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Polar Bear Rescue is a new educational puzzler about climate change
Polar Bear Rescue, a new mobile puzzle game from German games studio Burning Fox Games, is out now for Android devices and will soon be coming to iOS too. The game is intended to be about raising climate awareness, where your objective is to rescue a small polar bear from its floating ice block on the ocean and bring it safely home on the mainland. You do this by making a connection of wooden bridges that creates a path for it to cross safely. Each level in Polar Bear Rescue gets harder and harder as you continue playing, with new worlds and stages gradually unlocking as you progress through the game. You can watch the video for Polar Bear Rescue below to see more of the game in motion. A…
Tencent is releasing a Story of Seasons mobile game later this year, and there’s a trailer available now
Tencent has released a new trailer for its Story of Seasons mobile game which is coming soon to iOS and Android devices. The China-based company had announced the game earlier this year and hopes to release it sometime in 2021. Story of Seasons Mobile is being developed by Tencent’s Next Studios and licenced by Marvelous, and brings the familiar gameplay from the series to mobile phones. Gematsu released the trailer on its website and YouTube channel, showcasing some of the first gameplay seen for Story of Seasons Mobile which details some of the activities you’ll be able to do in-game. It begins by showing the main player character stepping off a train, presumably about to be…
Call of Duty Mobile goes all-out 80s in new crossover event with Die Hard and Rambo
Activision has launched a new event in its current line-up of Call of Duty games to bring in legendary 80s action movie heroes Rambo and John McClane as playable characters. This collaboration is available now across all three current Call of Duty games: Warzone, Black Ops Cold War, and Mobile. The 80s Action Heroes event has been released alongside the recent redesign of Call of Duty Warzone’s Verdansk map, which turned back time to the 1980s and introduced a variety of changes to the familiar territory. Meanwhile, two new faces are now available as playable characters. The first is John McClane from Die Hard. He is a New York cop who shows up at a party on Christmas Eve only to fin…
Punishing: Gray Raven to launch closed beta on 27th May
Kuro Game is launching a closed beta for its upcoming Punishing: Gray Raven next week on 27th May. The beta will be available for Android devices, but an iOS beta is also being prepared and will be announced properly for a later date. The beta will be sampling from a small selection of players to join, with about 3000 overall being able to participate in the test. Signups for the Android beta are open now and run until 25th May, so if you’d like to become a part of this test and be amongst the first to gain access to the game, be sure to sign up before next Tuesday. Besides gaining early access, playing Punishing: Gray Raven in its closed beta will also yield a bundle of special in-g…
Light A Way releases Eid celebration update with new in-game event
Appxplore has launched a new update for Light A Way, the mobile adventure game all about light and dark. The update was originally supposed to be released last week but had been postponed to now and can be download from the App Store and Google Play. This update is in recognition of Eid, the Muslim holiday that is occurring this month. The new star-studded event has you collect fallen stars and exchange them for enchanted gift sets that contain bundles of powerful magic staffs and lightstones. The stars can be traded for the elegant Dancer Dress Set, a piece of clothing that drapes your character, the Guardian, in luxurious silks as she journeys through the darkness and into light. But th…
Divinity: Original Sin 2 is a fantasy RPG now available for iPad
Larian Studios has released its award-winning RPG, Divinity: Original Sin 2 – Definitive Edition, for iPad and iPad Pro devices. From today you will be able to download the title from the iOS App Store. This port of the award-winning RPG has been handled by Elverils, a development studio based in Saint Petersburg who have spent two years building it from the ground up to create a 1:1 experience on par with the version seen on PC and consoles. What this means is the entire Divinity: Original Sin 2 experience can now be done from your iPad without any sacrifices made to the quality of the graphics or gameplay. The whole thing has been faithfully recreated for handheld users. By taki…
Minimalist puzzler The Chronos Principle out now on mobile
Logisk Studio has released The Chronos Principle, its new mobile puzzler available for iOS and Android devices. The game comes from the developer who also made popular puzzle games such as Oculux, Orixo, and Hexio, and it looks like this one continues the developer’s same legacy of creating hand-crafted minimalist games. In The Chronos Principle, you play through and find solutions for minimalist puzzles in a variety of different stages which each have their own intricate designs that explore the concept of time manipulation. This means you must cooperate with your past self to find the solutions to the 77 hand-crafted puzzles in the game. These mechanics are communicated to you thro…
Call of Duty Mobile goes back to the 80s in new upcoming Action Heroes event
Call of Duty Mobile will be gearing up for a new event on 20th May, with Activision giving the game a new 80s flair with new crossover characters and other goodies. The update will be available for iOS and Android devices. The 80s Action Heroes event will also be occurring in the game’s console and PC counterparts, Call of Duty Warzone and Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War. It is being released to coincide with the recent launch of Verdansk 1984 in Warzone, which saw the old map be destroyed in a nuclear attack as the game shifted into a flashback 80s setting complete with big changes to the landscape to symbolise this shift in time period. The details of the 80s Action Heroes event ar…
KartRider Rush+ introduces new seasonal content for first anniversary
Nexon has launched a new update for KartRider Rush+, the mobile kart racing arcade game, with content for its new season that also comes alongside the game’s one year anniversary. You can download the update now on iOS and Android. The content coming with Season 7 introduces new karts, characters, tracks and costumes for you to use, including ones from the exclusive Line Friends collaboration. This features content featuring fan favourites like Brown, Cony, and Sally. It's a CELEBRATION!! Happy Anniversary to KartRider Rush+! It's been a WILD year to say the least. With over 23 Million Riders around the world, we couldn't have done it without your love & support. THANK YOU!! #K…
One Hand Clapping is a musical puzzler coming to iOS and Android
HandyGames has announced it will be releasing its musical puzzle game One Hand Clapping on Steam Early Access on 10th June, but it will also be coming to iOS and Android later this year. It’s being developed by Bad Dream Games, and is all about using your microphone to express yourself and beat the various puzzles the game throws at you. Meanwhile, this will help you become more confident in your own musical skills. Using this voice of yours, you interact with the game’s colourful world and solve puzzles using melody, rhythm and harmony. How you do it is up to you, meaning you can choose to sing, whistle, hum or even use an instrument to solve puzzles. There is no controller or…
The Room: Old Sins developer creates LEGO Ideas set based on the game
Game developer Roger Schembri, who works at Fireproof Studios on The Room series of puzzle games, has submitted to LEGO Ideas of a build based on the dollhouse from The Room: Old Sins. Following on from their previous submission to LEGO Ideas last year, which based on the safe from the first The Room game, Schembri went for a much more ambitious project this time by replicating the dollhouse from the fourth game in miniature brick form. This build consists of an extended façade with full architectural features, utilising the wrought iron gates and walls surrounding the house as well as external details such as the ornate coat-of-arms plaque and detailed brickwork. On the inside,…
Activision cuts ties with Call of Duty: Mobile voice actor following offensive comments
Activision has ceased its relationship with Call of Duty actor Jeff Leach after a video resurfaced online showing him making a series of sexist remarks towards women and non-binary gamers. The video came from YouTuber NitroLukeDX, who posted it to Twitter showing some of these moments Leach had behaved inappropriately over the last couple of years. Leach, who played Ghost in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Mobile, was recorded saying sexist remarks about Twitch streamer The Zombi Unicorn during a live TwinGalaxies show while also making the other people he was recording with visibly uncomfortable. The video then shows him making explicit sexual comments towards female player…
Foxy’s Adventure Mobile is an adventure arcade game out now for iOS
Indie games developer Nicolas Kalousek has released an adventure-arcade game by the name of Foxy’s Adventure Mobile today on iOS. You can download it now as a paid title from the App Store. The game is set on a distant planet where you are stuck, with no signs of rescue coming for you. With that in mind, the only thing left to do is explore the planet to find life-supporting materials in the hopes of finding a way to escape this strange place. You play as the titular Foxy, who can run and jump their way around the world as they explore the unknown lands of the planet and face a fair amount of surprising twists that can occur during their adventure. The game features a large 2D world…
Lines On Sides is a new matching puzzle game out now on iOS
Indie games developer Michal Barszczewski has released their minimalist puzzle game, Lines On Sides, as a paid title for iPhone and iPad devices. It was originally announced last week for iOS. Lines On Sides is an extension of Barszczewski’s minimalist style that they used for their previous mobile game, Cubether. In it, you must rearrange different tiles so they can match the colours of their sides to any other adjacent shapes. When you can manage to sort them into their correct positions, black lines appear between them to confirm you found the correct solution. Because of the game’s minimalist style, this means there aren’t any tutorials to follow which may be a little…
Epic v. Apple lawsuit reveals a mobile version of Rocket League is in development
The Epic v. Apple lawsuit trial began on Monday, and has already received a bunch of leaks revealing upcoming games in development all across the games industry. One such title that has been revealed is the existence of a Rocket League mobile port which is expected to release later in 2021. This was revealed within the court documents belonging to the lawsuit trial, which are available to read publicly, but it has also been picked up by ResetEra in a forum post made on Monday afternoon. The mobile version of Rocket League is confirmed to be a “next generation client” with a full game experience across all platforms, including mobile. This means it’ll have full cross-play…
