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Square Enix is releasing a top-down mobile version of Just Cause next year
Today, Square Enix announced Just Cause: Mobile will be coming to iOS and Android devices sometime next year. It’s a top down shooter based on the Just Cause series which has released on PC and consoles over the years, but it’s designed specifically for touch screens and includes a singleplayer campaign and various multiplayer modes to partake in too. You’ll create your own custom character and grapple, glide and shoot through four different game modes, including the story campaign which has been written specifically for this title. In it, you play as a member of the Agency’s secret program, Firebrand, and must battle Darkwater forces in large open locations. Charac…
Comedy point and click adventure There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension releasing for mobile later this month
There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension is coming to mobile later this month on 17th December. As the title implies, Draw Me a Pixel has created a game that isn’t a game, or at least doesn’t want to be. In it, you play as a gamer who can’t believe there isn’t a game to play. As a result of their constant interference with the software, the whole thing breaks and brings them to another dimension where they must work out how to get home. There are puzzles to solve, each one being a parody of video game culture and all that surrounds it, with titles like Papers, Please and Superhot being up there as featured parodies. You’ll need to think outside of the box if you want…
Bio Inc. Redemption is a medical sim out now for mobile
DryGin Studios has released Bio Inc. Redemption, the latest in its series of medical simulator games, on mobile for iOS and Android devices. In Bio Inc. Redemption, you make decisions of life and death, where you can play around with different illnesses, interact with patients and either cure or torment them. The game is frighteningly realistic, featuring hundreds of diseases, virus, symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatments and other medical conditions. The iOS and Android versions of Bio Inc. Redemption are ports of the earlier Steam version which released back in 2018. This one has a few extra features though, including two campaigns called Choose Life and Choose Death. Choose Life puts y…
Classic Star Wars RPG Knights of the Old Republic II comes to mobile next week
Publisher Aspyr in partnership with Lucasfilm will be releasing the classic Obsidian RPG Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords to iOS and Android devices next week on 18th December, sixteen years after its original release. It’s a game set in the Star Wars universe thousands of years before the films, where the Sith have driven the Jedi to a near-extinction. You play as a lone Jedi who must reconnect with the Force and regain their strength to fight off the imminent danger that awaits them. Originally released in 2004 on PC as a sequel to the earlier Knights of the Old Republic, KOTOR II’s mobile port brings touch screen controls and a scaled-down experience…
Creative adventure game Drawn to Life: Two Realms is out on mobile
Drawn to Life, the creative adventure series that was on Nintendo DS a decade ago, now has a new follow-up on mobile. It’s a game about creating your own playable characters, level objects, and accessories by drawing them using the touchscreen. With this power, you solve puzzles and explore the levels, interacting with new characters and fixing problems for everyone. You used the DS stylus for this back in the original games, but now with the mobile port it’s done using your finger. It’s set several years after the previous game, Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter, which appeared on the DS in 2009. The last Drawn to Life game was released for iOS in 2014, which was a port of…
Business management game Startup Panic out now for mobile
Indie games developer Algo Rocks, in partnership with publisher tinyBuild, has released Startup Panic for iOS and Android. It’s a fast-paced business management simulation about the tech industry where you work your way up from bedroom programmer to global innovator of the world’s leading technology. As you can imagine from the name, it’s all about beginning your startup company and growing from humble beginnings as you look to expand and make profits. Algo Rocks assures us that with its user friendly approach to design, it will appeal to both new players of the simulation genre and veteran fans who are seeking a touch more personality. When you’ve set the business…
Educational digital board game Pirates Treasure Hunt is out now for iOS and Android
If you’re a parent who wants to introduce your youngest children to the expansive world of mathematics, Burning Fox Games has released Pirates Treasure Hunt, a new digital board game for iOS and Android devices where the young’uns can refine their knowledge of maths and all its related topics. It’s an app presented in the style of classic board game, where you play with one to three other players and compete to find the pirate’s beloved treasure to divide amongst yourselves. You rolls a (digital) dice, add up the results and select the right treasure island you want to go to, collecting coins as you do. Whoever ends up with the most at the end of the game wins. The…
Physics puzzler Donut County now available for Android
Two years ago Annapurna Interactive released Donut County, a physics-based puzzler, on iOS devices alongside the console and PC versions, and now it’s just hit Android. In Donut County you control a hole that can move across the level, and your goal is to use the hole to swallow every object and clear it out. The more objects you swallow, the bigger the hole grows and thus the bigger the items you can swallow becomes. There’s also a puzzle aspect to it, where to swallow objects that are sitting on a body of water you’d need to manoeuvre the hole to drain part of the water, and then have that water consumed by a bird, repeating this until the water is drained. The hole is…
Clusterduck, a duck collection game, is out now for mobile
PikPok has released Clusterduck for iOS and Android devices. It’s a rather cute game where you breed and collect a variety of bizarre and quirky ducks. The best way to describe it would be a cross between a creature collection game, like Pokémon, and a game that lets you customise how a species evolves, like Spore. Over the course of the game you breed some seriously strange types of duck, and the more you hatch the more likely they mutate into a nightmarish version of a duck. You might be familiar with PikPok from its previous mobile game, Flick Kick Football, which was released on iOS and Android. The concept for Clusterduck is rather wacky, but it began as a small project c…
The LifeAfter x Resident Evil returns with new content up for grabs
LifeAfter held a crossover event earlier this year which saw characters from Capcom’s popular Resident Evil franchise come to the online post-apocalypse survival game. Phase two of the event kicks off on Thursday, 3rd December, and brings with it a whole host of new content. The second phase of the event is called “The Final Battle” and unites players together to take on the Umbrella Corporation to deal the final blow to them. Popular characters such as Leon S. Kennedy, Ada Wong and Jill Valentine are featured with appearances very closely resembling their appearance in the main series of games. They’ll be squaring up against fan favourite villains such as Albert Wes…
UFC star Conor McGregor collaborating with new strategy game Dystopia: Contest of Heroes
This one is for the UFC fans out there but one of the sport’s biggest stars, Conor McGregor, has now teamed up with strategy game Dystopia: Contest of Heroes for a release on iOS and Android. It’s developed by Beetroot Labs, who hopes the presence of the UFC star will attract a larger audience to the game. It’s focused on global multiplayer tournaments where players are able to compete for various real life prizes. These matches will be hosted by McGregor himself, with a mixture of daily single and duo tournaments to compete in that will net you various in-game rewards. But there are also real life prizes, which can be won in an annual tournament that you can qualify for…
Norwegian adventure game Embracelet out today on iOS
Embracelet, the coming of age adventure game from Machineboy, is out today on iOS devices after it had an earlier release on PC and Nintendo Switch. It’s set on a beautiful Norwegian island where you play as Jesper, a teenager who inherits a magical bracelet from his grandfather. The item in question can manipulate the world around Jesper, which you can use to solve puzzles and access unexplored areas. Jesper, together with his friends, set out across the island to learn more about the bracelet, the quirky local residents, and himself. Ultimately, it’s a coming of age story as well as a magic realism tale. If you want to see more about what the game is about and how it plays, y…
Strategy game Total War Battles: Warhammer brings the two associated franchises to mobile
NetEase is working with Creative Assembly and Games Workshop to bring Total War: Warhammer to iOS and Android devices. An officially licenced product, it’s called Total War Battles: Warhammer but still doesn’t have a release date attached to it yet. Total War Battles: Warhammer brings the deep strategic gameplay of both Total War and Warhammer to mobile devices. You can also expect the lore associated with the popular tabletop game to be featured heavily, something that goes so deep that even I haven’t been able to make sense of it for years. Other than that, there aren’t that many details yet on what else will be featured in the game or how it will play, other than…
Digital board game The Tree is out now for iOS and Android
The Tree is a digital adaptation of the board game of the same name created by Simon Harvard, and it’s out now on iOS and Android as a paid game. It’s a strategy game that the whole family can enjoy, where each person plays as a guardian spirit protecting a magical tree. There’s four different trees in the game, each one inspired by popular folklore from around the world: Brocéliandre forest, Native Americans, Vikings and Medieval Japan. Every player has a series of cards and guardian spirits they can play, which’ll either help their own tree grow or slow the progress of the other trees. According to developers Touched by Grace and Plug In Digital, it is esse…
Competitive basketball title Slam Dunk heads to iOS and Android later this week
DeNA Hong Kong is releasing Slam Dunk, a 3v3 competitive basketball game for iOS and Android devices later this week on Wednesday, and pre-registration is available now. It’s presented as a fast-paced competitive basketball game, where there is a wide variety in the types of setups you wish to play in. For example, the standard 3v3 mode will be available while you could alternatively select 1v1 solo matches, 2v2 duos, as well as half court and full court 3v3s and full court 5v5s. If you want to play with friends, you can also form up a team to take down an opposing team with them. When you’ve done that you can also make a bid to become the National Champion by participating in…
