by: Patrick Cassin
I imagine the concept for Anomaly: Warzone Earth was created by a few people sitting in some office building around a medium sized, oval table. The question posed was a simple one often asked in many similar rooms: how do we redefine a particular genre (with genre X in this case being Tower Defense). The question itself, being relatively mundane, was probably greeted by a short silence broken first by the guy who was a former class clown, piping up only to say with a poorly faked accent, “In Soviet Russia, Tower attacks you!” I wonder then, how long they laughed, before they realized they were on to something.
GD365: "The official Steam key retailer Fanatical is back with another bundle. The Fanatical Mega Bundle 2 launched today with 20 indie games for $2.99. No, that’s not a typo!"
Bit Cultures writes: Steam A to Z: week three – notable for the fact that it’s the first edition without a wretched simulator game! While good for my sanity, it’s probably bad for the entertainment value of this piece. Let’s go!
Hardcore Droid - Android: the armpit of the gaming industry—or so we are sometimes led to believe. The worst part of sentiments like the above for those of us who work with Android games is that we clearly understand why an insider, writer or fan might make such a suggestion. For one, because it’s so confoundedly easy to steal Android games, the piracy of ‘Droid titles is running amok all over the web and there is a large pool of iOS and cross-platform games that will never appear on the Play Store. Thanks pirates. And then there’s Android’s freemium market, which has grown from the darker and crappier half of Android gaming into the veritable sea of crap-apps that now dominate Android gaming. And yet, and yet, many of us remain interested in Android gaming for some reason or another.
