The trailer for the upcoming zommer Dead Island 2, produced by Axis Animation set to “The Bomb” by Pigeon John.
Word has it, it’s an improvement on its predecessor, which also launched with an impressive trailer back in 2011.
E3 2014: Dead Island 2 is a Less Serious, More Carefree Form of Zombie Bashing (E3)
Cinefix celebrates the 10th anniversary of Mean Girls with an 8/16 bit animated video game written and directed by David Dutton.
They’ve done nothing wrong.
Apart from some innocent gumming.
Dan Bergin writes:
“SixMinute studios are a gang of Irish developers who have ‘risen from the ashes’ of PopCap’s Dublin studio after its closure a year ago. With experience working on games like Plants vs Zombies and Bejwelled, we’re really excited to be releasing our newest game under our own banner to the iOS and Google Play app stores.
Pick A pet is a simple and addictive match-3 game, where the goal is to match up gummies to solve puzzles. Along the way you unlock special pets which you can power up and evolve to help you solve the levels…”
Reviews welcome.
Play for FREE here: IOS or Android
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Donnie Darko (spoiler alert for those few who have not yet seen the film) retold in the style of 8 and 16 bit game tech by Cinefix.
Previously: An 8-Bit Clockwork Orange
An actual upcoming sidescroller from Atlanta based developers Moneyhorse featuring Korean leader Kim Jong-Un battling the entire American army.
Ten-year-old Niall Kehoe [above] released his first game last week, Kehoes Crazy War of the Worlds which he created using Game Salad.
Dermot Daly of Tapadoo (who Niall got in touch with for some advice) says:
[Niall] e-mailed us out of the blue to help him upload his app to the store.
His problems were in the process of submission – getting certificates, bundling the app correctly and so forth. Problems that any developer could run into. He was quite a dab hand at getting around the keyboard; seemed super-smart.
It’s great to see that people as young as 10 show an interest in software development. I started young myself, and always like to see movements like App Camp for Girls and Coder Dojo. Meeting enthusiastic young developers tells me that the future of software is in safe hands.
It’s fantastic to see someone so young be motivated enough to develop skills still not taught in schools despite all the lip service given to the Smart/Knowledge Economy given by politicians.
Kehoes Crazy War of the Worlds available on the Apple app store now. Why don’t you download and review it to give this budding young developer some encouragement?
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Got Chess? is a varnished, wooden, laser-cut chess set that flattens out into a book-sized leather cover when not in use.
A concept (for now) by product designer Peter Baeten.
Andrew writes:
Bargain in Games Stop, St Stephens Green!
A vintage advertisement for the Blade of Evil’s Bane by Barrett Biggers.
