The Humble Bundle is Back Again, and Now For Android
Great, it's another Humble Bundle. These are going to be the death of me. This time, it's indie games for your Android phone, or tablet, or Kindle Fire if you don't think it counts as a tablet (it totally counts as a tablet). These are games that ahve been on the Humble Bundle site before, but the Android versions are new, or at least new for the Humble Bundle.
You know the deal. Spend as much money as you want and distribute it to the developers and Child's Play and EFF charities (and the Humble Bundle folks, because they have costs, too) as you see fit. If you spend more than the average, you get a bonus game. This time, the games are Anomaly: Warzone Earth, Osmos, and EDGE, and if you spend more than the average of currently $5.73, you get World of Goo, too. You don't just get the Android versions of the games, though. You also get the Windows, Mac, and Linux versions, including Steam keys. They're not available on iOS through the bundle, because Apple is terrible at making software actually accessible outside of its own store. There's a good chance the Humble Bundle will add more games to the group before the deal runs out, so keep checking the Humble Bundle site over the next two weeks.
Emulators Scrubbed From Android Marketplace
Google has cracked down on developer Yongzh's *oid video game emulation apps for Android. There has been no official explanation and no specific announcement of a new policy, but Consumerist is reporting that the apps have simply been removed from the marketplace.I checked. They're gone.
Like everything else involving Google trying to exert some control over the Android landscape in any form, this effort has been half-assed. While the *oid games are no longer on the Marketplace, there are still dozens and dozens of rom-downloading crapware apps. Fortunately, there are also the Tiger King emulators, which have remained untouched, and include NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, GBA, GBA, and arcade (CPS1/CPS2/NeoGeo) emulators. They're free, and while they don't support save states, you can still save in games that use save files. Homebrew games, of course. Downloading roms is wrong and illegal and you shouldn't do it.
Also, the *oid emulators are still available on the SlideME community marketplace. For the next two weeks, all emulators besides PSXoid are free, "to make Android Marketplace users who paid happy." Nice work, Yongzh. Even nicer work, Google, for whom I am using an identical phrase but this time in a sarcastic manner.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Play: There’s Good News and Bad News
Hey! Have you heard about the PlayStation Phone? Sony's totally making a PlayStation Phone! No, really! PlayStation Phone! PlayStation Phoooone!
Yeah, that didn't happen. The NGP might turn out to be something like a PlayStation phone, but the slide-open, gamepad-equipped, Android-powered Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is most definitely not a PlayStation phone. In fact, it proves that the whole "PlayStation Suite" and "PlayStation Certified" thing is basically bullcrap. All is not lost, though. This phone is surprisingly awesome in its own way, just not with any real Sony game presence on it. Find out more in our gaming feature review of the phone.
Monday Movie: Super Mario Bros. Z Episode 1 – Bowser’s Return
It's that time again! This one is pretty famous, but if you haven't seen it, here's your shot. Super Mario Bros Z is the creation of Alvin Earthworm and is a successful mashup of Super Mario Bros, Sonic the Hedgehog, and the plot of Dragon Ball Z (specifically the Android to Cell sagas). And it's way more epic and awesome than it has any business being. More videos to come!
Cheap Thrills: Coma Is Like Limbo on Flash
Cheap Thrills is a column by Chris Gampat reviewing affordable (under $20) or free games for the recession.
Coma is a free flash game where the player must accomplish certain tasks to finally wake themselves out of a coma and escape the dreamworld. Remember that very-creepy-but-addicting-nontheless game called Limbo for XBLA? Well, Coma will remind players much of that game. Granted, there are differences—but the core gameplay is still quite similar and players will encounter similarly creepy events without the simplistic but brutal violence that players experienced in Limbo.
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