Antihero, a digital board game by Versus Evil set in a Victorian underworld, is now available on mobile platforms for $4.99/€5.49/£4.99. The game features a single player mode, versus AI, and online multiplayer.
Monthly Archives: January 2018
Total War: Thrones of Britannia – Alfred The Great Trailer
A new trailer for Total War: Thrones of Britannia reveals the first playable faction leader – Alfred the Great! His victory at the Battle of Edington in 878 AD marks the starting point of the player’s historical journey.
More details have also been revealed about the gameplay of Total War: Thrones of Britannia via a press release:
Like Alfred, each playable faction leader will face a series of unique events and branching dilemmas based on historical events. The choices made will have far-reaching and impactful consequences allowing players to write their own story and re-write history.
Players can attempt to achieve victory in a number of ways: by aggressively expanding through force of arms, by increasing their faction’s fame through construction, advanced technology and influence, and by completing a series of unique objectives based on their chosen faction’s history. A final, ultimate victory condition can also be aimed for, presenting the player with a unique and significant late-game challenge.
AION: Legions of War
AION: Legions of War is a F2P strategy role-playing game featuring console-level visuals and visceral tactical gameplay. Strike out in the AION Universe and explore a story of vengeance and redemption as you amass an army of powerful heroes. Available for iOS and Android.
Features:
Overlord: Recruit from over 100+ champions and utilize their particular affinities and combat styles to form the ultimate squad of unstoppable warriors.
Outfitter: Collect all manner of equipment including armors, accessories, and weapons.
Undue Rapture: Enjoy massive scale battles and stunning cinematics along an incredible journey where an ominous villain threatens the delicate balance of a world on the edge of chaos.
RoboManiac
RoboManiac is a F2P fantasy sports inspired multiplayer role-playing game where you will outfit a robot with powerful weapons and send it into the arena to do battle against other players’ cyborgs. Improve your creation bit by bit and find your way to the top of the Metal King weekly leaderboard. Available in the browser.
Features:
Adapt. Improvise. Overcome: Mix and match shields, drones, weapons, and energy cells to discover a winning combination.
Mechanical Disposition: Check up on your fight results on a daily basis and make adjustments to your equipment and strategy as necessary.
For Science: Head to the laboratory or workshop to make repairs, buy upgrades, and level up your robot’s various attributes.
Tango 5: The Last Dance
Tango 5: The Last Dance is a F2P team-based real-time tactics game where fast acting strategies and cooperative teamwork is the key to victory. Available for iOS and Android.
Features:
On the Clock: Quickly formulate a battle plan in rounds that only last 99 seconds.
Radio Chatter: Stay in constant contact with your teammates and stay a step ahead of uninformed foes.
Keeping It Fresh: Explore various different champions and their accompanying loadouts.
Arena of Valor
Arena of Valor is a F2P team-based multiplayer online battle arena offering intuitive controls and short matches for MOBA players new and old. Pick your champion, head to a lane, and fight other players while working to destroy their valuable towers and protecting your own. Available for iOS and Android.
Features:
A Call for the Brave: Discover and master a hero from the diverse of roster of over 40+ characters.
Be Like Water: Play a variety of roles like support, tank, bruiser, DPS, or assassin to match your team’s needs as necessary.
Career Gladiator: Team up with your friends over voice chat to take on the 3v3 or 5v5 leagues. Alternatively, ditch the dead weights and test your might in the fiercely competitive 1v1 game mode.
RoboManiac Trailer
Outfit a robot and send it into battle against other players from around the world!
Tango 5: The Last Dance Trailer
Kill enemies fast and think even faster in this 5v5 real-time strategy mobile game.
Arena of Valor Trailer
Designate your legendary champion and jump into intense 5v5 MOBA action on the go!
Heliborne Review
By Vincent Haoson (Ojogo)
There’s this special place in gamer’s hearts for being able to jump into any real-life ships, tanks, or planes and just shoot people down. That’s why Wargaming has consistently been able to sustain their World of <insert vehicle> games. It’s surprising though that one other staple of military vehicles hasn’t had its own online arena style battle akin to that of Wargaming’s titles. Then comes JetCat Games’ Heliborne.
Overview
Heliborne is a paid game on Steam developed by JetCat games and published by Klabater, the publisher of the single player VR game Alice VR. The game puts you in the pilot’s seat of a various roster of helicopters, starting as early as the 1950s up to the 2000s. You’ll be flying missions where you’ll need to help the movement of ground troops that fortify positions and supply lines, or evacuate pinned down enemies deep within the enemy lines. The game boasts a dynamic battlefield where you’ll be facing not just against AI controlled enemies, but also PvP against other players who belong to the opposing team.

Gameplay
JetCat seems to take a page out of Wargaming’s gameplay system. If you’ve played any of the World of Warships, Planes, or Tanks of the company, then that’s what you’ll be experiencing with Heliborne. However, JetCat tweaked the prescribed gameplay system and added a “squadron” format before you can jump into any battle.
Squadrons allow players to build teams of three types of helicopters that you can switch around in-game. The helicopters you can put into your squadrons are limited to your chosen faction, the US or the Soviets.

Currently the game has five major mission maps, two game modes and a solo/co-op game mode that you can sink your teeth into. The control scheme on the other hand is a mix of simul-lite (or simulation lite) and arcade flight model which aims to make players experience a simulation type control scheme but still have the markings of an arcade stream lined control system.
Helicopters
Currently, Heliborne has around 40 helicopters in its roster. The designs range from as early as the Vietnam War era and go as modern as the 2000s. Each helicopter in the roster can get their loadouts updated to as close to historical accuracy as possible, or so JetCat claims. One of the more glaring liberties JetCat takes, which I personally have no complaints with, is the amount of rockets these copters can bring. Under normal circumstances I don’t think that the helicopters, even the modern ones, can bring around 300+ rockets in its loadout.

Heliborne classifies the helicopters into three different types: attack, assault, and recon/scout classes. Each helicopter category has its own use in battles. In fact, you need to have at least one of each in your squadron so that you can be as flexible as possible during the heat of battle. Since the game doesn’t allow you to edit your loadouts while in battle, you have to go out of the match, change your loadout, and then re-enter.
Helicopters are also classified into classes starting from class I, which are mostly the earlier older helicopters, up to the IV class where you’ll finally be able to use the more familiar modern helicopters. Matches are categorized by copter class so that there’s no imbalance happening between teams. Aside from the default loadout, you can research and upgrade the capabilities of your helicopters to suit your needs.
Battles
Meanwhile, battles in Heliborne are slow, deliberate matches that take around 45 minutes of your time at most, depending on the game mode, team composition, and strategy. Matches can be frantic with exhilarating changes, or slow slogs that feel like they’ll take forever to end.

I love that squadron battles in Heliborne require you to coordinate with your teammates and the way you choose your helicopters to use. Fragging in game isn’t just reliant on air-to-air helicopter battles. You have to also consider troop deployment either by dropping RPGs or anti-air infantry as you capture forward bases,which is the best way for you to earn research points and win matches. Forward bases can also be reinforced by vehicles that provide anti-air installations, making it harder for opposing teams in taking their bases over.
I’ve had matches where the proper placement of troops along with a good team play allowed us to maintain the lead from the start of the game to finish. I’ve also had matches where the enemies would snowball hard, especially if we were outnumbered, outplayed and outgunned – which happens frequently, even in battles I started myself.

Thankfully, I can just jump out of battles and still get the research points that I earned during the battle. At least this makes you feel like matches aren’t something you are required to finish if things don’t go your way.
My biggest problem with Heliborne is the lack of team balancing in battles. I do understand this though, since the game isn’t as popular, and in fact just launched recently so the player base isn’t large. I just hope that JetCat will be able to fix this later on.
Conclusion
Heliborne is a game that answers the helicopter gaming itch that I never really thought I had. It’s not a game that you can easily jump into unless you watch the tutorial videos. In fact, I hoped that JetCat included a starting tutorial on the game but what they provide are just videos by streamers and content creators. If you’re one of the special snowflake gamers out there I’m sure you would drop the game because of this, however, it’s going to be your loss if you do so.

It’s a game that I’d really see myself getting into (up to the point that I’d even stream and play it), the game has a lot of potential. With the game still in its early stages, Heliborne is a seriously enjoyable game just as long as you have the patience to go past the first hour or so of trying to figure things out.
For its price, there are a lot of games that won’t meet the quality of gaming Heliborne provides. So if you’re looking to challenge yourself and still have fun, Heliborne is one of the games that is top on my list.
Overall: 4/5 – Lack of proper native tutorial system can turn off people, matches can be brutal for titled players, but overall a robust and fun experience.