Zero-K PlanetWars meta game

Not sure how recent this news is, but the website of the SpringRTS based FOSS RTS Zero-K states that their online campaign metagame PlanetWars is now in BETA.This is a screenshot of the webbased planet overview, which shows how well you (and your clan-mates) are progressing in taking over the galaxy.Game-play of Zero-K does not change much with this game-mode, but it puts each game into a greater perspective so to say ;) But check out their own description...

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Condado

Condado is a single-player implementation of the card game San Juan, designed by Andreas Seyfarth. Condado, written by Kevin Quan, is clearly a labor of love and is provided for free. I'm always on the lookout for good, quick filler games, and I've found that card games are a good bet to fill that niche. Condado fills that role admirably.In San Juan, players take turns selecting a role to...

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Five Android Pinball Games

"Ever since I was a young boyI've played the silver ballFrom Soho down to BrightonI must have played them allBut I ain't seen nothing like himin any amusement hallThat deaf, dumb, blind kidsure plays a mean pinball!"- Pinball Wizard, The WhoI always thought Pinball was pretty stupid. On the Atari 2600 it was a basic video game with a few bumpers and a pair of flippers and the real, mechanical...

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Further Beyond Fighting - First Look

Further Beyond Fighting breaks new ground as an Android game. It's the first effort I've seen at a Virtua Fighter or Tekken style game and I just pulled it down to give it a try about half an hour ago. I can't do a complete review with such limited play time, but a game of this magnitude deserves some instant coverage so here goes...First, the game is HUGE by Android standards. Almost 100 MB....

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OpenDungeons 0.4.8

OpenDungeons also jumped on the release wagon, with 0.4.8. This adds an actual menu system, a new gui, working traps, and normal maps. The team needs more modelers to add to the already large bestiary, there's a lot of faction creatures still unimplemented. Also, a shoutout to Venn from LinuxGameCast for contributing voice acting snipp...

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Stellar Escape

One thing I've always said is that Angry Birds isn't an amazing game... it's just a game that executes that genre VERY well. It's a prime example of how important polish is to a game title. You might have the greatest idea in the world, but unless you can execute it well then it'll probably just result in another mediocre (or worse) game. Stellar Escape is an example of Angry Birds quality...

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Naev 0.5 beta

Naev, the excellent 2D space combat and trading game, recently released a huge milestone (0.5 beta). It adds a far larger universe with more planets, more gameplay aspects such as electronic warfare, gui improvements and lots more. It also added new features to the game's engine giving developers more tools and features to play around wi...

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Clash of Mages HD

Review by Joshua BuergelAs I mentioned in my review of Highborn, I am a sucker for fantasy themed games. I’m also a huge fan of board and card games, so when I found Clash of Mages in the Market and learned that it was a fantasy themed card game, I knew I would be giving it a try. Since they touted tablet compatibility and I was looking for more things to put my Xoom through the paces, I bought...

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PapiBatting

PapiBatting is simple... real simple. It's another take on the batting side of baseball, but it's pretty clear the game has no intention of challenging Com2Us's brilliant HomeRun Derby 3D for that crown. Instead it goes its own way, perhaps even gaining some fans that might find the former title too complex or difficult. In PapiBatting you get 3 outs before the game is over. I find it odd that...

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Vertigo Beta

Vertigo is a rather awesome and visually stunning 3d tunnel racing game. It has multiple gameplay modes that give the game quite a bit of variety, although the core gameplay still essentially consists of rolling down a tunnel and dodging/colliding with things...

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Press Release: Anagram Online launched by SillyCube!

The Only Anagram that (is) played with real persons in Android Devices“Simply entertaining for word game lovers. The game provides interactive experience to word puzzle.” says Benny Chan, Founder of SillyCube Technology Ltd.Hong Kong (21 April 2011) – SillyCube Technology Ltd has launched an Android game, Anagram Online. When users open the game, they will be surprised that they won’t play...

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Highborn

Edit: Welcome to our newest game reviewer: Joshua Buergel. Joshua has been a long time reader and joins us having both a Motorola Droid and Xoom tablet along with a passion for strategy gaming. Please welcome him with your comments below.Also note that Highborn is an Amazon Appstore exclusive for now.Review by Joshua BuergelWhen the Amazon Appstore launched for Android, one of the earlier...

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Humble Indie Bundle's Source Releases

The Humble Indie Bundles (HIB) have a tradition of at least part of the bundled games releasing their source.While four of five games released source code under FOSS licenses in HIB1, only one released the source in HIB2 under a FOSS license (according to this comment, a license similar to LWJGL's).No assets were released under Free-Art-compatible-terms, except for demo objects in Penumbra.In HIB: Frozenbyte, two (or...

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Game Reviews

I've been inundated with great Android games to review and just can't keep up. Currently I'm working on a comprehensive review of Pinball games for the Android, but writing real reviews takes time invested in both playing the games and writing about them. So I'll do a shout out that I'm still either looking to join up with another game review site or be joined by a handful of others with...

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Press Release: Gameview’s Tap Fish Comes to Android

Gameview’s Tap Fish Comes to Android, Soars to #1 Free Casual GameLeading iOS aquarium game now available in the Android MarketMountain View, CA – April 19, 2011 – Gameview Studios Inc. (www.gameviewstudios.com), a leading publisher of mobile social games and a division of DeNA, announced today that Tap Fish, the largest aquarium game on iOS with more than 10 million downloads, is now...

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Panda Engine Book, Blendswap Upgrade, Avoision Ad

Available as Paper, PDF, epub or PacktLibPanda3D 1.7 Game Developer's Cookbook has been published.Blendswap UI: Who needs links when I can do a screenshot?Blendswap has more features now. Artists have more control for one thing and can edit their submissions for example.I suspect that many visitors use Adblock, so let me share this ad that appears on Free Gamer today: Avois...

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Stupid Rabbits for Android Press Release

Edit: This is among the most thorough Press Releases I've received.In brief“Stupid Rabbits” is a new arcade-puzzle game, developed by an indie Russian software studio Mobiquest (http://mobiquest.ru, note: Russian language website). Released independently.The game takes players through a number of short puzzle levels, where they must combine thought, precision and good timing to lead...

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Mixt : Launches on Android!

Uprising Games Ltd. in association with Jakyl are pleased to announce their critically well received iOS title “Mixt” is now available for Android devices.Mixt is an action puzzle game which is simple enough to play with a single finger, yet involving enough to test players of all levels. Use the responsive, tactile controls to drag, flick, cut, mix and sink the coloured Blobs into the correct...

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Mystery Novel (ENG/Final)

Genre: Hidden ObjectDeveloper: Big Fish GamesPublisher: Big Fish GamesAt the grand opening of a brand new prison, Mayor Lambert is assassinated! The killer is soon after put to death, but during the execution the electric chair causes a fire in the prison, burning the new building to the ground. As the new Crime Editor of the City Time paper, it’s up to you to solve the mysterious circumstances behind the fire and discover the truth behind an ancient...

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DreamWoods 2 (Final)

Genre: Hidden Object, PuzzleDeveloper: Big Fish GamesPublisher: Big Fish GamesEnter a world filled with magic and help Emmy defeat her restless enemies as you solve Match 3 puzzles! Take your chances to stop an evil mage and his subordinate servants! Best them in an unfair battle using all kind of magic spells and acquired artifacts in DreamWoods 2: Puzzle Adventure! Can you team up with Emmy and save the day?Features :* Awesome magical items* Perplexing...

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The Godfather (2006/ENG/RIP)

Genre: Third-Person Action AdventurePublisher: Electronic ArtsDeveloper: EA Redwood Shores StudioThe book by Mario Puzo and the classic film serve as inspiration here, as gamers will join the Corleone family and earn respect through loyalty and fear as they rise through the ranks to become Don in a living 1945-1955 New York. It will be up to the player to carry out orders, earn respect and make New York City their own. Featuring non-linear action-adventure...

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STK 0.7.1, CC to OF, SaRII 2.2.0,jCRPG, CC TXT, OSM and TitA

SuperTuxKart 0.7.1 released! [great changelog!]Former CubeCreate lead dev will now work on OctaForge (so far #octaforge chat is the only piece of infrastructure)Search and Rescue II has improved sound and uses OpenAL nowjClassicRPG's developer wrote short-term goals for the project (also forum registration now works)Creative Commons licenses are now officially available in .txt format (for easy inclusion in Your Game Project)Adam Drew of Red Hat will webcast about Linux/Open Source music production April 20Steampunk MMO project Tempest in...

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Maquetta, IBM's open source WYSIWYG HTML-5 editor

Short quick news related to (more game focused HTML5 editors and game creators) tools we discussed earlier:Our all beloved corporate overlord IBM, has handed over their internal WYSIWYG HTML-5 editor Maqetta, to the open-source dojo foundation so that it will thrive and be expanded by the community.The feature list is already quite impressive, and even though I am no HTML-5 programming expert I assume it could be used for game creation already. But...

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New Phones

It's been a grueling decision. Last fall I was attracted to the Samsung Epic 4G as my Motorola Droid started showing its age before its first birthday. However, I'd have had to pay the early termination fee for a full year of service. So I waited and since then we've seen some hot new phones hit the street and even more hit the headlines. There are so many things I'd like my next phone to do. ...

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Nikki and the Robots

Nikki and the Robots is an incredibly cute platformer developed by people with exotic taste for revision control [Darcs repo] and programming language (Haskell). Read more on joyride's code page. There's a nikki wiki and a bug tracker.A story mode is in development, which will be proprietary and for-pay.Code is under LGPL and free-version-art under CC-BY-SA.Development Video #03: Final PlatformsI made a little level pack:celldropping 1-4 levelpack[download...

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Through the Desert

When Through the Desert first made its jump from board game to Android game I was quite thrilled. Finally, there are some quality board games on a device that pretty much sleeps with me. Unfortunately it didn't have App2SD and weighed in at a hefty 18 MB which was much too much for my beleaguered Droid. App2SD has since been added and I've since downloaded and played it.First, here is a quick...

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Evolution GT (2006/Eng)

Genre: RacingPublisher: Black BeanDeveloper: MilestoneEvolution GT is a racing game that gives the player the opportunity to experience the life of a real racing driver, and the evolution of his alter ego throughout the course of his career. By choosing appropriate race tactics and driving styles, and placing well in the races, the player will grow in his ability to compete at an ever-higher level, gaining access to new racing cars as well as roadsters,...

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Real Warfare: 1242 (ENG/RIP)

Genre: StrategyPublisher: 1C CompanyDeveloper: Unicorn Games StudioRussia during the XIII century was a huge state, much larger than any other European country. Split by internal conflicts, and yet standing strong against numerous outer threats, it was attacked by the infamous Mongol Horde. They came suddenly and pierced through the country like a blazing arrow. The native people fought valiantly, led by a fierce warrior and prince, Prince Alexander...

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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction (Rip/Multi2)

Genre: ActionPublisher: UbisoftDeveloper: Ubisoft MontrealThe adventures of Sam Fisher continue in the fifth entry of the stealth-based series. In this game, all of the rules have changed, as the storyline takes a dramatic turn that will reinvent the Splinter Cell franchise forever. Fisher can no longer rely on his trusted bag of tools and iconic goggles.An investigation into his daughter's death unwittingly leads former agent Sam Fisher to discover...

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