Earlier in the year, Gamespy announced that on May 31st they would cease their online services after nearly fifteen years in operation. While it is always sad to see a games outlet crumble away, what is even sadder is that many games, particularly older titles, relied on Gamespy servers to host their multiplayer functionalities. With a hefty number of games affected by this outage, we decided to check into some of the more popular games which, up until today, utilized Gamespy.Older titles from the Battlefield franchise (Battlefield 1942, Battlefield: Vietnam) look like they're being abandoned by EA. In a statement released by EA following the Gamespy announcement, EA said, "...our teams have been working to evaluate options to keep services up and running. Unfortunately, due to technical challenges and concerns about the player experience, we do not have a solution at this time." However, the newer Battlefield games (Battlefield 2, Battlefield - Bad Company 2, and Battlefield 2142) look like they are getting transitioned over to Origin.
Have you ever picked up a guitar and wished you were able to thrash out iconic songs from some of the world's most infamous bands? Do you wish you could play that catchy riff that you can't get out of your head?If you answered yes to either of the above questions, you'll be very interested in CoachGuitar - an iPhone and iPad app that will teach you how to play the likes of Back in Black, Yesterday, and Hotel California.Unlike a lot of coaching apps, CoachGuitar doesn't just focus on guitar tabs. Instead, the app utilises videos and an animated fretboard, as well as coloured dots that represent your fingers and their placement during songs.These dots also indicate which strings you're supposed to strum at which times.We recently had the opportunity to chat to Antoine Mercier from the CoachGuitar team and ask him a few questions.
If there's one thing you can count on in this crazy, ever-changing world, it's that any IP that blows up in almost any form of pop culture is going to get turned into a mobile game.In the case of The Hunger Games, there have already been a few attempts to turn the mega-popular franchise into mobile gaming gold. But neither Hunger Games: Girl on Fire (which did not feature this song) nor The Hunger Games Adventures really caught on in a way that would tilt the odds ever in the favor of their makers.Lionsgate is looking to change that. According to Dean Takahashi of GamesBeat, the studio behind the films has partnered with Kabam to have the mobile games powerhouse cook up "an exclusive role-playing, card collection mobile game" that will be produced by the same Chinese team responsible for The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth.
Do you remember that time you lost a month of your life to the iPhone game Dots? You'd better clear your schedule: developer Betaworks One has just launched its sequel, TwoDots, with the promise of 85 new challenging levels to conquer.The App Store description seems to promise a variety of new features, from "adorable Dots" like Yetis and Squids to gameplay mechanics that will see you sinking anchors, making bombs, putting out fires and more.Like the original, this one is a free download. Get it on the App Store here, and stay tuned for our full review early next week.
When people ask me what game could only have been made for a mobile phone, my answer is always the same: Tilt to Live. It's tilty frantic fun, and it's been a must-play recommendation since its 2010 debut. Last year's sequel was equally terrific.If you haven't taken our advice to buy these before, you're in luck: developer One Man Left has dropped the price to FREE for a limited time.Well… free on the App Store. They'd like to do the same on Android, but it turns out that dropping to free and then paid again isn't as easy as it should be on Google Play. Instead they've dropped the price as low as they could. Better than nothing, right?Regardless of your system, be sure to grab these right quick. "Limited time" doesn't mean forever, friends.Tilt to Live (iOS), Tilt to Live 2: Redonkulous (iOS, Android)
Over the past two years, Battlecry Studios has created quite the buzz around itself. The Bethesda-backed development studio has collected a number of prominent industry figures, notably Star Wars: The Old Republic's executive producer, Rich Vogel as the studio's president. Speculation arose as to the type of game Battlecry Studios would be working on when job offers were listed online, but for two years nothing official was announced —until yesterday.Attempting to precede the E3 hype, Battlecry Studios revealed Battlecry, a free-to-play multiplayer third-person action game where players pick a side in the struggle between the Cossacks and the Royal Marines in a warped historical reality.
If you're a fan of JRPG's, there's a very good chance that you hold a special place in your heart for Dragon Quest VIII. Original released on the PlayStation 2, this is the game that comes to mind whenever somebody mentions Dragon Quest.I've been eager to play it on a modern console for ages - for some reason it's not part of the PlayStation Classics line-up on PSN - and it looks like tonight my dreams will finally come true. First spotted by TouchArcade, it looks like Square-Enix will be delivering this one to the App Store tonight with the hefty price tag of $19.99.
It never ceases to amaze me what makes it to the top of the App Store. Take Make It Rain: For Love of Money for instance. A variation on the Cookie Clicker concept with a tongue-in-cheek morality lesson, its simple gameplay and Wolf of Wall Street message provided us with a surprising amount of enjoyment when it was #1 earlier this month. It's raked in big bucks for its developers, too.Like any App Store success, clones were inevitable. This past week Make It Rain had to contend with one such release. But this one's fishy.For one thing, it has a title that could easily mislead gamers into believing this is another game in the same series. Make It Rain: Vegas Style has quickly shot up the free games charts, and as of this writing has even passed the game that seems to have inspired it.For another, it's from a highly reputable company: Big Fish Games.