>Spike’s Deadliest Warrior has finally fought its way onto your iPhone and iTouch! Deadliest Warrior: Defend and Conquer has improved upon the best in tower defense gaming. With all your favorite warriors to choose from, Defend & Conquer utilizes the actual battle data from Spike’s hit series and now it’s up to YOU to decide which warriors can defeat a charging enemy. A new feature to Tower Defense play is the mobile “Hero” unit for each warrior class. Tap anywhere on the screen to make the hero move there. The hero doubles regular warrior attacks when standing next to them and features a rechargeable “super attack” to fight back the onslaught of foes – just when you need it the most! The LITE version features the Mongol Campaign. To play the Huns and Centurion campaigns purchase the Full version. Stay tuned for all new Season 2 characters in a MODERN WARFARE campaign – only available in the Full version.
>Holy Moly! Go play Deadliest Warrior: Defend and Conquer on Addicting Games! What could be better? Slaughter the attackers and dominate your opponents!
The new season of Comedy Central’s Important Things with Demetri Martin premiered this week, and so did our companion brain teaser Game Too! Play through 4 mind-bending challenges and get your Demetri Martin IQ. Think you know your palindromes? How fast are you mouse-clicking skills? Take the challenge. We dare you.
>Some sort-of sad news today from Destructoid blog as it reports that a man killed his son over a missing video game. We don’t know how much we can say about that other than that we believe part of the fun of gaming is the addiction and the mental challenge of repeated play. However, we do think that gaming in no way should interfere with any part of your life or stoke your other addictions.
So, kids, enjoy our gaming material over to the right here, but, please please try to get out into the fresh air and enjoy some sunlight.
>On this, their Thanksgiving Monday and in light of the recent mobile release of our own Decades, we bring you an article from Canada.com’s tech section regarding the rapid-fire production of gaming that’s being caused by the acquisition of mobile phones by almost every single individual in the first world, and some in the second.
The piece illuminates how much mobile devices are doing to shape both the way the games are programmed and how many people and which or them are getting to do it. In the article’s case a 19 year old both programs a game as a class assignment and well as comments the following:
“A game’s creativity used to depend on the hardware,” said Ide, a 19-year-old computer programming student who is developing an iPhone game as part of his studies.
“A successful game now is one that’s simple and reaches a wide network of people…”
We’d say that that’s pretty right on and rather insightful for someone of that age. But, then again, if you check our article from last Thursday, you’ll see that young gamers are the brains behind todays apps and consoles. Check out the full article on here and for those of you celebrating, mazel tov. Enjoy the Turkey!
Following up on yesterdays rather droopy entry, today’s two entries from Variety magazine’s The Cut Scene gaming blog, seem to project a hopeful, and recession-unaffected, future for the gaming industry. Or not.
Basically, there is first the news logged on the site last week announcing that visual marketing monolith 20th Century Fox (who are well-versed in marketing their own TV and film properties through video game licensing) is dipping its feet into the gaming pool by launching a full-scale gaming division. Appointed vice president of the new sector is former head of Vivendi Games Andre Emerson and it appears the studio will not continue to in-house their own licensed titles but also sire original titles. The move is basically in an effort to outrun the necessity to buy independent video game studios and thereby squeeze past that there is much less cash to throw around for such a venture. So, I guess as it goes, even in a recession, the rich just get richer. What will the decision of studios like Fox do to the little guys? That remains to be seen. Check out the full article here: Fox Gets Serious About Video Games
The second article coming off Cut Scene, is one where SAG and AFTRA actors, those affiliated with gaming production, and especially ones who spend extensive hours straining their vocal chords for gaming action sequences and even overdubbing for multiple character, will get a 2.5 percent pay scale bump as well a couple of other benefits including:
A 0.5 percent increase in the pension and health contribution rate for Screen Actors Guild member effective upon ratification, and another 0.2 percent on January 1, 2010, for both unions (bringing the total rate to 15 percent).
The second article coming off Cut Scene, is one where SAG and AFTRA actors, those affiliated with gaming production, and especially ones who spend extensive hours straining their vocal chords for gaming action sequences and even overdubbing for multiple character, will get a 2.5 percent pay scale bump as well a couple of other benefits including:
* A 0.5 percent increase in the pension and health contribution rate for Screen Actors Guild member effective upon ratification, and another 0.2 percent on January 1, 2010, for both unions (bringing the total rate to 15 percent).
* The establishment of a $100 liquidated damage for failure to give notice of vocally stressful work.
* An agreement to develop during the term of the contract a set of guidelines for conducting vocally stressful work.
No word on the bottom of who’s wallet the additional dollars and cents were scrubbed from, but, you can check out the full article here: AFTRA, SAG Strike New Deal With Game Makers
>Attention all Android mobile users! “The greatest game in history” is out now on the Android Marketplace!Decades is part action puzzle game, and part trivia game! A cross between Tetris and Wheel of Fortune, the game redefines the match-three and trivia genres by challenging you to match cubes to help you fill in and solve the trivia puzzles! Decades has over 20 hours of play with dazzling animations, challenging trivia, and addictive game play that uses the touch and keyboard features of the Android phone. Features: * Simple controls: touch and swipe falling cubes to rotate and match * 10 decades-themed levels * 5 unlockable bonus levels * 1200 trivia puzzles to solve * Special powerups and obstacles * Earn trophies as you play! * Unlock Hard Mode for super challenging play that will engage even the most veteran game players
Download Decades Lite and try it out, or purchase the Premium version for just $2.99! Check out the game’s home page for more info. Decades is coming to your friendly neighborhood iPhone and Facebook page soon!
>Summer is upon us, and what better way to celebrate than by eating as many hot dogs as you can cram down into your belly! Our new all-you-can-eat Appetite for Dogstruction game has launched and it’s all over Comedy Central – check it out! Take on some hungry competition as you eat your way through 10 grueling levels. Dunk, chew, or swallow whole – just be sure not to hurl all over your opponent!
> iTunes just released our awesome new bomb diffusing app for Spike TV’s “Jesse James is a Dead Man!” Red Wire Blue Wire challenges you to disarm a series of bombs rigged to the vehicles in Jesse’s shop.
Face 5 different puzzles types in increasing difficulty and complexity until you meet the ultimate challenge – a live nuke!!
It’s fun, challenging, and here’s the best part – it’s free! Download for iphone and ipod touch today!
