Having a big hit in North America is one thing, but what about when that same hit works in China? According to Cut the Rope 2's Chinese distribution partner Yodo1, it becomes the game's #1 market.Lawsuits, Square Enix games, and more help round out this week's news from China. As always, we'd like to thank our friends at Laohu.com for keeping us in the loop on all things China pertaining to the mobile games market. If you're looking for even more Chinese mobile coverage, be sure to add Laohu.com to your bookmarks folder.
Zeptolab are masters in the art of teasing. We've known that Cut the Rope 2 has been coming for a long while now, and every so often they pepper their fans with hints and clues and cute animations about what we might expect in the sequel. But we haven't had anything concrete to go on until now.This morning, one week before the game's December 19 release, Zeptolab finally gave us a sweet sweet taste of upcoming candy.As you can see in the video below, Om Nom is now joined by some friends - the Nommies - who all have a vital role to play in his candy acquisition enterprise. The gameplay looks fairly in line with what you'd expect from the series, though the new twists added by his friends may be enough to give the formula a healthy dose of vitamin fresh. Find out first hand when the game launches next week.
ZeptoLab has released the first teaser trailer for their upcoming game Cut the Rope 2, and it turns out the highly-anticipated mobile sequel now has an official subtitle. Newly christened Cut the Rope 2: Om Nom's Unexpected Adventure, it looks like our little green alien pal may have gone missing somewhere along the way!The brief 20-second video showcases Om Nom sailing through an open blue sky while attached to his titular rope, as dozens of those delicious-looking candies float on by. The video ends with the hashtag "OmNomIsMissing," which seems to be our only real tangible clue thus far as to where ZeptoLab plans on taking us for this go around.And while we've still yet to see anything regarding the actual gameplay of Cut the Rope 2 at this point, at least we should be finding out soon, as the game's release is still scheduled for some time "this holiday season."So does anyone have any ideas as to why Om Nom might be missing, or just where the heck he's gone off to for that matter? He does have a big sequel coming up after all, that slacker. Help us figure this one out in the replies!
Get your sweet tooth ready, because there's going to be a whole lot of candy in your immediate future. After doing countless scientific experiments and spending the last year travelling through space and time, the candy-loving Om Nom is set to return once more this holiday season, in a full-fledged sequel to the original physics-based puzzle game, Cut the Rope. That's right: Cut the Rope 2 is on the way!Cut the Rope 2 is said to completely re-imagine the universe of cute green alien On Nom that mobile gamers have come to know and love so well, as new gameplay twists, characters, and interactive environments are all being added. And coming on the heels of the recent success of On Nom Stories, a series of episodic video adventures released by ZeptoLab on YouTube and serving as a tie-in of sorts to the apps themselves, Cut the Rope 2 will also feature an engaging storyline amidst all of the candy-eating, puzzle-based gameplay."