Boom Beach, the next game from Supercell, launches this Thursday

First spotted by TouchArcade earlier today, it looks as though Supercell’s Boom Beach will finally be leaving its Canadian soft launch shores and heading to you this Thursday.

The announcement was made via tweet from the official App Store account, confirming that the Clash of Clans follow up was not only coming, but will be an App Store exclusive. (Whether that’s a real exclusive or timed exclusive is anybody’s guess).

We first took a look at this one back in November with a hands-on preview, and were pretty impressed with what we saw. Beyond the cosmetic change (Boom Beach is to modern warfare as Clash of Clans is to medieval fantasy), there were some real twists that should give Clash of Clans veterans a brand new challenge rather than a fresh coat of paint.

We’ll be diving back in for a full review and guide soon. Be sure to keep an eye out for both just as soon as Boom Beach hits the App Store!

First spotted by TouchArcade earlier today, it looks as though Supercell’s Boom Beach will finally be leaving its Canadian soft launch shores and heading to you this Thursday.

We’ll be diving back in for a full review and guide soon. Be sure to keep an eye out for both just as soon as Boom Beach hits the App Store!

Upcoming
November 12, 2013
Boom Beach Preview
By Jim Squires
How do you follow-up a hit like Clash of Clans? If you're developer Supercell, you think long and hard about what made the formula work. Then you do it again, but better. You learn from your mistakes. You tweak, you perfect - and when all is said and done, you deliver a game like Boom Beach to the App Store.Sneaking in a Canadian soft launch late last week, Boom Beach takes the winning ideas of Clash of Clans and fuses them with some changes that players have been clamoring for. It's not uncommon to hear players mutter things to themselves like "why do my surviving troops disappear after a battle?," "why can't I tell my troops where to go?," or "I'm never going to get further in the single player campaign - I'm absolutely stuck!"At the very least, frustration like this have plagued my own Clash of Clans experience from day one. Boom Beach is quick to address such problems: surviving troops return to your landing craft, ready for your next assault. Once you unlock signal smoke, you can give your troops an indication of where you want them to go. The single-player campaign offers plenty of freedom, letting you pick and choose from a variety of battles. In its changes, Boom Beach feels like a checklist of solutions to the little wriggles that bothered players in their last game.
Reviews
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Tiki Boom Boom Review
By Joel Brodie
f you think you've got it takes to defeat the nasty Tabu to become the Tiki Master, then you might want to try using your Boom-Boom Boulder. What's that, you ask? Nope, no one left the cap off the glue at the Gamezebo office.This all won't make sense to you unless you've clicked through a few rounds of Tiki Boom Boom, a new game that challenges you to face off against primal evil in seven tropical islands.

Jim Squires

Jim Squires is the Editor-in-Chief of Gamezebo. Everything you see passes his eyes first, so we like to think of him as "the gatekeeper of cool stuff." He likes good games, great writing, and just can't say no to a hamburger. Also, he is not a bear.