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Fieldrunners 2 is a tower-defense style game created by Subatomic Studios, where players try to defend against a wide array of enemies with different attack and defense styles. Gamezebo’s quick start strategy guide will provide you with detailed images, tips, information, and hints on how to play your best game.

We cover plenty of new games here at Gamezebo every week, but the number of games we’ve already covered that show up on new platforms?  It’s staggering.  This Wednesday and every Wednesday, Gamezebo is rounding up the games that aren’t quite new, but might be new to you depending on your platform of choice.

Miss the color, charm, and atmosphere of the Viva Piñata series? Gameloft’s new project, Monster Life, is shaping up to be the next thing. Swap out vibrant piñata animals for adorable paper craft palls, and you’ve got yourself a beautiful 3D adventure that’s already looking to be a fantastic addition to the iOS and Android libraries. 

When someone says Gameloft, what’s the first thought to jump into your head? Whether you’re a supporter or hater of Gameloft’s strategy, it’s nearly impossible for something along the lines of “console experiences on mobile devices” to come up. With a combination of mobile titles modeled after nearly every blockbuster film this summer (including Men in Black, The Amazing Spider-Man, and The Dark Knight Rises), it’s easy to forget one of Gameloft’s largest franchise deals: Uno. 

It looks like Australia is shaping up to be a large source of news in the mobile and social gaming industry. Less than two months back, KIXEYE announced their new development studio down under. Today, gaming supergiant Electronic Arts is happy to announce the unification of two of Australia’s biggest developers into their new name: Iron Monkey and Firemint are combining to become Australia’s largest game development company: FireMonkey. 

It’s that time of year again – PopCap games has released the numbers to another one of its extensive consumer surveys. This year’s topic centered around mobile gaming habits and was filled out by over 1,000 mobile and tablet consumers. While plenty of the survey simply affirmed what we already know about mobile, some of the survey’s responses more a bit more surprising. 

Big Fish is leaping into cloud gaming with Big Fish Unlimited, announced CEO Paul Thelen. Launching today with 100 games from 42 developers (and more on the way), the service will enable subscribers to seamlessly play games on their PC, television via Roku, and mobile devices.  

Yar-har, fiddle-dee-dee. You are a pirate. That is to say, you can be a pirate. Ya got the potential to be a scurvy sea-dog, kid. Real potential. But just to be sure, you should play Pirate Explorer, a hidden object/city building game for iOS, PC, and Android. Haul in some priceless booty from a hapless ship, and then we’ll talk.

Breakout is one of the oldest classic games around. I’ve played it on my graphing calculator daily. I even had a version of the game on my PalmPilot – the tablet before tablets existed. But one thing that has remained constantly frustrating over years of playing the game on a touch screen device? Moving a paddle back and forth with your finger is always unresponsive and distracting. After all these years, Draw Breaker aims to fix the problem. 

Some people argue that it isn’t enough for a sequel to do what made the original great. That in order to stand out, it has to veer of the beaten path and introduce new features, and in some cases, an entirely new play style. You know the ones. The people who who get their hands on a sequel on release day, play it for a little while, and immediately start complaining that it’s “just like the first one!”  These people haven’t played Fieldrunners 2.

The Dreamcast wasn’t good for much (you heard me!), but it did bring us Jet Set Radio. The now-classic title (released as Jet Grind Radio in the US and Canada) won the hearts and minds of gamers with its then-unprecedented cel-shaded visuals, and unique, graffiti-centric plotline. Well, Dreamcast owners (all 10 of you), I have good news: Jet Set Radio is back.

The popularity of the App Store since it's opening in 2008 has grown exponentially, both in downloads and in active apps available. As such, it should come as no surprise that it has become a great bulletin board for marketing teams looking score awareness for a new product or franchise. Tie-in apps and games now regularly pop up in the App Store and, for better or worse, they probably aren't going anywhere. 

Puzzle games are not usually my first choice when it comes time to unwind, but when I come across one that interests me I’m usually happy enough to play it through to the end.  It has to be something interesting to keep my attention though, something different.  Playing Bejeweled -- or worse yet, some Bejeweled clone -- for six hours is not my idea of fun.  

The hex is one of my favorite things and, no, I’m not talking about witchcraft.  I’m talking about the shape and what it represents to us gamers.  As a kid I remember finding one of my dad’s old wargames, the arcane kind with plastic bags full of abstract, cardboard chits representing different units.  I remember thumbing through the thick instruction booklet and wondering how anybody could ever play a game with so many rules.

With the explosion of mobile gaming over the past couple of years, gamers of all ages have been able to experience millions of simple, well-crafted, and addictive experiences open to every demographic. Yet, for the internet-savvy web surfers of the early 21^st century, simple and addicting games are nothing new. Specifically catered sites for Flash and Shockwave-based browser games have been around for over a decade. 

We cover plenty of new games here at Gamezebo every week, but the number of games we’ve already covered that show up on new platforms?  It’s staggering.  Starting this Wednesday and continuing every week, we’ll be rounding up the games that aren’t quite new, but might be new to you depending on your platform of choice.

Amazing Alex is a puzzle game from Rovio, which makes use of the Casey’s Contraption IP the company purchased from independent developer Snappy Touch. With gameplay that would make Rube Goldberg proud, you play as the titular, mischevous Alex, combining household items, toys, and fanciful tools to make elaborate machines which solve basic household tasks. If your mental machine is a little rusty, however, don’t worry! Gamezebo’s quick start guide will give you all the instructions, tips, tricks, and info necessary to do well. Amazing, even!

Gamevil is a publisher whose name is attached to a ton of iOS and Android games, many of which have a distinctive Eastern flair.  In my experience most of their titles are solid, so I’m looking forward to this one.  I haven’t played the first Arel Wars, but it looks like it made a good impression on critics and users alike.  If at the very least, Arel Wars 2 lives up to its predecessor than there will be many happy fans out there, and maybe some new ones will join their ranks as well.

Since its explosive Kickstarter success, the OUYA - an upcoming, $99 Android console - has been everywhere. With nearly five million dollars raised in just over a week [at the time of writing], it's not hard to argue that people are excited about the prospect of changing the state of gaming on their TV. And yet, the purportedly disruptive product has its fair share of critics. Those who insist there are too many practical reasons preventing the console from attaining its price point, delivering consistent experiences, and proving secure for gamers and developers.

What could be better than Marvel taking over the media world with its rapidly expanding and ultra-popular The Avengers series? Competition. With enough popular superheroes in the mix, companies will be forced to out-perform and one-up each other, making for the world’s biggest and best action-packed movies and games.