Thanks in large part to games like Temple Run and Jetpack Joyride, the endless-runner concept has become one of the more reliable and successful game designs on mobile devices. These games work just fine with the limited control options provided by touch screens, and they thrive on interesting visuals and fun environments. Considering this, they...
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It is another day and another controversy within the gaming industry. Do you need to ask what it is about? Of course, it is about an –ism…racism in this case. The PC game “Rust” decided to force the player base into permanently having a randomized avatar to represent them in the game as a form of a social experiment. And...
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Nintendo has finally steeped out of their comfort zone and published an app for Android and iOS devices. And instead of giving us a mobile and tablet Mario or Zelda game, we got a social app. And even though “Miitomo” is Nintendo’s first mobile app, it made quite an impression on me. After setting up your Mii based on yourself (which......
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There have been some PR-nightmares going on with Nintendo of America’s Treehouse division with “Fire Emblem Fate’s” localization and Rapp’s termination. Focusing on localization, we know that the head/face petting has been removed from FEF in the West. However, it has been brought to my attention that in Miitomo, you can head pet your M...
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“Unepic” is a 2d dungeon crawler from the mind of Téllez de Meneses. It took him two years to deliver his game and what an accomplishment it is. He has succeeded in making what many others fail to, a good RPG game. “Unepic” takes inspiration from many games (one example being The Maze of Galious) and has seen its success...
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