Chillingo is releasing Dracula : the Path of the Dragon soon.

Dracula : the Path of the Dragon will be hitting the iPhone this fall. The game is a cool Vampire adventure with a point and click navigation system.

In this one, you will live a fearsome adventure between myth and reality, science and history, medicine and superstition. And prepare to have your certainties about Vampires shaken!

In Dracula: the Path of the Dragon for the iPhone you play as Father Arno Moriani, who is sent to investigate a potential candidate for sainthood in Transylvania. Submerged into a riveting storyline, you are challenged to solve complex and engaging puzzles that lead to a final confrontation with Dracula! This gripping adventure sucks you in and leaves you “dying” for more. This game is being developed by Tetraedge who released Jules Vene’s Secrets of the Mysterious Island.

The year is 1920. You begin your investigation of Dr. Martha Calugarul in the village of Vladoviste, half-destroyed in World War I. On the hillside sits the Castle of Twilight, the famed home of Vlad the Impaler. Father Arno–not being knowledgeable of the ways of the vampire–begins to track a mysterious figure he believes is responsible for evil deeds in the area. He realizes later, that he is inadvertently walking the path of the dragon. As you solve puzzles based on medicine, history, and the occult, you’ll uncover the mystery of the dragon and of the vampires.

The mechanics in Dracula : the Path of the Dragon for the iPhone, are simple: point and then click. Adventure gamers with a taste for methodical puzzle-solving could appreciate Dracula: the Path of the Dragon.
We’ll let you walk the path of the dragon yourself when Dracula: the Path of the Dragon is released this fall.

Here is a trailer of the game play:

About Tetraedge
Tetraedge is a studio and mobile publisher specialized since 2003 in Smartphone games and applications. The first steps made on Windows Mobile in 2003 lead rapidly to develop on SYMBIAN S60 (N-Gage, N series) and more recently lead to create a strong team for iPhone/iPod Touch. Tetraedge as a mobile publisher believes that only eco-system such as iTunes/APPLE Store will lead to a successful and thriving mobile applications market.Tetraedge is using both standard SDKs from the market and its own tolls and APIs develops through the last 6 years in order to be cross-platforms. Tetraedge is constantly making a strong effort on R&D in order to acquire new technology, such as RFID and LBS, inducing new gameplay and usages on high-end mobile devices such as iPhone/iPod touch, Nokia N97, the latest Samsung, LG and HTC or even the Google SmartPhones based on ANDROID.

ooPixel releases new iPhone game Samegame Gravitized on iTunes App Store

ooPixel has just (29th of October 2009) released a new iPhone game called Samegame Gravitized. It’s available on App store for $0.99 during the first week or two. The price will go up to $1.99 afterwards.

In Samegame Gravitized the goal is to remove groups of blocks of the same colour. The more you remove, the more points you will gain just like in all Samegame or Match three variations.

Samegame Gravitized includes three game modes, GRAVITIZED MODE, CLASSIC MODE and PUZZLE MODE! In GRAVITIZED mode you can rotate the device (slight rotate to left/right is enough) to change the gravity direction where the blocks fall to. You complete levels by removing enough blocks.

CLASSIC mode is like Gravitized mode but without rotation support. PUZZLE mode includes predefined levels for you to complete. The levels will definitely challenge even the more advanced players.

Game includes special rainbow and skull blocks! Skull blocks allow you to explode a group of blocks.  Rainbow block acts as a block of any color.
Complete different tasks to achieve awards! For example, explode 28 blocks with a single tap to get exploder award! Both Gravitized and Classic modes have high scores enabled. You can also easily share your scores  through Twitter or Facebook. You can also challenge your friends!

More information available at http://www.oopixel.com/iphone-games/samegame-gravitized/

Check out Samegame Gravitized on iTunes for $0.99!

IUGO’s Triple Threat Heats up the competition between Game Developers

IUGO has 3 new iPhone titles that have been submitted for review! They have brought back the zombies from our best selling title in Zombie Attack! Second Wave. IUGO’s other 2 titles are aimed at the casual market with an addictive pick-up-and-play multiplayer called Cliffed as well as the more cerebral and just plain fun Implode! Please see below for game descriptions and screenshots:

Zombie Attack! Second Wave

Just when you thought it was safe…ZA! is back!  Lovers of zombies and tower defense-style games combined have a second chance to tear into more zombies with more weapons and in more locations than ever before.

IUGO built upon what you loved best about the original Zombie Attack! game making it bigger, better and bloodier! Your mission: play as a survivor from the ultimate Zombie Apocalypse, protect your shack and stay alive. Kill zombies, earn points and cash to upgrade your weapons and bolster your fire power. Easy tilt and touch-screen controls make ZA! 2 an instant iPhone exclusive favorite.

Main Game Features:

• 7 turrets (3 new, including the Pulse wave)

• New upgrades to super turrets

• 4 maps of varying sizes including Backyard and Trailer Park

• Hordes of challenges, 5 for each map

• 6 zombie types (4 new, including the Hound and Cheerleader)

• Instantaneous save when quitting the app

• Online high scores list for each map, local lists for challenges and personal records

• Automatic iPod music support (Just play your music and start the game)

• 3.0 USERS!! Additional iPod music playback option

• IUGO high-quality and polish

Check out Zombie Attack! Second Wave on iTunes for $3.99.

Cliffed

Challenge your friends to the most addictive race to the bottom! IUGO presents its latest sensation in casual gaming with this frantic 2D scrolling racer. WARNING: This game will get your heart and fingers racing!

Main Game Features:

• 10 unique and playful characters to choose from

• Pick up and play! Great for all ages

• Endless game play

• Online multiplayer! Race up to 8 players in real time over 3G and wireless networks

• Local and global leader boards

• IUGO’s new VIP program: Tell your friends, earn points and unlock an exclusive mystery character sooner

• Stylized, clean graphics

• IUGO’s signature quality and polish

Check out Cliffed on iTunes for $1.99!

Implode!

This game is a blast! You are tasked to carefully plant limited dynamite bundles in order to demo obsolete structures. Sounds easy enough, right? WRONG! Implode! is a classic “easy to learn, hard to master” casual game that will pull you in and won’t let go.

Main Game Features include:

• 60 dynamite levels

• Reactive UI, touch and drag control options

• Fun chalkboard theme and clean graphics

• Two different types of bombs (traditional bombs and blast bombs)

• Varying structure shapes for ongoing challenge

• Submit score online (online score is the sum of all levels’ high scores)

• Grading system for high scores adding replay ability to each level

• 3 Difficulties; Casual, Veteran, and Expert

• In-level help system: Learn as you play!

• IUGO VIP: Sandbox cheat gives you more bombs and you never fail! (high scores disabled with this feature)

• Watch buildings tumble with real physics!

Star Hogs Gets a Huge Update

October 28, 2009- After hanging in the review queue for nearly 3 months, Star Hogs receives a major update to its look, features and content.

Updates include:

NEW FEATURES:

• Additional free 32-map Alpha Centauri Campaign! (This was originally intended to be DLC as in-app purchase but has been switched to a FREE update)

• In-game messaging system. Tease, taunt and congratulate each other in-game!

• Players announce their entry into online battles.

• Ability for losers in a 3 or 4 player battle to receive their earnings first then decide whether to be spectator or leave an online battle.

• Improved in-game graphics with updated textures and parallax background 3d objects

• Scrolling window will now remember their previous position

• Automatic backup & restore system to prevent save file corruption

• IUGO VIP System for rewarding game referrals

• Invite friends feature

• Save/Resume for Campaign & Free Play modes

• NEW WEAPON: Nuclear Strike

• NEW WEAPON: Matter Missile

• NEW MINE: Paint Mines

• NEW circular map for Free Play & Online

• NEW flat map for Free Play & Online

• Camera control when it is not player’s turn

• Audio & Vibrate alarm when a match is found in Quick Play

FIXES & OPTIMIZATION:

• Better disconnection handling (Online game delayed due to lag will resolve within 60 seconds)

• Improved online multiplayer synchronization

• Certain detectable non-cheating disconnection situation will result in players being disqualified to avoid point deduction (However, the loss will still have to be taken)

• Numerous hanger issues/crashes fixed

• Possible rankings page crash fixed

• 10-pt font fixes

• Introduction camera panning issue fixed

• Airplane mode crash fixed

• Load to 50% crash fixed

• Username/password saving bug fixed

• Better physics resolution to avoid mines falling through asteroids

• Hanger menu bug fixes

• Players watching an online battle now has auto fast-forward as well to reduce lag

• Online game room’s properties can no longer be changed once room is created

GAMEPLAY TWEAKS:

• Homing / Swarm energy cost lowered to 45

• Refinery bonus reduced to 35%

• Shield projector shield amount increased to 225

• Energy laser shield damage increased from 2x to 2.5x

• Removed initial impact force from cluster bomb

• Homing sensors now increase homing rocket acceleration

• Reduced EMP missile homing

• Ranking points will now be modified by # of ships in battle. The more ships in battle, the more points awarded for wins/losses.

Some people say this game is better than Worms. Perhaps you can be a better judge of that if you try out Star Hogs yourself.

Check out Star Hogs on iTunes for $4.99.

PRO ZOMBIE SOCCER™, First Videogame Developed by Super Awesome Hyper Dimensional Mega Team

Today, October 30 2009, developers Super Awesome Hyper Dimensional Mega Team are proud to shock the world with the first game play video and screenshots of their game for iPhone and iPod Touch: PRO ZOMBIE SOCCER. The game is planned to be released later this year.

Pro Zombie Soccer is a simple but full of depth (and blood!) pick-up-and-play game where you are a soccer player who finds himself in the middle of a zombie apocalypse with a ball as his only weapon.

The game is full of features:

- One of the most surreal and funny stories to ever grace a video game.

- Lots of different zombies for your zombie killing pleasure, all of them with different hit points.

- A powerful blockbuster-type soundtrack and sound design.

- And of course: a nice combo system; different levels; Zombie Odyssey Mode for the hardcore gamers; character skill upgrading system…

Pro Zombie Soccer is full of surprises and dismembered limbs!

About Super Awesome Hyper Dimensional Mega Team

The team is made of a bunch of good friends, all seasoned pros in the games industry with titles under their belt like Plants VS. Zombies, Worms, Vin Diesel´s Wheelman, Terminator, Crush, Buzz, EyeToy Play series, Doodle Hex…

Each team member is on a different part of the globe, and they decided it was about time to make their own fresh videogame company for developing cool projects.

Programming: Julio Ruiz

Art: Enrique Corts & Mar Hernández

Level Design: Ricardo Carretero

Music & Sound Design: Jorge & Guillermo Badolato, www.BadolatoMusic.com

I-play Launches Bubble Town 2 for iPhone™ and iPod® Touch – The Multi-Platform Fan Favorite That Has Been Played More Than 120 Million Times Launches a New Bubble-Popping Adventure

NEW YORK & LONDON—October 27, 2009—I-play, Oberon Media’s publishing division and the world’s leading multi-platform casual games publisher, today launched Bubble Town 2 for iPhone™ and iPod® touch.  Based on the wildly successful online arcade game that has captivated millions of players through Facebook, MySpace, PC download and mobile, the highly-anticipated Bubble Town sequel for iPhone is now available in the Apple® App Store.

In Bubble Town 2, players travel through land, sea and space in 45 bubble-filled levels. Each dynamic environment has its own unique characteristics and borb-busting challenges as players carefully aim, lob and shoot colorful borbs to pop three or more of the same kind. Adding a new dimension of gameplay to the franchise, Bubble Town 2 offers the brand-new lob shot, where players toss borbs into place with a flick of the wrist using the iPhone’s accelerometer. In addition, Bubble Town 2 introduces a brand-new Invasion Mode, and 12 varied power-ups that bring all-new hijinx to this beloved franchise.  The game’s integrated Facebook Connect feature allows players to share their bubble-popping successes by posting high scores on Facebook and sharing with friends and family.

“Bubble Town is one of the most successful franchises in online gaming history, Although the gameplay is simple, we want to ensure that each new version takes advantage of the available technology in order to deliver fans the most compelling experience possible,” said Don Ryan, chief operating officer at Oberon Media.  “By maximizing the capabilities of the iPhone, Bubble Town 2 converges gaming and social media while offering new wrinkles that will appeal to new and current fans.”

In August, I-play launched Bubble Town: Party Planet™ on Facebook, marking the company’s entry into the world of micro-transactions (MTX).  The application introduced an all-new MTX virtual economy called BubbleBucks that allows players to make in-game purchases on items including power ups, extra level packs, gifting and other activities such as the ability to pick up play after a level defeat.

Bubble Town 2 is now available in the Apple® App Store for $2.99 / £1.79 : – Check out the game now on iTunes!

Bubble Town 2 is rolling out to mobile carriers this holiday season.

Check out the Bubble Town 2 trailer below:

Key selling points:

• Sequel to the hugely successful Bubble Town game
• Massive success online (Facebook application gathers more than 300,000 active players every month), on mobile, and on iPhone!
• 3 dimensional game play with the new “Lob Shot”
• Brand new Invasion mode for frantic game play!

Main Game Features:

• 45 ultra addictive levels (32 levels in the previous version)
• Each environment affects the game play: i.e. in the ocean the         water will create whirlpool and deflections
• 12 varied power ups help you in your progression
• 3 different “dynamic” environments
• Facebook Connect
• iPod music library

To get updates about I-play Games, become a fan on Facebook (www.facebook.com/IplayGaming) and follow us on Twitter (www.twitter.com/IplayGaming).

About I-play

I-play, the publishing division of Oberon Media, Inc., is the world’s leading multi-platform casual games publisher. With powerful franchises and massive distribution across the three most popular entertainment screens — online, mobile, and interactive television — I-play content reaches global consumers, and delivers fun, entertaining, accessible content to casual gamers of all ages. I-play’s PC publishing division, formerly Oberon Games, is based in Seattle and created the hit Dream Day Series, as well as the first casual games for bestselling author James Patterson and legendary mystery author Agatha Christie, including the Causal Connect 2008 Game of the Year, Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile. I-play’s mobile division has delivered some of the biggest selling franchises in the mobile space, including the world’s #1 best-selling racing franchise, The Fast and the Furious, based on the blockbuster movies. I-play’s interactive television group, formerly PixelPlay, creates and distributes games featuring top brands including Centipede™. Missile Command®, Asteroids™, Monopoly®, Scrabble®, Boggle®, and Yahtzee™. I-play is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Seattle, San Mateo, London, and Dunfermline, Scotland.

About Oberon Media

Oberon Media, the world’s leading multi-platform casual games company, is the first company to deliver global, integrated casual games solutions across three platforms-online, mobile and interactive television and at retail. Oberon game solutions have been adopted by the world’s leading digital and media companies, such as Microsoft, Verizon, Yahoo!, Electronic Arts, MySpace, Orange France and NHN. The Game Center combines casual game content, merchandising and features to fulfill our partners’ specific needs. Oberon Media’s game publishing division, I-play, works with the industry’s best and award-winning game developers to produce the top-selling casual games, which are played across online, mobile, console and iTV platforms in more than a dozen languages. Founded in 2003, Oberon Media is headquartered in New York with offices in North America, Europe and Asia, and is backed by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Oak Investment Partners.

Preview of Wheeler’s Treasure

Wheeler’s Treasure is a spectacular looking pirate world filled with
jungles, treasures, ghosts and more. Players follow the Cursed Wheel
of The Lost Pirate Captain Wheeler through endless randomly generated
challenges.

Jump over pits, splash into hazards, fly down steep hills
and more. Sixteen unique items are scattered throughout the world to
collect, with each one bringing new abilities. Avoid dangerous
skeletons, bats and ghosts, dodge incoming cannonballs, and protect
treasure from cunning crows.

Players can compete online to unlock achievements using OpenFeint.
Uniquely integrated into the world, players will see tombstones
marking the final resting places of their friends. Overtaking a
tombstone means beating a score.

Earn money and distance achievements to unlock secret map pieces,
which let you reach new challenges and discover new items.
Wheeler’s Treasure is currently in review and will be available on the
App Store shortly.

Preview videos of the game in action:

Updates for Prizes to Artifical Life’s BMW Sauber F1 Team Racing Contest

Previously, I posted Artificial Life’s BMW Sauber F1 Team Racing Contest. It seems they have an update to their prizes for the contest.

Now they have a total of 15 prizes, details as follows or www.botme.com/bmwf1race for more info,

1st: Replica of the BMW Sauber F1 racecar’s steering wheel

2nd: Official BMW Sauber F1 Team signed driver overalls from Robert Kubica

3rd: Original BMW Sauber F1 wet rain tire rim

4th: Original engine cover air exhaust of the BMW Sauber F1 racecar

5th: Original engine cover air exhaust of the BMW Sauber F1 racecar

6th: Original rear wing end plate of the BMW Sauber F1 racecar

7th-8th: Original BMW Sauber F1 Team fireproof underwear signed by team drivers

9th-10th: Original BMW Sauber F1 Team visors signed by team drivers

11th-15th: Official 1:4 miniature of the BMW Sauber F1 racecar’s steering wheels

The game company – Artificial Life has also extended the contest to Nov 30, 2009 so that they can allow more coming participant to race for the attractive prizes!

So what are you waiting for? Download the game now on iTunes and play for the attractive prizes as listed above!

Check out BMW Sauber F1 Team Racing on iTunes for $1.99!

Chillingo Reveals Best-of-Breed iPhone and iPod touch Features for Hit Farm Puzzle Game, Cash Cow

1.5 Million Unit Game Moves to iPhone and iPod touch with Dynamic Cash-Matching, Coin-Roll Dexterity Challenges, and a Fully Customizable Farm

United States and United Kingdom, October 08, 2009 – Chillingo, the leading iPhone publisher, has revealed an exciting list of features for Cash Cow, the addictive coin-counting puzzle game for iPhone and iPod touch. Developed by Riverman Media, the blockbuster game has been downloaded over 1.5 million times on other platforms.

Set for release later this month, Cash Cow offers a unique combination of intense cash-counting puzzle game play and physics-based arcade action. Players can even spend in-game Cash Cow currency to design and buy new features for their fully customizable farm.

Cash Cow players can help Buck the Cow to save his farm from mercenary moneylender, Bankin the Pig, by earning cash to pay off a loan. Buck must work against the clock and earn funds by dexterously counting and grouping loose change into larger denominations to amass an ever-increasing pot of cash.

Cash earned can immediately be used to repay Bankin’s loan and buy items to rebuild Buck’s farm. Players are able to transform the initially decrepit outpost into a flourishing farm overflowing with animals, crops and decorations – all colored and placed by the player.

Additional bonus levels become available between stages; with new gameplay challenging players to use the accelerometer of their iPhone or iPod touch to maneuver realistically-weighted coins around obstacles and into a bucket.

Check out Cash Cow on iTunes for only $0.99!

“Cash Cow offers players everything they could want in a puzzle game,” said Jacob Stevens, co-founder of Riverman Media. “We created a variety of gameplay types which all really appeal to gamers, proven by the game’s massive popularity on other platforms.”

“Cash Cow is perfect for anyone who likes making money!” said Johnny Coghlan, Chillingo’s Head of Publishing. “It’s easy to play but quickly becomes addictive – this is one game that players will come back to time and time again.”

About Chillingo

Chillingo is a publisher for innovative games and software for iPhone and iPod touch. Past hit titles under the Chillingo and Clickgamer brands include Minigore, iDracula, Zen Bound, Inkvaders, Horror Racing, Touch KO, and Parking Mania. More information can be found at www.chillingo.com.

About Riverman Media

RiverMan Media LLC is a small, independent, game development studio located in Tucson, Arizona. It was founded in 2005 by brothers Jacob and Paul Stevens. Jacob and Paul craft unique, polished experiences that push their art form in intriguing new directions while paying homage to the classic titles that inspired them as children. Riverman Media developed Cash Cow (PC, iPhone), Primate Panic (PC), and MadStone (WiiWare). More information can be found at www.rivermanmedia.com.

iPhone Developer CDE Humble Gaming to launch it’s magic tune with The Return of Pied Piper on ITunes

October 16th, 2009 – Hong Kong based CDE Humble Gaming Limited has announced the Halloween release of it’s new game ‘Return of Pied Piper’ available only for the iPhone/iPod Touch on the Apps Store.

Everyone is familiar with the tale of Pied Piper Of Hamelin. The fable where no sooner had Pied Piper rid Hamelin of an infestation of rats, than he was treated as an outcast and run out of town. He took his revenge by driving children out.

The game is an extended and more “evil” version of the well known fabled classic “Pied Piper”. The hypnotic maestro is brought to life in a vengeful take on the original version of the story. Having successfully rid the town of Hamelin of their rat infestation, the Pied Piper is left aggrieved.

The town folk’s refusal to compensate him for his services and their insistence that he be banished fuels his rage. CDE Humble Gaming gives you the Pipe and the Rage that goes with it. This Halloween the Pied Piper is back in Hamelin using his tunes to infest the town with rats and guide the children into the caves.

The attractive and stunning game play is complemented by the use of the popular ‘line drawing’ feature made popular by games such as Flight Control, Harbor Master and Lion’s Pride, which will allow you to guide the rats and children to their locations, whilst avoiding collisions.  Appealing to the masses, the idea is to combine line drawing techniques in an
immersing manner with original content using a reverse or extended storytelling of a famous tale for the Halloween season.

The first version of the game has a sinister skin with children dressed in their pumpkin costumes that really get you into the Halloween spirit. Play the game with the unique music score and sound effects or use your I tunes library while your fingers do the rest.

Current Game Features on Versions 1.0

• Reverse of original Pied Piper story;- Sending RATS back to Hamelin,
  abducting children from town.
• Normal Unlimited Game Play Mode.
• iPhone 3.0 Featuring access to IPod Music Library.
• Application size below 10MB to ensure mobile downloads.
• Simple Fluid Drawing Line Controls similar to Flight Control & Lion’s Pride.



More updates to come including varied skins, Mission Objective Modes, Multi Player, Peer-to-Peer and social integration using Open Feint.

You do not have to be a fan of the ‘fairy take genre’ to appreciate the unique content, graphics and game play challenge at the attractive price $0.99 cents.

Check out The Return of Pied Piper on iTunes for $0.99!

About the Developers

CDE Humble Gaming is a joint venture between CDE and Humble Gaming, both based out of Hong Kong. Their combined fusion promises the release of many more eye pleasing and challenging games.