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Developer ‘Jump Games‘ has hit it big with their app game ‘Real Steel’ which has steadily climbed Apple’s Top 100 list over the past few weeks. I, for one am not at all surprised by Real Steel’s popularity. After reviewing it, I’m hooked and thanks to the awesome folks and Jump Games, you’ll have a…
The Chinese MMORPG studio Mechanist Games have been quietly at work on a browser MMO ‘City of Steam’ for about two years, and recently announced plans for Reality Squared Games to publish the English version. We’ve been following the development of this narrative-focused steampunk game for a while now, and hope the connections with R2 Games will help bring…
There was a time when Sega was on top, but those days are long since past. Sega entered the game console market in 1983 with the release of the Saga SG-1000 in Japan. It packed a 2kb ram which was very impressive for a gaming console of its time. In order for Sega to compete…
World of Warcraft Patch 5.2: The Thunder King is now available for testing on the Public Test Realms! Emperor Lei Shen, the Thunder King, has been resurrected and will stop at nothing to reclaim Pandaria. Heroes from all over Azeroth will be called to war, as they are pitted against the Thunder King and his…
OUYA: The New Way To Game It has been a month since the first OUYA Dev consoles were shipped out and since then looks like the company has been taking the initial feedback and suggestions rather seriously. On the basis of received feedback, the company will be making some pre-production changes and adjustments to the…
Keep Running The original Temple Run has been downloaded 170 million times. 170 million. That’s ridiculous. The small indie developer, Imangi Studios, who created the monster, could have never have predicted the game’s success. The game is based on a simple concept. Essentially, you run for as long as possible without running into a tree,…
Rumors Flying From hardware specs to the names of the consoles, rumours surrounding Sony and Microsoft’s next gen gaming machines have been flying thick and fast in recent weeks. When will they be released? By most accounts, we should expect the machines this year, and, if we have learned anything from history, we can…
DMC Original Still Makes Me Smile I have to admit, I’ve never been a huge fan of hack’n’slash games. Bayonetta, Ninja Gaiden, God of War, Dynasty Warriors: none of these titles have ever particularly piqued my interest. However, something about Devil May Cry has always captured me. The original DMC, released way back in 2001,…
Android: Keep on Running Runner games are one of the top game genres in the mobile gaming arena. Games like Temple Run, Agent Dash, etc., have proved to be the best time-killer games on Android. All Runner games have the same objective, just keep running and score the highest points. Although, each game offers different…
Sonic Has Seen Better Days It’s been nearly 20 years since we’ve seen Sonic the Hedgehog truly in his prime. The 16-bit era of the Sega Genesis gave birth to the character, but these were also his best days. One of my favorite mascots has fallen far since the mid 90’s, and has never quite felt at…
The next two games in the Pokémon series, Pokémon X and Y, will be released for the Nintendo 3DS October 2013. During a Nintendo Direct live internet broadcast, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata highlighted the significance of the Pokémon brand via retrospective on the entire series and the innovations they have brought to the world…
CES Portable Gaming This year’s CES has seen the announcement of a number of products designed to take high-end PC gaming out from behind the traditional desktop and key board formation. The first of these, which up until this week was known as ‘Project Fiona’, has caused quite a stir at this year’s conference. The…
Zombie Survival Game ‘The War Z’ – Controversy If there’s one thing the geeky world can’t get enough of its zombies. Zombie films, zombie television programmes, zombie toys, zombie video games, zombie everything. For the most part us zombie-philes are grateful for this consistent stream of gory, undead goodness, but late last year a game…
Remember Scrabble? It was a fun word making board game, but since the dawn of smartphones and gadgets, people have really forgotten about old school board games. Today we’re going to review Ruzzle, a highly addictive and entertaining word making game for Android (and uh..iOS too). Taking Scrabble Up a Notch Ruzzle takes the word…
GameStick: Android Budget Based Console on its Way The power balance between the three big names in gaming, Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony, looks as though it’ll soon be violently shaken with the announcement that yet another Android based, budget games console is on its way; the GameStick. PlayJam, the developer of the tiny, two inch…