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Built for the competitive physicist! Thats an interesting tagline for a game and it happens to be the one for ByteSized Studios latest iOS/Android title, Atomic Fusion: Particle Collider. Players will have their hands full exploring the periodic table through frantic arcade-style gameplay. The...
Dead or alive, you are coming with me. If you are an 80s kid, I bet youd agree that RoboCop was a major WOW moment during our childhood, an introduction to profanity, ultra-violence and a seemingly undestructible cyborg hero with a supply of badass quotable quotes. As you probably know as well, the...
Ive got a question, do astronauts run in space? While Im pretty sure theyll need exercise while hanging out in their space station to combat the negative effects of zero-gravity on the human body, but do they put on the suit, and go outside for a jog? Spiel Studios took that...
Theres a new game on Steams Early Access on Steam that should perk the interest of fans of Team Fortress 2, promising a completely over-the-top experience multiplayer combat shooter experience with BILLIONS of weapon configurations. Austin, Texas-based Edge of Reality, developers of the...
Back in the day, Midways NBA Jam featured 2-on-2 basketball action on consoles and arcades, and it was very well received (a mega-hit in fact, netting more than USD 1 billion in quarters at the arcades). Now, Renren Games has unveiled a brand new arcade-style NBA game that pitches NBA players...
I was talking to a friend the other day regarding Bitcoins, ruing the fact that its too late for us to start mining for that electronic currency without some really serious hardware. The current going rate is about USD 840 per bitcoin, based on what I see over at Bitcoin Charts. It was also a []
Pretty interesting stuff on the Bundle front. First of all, the Humble Indie Bundle X has three more awesome games added to it: HOARD, Strike Suit Zero and Toki Tori 2. That brings the total bundle value to over USD 135. Youll need to pay above the average of USD 5.24 to get the three []
Popular Steam indie title Avadon 2: The Corruption is set to make the leap to the iPad come this February 28th. This RPG is created by the folks at Spiderweb Software who are also responsible for the award winning Exile, Geneforge, Avernum and Avadon series. There doesnt seem to be any word on the...
My wife was telling me the other day that her colleagues over at Michigan, U.S.A had to endure really cold weather at minus 20 degrees Celsius. I cant imagine walking or running around in such weather considering that we are living right near the equator in Malaysia (its just rain, hot...
Chain Reactors turns slots gaming convention on its head and provides players with a welcome entertainment attraction. This game showcases many exciting characters such as Sunny, Zoid, Cylco, Spiky, Goldie, and Flirty. Each of these bouncy Chain Reactors is uniquely attractive with rich animation to boot. ...
The folks at Atypical Games, the Apple Design Award-winning creator of the airplane dogfighting series, Sky Gamblers, today released their next war title that sets a new bar for technology in mobile gaming; Battle Supremacy for iOS devices. The fully open-world tank battle game, complete with a...
As of 2014, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein will celebrate its 196th anniversary. As a way to pay tribute to the author, Cambridge University Press is launching Phrasalstein, a free mobile application that shows us the correct use of phrasal verbs in a visual and dynamic way. Inspired by the great classics...
The first thing you notice, when you launch The Podges new Go Repo in your browser, is the music. Sure, all gaming soundtracks have to be top-notch these days, but the grooves that Catch2 2 Music and Cinquequarti have created to welcome you into Go Repos strange little world are a step apart.
SteelSeries. The name is pretty much household now when it comes to gaming peripherals. Now they are all set to enter the iOS gaming space with a brand new iOS 7 controller, called the SteelSeries Stratus Wireless Gaming Controller, which was introduced in CES 2014. This controller is specifically designed...
Spot-the-difference games can be pretty dour affairs since what youd normally see in a typical spot-the-difference game would be a finite number of differences in each level which you discover at a slow, molly-coddly pace. But how about if you add certain gameplay elements from the endless runner...
As a parent, I can understand that looking for healthcare and dealing with costs can be a painful one, but its good to know that the folks at Singapore-based Ring.MD are trying to change this, by making it easier for individuals to connect to doctors through a mobile platform running on iOS and...
Ive seen games that are a mash-up of different genres but Ive never seen one with such a crazy mix such as Liv Games Stellar Wars. One level may see you flying your space fighter head long into a swarm of aliens and an asteroid field like any good side-scrolling shmup, and the next...
Its been one heck of a ride in 2013. I think the main challenge here were juggling my role as a parent, my day job, all of that running I had to do plus the games that I have to review. Time management should be a better part of 2014 and for all you folks []
If you are not familiar with the game of GO, its basically a board game in which the objective would be to encircle the enemys pieces. Now imagine if we were to bring the concept one level up, with only certain types of pieces can capture other types of pieces. Thats essentially how...
So how was your Christmas? I got my wife a pretty fancy bag for the occasion and in return she wanted to get me a PS4. The console was launched officially in Malaysia a few days before Christmas, and it was sold out everywhere. So instead of getting my ass kicked in Killzone, I decided []