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October update for Crossfire: Warzone adds new game mode
There has been a new update for Crossfire: Warzone on iOS and Android, and it’s a pretty big one that adds the new Capital Takeover War game mode. Capital Takeover War is an event that occurs in the middle of the field map on each server, as long as it’s at least 90 days or older. Joycity has added this to hopefully increase PvP participation, with the new event taking place fortnightly and sees allies fighting for dominance on their server. The winning team’s leader will then gain a special title that remains for two weeks, and they’re also able to assign this title to six other members of their alliance. It won’t just be a fancy title to display alongside th…
Garena Free Fire adds the Ultrasonic Rave to its Elite Pass
Garena Free Fire has had another Elite Pass (EP) added to the popular battle royale, this time called the Ultrasonic Rave, so you can expect a musically themed EP this time around. As the title suggests, the Ultrasonic Rave EP sports a retro inspired hip hop theme, with the new characters sporting oversized jewellery, baggy trousers and a huge puffy jacket to match the aesthetic. As with every Elite Pass before it, Garena Free Fire’s season pass adds some new weight to the game’s lore. With the Ultrasonic Rave, the game is now focusing on a supercity that’s using a new type of music technology to bring its citizens together, and other countries wish to steal this tech to…
League of Legends: Wild Rift soft launched in Asia, but western regions will have to wait a bit longer
League of Legends: Wild Rift, Riot’s mobile version of the popular PC MOBA, is now available on iOS and Android in certain regions. The soft launch includes Japan, The Philippines, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, but the rest of the world will have to wait until at least the end of the year to play it. Riot has also released two trailers for League of Legends: Wild Rift to go with this soft launch, which can both be seen below. The first is a cinematic teaser showcasing Blitzcrank, Teemo, Camille and Lux fighting on the Rift. The second trailer shows a segment of gameplay from the final game, showing what to expect from the mobile MOBA. Players in the Sout…
Arcade action game Shooty Quest fires onto mobile
Ogre Pixel has released Shooty Quest on iOS and Android mobile devices. It’s an arcade game where you play as a retired archer named Hall, who is pulled away from his peaceful life after an enemy steals his precious cat, Alfador, and Hall has to go out and rescue it. In each level you’ll square up against groups of enemies in which you have to identify their weaknesses to determine which arrow type you’re going to shoot at them. They’re smart people though and won’t just stand around to wait for you to kill them. You need to be constantly dodging their projectiles while also firing yours back their way. There are potions scattered around the levels that provi…
SINoALICE getting a new story update on Friday
Pokelabo and Square Enix’s SINoALICE is receiving a new major story update on Friday. The third major update for the Yoko Taro-directed game is called Act of Reality and sees a few of the game’s literary-inspired characters come to the modern world. The roster sees Red Riding Hood, Little Mermaid, Oz’s Dorothy and Lewis Carroll’s Alice find greater challenges than ever before, so make sure they’re ready to fight tougher enemies than in previous story updates before you jump into Act of Reality. As well as Act of Reality’s story content, a series of promotional events will also coincide with the big update’s release, offering a wide amount of prize…
Upcoming MOBA Marvel Realm of Champions now available for pre-registration
Kabam, the developers of the popular award-winning mobile fighting game Marvel Contest of Champions, is now releasing a MOBA spin-off based on the Marvel Comics intellectual property, and you can now pre-register for iOS and Google Play. It takes place on a forbidden planet called Battleworld, created by a mixture of realities where heroes and villains battle it out for total domination. Following the death of the God King Maestro, the unkempt peace that Battleworld knew has been upturned and now many of these fights are breaking out yet again. In Marvel Realm of Champions, you form a team of three to take on another team in small arena-based fights. You can select and customise a characte…
FAR: Lone Sails soars onto mobile devices today
Mobile versions of the atmospheric indie game FAR: Lone Sails are releasing today on iOS and Android. FAR: Lone Sails is an adventure game set in a barren wasteland, the remnants of a dried-out ocean. In a large mechanical vehicle, you’re travelling across the wilderness in pursuit of a once thriving civilisation to find answers to your existence. Along the way, you have to contend with the various roadblocks that obstruct your progress, as well as dealing with hazardous weather that could stop you from achieving your goal. To make matters more complicated, you’ll need to manage every aspect of the vehicle too. This means keeping an eye on fuel supplies as well as the condition…
Mario Kart Tour gets spooky with Halloween Tour event
Mario Kart Tour’s latest update arrives today and brings with it a whole host of creepy crawly content to dig into. A teaser for the Halloween Tour for Mario Kart Tour was uploaded to Nintendo Mobile’s YouTube channel today, showing popular characters Mario driving around wearing a pumpkin on his head, Peach dressed as a witch, and King Boo driving a kart resembling a scary spider. Each bring their own special skills that may prove useful when trying to take the gold cup home. But besides the new costumes, another big surprise awaits players and will particularly interest fans of Mario Kart Wii. Maple Treeway is being added as a new course to race on as part of this update, it&…
Google Stadia announces new games and launches time-limited demos
Google Stadia has announced some new games are coming to the service as well as launching three free demos over this week for all users. Each demo will require a Stadia account to access, but neither Stadia Pro nor a form of payment is required to play these titles. Starting today, 20th October, users can play a demo for PAC-MAN Mega Tunnel Battle, where 64 players go head-to-head in huge elimination style matches. Introducing new power-ups, character customisation, and a spectator mode that allows players to impact the game from the sidelines, it looks like PAC-MAN is the latest popular franchise to take the battle royale route. Tomorrow, 21st October, Google will add a demo for the HUMAN…
Warpath, an alternative history WW2 game, is now open for pre-registration
Wonder Games has opened pre-registration for the open beta of its World War II real time strategy game, Warpath. It’s set in an alternate history where you’re in command of units fighting to free the world from the tyranny of the evil Raven faction. Featuring a vast selection of historically accurate air and land units, you team up with players from across the globe as you take the fight to the enemy in dangerous battles played out across a huge and dynamically changing worldwide map. In Warpath, the key to being victorious is to build up a powerful base and choose which weapons and vehicles to develop to turn the tide of war against Raven’s forces. To suit every type of…
Infection mode returns to PUBG Mobile for Halloween event
Just in time for Halloween, PUBG Mobile’s infection mode is making a grand return. The battle royale will see this fan favourite mode come back and be available to play from now until 9th November through a free content update. In PUBG Mobile’s Infection Mode, players are split into two teams; Zombies and Defenders, at the beginning of the match. It’s Zombies goal to defeat everyone on the Defenders team, but if even one Defender survives then they earn the Chicken Dinner win trophy. Zombies can only use melee attacks and abilities, which when compared to the Defenders’ fully automatic rifles, seems a bit unfair. But the advantage they have is in being able to resp…
PAC-MAN GEO is a new twist on an old favourite, out now for mobile
Bandai Namco has released a new PAC-MAN game for iOS and Android, this time taking you to the maze of city grids from around the world. PAC-MAN GEO is the latest in a long line of successful PAC-MAN games, with the yellow mascot now hitting the streets of real-world cities in search of landmarks and other sightseeing spots.Featuring the streets of New York, Tokyo and Paris, as well as many other places in between thanks to an integrated Google Maps function, PAC-MAN is touring the world and visiting these popular tourist destinations both big and small. Obviously, it wouldn’t be a PAC-MAN game without Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde in pursuit, and with these new mazes based on real-w…
Black Desert Mobile adds new class and PvP mode
Pearl Abyss has added a new class, the Tamer, to Black Desert Mobile on iOS and Android. Due to her special combat style, the Tamer is one of the most unique classes to join the ranks of the game, having a charming demeanour that masks her ruthlessness in battle. She wields a shortsword and trinket that allows her to hunt down enemies alongside her legendary protector, the divine beast Heilang. Together they deliver fierce, synchronized attacks that strike fear into anyone who happens to cross the two. Alongside the new class comes a new PvP mode, Black Sun, in which adventurers do battle while the Black Sun is high in the sky. Obtaining higher scores by defeating other players yields prec…
XCOM 2 coming to iOS in November
XCOM 2 and all of its DLC is launching on iPhone and iPad on 5th November. Feral Interactive today announced the alien tactical shooter would be releasing on iOS devices after a successful run on PC, consoles and Nintendo Switch. Originally released in 2016 as a sequel to the earlier XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the plot moves forward as aliens rule the earth, with a new order promising a brilliant future while crushing all opposition. Meanwhile the scattered XCOM forces gather to ignite a global resistance, save humanity, and reclaim the planet. The XCOM 2 Collection for iOS will deliver the full experience, featuring the base game, the War of the Chosen expansion, and four DLC packs. It features…
Match-3 puzzler Suit Up launches on iOS
Suit Up is a match-3 puzzler with Solitaire inspiration that’s just landed on iOS. Utilising a cute colourful aesthetic, you have to match up different suits of cards and making use of the different rows they take up. The vibrant but simple art style simply looks magnificent, but the gameplay itself looks to be delivering all sorts of difficulty. To keep things fresh, there’s a system in place in which you can come back every day for a new game bonus and see if you can defeat your previous high score. Altogether, there are four game modes to play in: Normal is an endless mode in which you see how long you can go on for by matching suits and card numbers, and there’s an ac…
