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Crazy swords and destructive title weapons have come crashing to the iOS App Store in the form of Soul Calibur: Unbreakable Soul, a free-to-play installment of the Soul Calibur series.

Namco Bandai Ltd. have […]

GTA Online: The High Life Update Coming Next Week, Tuesday May 13th
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Free Play Weekly: The latest free android games for the 1st week of May 2014
It is time to kick start the month of may with another batch of free android games. If this is your first time we list free android games fresh  from the google play store for you to have a look at.

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Soccer Rally 2

Description: Rev up your engines and get ready to experience soccer like never before! Smash, shoot and score your way to victory. Drive to glory through 20 challenging tournaments, featuring different balls from a Soccer ball all the way to a Tennis, Beach ball and Hockey Puck.
[pb-app-box pname=’com.iceflame.SoccerRally2′ name=’Soccer Rally 2′ theme=’discover’ lang=’en’]

 

 
Battle Gems (AdventureQuest)

Description: A battle/puzzle game with monsters so epic that you’ll forget you’re still in the bathroom. You’re a busy hero. You have dragons to rescue and princesses to defeat. Or is it the other way around?
[pb-app-box pname=’com.battleon.aqbattlegems’ name=’Battle Gems (AdventureQuest)’ theme=’discover’ lang=’en’]

 
Abyss Attack

Description: Pick your submarine and use weapons and power-ups to tear through relentless creatures like you’ve never seen before and battle against giant bosses! Create rare and epic Relics to enhance your submarine’s stats and give you a fighting edge against the sea’s monsters.
[pb-app-box pname=’com.chillingo.abyssattack.android.ajagplay’ name=’Abyss Attack’ theme=’discover’ lang=’en’]

 
Pororo Penguin Run

Description: Run, jump and fly your way across Pororo’s delightful world, collecting stars and coins along the way! Join the adventure for free today! Brought to you by an award-winning team.

[pb-app-box pname=’com.supersolid.pororo’ name=’Pororo Penguin Run’ theme=’discover’ lang=’en’]

 
Smash Bandits Racing

Description: Smash everything. Well, almost. Whichever route you take through an ever-changing world of dirt tracks and dusty logging towns, you can crash and bash your way through smashable scenery in the most intense display of destruction you have ever seen.
[pb-app-box pname=’com.hutchgames.smashbandits’ name=’Smash Bandits Racing’ theme=’discover’ lang=’en’]

 
Sniper Tactical

Description: You are an elite sniper who brings death from afar. You are sent in to take out the bad guys and help your people on the ground. Clear the path for them, bearing your own safety in mind.

[pb-app-box pname=’com.fragOut.SnipElite’ name=’Sniper Tactical’ theme=’discover’ lang=’en’]

 

That was Free Android Games May 2014 Week 1 to see the full list of free games head over to our full free play section here.

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The latest Free Games On Steam for the month of April 2014
There is a great selection of new free to play games added to steam this month. Have a look through the list and leave in the comments the games you have been playing this month.

 
ArcheBlade (Action)

Description: ArcheBlade is a free to play 3D multiplayer fighting game that captures the essence of combo-based fighting games combined with unique game modes. Play as one of many characters and master your skills to become the best fighter.

 
 Conquest of Champions (RPG)

Description: Conquest of Champions is the perfect blend of Collectible Card Games and tabletop tactical warfare. Build your personal deck strategy and bring your cards to life by summoning fully animated creatures, casting devastating spells, and equipping powerful weapons.

 
Battle Nations (Strategy)

Description: Battle Nations is an epic and addictive combat strategy game filled with exciting adventures and lovable characters. Train your troops, battle your friends, build your Outpost, and defeat powerful villains!

 
Villagers and Heroes – 5.8 / 10 (MMO)

 Description: Welcome to a land you’ll never want to leave! Villagers and Heroes is a free-to-play MMO game in which players experience not just the thrill of battling unique monsters or the satisfaction of tailoring an exquisite robe, but the pleasure of building lasting friendships within a friendly community.

 
Ghost Recon Phantoms – 7.6 / 10 (First Person Shooter)

Description: Phantoms offers a level of depth to the realm of online shooters that is hard to find. Contrary to the traditional run and gun style prominent in the popular multiplayer shooters, Phantoms incentivizes caution over foolhardy bullet catching.

 

 

Evolution RTS  (RTS- Strategy)

Description: Evolution RTS is a free an Open Source RTS game designed using the Spring Engine. It has been in development for over 5 years and receives updates often. It’s gameplay is designed specifically to appeal to gamers of all skill levels.

 

Thanks for checking out our list of Free Games On Steam April 2014 Which ones are your favourites and which will you be downloading?

NHL 15 Features Have Been Revealed By EA Sports For The Xbox One and PS4 Versions.

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NEW MARIO KART 8 GAMEPLAY FEATURES & MORE
With less than a month to go until Mario Kart 8 is officially released on 30th May, Nintendo released a new Nintendo Direct video revealing just enough information to keep fans excited for potentially the hottest Wii U exclusive of the year.

New items and characters were just some of the gameplay features revealed, alongside Mario Kart TV, a new in-game channel allowing players to watch highlight reels of their races, and a detailed explanation of the online multiplayer component of the game.
GAMEPLAY FEATURES
Mario Kart 8 allows up to 12 players to compete at a time, and offers a wide range of ways to find opponents. For instance, players can choose whether to compete against players from all over the world, or on a much more regional level.

For those players who prefer to race against their friends, Mario Kart 8 is to include chat in the in-game lobbies, so players can talk to one another whilst waiting for their slower friends to join in.

There’s also the option to create tournaments to compete against either friends or other gamers globally at set times to really test who’s best.

As always ghost data will also be recorded so that there’s always friendly competition to race against regardless of the date and time.

 
ADDITIONAL FEATURES
Mario Kart 8 also makes it easier to rub a friend’s face in it when they’re left them trailing behind, including Mario Kart TV which allows players to watch highlights of the races and even post them to the Miiverse and Youtube for the entire world to see.

For those who’re interested in watching the very best Mario Kart players in the world, Mario Kart TV will provide access to the world’s most popular highlight reels.

Additional Items and Playable Characters
To top it off, Mario Kart 8 adds to the already extensive list of characters by adding in Baby Rosalina and Pink Gold Peach, the princess’ own equivalent of Metal Mario, bringing the total to 30 available drivers.

New items include the Super Horn, which blows away anything around the player, and the Crazy Eight, a collection of eight items that lucky drivers will be able to use one after the other.
FREE DOWNLOAD WITH EVERY MARIO KART 8 PURCHASED
Nintendo also announced a scheme which will allow players to receive a free Wii U title to download with any copy of Mario Kart 8 purchased.

Whether bought from the Nintendo eShop or at retail, players will be able to register the Club Nintendo PIN that accompanies the game at any point before 31st July 2014 to receive a free download code for one of ten WII U games.

The list of games included in the deal is really impressive, featuring some of the Wii U’s most successful and critically acclaimed titles. The full list is below: 

New Super Mario Bros. U
Pikmin 3
The Wonderful 101
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD
Sonic Lost World
Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games
Wii Party U
Nintendo Land
GAME & WARIO
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate

 

Nintendo only recently revealed a host of other features, including other characters, more details on the impact of antigravity in the latest game and some information on the tracks available.

Mario Kart 8 will be released in just under a month on May 30th, exclusively for the Wii U.

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PLAY NINTENDO E3 2014 : NEW GAMES, NEW EVENTS AND LIVE, NONSTOP PROGRAMMING
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The Free Xbox 360 Games List. For more free games head here.
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The five best music games of the last ten years based on concept and execution.
The last ten years have brought us no end of quality music-based video games, but quantity can sometimes overwhelm quality. In order to start filtering through the onslaught of games that seem to be appearing left and right: everything from Rock Band to more abstract game concepts like Raycatcher, I’ll be going over the five best music-based video games from the past ten years.

While many games like Guitar Hero garnered almost instant commercial success, some less mainstream concepts slipped under the radar. These games, often ignored by the majority due to their eccentricity, have offered us some of the best musical game systems on the market, even by today’s standards. My list is one of conceptual successes, not just financial ones.
#5: Patapon Series – 2008 to 2011

These quirky rhythm games involve far more than simply inputting a four-button sequence to a beat as black, cartoon creatures danced around the screen. No, the side-scrolling Patapon series, three games released all for the PSP, present you with a much more complex system than “Attack, Walk, Attack, Walk”, despite that being the central conceit of the game.

The Patapon series offers an in-depth, customizable leveling systems with a variety of Patapons to pick your army from. In order to upgrade each individual Patapon, you have to first collect specific consumable items from various levels. Each branch in the upgrade tree has its own advantages, such as immunity to fire with an ice weakness or maybe a reduction in knockback in exchange for speed. The level of customizability is high, leading to a more satisfying experience, even outside of the main game.

Add the gameplay and the depth of RPG elements in Patapon and you have a game that you can not only play more than once but for hours on end, all the while unknowingly humming “pata-pata-pata-PON!”
#4: Ouendan Series – 2005 to 2007

“Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan”, the first of three games of its kind, feature a rather serious cheerleading team following your rhythmic DS touch commands. By tapping, sliding, and swirling your stylus at breakneck speed, you can cheer for random people as they tackle difficult tasks like trying to ignore their family as they do homework or finding inspiration for their next pottery masterpiece.

Elite Beat Agents, released in North America, Europe, and Australia, featured secret government agents dedicated to helping those in need as opposed to the Japanese cheerleading team. The game is essentially identical to the first Ouendan, save for its American setting: rather than struggling with common Japanese cultural conundrums, the story follows stories like helping a Hollywood director make a career-saving movie.

The game’s frantic pace and use of touch technology makes it stand out against a backdrop of similar “tap-to- the-beat” rhythm games. Not only do you have to make sure you’re tapping available button on the beat, you need to make sure your slides are timed perfectly and your screen-killing swirls are extracting the most from the game.
#3: Audiosurf – 2008

Audiosurf, a game for Windows only, features a floating vehicle on a futuristic track moving forward to the beat of the song you load into it, any song you want. The game designs a course specific to the chosen song, inserting bumps on the beat and increasing the speed of your vehicle as the song increases in feel.

I say “feel” because, even though the tempo of most songs doesn’t actually change throughout, the game still manages to interpret frenetic sections of music as an increase in vehicle speed. This mechanic alone is enough to make you try the game out, but it’s about a lot more than just cruising along a Tron-esque track.

The “game” element of Audiosurf involves the collection of blocks that litter the terrain in a manner similar to Guitar Hero in that they all fall on a beat or significant part of the arrangement. The blocks collect in a shadow grid beneath your vehicle and only clear when they form a series of three or more.

In a manner not unlike Tetris, you have to figure out the best way to clear the most amount of blocks at once. What’s more, there are different colors of blocks, each with their own point values.

The quest for a high score is ongoing with new scores being posted every day along with what song was played. With a community that enduring, it’s no surprise a second Audiosurf is already available on Steam via Early Access.
#4: Everyday Shooter – 2007

Everyday Shooter may seem like a lo-res predecessor to Geometry Wars, but with a little context and a few frustrating hours logged into this PC and PSN game, you’ll come to realize its complexity.

First off, the music was recorded entirely by the game’s programmer and graphic designer, Jonathon Mark. The music, comprised almost entirely of electric guitar sounds, is rich and textured. In the same vein, each piece of audio feedback (and there is a lot) is matched perfectly with the level.

The game itself is much like Asteroids in that you control a small “ship” on a fixed screen as objects fly in from off-screen. Where it differs is that, in each of the eight levels, the way in which you progress is different. I won’t spoil the surprise, as part of the challenge is discovering what it is you need to do to get the biggest combos.

This game, despite being decried as frustrating, is as rewarding as it is challenging. Slipping through spaces between enemies, chaining massive bombs together to create huge combos, jamming to the beat as you hammer a particularly tough baddy: all of these things come together to transform a simple mechanic into a wholly-realized concept.
#1: Sound Shapes – 2012 – Einfo Games Review 10 / 10

Sound Shapes interacts with music on a level I have yet to see in other games. The PSN platformer asks you to collect floating “notes” as you navigate levels in order to complete the pre-written score. What makes the music feel so textured in this game is that notes collected more than three panels from your current location no longer get played, resulting in a more organic sound.

The game uses sounds composed by popular artists such as Beck and Deadmau5 but also allows you to take control in the level editor. Level editors are typically quite clunky, especially when played on portable systems like the PS Vita, but the Sound Shapes editor is the exception to the rule. Simple commands, good use of all the available buttons and touch screen make creating levels a breeze on any system (I will say that the use of the Vita’s rear touchscreen is, as always, a bit frustrating but can be substituted with other buttons).

The result of such a streamlined editor is a fertile community of user-made content. User-made levels with designs beyond anything available in the admittedly short campaign mode are available to play or download for free.

What makes this the best music game of the past decade? Simplicity. Despite being pregnant with possibility, the UI and game mechanics in this game are so simple that anyone can pick it up and enjoy a home-made jam while hopping from platform to platform, picking up notes left and right and hearing the magic that follows.
Conclusion
Even with such a rich history in just the last ten years, music-based video games continue to evolve, spawning new and interesting games like the recently released puzzle platformer FRACT OSC. There seems to be no end to what developers can come up with in terms of creatively integrating music with gameplay.

With new technologies like virtual reality and augmented reality now coming to fruition, I can only imagine what sort of advances musical experiences will garner. I’m looking forward to playing an air guitar that can actually produce sound, finally.

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There have been a number of excellent crafting and adventure type games that absolutely devoured my time when I played them. Villagers and Heroes is not one of those games.

I can’t even estimate the number of hours I’ve spent mining ore in Runescape – keep in mind that is also a free game. Or how many I’ve spent grinding in World of Warcraft. However, I can definitively say I will not be going back to Mad Otter’s MMO adventure.

 
Gameplay
Villagers and Heroes isn’t a combat based game. With only a handful of abilities and some perks available from weapons, there just isn’t a great amount of depth to the combat system. I’ve yet to encounter a single combat scenario in which I had to do more than wait for the enemy to die while occasionally clicking a special ability. If this game were about grinding XP in the wilderness, I wouldn’t give it the time of day.

That being said, what Villagers and Heroes is really about is crafting. Much of the game is centered around gathering supplies – during which those combat skills will save your life – and crafting. The gathering and crafting skills go hand in hand. Without the proper gathering know-how, you may be left to spend all your coin in the auction house.

 

On the plus side, you can be a master at any and all the skills. One admittedly neat feature is that you can be a part of a village. By buying a house you can farm, raise animals, and even customize your house. I’d have to say this is the main appeal of the game since so little actual combat seems to happen.

The gist of the gameplay rests on gathering materials to level up those skills and going home to craft away whatever generally useless doodad boosts your crafting skill. This type of gameplay certainly has its appeal to specific audiences, but without a doubt, is not for me.

 
Presentation
Villagers and Heroes is a cheery sort of game. The atmosphere is very chilled and laid back. Spending time in the middle of Ardent City is somewhat like being in some festival. Everything is colorful with relaxing tunes in the background. Much of the game is quite tranquil.

Depending on how you set your graphics, Villagers and Heroes can be quite nice looking. There are lots of little details that can kill your frame rate, but if you can’t run it comfortably these can be scaled down.

Some of the less friendly areas also benefit from the nice artwork. There are plenty of creepy crawlies and assorted scaly things roaming the hostile wilderness. Though I have yet to walk out into a new environment with the same levels of awe as I’ve had in more established titles like The Elder Scrolls series. Hostile territories are typically dark and gloomy, and the cities seem to be in a perpetual state of festivity, but nothing in the world strikes me as more than a prop in a video game. That is to say, I’ve yet to feel as though the world is in any way alive.

Lifespan
 

In all honesty, Villagers and Heroes fails to hold my attention. While I can say with some certainty that there are people that would enjoy playing it, it would be dishonest to say I was anything but bored most of the time.

This game isn’t for me, but I’m likely not the part of the “target audience”. Villagers and Heroes has plenty of sometimes drawn-out and stretchy quests to do, and bounties that can be collected over and over. In fact, there are even some little errands I enjoyed performing even just for the hilarity that ensues.

 
Freeness
Villagers and Heroes can be played without buying anything. Not that it has in any way persuaded me to spend money.

There are things like travel stones that can be bought – when you run out of the ones you get for free – in order to travel around the map. Otherwise you just have to walk. Which is time consuming and sometimes irritating, but at least you didn’t have to pay for it.

 
In the end
Villagers and Heroes is pretty much just one of those games that either keep you engaged or bore you to death. As far as MMO games go, this game just doesn’t hold the appeal more well developed games do. That is just my experience with this game. It can be a somewhat entertaining and even slightly charming walk in the park, but overall just fails to make me come back – let alone make me spend money.