Become Superman to save the city of metropolis in an all-new adventure for iPhone and iPad. As the man of Steel, use your incredible powers to protect the people of Earth in this stylish, arcade game featuring original artwork, panels and soundtrack.

Developer: DC, Tiger Games
Price 69p, £1.99 (HD)

Extraction: Project Outbreak
Experience this explosive top-down, 3D shooter inspired by retro classics. Clandestine government experiments on military personnel and POW’s have gone wrong, unleashing an outbreak of infected soldiers on the area surrounding the secret facility. Use intuitive one-touch controls, a variety of weapons, and some hi-tech gadgetry to defeat the hordes.

Developer: Shortround Games
Price: 69p (Launch Sale)

About Chillingo
Chillingo is a subsidiary of Electronic Arts and publishes innovative games and software for various platforms. Other hit iPhone®, iPod touch® and iPad™ titles include Cut the Rope™, Angry Birds™, Feed Me Oil, Helsing’s Fire, Predators™, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs™, Minigore, iDracula, and Modern Conflict.

For more information visit www.chillingo.com.

Asteroids: Gunner Action Shooter Mobile App Game

Evolved free-to-play version of all-time classic Asteroids features dual-stick action and 150 unique levels.

Atari, one of the world’s most recognized publishers and producers of interactive entertainment, announced the launch of Asteroids®: Gunner today on the App Store. Asteroids: Gunner is a free-to-play, dual-stick action shooter for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, developed by Fluik Entertainment, the minds behind Office Jerk.

In the first original sequel to the genre-defining arcade game Asteroids, released in 1979, players will journey across multiple galaxies in search of valuable cosmic crystals and exciting asteroid-blasting action. A turn-based multiplayer Challenge Mode is due for release in the game’s first update, expected to hit later this year.

Take on the role of the Gunner on a journey across the galaxies, blasting his way through deadly asteroid fields and alien fleets as he works his way to the top of the gritty crystal mining industry. With three different ships under his command and three dangerous galaxies with 150 total enemy waves to crush, players will have a literal and metaphorical blast as they gain rank promotions and collect cosmic crystals in order to buy upgrades that will transform their space crafts into undeniable asteroid-destroying machines.

Features include:
• Three all-new galaxies to explore and conquer, with 150 waves of asteroids and alien warships to obliterate
• Dual-stick controls for firing and movement, perfect for non-stop blasting action
• Access to three unique space crafts to pilot: the Miner, the Bomber and the Dart
• Legions of power-ups and upgrades to customize your ship and turn it into an unstoppable force
• Earn Crystals and purchase Space Bucks to unlock new galaxies and powerful upgrades
• An extensive achievement system that lets you earn ranks… and bragging rights
• OpenFeint and Game Center integration

“The successful launch of Atari’s Greatest Hits this summer exceeded our expectations for the iOS platform, garnering over 3 million downloads to date,” said Jim Wilson, CEO of Atari.   “Asteroids: Gunner capitalizes on the innovation and potential of the app store and sets the path for more great games based on our legendary franchises while launching new original titles that meet the expectations of our dedicated fans and broader consumer base.”

Download Asteroids: Gunner from the App Store.

Combat Arms: Zombies is based on the zombie infested cooperative Fireteam Mode found in Combat Arms, one of NEXON’s most popular online FPS that has millions of players across North America and Europe.

NEXON Mobile has combined the gameplay of the original Combat Arms with diverse attack patterns of the 3D zombie mode, top-notch visuals and a variety of weapons systems. NEXON Mobile expects to provide users with regular content updates with the intent of delivering massive game content approaching that of the original online game.

“Using Epic Games’ cutting edge Unreal Engine technologies, Combat Arms: Zombies will set a new standard for graphics and quality gameplay on mobile devices,” said NEXON Mobile’s CEO, Albert Rim. “Combat Arms: Zombies has been a major effort for us and it will help establish NEXON Mobile as a top developer of multi-platform games.”

Prior to its launch later in November, Combat Arms: Zombies will be unveiled for the first time at G-Star 2011 on 10th November at Busan BEXCO. Visitors to South Korea’s top games expo, will have hands-on access to the game via iPads and iPhones at the NEXON Mobile exhibit.

Shadowgun - Mobile action shooting game

Madfinger Games, creators of Samurai II: Vengeance, today announced the beginning of a new action shooting game, Shadowgun.

By focusing on mobile platforms – including smartphones and tablets- Madfinger has created the most advanced handheld game in the market, optimized for superb performance and offering gamers the same quality expected from console gaming systems.

Shadowgun will support Android mobile devices powered by the NVIDIA Tegra super chip, and will be available on the Tegra Zone app and Android Market.

Authored with the Unity development platform, Shadowgun combines tactical combat with third person harrowing action, ushering in a new visual standard for handheld gaming.

Shadowgun puts players into the role of John Slade, a professional bounty hunter in the year 2350. Slade’s mission: hunt down Dr. Edgar Simon, renowned geneticist and former employee of the trans-galactic corporation Toltech Enterprises. Players must lead “shadowgun” John Slade as he infiltrates Dr. Simon’s mountain fortress and fights his personal army of mutants, cyborgs, and genetically-enhanced humanoids. Using state-of-the-art weaponry, ships, and the assistance of S.A.R.A.—Slade’s personal android assistant. The story is written by award winning author Micah Nathan who has joined the MadFinger team as executive creative consultant for Shadowgun.

“Shadowgun is possibly the the best expression of quality production achievable on mobile devices and a great indicator of what consumers can expect from future mobile games,” said Brett Seyler, General Manager of Union. “We’re very proud to see this kind of creative product created with Unity and excited to offer it to our partners through our Union distribution service.”

Charlie In Trouble - Returning Home

Rapid Turtle Games have released Charlie In Trouble – Returning Home, the final chapter in the Charlie In Trouble series is now available for the iPhone and iPod touch on the App Store.

The game features 8 huge levels divided into 21 stages, with many new puzzles and arcade platform jumping.

Help Charlie once more to find his way back to home in the final chapter of this adventure game. He has defied the King’s orders, and traveled through a magical portal only to become trapped on the other side. In order to return home, Charlie must make it through 8 levels in this strange new realm filled with puzzles and enemies.

Charlie In Trouble - Returning Home Screenshot

The player must avoid enemies, obstacles and traps while hitting switches and solving puzzles that will allow him or she to move to the next level. The order of puzzles are such that players must travel back and forth between different stages of each level in order to complete them all. Each level can be up to 4 stages in size.

Charlie In Trouble – Returning Home Main Features:

• 8 huge levels divided into 21 stages
• 7 hours of adventure fun
• More than 120 items (tools, toys…) and other objects to interact with
• Cute and lovable main character, levels and enemies
• Plenty of arcade platform jumping, puzzle solving and adventure fun
• Many different kind of enemies (18 in total)
• High variety of traps and other objects like: triggers, lifts, doors, teleports, pillows, lava, water, bounce pads & transporters
• Achievements through Game Center or Open Feint
• A game for the whole family

You can download Charlie In Trouble – Returning Home from the App Store.

For more information about this and other mobile games, visit the Rapid Turtle Games website.

“Chillingo constantly seeks partnerships with great indie developers who are pushing the threshold of mobile games with pioneering concepts,” explains Chris Byatte, Co-General Manager of Chillingo. “We have built a solid reputation of polishing these unique gems to perfection and successfully introducing them to consumers worldwide.”

“Since joining EA last fall, we have signed several great new titles that will be revealed in the coming months,” adds Joe Wee, Co-General Manager of Chillingo. “Our GDC slate features a sampling of the most cutting-edge games that are sure to delight the gamer in all of us.”

The following titles will be previewed at the Game Developers Conference:

Painkiller Purgatory
Fight your way through Hell in this first person shooter based on the hit PC franchise. Blow Hell’s demons to bits with a range of devastating weapons.

Anomaly Warzone Earth
Make your way through the alien gauntlet in this gorgeous, futuristic strategy that totally puts tower defense principles upside down to form a tower offense game.

Blobster
Flick a cute little blob across incredible levels, squash enemies, collect cool power-ups and save the environment from a ruthless polluting company.

Quiz Climber
Pit your knowledge against your friends in a new social quiz.  Answer as many consecutive questions as possible to climb the tree and leapfrog your friends in the leaderboards.  Strategize and compete using your lifelines to improve your chance of setting a great score.

Storm in a Teacup
Get ready for a wonderful, magical adventure. Take up the mantle of Storm and guide him in his magical teacup through a dreamlike landscape created by the vivid imagination of his older brother, Clouds in this super fun, physics-based platformer.

Emberwind
Help free the city of Grendale from the evil CandleFinger and his gremlin hordes. Sail through the clouds on your ancient snow owl and deploy your cane of justice to save the kingdom from the underworld in this exciting platform game based on the popular PC and Mac games.

Feed Me Oil
Get the oil from the pipe to the right spot in this ingenious physics based puzzle game. Gorgeous art and mind bending level design makes this a puzzler with mass appeal.

Color Bandits
The colors have been stolen from your world and it’s up to you to get them back. Fight your way across grayscale worlds and destroy enemies to bring the bright colors back in this action packed side-scrolling shoot ‘em up.

Carnage
Speed your car down busy roads without causing a pile up on the highway. Crashes equal points in this visually impressive destruction driving game!

All of these titles will be released in the coming weeks on the Apple App Store.

When Rovio Mobile launched their hugely addictive Angry Birds game on Android they chose Getjar to debut the app exclusively, the site offering the download for free.

Peter Vesterbacka, Mighty Eagle at Rovio Mobile said;

“GetJar’s global reach and popularity as well as their unique App It! download service ensures that we reach a massive audience of fanatically loyal Angry Birds addicts. The unique App It! link means we can also cross promote our Symbian and Android versions without the need to send folks to multiple places to get their favorite game.”

Peter Mork CMO at Getjar said;

“We’ve seen a significant spike in the submission of Android apps on GetJar, so we are quite pleased that Rovio, developers of the smoking hot game Angry Birds, has come to us to offer the first full Android version of the game to our millions of consumers. Android is one of our fastest growing platforms with downloads growing up to 500 percent since April of this year. As developers go cross platform and look for global scale and reach, GetJar’s billion+ downloads and ease of discovery provide the ideal channel for developers to distribute content quickly and easily to consumers. As a result of its reach, GetJar is perfectly positioned to complement Android Market by extending developers distribution to more than 200 countries all over the world.”

Cricket T20 fever - screenshot

Spreading the rage that both Cricket T20fever and Warchess have created within the gaming community further, UTV Indiagames has now created versions of the games for the recently launched Nokia N8.

Cricket fans can now play the high-end versions of UTV Indiagames’ flagship game Cricket T20fever as well as Warchess on their own devices, making it a feature packed game for all gaming fans.

With the Cricket T20fever ranking among the top games for Nokia’s Ovi Store, the game is now being made available for the smartphone along with Warchess, which was recently launched for the Ovi Store.

Integrated with 3D graphics along with realistic animations and powered by UTV Indiagames proprietary “ICE 3D” cross-platform engine, Cricket T20fever lets gamers play an entire league match series with their favorite world teams, leading them to win the tournament. The game has various modes to choose from including the popular T20 format, One-day matches, Tournament mode and introducing a new PowerPlay mode.

WarChess is a 3D interpretation of the game of chess, with original innovative fantasy chess pieces, captivating visual effects and animations to visualize the battle of the chess pieces. Combining powerful 3D graphics, animated battle sequences, multiple levels of difficulty, and multiple themes, the game delivers the ultimate interactive chess experience. It also includes a classic board style 2d mode with different themes to choose from.

Vishal Gondal, CEO, UTV Indiagames, said, “Both Cricket T20fever and Warchess have been extremely popular with the gamers and have received a phenomenal response on the Ovi Store as well. Gauging this trend, we decided to extend both the games on the new Symbiam platform. This launch reiterates our commitment to provide the best of games to all available digital platforms.”

pentago for mobiles

UTV Indiagames along with Mindtwister have launched the award winning board game Pentago for mobile and smartphones, the game will eventually be available for all mobile feature phones across mobile carriers globally.

Pentago is a multiple award winning, strategy board game for kids and adults alike, which is both simple and sophisticated at the same time. This is a two-player game in which the object is to create a row of five marbles, in any direction, before your opponent does, but with a twist. Each move consists of placing a marble and then twisting one of the four game blocks.

The game has won a stack of awards since it was launched as a board game in 2004. In 2005 Pentago won the prestigious awards of “Game of the Year” in Sweden, in 2006 Pentago won the much revered ‘Mensa Select Award’ in the United States.

Over the years the game has won numerous Game of the Year and equivalent awards in, for example, Finland, France, Japan, and Germany and Pentago has also been nominated for “Toy of the Year 2010” in the “Specialty Toy of the Year” category in the USA.

Vishal Gondal, CEO, UTV Indiagames, said, “We are proud to partner with Mindtwister on this project and get ‘Pentago’ to millions of mobile owners worldwide. ‘Pentago’, we have found, is a challenging game of wits, and is ideally suited for players of mobile games, who enjoy quick bouts of these thinking games on the run.”

The game is currently available on the Nokia Ovi Store and will also be at the Apple iStore during September.

world cup 2010 mobile apps

In case it had passed you by, the 2010 World Cup finals kick off this weekend in South Africa and to celebrate the greatest sporting event of all, almost everything in the media at present appears to have a World Cup theme.

Mobile applications are no exception to the rule and there are an abundance of apps available featuring football games, live score and news information, star player profiles and much more.

If you have a Nokia mobile device the range of World Cup apps in the Ovi store is growing on a daily basis, fans from all over the globe are invited to download wallpaper featuring their national team colours and theme to brighten up the appearance of their mobiles.

The EA Sports 2010 FIFA World Cup game is apparently the only official game for mobiles and is available on Ovi for only £4.00  which looks good value if you fancy playing out the finals in your armchair or on the commute to work.

For only £1.00 you can own Fantasy World Cup, where you are invited to assemble a team of top players from the 32 competing nations, with points awarded for each players real life performances in the competition.

There are a stack of mobile apps offering Live updates, scores and stats, in fact everything that you could possibly want to know, always available to impress your mates down the pub or simply to keep in touch with any games that you are unable to watch.

Even the free Fring app that connects you to all IMs and Social Media sites for FREE calls is listed as the must have World Cup app, inviting fans to keep connected during the games & share your World Cup excitement with your friends, live!

Sat amongst the long list of World Cup apps is one that is just begging to be downloaded, though again not just for the World Cup. It is called The Special One Speaks and promises a personal supply of wit and wisdom from Jose Mourinho.

‘Call upon The Special One at any time for an instant quote to inspire, amuse and console you and your friends throughout the World Cup and beyond.’

Check out all the World Cup mobile apps at the Nokia Ovi store and let us know your personal favourites or the ones that should be avoided!