World with Tanks seem to have inspire a lot of tanks related game recently. (And a lot of clone)

Boom! Tanks

Visually speaking, Boom! Tanks is rather splendid. It’s powered by a smooth-running 3D engine that remains silky smooth even when kicking up dust around the highly detailed tank you’re commanding.

So far, the main game itself is very straightforward. You roll onto the battlefield automatically, so all you need to do is hold your finger on the screen to aim your cannon. You then hover it over the enemy tank. Once it’s locked on, you can fire your weapon.

The amount of damage you deal is based on how close to the centre you stop the swing-o-meter’s needle. If you’re in a tank with a Charge Shot, it’s dependent on how long you wait until you fire. It’s simple enough, and extremely satisfying when you see an opponent go up in flames.

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Tanks domination

Project Tanks is not the only game that copied World with tanks, Russian mobile company Game Insight inspired it self from it to build Tanks domination, a World with Tanks style of game on mobile. Here the video preview for you too see:

Related News: It’s time. Time for tanks

Civil War II: 1862 is a new iPad wargame from the clever folks at Hunted Cow Studio. If you played the excellent Civil War: 1863, this prequel is a definitly must have for you so don’t waste your time and go buy it on itune: Civil War II: 1862

If you not convince, let us convince you:

Civil War II: 1862 comes with 14 battles that take place during the American Civil War, and 13 of those battles can be played from both sides of the fight: the North and South.

Here are some of the game’s key features:

● High Definition Civil War Era Graphics.
● 8 Mission ‘Tutorial’ campaign.
● 5 Mission ‘Fix Bayonets’ campaign.
● 8 Mission ‘Steel and Thunder’ campaign.
● All missions can be played as both sides (except the tutorial).
● 8 Unique Civil War Units:
– Infantry with Muskets.
– Infantry with Rifled Muskets.
– Artillery.
– Generals.
– Wagons.
– Naval Gunboats.
– Dismounted and Mounted Cavalry.
● Four classes of infantry – Raw, Average, Veteran and Elite.
● Different infantry formations: unformed, line for shooting and column for charging!
● Detailed Combat Analysis.
● Flank Attacks .
● Strategic Movement.
● Hours of Gameplay.
● Game Center Achievements and Leaderboards.
● Universal App (Works on iPhone & iPad).

So you are still not convince you should buy, check out those review you might change your mind.

Related: Civil War II: 1862  (pocketgamer)

Civil War II: 1862 has fixed bayonets (pocketgamer)

Civil War II: 1862 Brings an Enhanced Prequel to Civil War 1863, Offers 14 Missions Full of Strategy (148apps.com )

Previous Game : Civil War: 1863 (pocketgamer)

Itune Store Link: Buy Civil War II: 1862

Last post on Star War & Star Trek inspired me to write another post on some space games that were sitting in my to review list. They may be not has “Grandiose” has KOTOR or inventive has Star Trek: Trexels but they definitely deserve a look.

Mighty Tactical Shooter: Plan your move

Gradius and tactical space battle meet together in the nicely done indies games Mighty Tactical Shooter. From the game info quote : “Make your way through multiple levels across four distinct themed chapters. Face challenges that wouldn’t be possible in any other type of shooter. Adopt new skills and tactics as the ship repairs, enemies diversify and the plot unfolds. A 2D side scrolling arcade shoot ‘em up, but turn based.” Like they say at the end : It’s about tactics, not reflex. Your move.

It may not have speed of Gradius but fi you want a different take on tactics and story instead of a standard “shoot’em up” will want to definitely give it a try.

Related news : Mighty Tactical Shooter (indie retro news)

Mighty Tactical Shooter: Gradius and turn-based tactics hybrid (indiegames)

Halfway: A Sci-fi Jagged Alliance

An alien force has invaded your spaceship and your crew need to throught the hallway of it to get rid of these nasty alien. That turn-based tactical strategy draw a lot of turn base fight from a old game I’ve played called Jagged Alliance on PC. Each character has its own tactical abilities, so they will all have to attack, defend, move, use items, and reload to stay alive during battles.

Halfway will be heading to tablets later this year after its initial desktop release.

Related news : Halfway (pocketgamer)

Two really good game were released on mobile from these franchise, one for each franchise actually. Here a quick review of each game

Star Wars RPG Knights of the Old Republic

You may remember that awesome game on console & pc or you never played it but keep hearing about it from your friend. Star Wars RPG Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) was a massive success and received many praises by the critics for it’s innovative game play and immersive story.

“The story takes place approximately 4,000 years before the rise of the Galactic Empire. Former Jedi Darth Malak, a Dark Lord of the Sith and Darth Revan‘s former apprentice, has unleashed a Sith armada against the Republic. Malak’s aggression has left the Jedi scattered and vulnerable; many Jedi Knights have fallen in battle and others have sworn allegiance to Malak and Revan.”

If you liked the original and want a second try or you never played it but would love to hear from it here your chance to play it on iOs.

Related article : Star Wars RPG: Knights of the Old Republic (pocketgamer)

Star Trek Trexels

If you liked building your death star in Star wars: Tiny Death Star but Star Trek is more your cup of Tea, you are in luck! A mobile game base on the original Star trek series have recently be released on the app store.

You explore planets and complete a series of tasks. These involve laser gun fights, destroying alien machinery, and negotiating with the native species. Some tasks are somewhat repetitive but it’s easily forgotten by the conversations between crew members during these peril-filled story and with the authentic 1960s Star Trek music.

Related article : Star Trek Trexels (Pocket Gamer)

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Hopefully more game from these franchise will be released soon.  Meanwhile, let us know in the comment what is you favorite Star Wars / Star Trek game.

It’s the Holiday season and there nothing better than Christmas Themed games to keep your holiday spirit !!

Terraria

Just in time for Christmas, Terraria [PC, PS3, Xbox, iOs, Android] is getting the holliday spirit, have a you’ll now have the chance to score a Christmas ornament when chopping down trees, mobs can drop present and you can now beat the frost legion like last year to save santa.

Related News: Terraria at Touch Arcade

Sing and Play Jingle Bells

P2 Games has launched a new Sing and Play app, Jingle Bells. The app, created by parents for their kids, gets our young ones to sing and play along with the popular Christmas carol.

Related News:  App Of the day (mobileent.biz)

Secret Christmas Tale

In Secret Christmas Tale, you take on the role of Santa to hunt down all the present that were lost at the bottom of the see following a freak storm.

Yes Santa have discover that all of the presents that his trusty elves have made have fallen out of your sleigh and into the world’s many oceans.
Naturally, Santa have to get them back before the 24th, or else  Christmas is ruined.
You do this by diving deep down into the drink and snatching the presents back up. All the while, you have to avoid schools of fish and ensure that you don’t run out of oxygen before you reach the surface.

Related news: Secret Christmas Tale (Pocket Gamer)

Merry Clickmas

Filling in for Santa, your objective here is to save Christmas by making toys and wrapping the presents for delivery to every person in the world. You can buy upgrade to accelerate the task of wrapping all those gift. Quick and dirty game have fun with it.

Link: Merry Clickmas

Related News: Merry Clickmass (indiegames)

Camp Keepalive

Camp Keepalive is a turn-based strategy game that explores the horror movie genre but in a video game. Translating horror movie to video game never really hit the spot (that for almost for any movie for that matter), most of them didn’t manage to really bring back the horror spirit of the original movies.
KillScreen did a really nice review about that game and how Camp Keepalive manage to embrace the horror “movie” genre successfully.

Video

KillScreen Review 
Official game site (demo available)

The Amber Throne

This game caught my attention by the amazing old school graphical look and it RPG style. It’s not done yet but I wanted to bring it to your attention by it beautiful scenery. The game simply look epic and the story too : ” Long ago, the Amber God saw a prophetic vision of his death during a rebellion and knew the power of the throne couldn’t fall into the wrong hands. ”

You can look below at a nexample of what the battle will look like. They won’t be random, you have be in contact with the enemy to fight it.

Development is about half finished and a Windows release is planned for Winter.

Check Indie games detail of the game

River City Ransom: Underground

For those we don’t know they’re a kickstarter projet that trying to bring back the NES classic River City Ransom.
Good new, they have meets the Funding Goal but if you want it to help them reach their stretch goal you can always go on the kickstarter page and pledge.

More info at Game politic

If you want to see the KickStarter project check it here.

I your a fan of NimbleBit Tiny Tower and other we talked about this week or / and a fan of star war you’ll be happy to hear that NimbleBit have teamed up with Disney for a brand new game called Tiny Death Star.

We don’t have much info right now but I can’t wait to see what the game will look like.

Related News:

Touch Arcade

Pocket Train

On September 26th Nimble bit released their new Game Pocket Train. I’m a big fan of Tiny Tower and Pocket plain so I’ll we probably give this one a go too. It seems similar to pocket plain, hope I won’t put too much time in it because their other games were really addictive, I was always checking my phone for an update.

youtube trailer :

Press:

Pocket Gamer Review

Touch Arcade

Touch Arcade Guide to play without money

Ancient Summoner

Be a Cross-server Legend: Ancient Summoner New Sever “Vampire” Launched

Gamebox recently announced that with the launch of 5th server of Ancient Summoner “Vampire” (US EAST) on Sep 26, the new arena mode “cross-server” will be updated online. This new function has been highly anticipated by AS players that this function will diversify current arena battle mode.

New features of the sever Vampire

Get tired of fighting against those same old rivals of the your sever? Or are you already the champion in your own sever and no one can ever beat you up? You should neither get bored nor smug about your accomplishment as a totally new competition mode comes with the Vampire sever—cross-sever fights!

Now you are able to attend the competition between sever 4 and sever 5, i.e. if you are in sever 4, you can challenge players in sever 5 and vice versa, which definitely guarantee unprecedented thrilling enjoyment. Whether be trashed or be the champion again and bask in glory, you’ll find it out right after you try it. Sink or swim, all depends on you! Come to test your skills now!

Gifts and events

In gratitude for players’ whole-heated favor and support, there are abundant gifts along with the launch of new sever, waiting for you to claim as always. Apart from that, many interesting and tempting events have been specially designed for you. All events, like Roses are Red, are going to reward you appealing items such as roses, silver and crystals.

Updated Version 1.3 preview

With month-long effort, an updated and optimized version 1.3 is going to be released in the near future! What exciting news to all fans of Ancient Summoner in the whole world. It’s expected that the races of Goblin, Beast and Ogre will have some brand new creatures. An overhaul has made for them which are that they will have their own characteristics and their unique abilities also bring more fun to this game revealed by Gamebox.com, the operator. So will the order of the fantasy land shake or even change? Will the Ogres, Beasts and Goblins muddle the already chaotic world? We will wait and see!Ancient Summoner New Sever “Vampire” Launched

Final Fantasy V

Final Fantasy V will make its way to Android on September 26.

If you’re a fan of Final Fantasy or JRPG that a great news, Final Fantasy V  was actually a really good game back in the 90’s but never made it to the snes. We had to wait for a re-release on the Playstation to enjoy it. The game wills have updated graphics and character portraits while retaining the 16-bit aesthetic of the original.

If you never played Final Fantasy V, but played some other of the series, you will fin that the most notable difference is the job system. You can freely select a job for each characters and the characters can learn skill from the job he has and you can change it when you want. There was a total of 22 jobs in the original 26 in the gameboy advance version. Let hope they will give us the lasted update.

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Pocket Gamer Review

Final Fantasy IV: The After Years

Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, is a follow-up game to Final Fantasy IV that was first released on mobile phones in Japan back in 2008. In 2009 it was reworked and released for WiiWare, and even appeared on the PSP in 2011 as part of Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection.

The After Years follows the original cast 17 year after Final Fantasy IV finished. There are with some additional characters that are introduced including Cecil and Rosa son. It received the same 3D remake that Final Fantasy III and Final Fantasy IV  received on the Nintendo DS & iOS.

If this version is anything like the version release in japan, The game play will pretty similar and will include some nice combat feature like the new “Band” ability that are similar to the Double and Triple Tech in Chrono Trigger. Band abilities are extremely powerful, and there was over 70 different combinations in total in the Japanese version.

The game is expected to be released this winter.

Related news:

Touch Arcade

Pocket Gamer

Being a huge Final fantasy fan I couldn’t pass on making a post about these two great game. I’ll will definitly buy the Final Fantasy IV one, the original was one of my favorite of the series.

I’ve talked and reviewed Lone Survivor awhile ago and it seems that the game made a come back on the PlayStation store yesterday (25th of September) in Europe and is coming to the us in the upcoming week (or two according to this source).

Curve Studios  worked really hard to port the wonderful side-scrolling horror game to Playstation.

It is not the old game it has some additional content, hence the “Director’s Cut” in the name. The new game will have new lighting system, new dialogue, over 20 new items, brand-new endings, and plenty more.

The game will available for PS3 and vita. This version will also be ported for pc and mac on steam but no release date was given. (source: EuroGamer)

P.S: Funny story, my spell checker want to change Lone survivor to Loan Survivor that would be a very funny title for a game! no ?