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| NinJump Rooftops Review (iPhone, iPad) Added: 31.10.2013 17:31 | 2 views | 0 comments
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Added: 31.10.2013 13:00 | 6 views | 0 comments
Combat Monsters, the virtual card battle game with echoes of Magic: The Gathering is now in full release, and if you played and enjoyed it during the beta period, you'll be pleased to know that very little has changed over the past couple of months. And if you haven't, you probably should - it's a fun, challenging strategy card game, and while some of the multiplayer features are lacking, it gets the free-to-play formula right, a rare accomplishment these days. Even if you have only a basic idea of what Magic: The Gathering is, there's no mistaking the similarities between that famous card game and Combat Monsters. In fact, Paul Johnson, the co-founder of Rubicon Development is an "avid player" of Magic, but wanted a video game with a more tactical experience. Thus, Combat Monsters, in which you not only collect virtual cards of various types and abilities and deploy them in single and multiplayer duels, but also maneuver on a 3D game board, complete with special hexes that can amplify your powers - or your enemy's. |
Added: 30.10.2013 18:00 | 13 views | 0 comments
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With so many new video games being released on all sorts of platforms each and every day, sometimes it can be incredibly easy to overlook when one of your most anticipated games has made an appearance on your gaming platform of choice. But don't worry: Gamezebo has your back here with Replay Wednesdays, bringing gamers up to speed on all the latest new platform debuts of your favorite games! Some of the biggest new games to be released in the last few months have finally made their way over to additional platforms this week, such as on Android. Check out the full list of all the new platform game debuts that went on this week just below! |
Added: 30.10.2013 16:00 | 3 views | 0 comments
Dream Chamber is a brand new point-and-click adventure game from Microids that's set in 1930s America, and gives players a highly stylized tale of item collecting and dialogue trees. The storyline itself is par for the course with engaging detective novel fare, and features a cartoony, almost-noir sense of presentation and progression. You play as Charlie Chamber, a wealthy-beyond-words man who's taken it upon himself to try his hand at being a private detective, much to the resistance of the actual private detectives in town. But when a highly publicized museum theft occurs at his girlfriend's latest charity event, Charlie will stop at nothing to make sure that he's the one on the case! It's a very nice setup, and the action moves along accordingly at a pretty fair pace, although most of the characters that populate the game world of Dream Chamber are decidedly unlikable, especially Charlie's vapid girlfriend and the creepy dream version of Charlie named Charles. However, the visuals and sound design more than make up for what Charlie and company might be lacking in the personality department. Everything in the game positively pops with bright and colorful illustrations, and a cool wavy visual effect really accentuates the many dream sequences, in addition to some serious top-notch voice-over talent. The actual gameplay is standard point-and-click adventure in every sense of the word; but the big twist here is that Charlie has the uncanny ability to revisit everywhere he's been in his own dreams, to get a deeper or longer look at some all-important evidence! |
Added: 29.10.2013 22:00 | 2 views | 0 comments
Mobage and free-to-play mobile games have been, and always will be, a thing. On the one hand it means we can pretty much know what to expect before ever loading up one of their titles. On the other hand, all that experience with F2P social game development puts them in a great position to try new things. Heroes & Havoc is one such new thing, for better and for worse. Since it's apparently impossible to develop a freemium fantasy-themed mobile game without a ridiculous story that takes itself way too seriously, Heroes & Havoc casts players in the role of a fallen angel exiled from the heavens for bringing magic to mortals. Then they must gather a band of powerful heroes and fight the gods in order to redeem themselves because "reasons." All joking aside, games like this are never really played for their story, anyway. |
Added: 29.10.2013 19:00 | 2 views | 0 comments
We've done endless runners, and endless jumpers, and endless shooters, and all sorts of other endless objectives in video games. How about a little bit of endless falling? Mega Dead Pixel tasks you with dropping off a computer monitor, and dodging around the various pixel shapes for as long as possible, pulling off tight maneuvers and collecting other dead pixels that have lost their way in this crazy world. There's something suspiciously compelling about Mega Dead Pixel. While the idea of falling around various pixelated shapes might not sound like such a heavenly idea, I found myself unable to pull away from it for hours. I just had to unlock that next pixelwall, and buy those new shapes, and beat those new missions, and enter that new world, and... That's essentially the entire pull of Mega Dead Pixel in a nutshell - there's just so much to unlock and play around with in this game. But it's also the playful twist on the regular endless runner genre that keeps the game fresh. See, you don't get points for getting as far as possible in this game; rather, it's all about pulling off near-misses and smashing through anything smaller than yourself. If you brush past any object as you fall, you'll gain points. Brush enough pixels and you'll turn into Mega Pixel and begin smashing through the level. Each time you smash into another shape, you'll gain some points and get slightly smaller. If you're the smallest you can get and you hit something, it's game over. |
Added: 29.10.2013 18:00 | 2 views | 0 comments
A lot of justifiable complaints are leveled against modern games' obsession with tutorials. Those of us that grew up plugging a cartridge into an NES and then praying for clarity tend to get impatient with hand-holding and long-winded instructions. While brevity is certainly preferable with tutorials, we still need to learn how to maneuver around a title (especially since today's games don't come with printed manuals--remember those?). If we misunderstand a game's mechanics, we might become irritated and put that game down forever. Fright Heights is a rare example of a game in need of a fleshed-out tutorial. It's an initially befuddling puzzle title that provides some cute and creative brain-bending once you get the hang of it - but the learning process is totally on you. Frustration, not ghosts, is what might wind up driving you away from these haunted halls. Look up online tutorials if necessary, and persevere. It's worth it. Fright Heights takes place across several run-down towers that are populated by various ghouls and ghosties. Humans have begun snooping around the area, because our species lacks the survival instinct that helps smarter animals pay attention to big fat "KEEP OUT!!!" signs. It is your duty to set up ghosts and scare away the warm-bloods. Fright Heights is a little bit Sudoku and a little bit Tetris. The right side of the screen is occupied by the multi-level tower, which is essentially your game board. On the left side, there's a line-up of people and ghouls. Each monster is surrounded by different numbers that indicate its scare factor. The location of the numbers technically give the monsters a shape: some have a value above and below, some have values on all side, and so on. |
Added: 29.10.2013 13:00 | 6 views | 0 comments
Duck Dynasty is now the most-watched non-fiction series in cable TV history, and the reason for that is a charismatic quartet by the name of Robertson. The Robertson family became millionaires thanks to their Duck Commander duck calls, and this month family patriarch Phil, his brother Si, and sons Willie and Jase become immortal in a silly but diverting little iPad game called appropriately, Duck Dynasty: Battle of the Beards. As you might imagine, Battle of the Beards isn't exactly the video game equivalent of A Tale of Two Cities. In fact, its modest collection of absurd mini-games makes it closer to a hairy version of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, but nonetheless, it's entertaining. The game starts by having you customize your own bland yuppie character: a plain old clean-shaven guy with short hair and a white t-shirt. After this, you're thrown into a series of mini-games, starting at intensity level 1. |
