Who needs to spend several hundred dollars on a console when we’ve already spent
several hundred on the latest tablet or smark phone, right? Hey, at least the games are cheap, and this week sees the release of some damn fine games. Better than the PS4 launch lineup?
I’ll leave that up to you folks to argue over. I’ll just say this — I’m betting my new iPad Air and trusty Android phone will be getting more of a workout this weekend than my PlayStation 4, especially with Epoch 2, Tilt to Live 2, Alpha Zen and GT Racing 2 to keep me occupied.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"1465565322","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"uncategorized","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"uncategorized","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); What I’m Playing This Week Tank Nation — Wormhole Games — iPad — Free Remember the classic PC game Scorched Earth? Tank Nation is a bit
H25 like that, only the tanks here can move, players can collect and upgrade parts, and
they can battle online against each other for bragging rights. Here’s the game in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH0BnZUDiwI Get Tank Nation on iTunes Tilt to Live 2:
h25 com สล็อต Redonkulous — One Man Left — iOS — $2.99 Tilt to Live was a very clever little game that was the best thing you could do with an accelerometer. You moved your little ship about, using power-ups to destroy encroaching dots, until you died. Titlt to Live 2 is all that, but with new power-ups, new kinds of dots, and a playful new aesthetic fully-aware of how much we loved the first game.
Here’s the game in action:
Get Tilt 2 Live 2 on iTunes Stellar Wars — Liv Games — iOS — $1.99 They made Legendary Wars, Monster Wars and Zen Wars. What wars haven’t Liv Games covered? How about Stellar Wars? A new lane battling game from the folks that put the genre on the map, this time with robots. Yay robots!
Here’s the game in action:
Get Stellar Wars on iTunes Alpha Zen — Large Animal Games — Android, iOS — Free (to start) From the creators of the delightful Color Zen comes Alpha Zen, a design-minded word game that’s a bit like designing a crossword puzzle. Link letters in words from famous sayings together in boxes. It’s really rather neat. I like it. Here’s the game in action, courtesy ofiGamesView: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjzCh18Kako Get Alpha Zen on Google Play — Get Alpha Zen on iTunes Oceanhorn — Cornfox & Bros. — iOS — $8.99 My god, this game. It’s a story-driven adventure, obviously gorgeous, with music by Final Fantasy
h25 com เข้าสู่ระบบ composer Nobuo Uematsu and Kenji Ito. It could be mobile’s Zelda. Expect more on this title soon.
Here’s the game in action:
Get Oceanhorn on iOS Don’t Shoot Yourself — Ayopa Games — iOS — $.99 An inventive little puzzle shooter, where the goal is to not shoot yourself. 99 of the bullets you carry will only hurt yourself. The last round in the chamber will break the walls of your cage. Don’t… you know. Here’s the game in action:
Get Don’t Shoot Yourself on iTunes Battle Command — Spacetime Studios — Android, iOS — Free From the folks that brought us Battle Dragons comes a game very much like Battle Dragons, only instead of a combination of base building with fantasy RTS, it’s base building with space RTS! It’s like StarCraft, if you squint your eyes really, really tight. Here’s the game in action:
Get Battle Command on Google Play — Get Battle Command on iOS Epoch 2 — Uppercut Games — iOS — $5.99 Uppercut Games’incredibly gorgeous robot shooter returns, picking up the post robot-apocalypse story where it left off. It’s even more gorgeous now, if that’s even possible. Don’t miss it.
Get Epoch 2 on iTunes GT Racing 2 — Gameloft — Android, iOS — Free Gameloft’s answer to Real Racing 3 is here, and it’s not half-bad. In fact, I kind of like the feel of this “real racing experience” a little better, and the guidance it gives first-time players is invaluable. Here’s the game in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WergJdcg77g Get GT Racing 2 on Google Play— Get GT Racing 2 on iTunes What are you playing this week, while all
the new PlayStation 4 owners are futzing about with their televisions?