week’s iOS Game Suggestions. If you missed or are new to the suggestions, click on the link below and check what cool games you should be picking up for your iOS along with the introduction and disclaimer on how the suggestions work. (suggestions 1 has the disclaimer and how it all works)
A great week on iTunes, as always it started slow and but ended with a bang! As always there certainly is a few must buy games this week in all departments,FREE, 99c and over 99c. This week i’ve suggested a total of 23 great quality titles. Make sure you check them all especially Dragon Collection, Ninja Toss, Beatdown, Flea Symphony, Gear Jack, Real Boxing just to name a few.
Break down below :
9 –FREE Games 10 – $0.99c Games 4 – Over $0.99c Games
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
DRAGON COLLECTION – Price : FREE – Publisher –KONAMI (The war between the Old Gods brought chaos to Dragon World. An alliance of Dragons, Humans, and the New Gods ended the tyranny of the Old Gods and order was restored. After a century of peace, evil has returned. The Dragons must be awoken again by a new hero. Immerse yourself into the exciting world of DRAGON COLLECTION and become the next Dragon Master!) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Pocket Festival – Price : FREE – Publisher –Chillingo (Design and manage your own Music Festival! Book the best bands and attract the biggest crowds and grow your festival into the biggest, loudest, most rockin’ music festival ever! Are you ready to rock? Start building the most awesome Festival) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Ninja Toss – Price : FREE – Publisher –Bulkypix (Launch Nyam, the fat Ninja, from a catapult as far as you can through this funny and colorfull universe Avoid traps, destroy donough collect rice and learn ancestral ninja skills to defeat your friends in this crazy high score competition in a pure Ninja style.) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Rubber Tacos – Amazing Family Adventure – Price : FREE – Publisher –Zynga (Help the Taco family recover their stolen peppers by the crazy Piñata through over 120 colorful and delicious levels! Collect all the peppers by performing amazing tricks using the family’s super powers!Create your very own levels and challenge your friends!) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Coaster Crazy – Price : FREE – Publisher –Frontier Developments (Simply trace your finger over the touchscreen to build and tweak any coaster you can imagine, in glorious 3D. Its so easy to do that anyone can build them, ride them, crash them – tall, short, long and fast; modern, wooden & crazy. The physics simulation is easy and fun to use, yet rewards each bit of care put into improving your coasters with ever higher scores.) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
QatQi – Price : FREE – Publisher – Zworkbench(Lose yourself in the world of QatQi (pronounced “cat-key”), a gorgeous and meticulously crafted word game that pleases the senses and tests the limits of your lexicon. Frustrated with the lack of innovation in other word games, indie designer Chris Garrett developed QatQi to freshen up the genre with never-before-seen gameplay, an elegant interface, dazzling art, and otherworldly music that changes as you play. In a word, it’s INSPIRED (161 points.)) on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Animal Legends – Price : FREE – Publisher –Appy Entertainment (Quest with friends for loot and glory in Animal Legends! The evil Vampire Frog Skulk has cast a blight upon the land and only you and your friends can defeat him! Create your hero from one of three animal types, each with their own advantages and skill paths — assemble your party of steadfast rhino warriors, nimble raccoon rogues, and crafty owl wizards!) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Monster Hospital – Price : FREE – Publisher – Beeline Intertactive (Doctor! You’re needed in the emergency room STAT! You’ve just been put in charge of the busiest hospital in town, and it’s up to you to make sure it doesn’t flat-line. Keep your finger on the pulse of hospital affairs by moving monsters through the stages of triage, diagnosis, and treatment as quickly as you can. As patients get back on their feet, you can hire them as staff while you grow your facilities and add new equipment. Find out what makes this game so monstrously infectious!) on iPhone & iPad. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Candy Crush Saga – Price : FREE – Publisher – King.com Limited (The super hit game Candy Crush Saga is now available for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch! Join Tiffi and Mr. Toffee in their epic adventure through a world full of candy. Take on this deliciously sweet saga alone or play with friends to see who can get the highest score!) on iPhone & iPad. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
For The Bargain Hunters – 99c Games
MASTERABBOTT’S PICK OF THE WEEK
Beatdown! – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – Ravenous Games (Get ready for the best beat-em up to hit the App Store! Wrongfully dismissed from his job, the hero is on a war path to take down anyone who gets in his way of giving the CEO a much needed beatdown! Inspired by the classic beat-em up genre; get ready for BEATDOWN!) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Lazy Raiders – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – Namco Networks America (Dr. Diggabone is getting too old for archaeological digs—or so he says. But truth be told, he’s just plain lazy! Send the Doctor on a gravity-defying quest through 60 mazes by spinning and flipping the world around. Beware of those thieves and traps, though. Without any challenge, you’ll just grow lazy. And we wouldn’t want that, would we?) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Shards Of Time – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – G5 Entertainment (What would you do, if you could control magic? After her beloved aunt Matilda becomes ill, Lisa learns that Matilda is one of the “Keepers”, a hugely secret group that controls magic. Travel in time through the Wild West, the Magic East and present China, solving immersive puzzles and overcoming unbelievable challenges. Find and assemble the powerful amulet to fight Chaos and heal Lisa’s dying aunt.) runs on iPad & iPhone. BUY NOW
Flea Symphony – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – The Odd Gentlemen/Majesco Entertainment (Conduct Maestro Piccolo’s FLEA SYMPHONY and save their beloved music shop from going out of business. BOUNCE the fleas on drums, LAUNCH them off guitar strings, and SHOOT them out of tuba cannons as you create the perfect musical piece to keep customers coming back. To save their shop and their home, Maestro Piccolo and his Flea Symphony must put on the show of a lifetime!) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Doodle Truck 2 – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – Trinity Interactive Limited (Everyone’s favorite trucking series rolls back into the App Store! Day or night, rain or shine, real truckers are always ready to truck, so pick up your load and deliver the goods! Just remember to buckle up, because it’s gonna be one wild ride!) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Munchsters – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – FPO Projects (When the sun goes down and the lights retreat, silly little Munchsters come out to eat. From behind the dresser and under the bed, they reach for your candy and won’t stop till they’re fed. To keep your treats safe will require a fight, by poking their eyes all through the night.) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Gear Jack – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – Forrest Moon/Josh Presseisen (Jack embarked on a journey in the W-Hale automated Starship. It got too close to a black hole, and was struck by an electromagnetic shock wave that made the entire crew and ship itself go crazy!
Jack is the only robot unaffected by this and he is also the only one that can save the ship that is slowly floating inside the black hole. Jack will need to avoid many insidious traps and dangers to get to the end to save the ship from being destroyed!) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Sleepwalker’s Journey – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – 11bit Studios (Meet drowsy Moonboy. Blown out of bed by a big lunar sneeze, he sleepwalks through dreams. Moonboy needs your help to reach his bed. Guide him safely through various traps, clear obstructions from his path, and shift his surroundings to create a safe passage to the cozy bed. Solve environment puzzles in a fantasy world, find multiple pathways through the game, and collect stars and crescents to experience the beauty of Sleepwalker’s Journey fairytale atmosphere.) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Help Volty – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – Tvndra Producties (The wanderer came upon a dark town. There he met a silent merchant with a peculiar wooden box. Inside he had built a cruel game with gears, knobs, wires… and Volty.) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Mini Jailbreaker – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – Triniti Interactive Limited (No prison can hold YOU… for LONG!
BUST OUT of THE CLINK and RUN for YOUR LIFE in the GREATEST ESCAPE of all TIME! Who needs shoes when you’ve got guts? Run and jump for your life in an old-school mad dash where every second is more intense than the last!) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
For The Millionaires – All games over $0.99
MASTERABBOTT’S PICK OF THE WEEK
Real Boxing – Price : $3.99 – Publisher – Vivid Games (Real Boxing™ brings you the most exhilarating, no holds barred fighting action ever seen on the App Store, taking you closer to the action than you ever thought possible. Combining eye-popping ultra-realistic graphics with the revolutionary V-Motion Gesture Control System, Real Boxing lets you control your fighter with real punches through your device’s camera.) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Verticus– Price : $1.99 – Publisher – Moonshark (You are Verticus™, a superhero equipped with a high tech, heat-resistant jump suit who must prevent the Earth’s destruction at the hands of an evil alien race known as The Obliterators!) runs on iPad. BUY NOW
Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy– Price : $2.99 – Publisher – Namco Networks America (FORGET EVERYTHING ELSE! THIS IS THE ULTIMATE AIR COMBAT GAME! With an extensive single player campaign and revolutionary multiplayer modes, the non-stop action will keep you at the edge of your seat!) runs iPad & iPhone. BUY NOW
Lili – Price : $2.99 – Publisher – BitMonsters (Lili is a quirky adventure RPG hybrid with stunning visuals, silky-smooth graphics and a cinematic storyline. Tuned for new devices, Lili is one of the most visually-stunning games available on iOS. On the mysterious island of Geos, Lili will meet a number of hilarious locals, explore beautiful environments, solve some puzzles, and even challenge an oppressive regime or two along her way. Lili uses an amusing “non-combat” system for dealing with enemies, and sorts out a few personal issues along the way.) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
There you have it folks, these games should keep you busy for quite some time, well till next week at least. I’ll be back next week for another dose of iOS goodness, in the meantime if anyone would also like to suggest their own suggestions, please feel free to share them in the comments section below or in the iOS forum section on the site here.
A patch for the latest entry in the Assassin’s series, Assassin’s Creed III is on its merry way to gamers. Aptly titled the “Thanksgiving” patch, this update will clear up the majority of glitches that still remain in the game. The game was (and still is for the time being) incredibly buggy, so this patch will offer some much needed respite to players from the issues that have plagued the game since release. Assassin’s Creed III puts players in the boots of Connor, half British and half Mohawk assassin as he hunts for vengeance across the free lands of America. The main issues being addressed are as follows, for singleplayer and multiplayer:
SP – Connor’s hood will now be up after the end of the game in Cities and Frontier (yay!)
SP – Reduced difficulty of some chases
SP – Fixed vari0us visual glitches
SP – Fixed player spawn points to reduce de-synch on spawn
SP – Fixed rare occurrences of glitches blocking Story and Side Mission progress
MP – Tweaked settings to improve player connections
MP – Tweaked some of the abilities and other gameplay elements
MP – Fixed issues with ranking system
This patch for Assassin’s Creed III is due out by the end of next week and is set to fix a number of outstanding problems the game has experienced even after the massive Day One Patch. You can find a much more detailed list of all changes here but be warned of Story spoilers. You can also check out our review for AC3 here.
The Playstation 3 has passed the 70 million mark in sales worldwide, according to number provided by Sony Computer Entertainment. These numbers encompasses all models since the launch of the Playstation 3 back in November 2006, where it was first launched in several territories, including Japan and the United States. As for software, there are now 3,950 titles available for the Playstation 3 with 595 million software units sold since September 30, 2012. This includes first and third party published titles.
Numbers were also provided for the Playstation Move. Since its launch back in September 2010, the Playstation Move has surpassed the 15 million mark in sales worldwide. The amount of titles that have some form of Playstation Move compatibility has now reached 400 but figures for software sales have not been provided. The latest of these Playstation Move titles is Wonderbook, an AR peripheral, which is available now.
Today Digital Reality and Grasshopper Manufacturer have confirmed that the previously Xbox 360 exclusive Sine Mora will be released next week on the PlayStation Network where gamers can purchase it for either the PlayStation 3 or the PlayStation Vita.
The game will be available for download in North America on February 20th while European gamers will be able to do so on the 21st. With the game’s release roughly four days away Grasshopper Manufacture released the below trailer. The trailer itself focuses heavily on the PlayStation Vita version of the game and how all of the touch screen controls will work on the handheld system.
Today Square Enix and Io Interactive have chosen to release the launch trailer for Hitman: Absolution which should be expected considering the game itself is meant to be released worldwide next Tuesday on November 20th on the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
The launch trailer can be found below and in it viewers will be introduced to a little bit about the game’s storyline as well as plenty of scenes of Agent 47 doing what he does best by taking out various guards and even the nun assassins make a return appearance. However the trailer certainly does pose an interesting questions. Just how many lives would you take to save one life?
Compile Heart revealed today that their unique PlayStation Vita game Monster Monpiece would be hitting stores in Japan on January 24th next year, which is quite a bit earlier than the game’s previous release window of Spring 2013.
Now the reason I call the game unique is because the title is a card game where various monsters have been re-imagined and re-drawn as “moe” monster girls. To go along with this announcement a large number of of images of the monster girls were revealed byDengeki PlayStation, including the game’s special mechanic that allows the user to expose weak points with the Vita’s touch screen, were revealed and the game’s opening video can also be seen below.
It is worth noting that no Western information for this title has been released but since the Vita is region free, a physical version of Monster Monpiece will work on Western PlayStation Vitas.
Nippon Ichi Software is continuing their tradition of offering fans a chance to name a few weapons for their upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive Disgaea D2. This time around the company is asking for the names of six different weapons which are a sword, lance, bow and arrow, gun glove, axe, and a staff. As for what these weapons look like you can see images of them below.
For those who don’t know, Disgaea D2 is the first direct-sequel to a Disgaea title in the franchise’s history and follows the story of the Disgaea’s most iconic characters, Laharl, Etna and Flonne. If you happen to think up a few names for these weapons, you can enter them here. If you have difficulty navigating the page, then take note that the first box is for your name while the following boxes are names for the weapons in left to right order. These name submissions will be accepted until November 30th and the selected names will be revealed two weeks later on December 14th.
With Black Friday a week away, Sony has decided to detail their console bundles that will be on sale through multiple retailers at a discounted price. In fact, both the PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation Vita will be sold in bundles that will only cost $199 compared to the usual price point.
The Ultimate PS3 Value Bundle will include the Uncharted Dual Pack which contains Drake’s Fortune and Among Thieves, the inFamous Collection anda 30 day PS Plus trial membership. It is worth noting that the PS3 in this bundle is the super slim 250GB model.
As for the VIta there will be three separate bundles available for purchase depending on which retailer you go to. Best Buy will be selling a Black Ops Declassified bundle with a Black Vita and a 4GB memory card while Target gets the LEGO Batman 2 bundle, also with a black Vita but no free memory card. Amazon and Gamestop have the Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation bundle, which comes with a white S PS Vita, the game and a 4GB memory card.
Today Activision announced that Call of Duty Black Ops 2 managed to make $500 million during its first day on sale, breaking the franchise’s previously set record of $400 million which was set last year by the release of Modern Warfare 3. While Activision did not announce how many copes were sold, last year’s number saw 6.5 million copies sold in the US and UK so it is easy to see that a larger number were sold this time around.
We’ve seen plenty of information alluding to Call of Duty Black Ops 2 becoming one of the best selling games ever as GameStop has already reported that over 1 million copies were sold at their chain alone while Amazon revealed that the game was their most pre-ordered title ever.
Compile Heart revealed today that their unique PlayStation Vita game Monster Monpiece would be hitting stores in Japan on January 24th next year, which is quite a bit earlier than the game’s previous release window of Spring 2013.
