Tower defence games were a huge highlight of the last decade of gaming. You had wonderful titles such as Defense Grid: The Awakening and PopCap's quirky Plants vs Zombies, not to mention console games like PixelJunk Monsters and Ninjatown. It's the idea of reverse progression that gets our hearts racing - rather than watching our character push forward through a game, we revel in watching the enemy not getting very far at all.
Anomaly: Warzone Earth, then, is like the double negative of tower defence games. Rather than place down towers to stop an incoming convoy, you are the convoy. Roles are reversed, and with it strategies flip to suit the role. It's a daunting challenge, but one that proves an absolute breath of fresh air, with a gorgeous amount of polish and innovation drummed through the game's very core. It's hard to believe that this is an indie title, such is the flair emanating constantly from every twist and turn.
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.
