'The Simpsons' Free-To-Play Title Hitting Soon
21/02/2012 |
EA is continuing down its dark path with The Simpsons: Tapped Out, a free-to-play game that puts you in the shoes of Springfield's re-designer after Homer blows up the iconic place inadvertently. In an exclusive interview with CNET, EA laid out the premise and it shed a bit of light on the re-building effort, which is set to require the usage of the game's purchasable in-game currency, doughnuts. Awesomely, the title will use both voice and text provided via the TV series' actors and writers....
Rocketcat Games Next Game Being Teased
If you've been listening to our show, you already know that Rocketcat Games has plans to release a free-to-play RPG based in its Mage Gauntlet [$2.99] universe. Earlier this morning, Rocketcat dropped another first-look at a class for that game on its Facebook page. It even threw out some informa...
Natural Motion Games Next Game Is 'My Horse'
Fresh off another heavily physics-based sports title, Natural Motion Games is going to hit us with a My Little Pony-like game. No, seriously — Venture Beat has the exclusive on the studio's My Horse, a horse simulation game that'll feature radical horse physics, radical horse visuals, and r...
Another 'Katamari' Hits This Thursday
Later this year in Japan, Namco Bandai plans to capitalize on fresh hardware fever with a launch iteration of Katamari on the PlayStation Vita. It's also giving us iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch owners a little something, too, with Katamari Amore this Thursday. Slated to hit in both paid and free-t...
'Tiny Invaders' Goes Free For A Limited Time
There was room for more games than Infinity Blade 2 at Apple's "Let's Talk iPhone" press event the other afternoon. Hogrocket's terrific puzzle title Tiny Invaders [Free], for example, got some free looks as Forstall used the title to demonstrate the new notification functionality of iO...
'Dungeon Defenders: Second Wave' Hits The App Store Tomorrow
Dungeon Defenders: Second Wave (see what Trendy did there) will be released as a free update to the iOS versions of Dungeon Defenders: First Wave [$2.99] tomorrow, the developer has told us via an e-mail release. According to Trendy, Second Wave addresses "many of the issues" from the first game,...
Despite Movement In The Opposite Direction, NimbleBit Continues To Make Free-to-Play Games That Are More Than Just Business Models With Graphics
In an age where game studios are talking to behavioral psychologists and hiring retention experts and monetization specialists in a rush to juice the most out of free-to-player gamers, there's at least one studio developing free-to-play games that doesn't care about metrics, compulsion loops, and...
GDC 2011: A Look at the Latest from Riptide Games
Yesterday at GDC we sat down with Brian Robbins of Riptide Games who took us through their latest release, Shadow Ranch [link] (with an "HD" version for iPad [link]), an iOS adaptation of Her Interactive's highly popular Nancy Drew Adventure series.In a departure from the PC and co...
'Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective' First Impressions
Sissel has a lot of problems, but the least of them is that he's dead. Well, not dead-dead, but dead. I'll explain: Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective [Free] is all about what Sissel has gained in the afterlife. Like a common ghoul, this guy can rattle mundane objects, activate levers and buttons, an...
