Disc Jam is a brand new arcade sports game blending air hockey and tennis in a unique combination of strategy and skill. Play on your couch or party up and take on the world in casual and ranked online modes.
Yearly Archives: 2016
Outward
Outward is a buy-to-play adventure life sim developed by Nine Dots Studio for PC where you can become an adventurer, traveler, and explorer! You haven’t been chosen by some prophecy, nor are you from an all-important dynasty. You are simply yourself and must be focused on surviving first and foremost if you want to continue to explore the world’s secrets. If you’re looking for a game that is intended to make you work for success and learn from your failures, then Outward is the game for you!
Features:
Various Obstacles: Not only will you encounter hostile forces and creatures, but you’ll also have to manage your hunger, thirst, and sleep like a true adventurer should have to.
Constant Saving: Outward will be constantly saving your progress as you play, which means there is no turning back time to avoid the tough situations you’ll run into. You’ll have to carefully evaluate situations before you rush headlong into them.
Dynamic Defeat Scenarios: Outward features dynamic defeat scenarios which will leave you being held for ransom or being dragged through the woods, looted, and left for dead.
SCUM
SCUM is a 3D survival game developed by Devolver Digital for PC and will be available sometime in 2017 on Steam Early Access. In SCUM large private corporations have obtained complete control of the entire world, resulting in a world that is completely ruled by greed. The gap between the rich and the poor is at its largest point in all of history and the elite have brought the world to its knees, enslaving most of the population. Now those who directly oppose the world’s leaders are forced into privately-owned correctional facilities where they must fight against one another for survival.
Features:
Skill Management: Everything from combat proficiencies to security systems hacking will come into play when you’re fighting for survival.
Sponsors and Gifts: Remember that while you fight for your life corporate sponsors will be watching. Make sure you’re being entertaining enough and you will be rewarded with gifts to help you survive even longer.
Resurrection: Live to fight another day and keep all of your hard-earned skills intact. After all, the wealthy need constant entertainment and you are here to serve.
Disc Jam
Disc Jam is a 3D action sports game developed by High Horse Entertainment for PS4 and PC and it will be available on Steam upon release. If you’re looking for an action-packed, fast-paced sports game that pits 2-4 players against one another, then you won’t find anything more hectic than Disc Jam. Go grab your glowing disc and whirl it at your opponent’s end of the court as hard as you can to show everyone just how talented you are!
Features:
Action-Packed Gameplay: Disc Jam will have you on the edge of your seat trying to make sliding catches at record speeds to stop your opponent from scoring points.
Abilities: Use your abilities at opportune moments to score as many points as possible.
Co-Op Matches: Fight with alongside your friends in team matches where you will need to coordinate effectively if you want to emerge victorious.
Hybrid Wars
Hybrid Wars is a free-to-play top-down shooter developed by Extreme Developers for PC, Mac, Linux, and will be released on Steam for download. Hybrid Wars is set in the near future of 2060 where humanity is at the high point of a technological revolution and the Earth has become completely integrated with information and technology of call kinds. Tanks, choppers, and other mechanical marvels now rule the sea, land, and sky, but not for long if you have anything to say about it!
Features:
Top-Down Gameplay: Enjoy an updated version of the classic top-down shooter style that will have you commanding your own arsenal of mech units.
Various Mechanical Foes: Over 50 different types of enemies will oppose you and try to stop you in your tracks.
Vehicles: Outfit your helicopters, tanks, robots, and titans to push back your enemies and cause the most destruction that they can manage.
Mobius Final Fantasy Review: The Full FF Experience Gone Mobile
By: Ojogo
The Final Fantasy franchise is one of the IPs that has shown a solid record for producing top rate spin-off titles. The rise of mobile gaming has been the perfect platform for these spin-offs to shine in recent years. Considering their unstoppable success, Square finally decided to pull the trigger and go all-in for a true Final Fantasy game on mobile. This is Mobius Final Fantasy.
Overview
Mobius Final Fantasy is a free-to-play, episodic mobile title for the Android and iOS. The game has you adventuring through the world of Palamecia as one of the “blanks,” people who were transported to Palamecia to become the Warrior of Light – the prophesied hero that will save Palamecia from the destruction it’s experiencing.
Gameplay
Let’s move on to gameplay. Mobius Final Fantasy uses the turn-based system Final Fantasy has perfected over the decades as its core mechanic. Square has this down to a science, with plenty of flashy attacks and dynamic camera angles to make the turn-based combat feel intense and action-packed. The game also utilizes a “deck” build up system where you can equip card “abilities” to the job your main character is assigned to.
One of the more interesting game features Mobius Final Fantasy has is a variation of the job system used in previous FF titles. As you unlock jobs in game, you can build the aforementioned “decks” to customize the attack and element options your job can use in battle.
Another interesting gameplay feature is the acquisition of elements that you can use against monsters. It’s like a modified magic acquisition system in Final Fantasy 8. But instead of actually spending actions to gather elements that you can use later on, you can acquire the elements you need for your activatable abilities by attacking monsters that have your required element. The elements you acquire in battles can then be used as payment cost for the abilities you have assigned to your hero’s job.
On the other hand, story-wise, Mobius Final Fantasy is pretty linear. Typical to most mobile titles, you are only following one storyline with free-roam zones being few and far between. Going in, it was clear some elements would have to be sacrificed to make a Final Fantasy work on mobile. It’s understandable this would be the first element to be targeted to slim gameplay down.
Battles
I personally like how battles happen in the game. It reminds me of the battles in Final Fantasy XIV and it has this placebo effect of making you feel like you’re in an action game instead of a turn based title.
Battles are in fact surprisingly complex for a mobile title. While you can haphazardly mish-mash cards together for your job decks, you will soon hit a brick wall in difficulty. To progress at a steady pace, you need a well thought out strategy to build your deck in a way that maximizes your job’s abilities, and constantly reconsider it as new options become available to you.
I also like the feeling that Mobius Final Fantasy adopts a lot of the battle elements from various Final Fantasy titles, meshing them into a semi-new feeling style. This gives the game’s battles, the element that takes up most of your gameplay time, a kind of fresh feel even for those who are Final Fantasy veterans.
Visuals
So moving along to how the game’s battle system looks, we quickly see that this is where Mobius exceeds its spin-off brethren in a huge way. Not only are the battles a delight to see play out, but fully voiced cutscenes add to the experience, exceeding any expectations I had going in. Everything feels so complete and well thought out that its shocking Square dropped this game on the market for free.
The game’s look and feel is reminiscent of Final Fantasy culture. The characters and the visuals on both the cutscenes and those lull moments in the main interface are top notch for a mobile game. No corners were cut. Square Enix clearly intends to make this a new mobile dynasty by getting off on a good foot with their fans.
Of course on mobile, all good things come at a price. With such high quality voice acting and cutting edge visuals, you can bet your battery will be crying acidic tears keeping up with your coming gaming binge. Sure you COULD lower the graphics settings to compensate, but then you are ruining the experience for yourself.
Critique
My experience with Mobius Final Fantasy is enjoyable and pretty awesome. The mix of visually stunning graphics coupled with an easy to understand, but surprisingly complex battle system is the perfect synergy for the mobile title.
What I liked about Final Fantasy is the way that the game eases you into grinding. You wouldn’t notice it at first, but eventually you’ll find yourself grinding certain maps because you can’t move forward with the almost unbeatable (at your current state) mobs.
Another thing about the grind is that there will be areas in the game that you can’t progress past no matter how much you grind. These are the paywall zones, though they come far later into the game then I ever expected. Once they’ve hooked their claws into you, they expect you to pay up to see more of this amazing experience. Just beware that the free to play price tag is mostly just a free trial on the full game.
And speaking of the full game, it’s still a work in progress. Mobius Final Fantasy continues to release episodic content in regular updates. This allows you to enjoy the game at a certain pace that you won’t feel like you’re hurrying to catch up to those who have been playing earlier and longer. This also means that you can expect more changes to the game as it grows older. Tying gameplay updates with extended story does wonders for keeping you checking regularly for new updates. It also helps that the game gets tons of events that don’t look like they were thought up on the fly with a Magic 8 Ball. You can in fact see these events, no matter how ludicrous the idea is, weave well with the game’s interface. And I like that the game was really setup to tie-in a lot of aspects from the various Final Fantasy titles into one game. Longtime fans of the series with get all nostalgic as characters like Yuna are connected to promo ability cards, as well as Tidus’ weapon making in appearance as the Onion Knight job class’ main weapon.
Conclusion: Excellent
Overall, Mobius Final Fantasy is a good title to get for the mobile if you’re itching to get into a Final Fantasy game that feels like a Final Fantasy game. If you have no problem spending time on a game that will eventually have a high enough paywall that will force you to actually spend, then this game is a must have for you. It has enough content, and is updated regularly enough to think that you won’t be throwing money down the drain by spending on this game.
Shadowgun Legends Mobile Gameplay Gamescom 2016
Shadowgun Legends releases its behind closed doors footage from Gamescom 2016. Yes this is a mobile shooter.
Devilian Alvir’s Legacy Launch Trailer
Devilian rolls out Alvir’s Legacy, with new high end dungeons, a level cap increase, and pandas riding bicycles. Learn more on the patch notes page.
Guild Wars 2 4th Anniversary Celebration Video
Love it or hate it, Guild Wars 2 has stood the test of time, standing strong for four years in one of the rockiest climates ever for MMORPGs. Congrats ArenaNet on keeping the ship floating forward.
SMITE Nu Wa Oktoberfest Skin Reveal
SMITE is sending Nu Wa to Germany for a full make-over, with one of the best voice packs of all time.








