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Educational digital board game Pirates Treasure Hunt is out now for iOS and Android

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 3 months ago
Educational digital board game Pirates Treasure Hunt is out now for iOS and Android

If you’re a parent who wants to introduce your youngest children to the expansive world of mathematics, Burning Fox Games has released Pirates Treasure Hunt, a new digital board game for iOS and Android devices where the young’uns can refine their knowledge of maths and all its related topics. It’s an app presented in the style of classic board game, where you play with one to three other players and compete to find the pirate’s beloved treasure to divide amongst yourselves. You rolls a (digital) dice, add up the results and select the right treasure island you want to go to, collecting coins as you do. Whoever ends up with the most at the end of the game wins. The…

Physics puzzler Donut County now available for Android

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 3 months ago
Physics puzzler Donut County now available for Android

Two years ago Annapurna Interactive released Donut County, a physics-based puzzler, on iOS devices alongside the console and PC versions, and now it’s just hit Android. In Donut County you control a hole that can move across the level, and your goal is to use the hole to swallow every object and clear it out. The more objects you swallow, the bigger the hole grows and thus the bigger the items you can swallow becomes. There’s also a puzzle aspect to it, where to swallow objects that are sitting on a body of water you’d need to manoeuvre the hole to drain part of the water, and then have that water consumed by a bird, repeating this until the water is drained. The hole is…

Clusterduck, a duck collection game, is out now for mobile

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 3 months ago
Clusterduck, a duck collection game, is out now for mobile

PikPok has released Clusterduck for iOS and Android devices. It’s a rather cute game where you breed and collect a variety of bizarre and quirky ducks. The best way to describe it would be a cross between a creature collection game, like Pokémon, and a game that lets you customise how a species evolves, like Spore. Over the course of the game you breed some seriously strange types of duck, and the more you hatch the more likely they mutate into a nightmarish version of a duck. You might be familiar with PikPok from its previous mobile game, Flick Kick Football, which was released on iOS and Android. The concept for Clusterduck is rather wacky, but it began as a small project c…

The LifeAfter x Resident Evil returns with new content up for grabs

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 3 months ago
The LifeAfter x Resident Evil returns with new content up for grabs

LifeAfter held a crossover event earlier this year which saw characters from Capcom’s popular Resident Evil franchise come to the online post-apocalypse survival game. Phase two of the event kicks off on Thursday, 3rd December, and brings with it a whole host of new content. The second phase of the event is called “The Final Battle” and unites players together to take on the Umbrella Corporation to deal the final blow to them. Popular characters such as Leon S. Kennedy, Ada Wong and Jill Valentine are featured with appearances very closely resembling their appearance in the main series of games. They’ll be squaring up against fan favourite villains such as Albert Wes…

UFC star Conor McGregor collaborating with new strategy game Dystopia: Contest of Heroes

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 3 months ago
UFC star Conor McGregor collaborating with new strategy game Dystopia: Contest of Heroes

This one is for the UFC fans out there but one of the sport’s biggest stars, Conor McGregor, has now teamed up with strategy game Dystopia: Contest of Heroes for a release on iOS and Android. It’s developed by Beetroot Labs, who hopes the presence of the UFC star will attract a larger audience to the game. It’s focused on global multiplayer tournaments where players are able to compete for various real life prizes. These matches will be hosted by McGregor himself, with a mixture of daily single and duo tournaments to compete in that will net you various in-game rewards. But there are also real life prizes, which can be won in an annual tournament that you can qualify for…

Norwegian adventure game Embracelet out today on iOS

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 3 months ago
Norwegian adventure game Embracelet out today on iOS

Embracelet, the coming of age adventure game from Machineboy, is out today on iOS devices after it had an earlier release on PC and Nintendo Switch. It’s set on a beautiful Norwegian island where you play as Jesper, a teenager who inherits a magical bracelet from his grandfather. The item in question can manipulate the world around Jesper, which you can use to solve puzzles and access unexplored areas. Jesper, together with his friends, set out across the island to learn more about the bracelet, the quirky local residents, and himself. Ultimately, it’s a coming of age story as well as a magic realism tale. If you want to see more about what the game is about and how it plays, y…

Strategy game Total War Battles: Warhammer brings the two associated franchises to mobile

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 3 months ago
Strategy game Total War Battles: Warhammer brings the two associated franchises to mobile

NetEase is working with Creative Assembly and Games Workshop to bring Total War: Warhammer to iOS and Android devices. An officially licenced product, it’s called Total War Battles: Warhammer but still doesn’t have a release date attached to it yet. Total War Battles: Warhammer brings the deep strategic gameplay of both Total War and Warhammer to mobile devices. You can also expect the lore associated with the popular tabletop game to be featured heavily, something that goes so deep that even I haven’t been able to make sense of it for years. Other than that, there aren’t that many details yet on what else will be featured in the game or how it will play, other than…

Digital board game The Tree is out now for iOS and Android

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 3 months ago
Digital board game The Tree is out now for iOS and Android

The Tree is a digital adaptation of the board game of the same name created by Simon Harvard, and it’s out now on iOS and Android as a paid game. It’s a strategy game that the whole family can enjoy, where each person plays as a guardian spirit protecting a magical tree. There’s four different trees in the game, each one inspired by popular folklore from around the world: Brocéliandre forest, Native Americans, Vikings and Medieval Japan. Every player has a series of cards and guardian spirits they can play, which’ll either help their own tree grow or slow the progress of the other trees. According to developers Touched by Grace and Plug In Digital, it is esse…

Competitive basketball title Slam Dunk heads to iOS and Android later this week

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 3 months ago
Competitive basketball title Slam Dunk heads to iOS and Android later this week

DeNA Hong Kong is releasing Slam Dunk, a 3v3 competitive basketball game for iOS and Android devices later this week on Wednesday, and pre-registration is available now. It’s presented as a fast-paced competitive basketball game, where there is a wide variety in the types of setups you wish to play in. For example, the standard 3v3 mode will be available while you could alternatively select 1v1 solo matches, 2v2 duos, as well as half court and full court 3v3s and full court 5v5s. If you want to play with friends, you can also form up a team to take down an opposing team with them. When you’ve done that you can also make a bid to become the National Champion by participating in…

Upcoming battle royale Battlepalooza uses real world locations as game maps

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 3 months ago
Upcoming battle royale Battlepalooza uses real world locations as game maps

nWay’s Battlepalooza is a new battle royale that uses real world cities as a front for the matches that take place. It’s heading to iOS and Android on 10th December. It’s presented as a digital game show where players from all around the world can compete for prizes. Every match features 25 players competing against each other, or with options for team game modes including Duos and Trios. The multiplayer uses a drop-in system meaning getting into matches will be quick and seamless, a big change from your typical battle royale experience. Played from a top-down perspective, the game will rely heavily on strategy, skill and luck to win, and so it’s worth practicing as…

MU Origin 2's 4.2 update introduces new ways to increase your gear alongside several new Abyss game modes

Preferred By AppSpy Staff, 3 years, 4 months ago
MU Origin 2's 4.2 update introduces new ways to increase your gear alongside several new Abyss game modes

The Divine Object update has arrived in MU Origin 2 today as it becomes version 4.2. This sees some new additions to the Abyss alongside new methods to make your weapons and defences more powerful. Of course, among those changes will the titular Divine Object feature. This will allow players to give their Divine Objects more power than ever before once they've hit MI 21Lv (lv. 420). This will be achieved by restoring energy to these remnants of the fallen Archangel. These won't be the only items that can become more powerful in the latest update, though. Players will also be able to equip the Elemental Stigma to their characters to further strengthen their elemental prowess. Additionally…

Master sports game Basketrio is out now on mobile

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 4 months ago
Master sports game Basketrio is out now on mobile

Basketrio is a fast-paced basketball game from indie developer Cube Magic and it’s out now on iOS and Android devices in select regions. In it, you form a team of colourful characters to play heated sessions of basketball that can get pretty hectic. It’s one of those “easy to play but hard to master” titles, where you partake in 3-on-3 half court basketball matches played at a fast pace. Each match lasts three minutes and requires you to be skilled in your approach against the other team. There’s also a one-on-one mode if you’d prefer the intimate approach. Customisation is also important to Basketrio’s lifeblood and gives you an array of different…

Rebel Inc gets a campaign mode in its latest update

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 4 months ago
Rebel Inc gets a campaign mode in its latest update

Ndemic Studios has released a new update for Rebel Inc, bringing with it a new campaign mode to the insurgency simulator. The newly added campaign mode has you carrying out large scale operations in multiple regions in order to bring piece to them. It’s important that you think up different tactics that ensure your success here, while also keeping an eye on your resource management to overcome the challenges that present themselves. There are also some additional features coming to the campaign mode not seen in other game modes. The first is the Adaptive Insurgency mechanic where active insurgents can learn new tactics over the course of the campaign, bringing in new challenges for y…

Animal management game Hellopet House out now on mobile

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 4 months ago
Animal management game Hellopet House out now on mobile

Hellopet House, the animal management and home renovation game from Appxplore, is out now on iOS and Android devices. It’s a game where you play as a young pet-obsessed woman who is helping to renovate her grandmother’s house into the home of her dreams. In addition to that, you’re also adopting a host of cats and dogs to look after. There are a bunch of levels to complete which has you engaging in different activities with your four-legged furry friends, including cooking, gardening and doing home repairs. Your collection of pets is also constantly growing and a huge variety of breeds are up for adoption. This includes everything from the Turkish Angora to the Boston Ter…

Minimalist puzzler Oculux out now for iOS and Android

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 4 months ago
Minimalist puzzler Oculux out now for iOS and Android

Logisk Studio has released Oculux, a brand new minimalistic puzzler for iOS and Android devices. In it you move an orb around on screen in one of four directions, knowing that once you make a move you have to commit to it. You can’t interrupt a move until you hit a wall, and the puzzle aspect comes in the form of working out where to move the orb and deciding the sequence of your moves. The controls are straightforward: you swipe with your finger in the direction you wish to move, and the orb on screen will do so. The levels have different traps and hazards you must avoid as you collect diamonds that are scattered throughout. The meditative aesthetics of Oculux’s visuals and so…