Anomaly's first levels tank. There's zero sense of the greatness yet to come, the opening drudge a wandering, memorization-laden trek through decimated Baghdad. It's a tutorial, learning the possibilities created with a weaving movement system that becomes the heart of Anomaly's later stages. Sadly, it barely resembles the 95% to follow.
Warzone Earth deserves your attention, five stages in bringing a euphoric feeling of brilliant game design that not even finding Jesus could match. It's that gut feeling that only comes along when you're holding something special, your mind has turned off, and the investment in the design is total. It's that good.
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.
