Originally announced back in 2008, Ride to Hell was publisher Deep Silver‘s crack at creating an open-world biker game, but since then, very little was heard about it until recently. Now back in the public view, Deep Silver has brought not just one biker game to the table, but three; all spread between full retail, downloadable and mobile platforms.

The first commercial release from brand new Swedish studio Modesty, The Spookening is an intriguing little prospect for iOS and Android which casts you as Herman, an inhabitant of the apparently haunted Clifftown who, at the start of each day, finds himself deader than a door nail. In order to resurrect himself each night, he has to harness the puntastic “Soular Power” from the denizens of the town.  In order to do [...]

UK games retailer GAME has confirmed that if you’re that way inclined, you’ll be able to buy the new Android powered home console OUYA from them with preorders starting today for the diminutive, cube-like machine. The pre-orders themselves cover the entire price of the console and will set you a back £99.99 when the console makes its debut in June.  You can also pick up extra controllers for a slightly eye-watering [...]

A nice little tidbit to come out of this year’s Game Developer Conference is the confirmation from Wargaming.net that they’re ludicrously successfully strategic tank battler, World of Tanks, is coming to iOS and Android. Created with mobile platforms in mind, the game will be called World of Tanks Blitz and will allow players to engage in 7-on-7 matches which have been inspired by the original World of Tanks on PC. [...]

Just hours before the game lands on the App Store at midnight tonight, someone has gone and plonked an half-hour long gameplay video for the iOS version of Final Fantasy V. Of note to franchise fans will be the visual makeover that the game has received.  Rather than a grass-roots conversion to 3D, the game will retain its 2D look but will do so whilst embracing new high-definition artwork and [...]

With a brand new entry in the underwater franchise not seen since 2000′s Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future, the designer of the original 16-bit Ecco the Dolphin games, one Mr. Ed Annunziata, has stepped up to Kickstart a spiritual successor to the aquatic series.

Are you of the mindset that current generation of arcade racing games just aren’t doing it for you? Everything from the contemporarily pizazz-rich presentation, the overly trendy music, the dilution of traditional racing concepts – does all of it just seem so pointless, trite and desperately far away from the original idea of arcade racing that you’ve all but given up on the genre these days? Well, an enterprising coder who goes [...]

In a fit of generosity, starting today Sony have announced that they will make one Playstation Mobile game free every week for six weeks; resulting in six unique offerings for the platform. Any Sony certified tablet, smartphone and the PS Vita can take advantage of the promotion and the details of how to take advantage of it can be found here. The inaugural freebie appears to be Samurai Beatdown; an  interesting looking [...]

Originally one of the crowning reasons to own an iOS device for gaming, the beautifully atmospheric indie adventure Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP, has finally made the leap to Android; landing on the Google Play store after a beta test in last month’s Android Humble Bundle. To celebrate its launch on the Android format, developer CAPY are releasing it at the super-wallet friendly price point of $1.99 and you can grab it here. [...]

Fancy playing something similar in scale and execution to the mighty Skyrim on your iThing of choice? Then Crescent Moon Games will have you covered next week on December 20th as they unleash the almost unfeasibly huge RPG Ravensword: Shadowlands on the App Store. An Android version is tipped to arrive sometime early next year. Boasting well over forty hours of gameplay with an absolutely huge variety of quests to undertake, monsters [...]