I’ve talked about game company copying unscrupulously other games, I’ve recently stumbled upon a Plants & Zombies clone rebranded with one of my favorite comic book character Asterix.

I’ve talked a lot about the new “Plants vs Zombies” game but it’s actually the first time I found out that it’s copied/cloned. Social seem to be with these kind of clone, some developer copy from another in a different setting and release it in hope to get the traction from the previous copied game.

About Asterix

Fo those who don’t know who Asterix his check out the Wikipedia entry:

“Asterix is a series of French comics written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo. The series follows the exploits of a village of indomitable Gauls as they resist Roman occupation. They do so by means of a magic potion, brewed by their druid, which gives the recipient superhuman strength. “

How come it’s a clone?

While the setting is definitely different, the gameplay is practically the same between the 2 games. Replace plant with Gallic warrior from Asterix village and zombie with roman “Et Voilà” you get Asterix: Total Retaliation.
You can go read pocket game take on the game and comparison of both game.

Is Asterix: Total Retaliation a clone or a cool game that took some inspiration from Plants vs Zombies ?

Let us know what you think in the comment below!

Related News:

Is Asterix: Total Retaliation a clone of Plants vs. Zombies – and should you care?

Our plants vs Zombies news 

Plants vs Zombies 2 release on Android 

For those late in the news Star Wars Tiny Death Star was released, you can check out the trailer below.

The Emperor asked you, Vader, to build shop and restaurant in the death star to entertain your troop and make money to pay for the main purpose of the death star, bring terror and death through all the galaxy.

You play has Vader the mastermind building the new death star and you must find the delicate balance of building commerce to finance your little project and spending your money of imperial floor to investigate the rebel secret and build your ultimate weapon.

Star wars Tiny Death might seem like a clone of tiny tower set in the star wars universe. Sure there is similarities specially the gameplay that haven’t changed much between the two games but I’ve found some difference and I’ve decided to put a list of them.

Top 10 majors difference between Tiny death star and Tiny tower that wills make you want to play both

1. Imperial floor, Mission from Vader with imperial floors (this remove the creative floor from tiny tower)
2. Emperor mission instead of the mission on tiny tower
3. Special character can visit you and you can collect them
4. Special scene: When a special character visit you it may trigger a scene if he visit the right floor
5. Elevator upgrades multiply your tips, which make it worthwhile to upgrade them compare to the one in the original tiny tower game.
6. Some characters like to keep secret where they are going
7. You have to search for rebel and special character in your star instead of searching for bitzen
8. Its way harder to get extra free bux than in Tiny Tower
9. You play has freaking Vader
10. You have hundreds even thousands of Star Wars reference

Honorable mention

• Some char won’t tell you where they are going only until you move them
• New VIPs

A new gaming social network recently went public: Dpadd, lets users list, rate, and review every title they play.

With a intuitive interface and all your favorite game (console and pc not web), dpadd has all you can hope for in a gaming social network.

Here’s what you can do with it:

• Record the games you play
• Rate and review games
• Create a ‘To Play’ list to help you remember and organize the games you want to play
• Follow and see updates from friends and industry professionals
• Many, many other exciting features to come!

If you want to check out the site, sign up here: http://dpadd.com.

Related news : GameBeat

My 2 cents, it’s very interesting site, might be lacking achievement and a way to buy game you want to play, give it a try. And seach for Jack on the site.

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.

The team at youjoy sent me this lovely press relase about a new naruto web game. The server is opening TODAY 19:00 and  it’s call S1- Ninjutsu Open.

More info from the press release :

Since the hot anime “Naruto” has been popular among in the world, web game is also blowing a gust of Naruto style again!

Ultimate Naruto is kind of webpage game inheriting Japanese animate purely, it returns to the original skill animations, the affluent peculiar new playing methods attracting most players.

This test has solved many problems, in the near future it is about to open. Be quick to experience the most authentic ninja world!

In Ultimate Naruto, Each player could receive a summoned beast by finish certain quest. Every 10 level the summoned beast gained, will unseal another tail. Every Summoned Beast has the potential to become Nine-Tail Fox.

You will take part in the journey of Naruto’s Path to Horage. All different type of skills loyal to the origin animate. All kinds of challenges awaiting you at Ultimate Naruto! The more you play, the more you will feel it’s a real Ninja World.

Call for your Ninja in Ultimate Naruto.

Now! For more info about this game, please visit Platform website: www.youjoy.com

Ultimate Naruto official website: http://naruto.youjoy.com/

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.

Related News & Review:

Pocket Gamer

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 ?

If you’ve been living under a rock you know that apple have released the new IPhone 5S & 5C. What actually important is that infinity blade 3 was released the same time the new IPhone was. I’ve talked a bit about the game  first and second instalment, and it is said that the third Infinity Blade make full use iPhone new hardware and enhance rendering.

So our friend at toucharcade have played the game both on IPhone 5 and 5S and you can see the subtle differences on each phone.

First impression

Full Review at Touch Arcade(compare Iphone 5 vs 5S)

Story

That might look all great but maybe you want to know first what Infinity blade is all about or you want just a quick reminder of what happen in the first 2 game. You’re lucky, it can all be found on youtube and we got you covered, the guys at toucharcade (they love this game) even have explained everything in between the other games just for you.

Story before IB3(12 minutes)

Full article at TouchArcade

If you are in a hurry just the Lore might do (1minutes)

Hope that convince you to buy the game or at least try one of the 2 previous one. If you’re following this blog, you should have gotten them both for free by now, if not you have to pay full price or wait for it to be free again.

Old Infinity Blade post:

http://onlinesgamestips.com/tag/infinity-blade/