Remember the games Alien Carnage/Halloween Harry that were published by Apogee back in the heydays of shareware? I know I do, having played a lot of Alien Carnage on my 486 after getting a disk with the game from a local shareware mailer. The game was actually developed by John Passfield and he has since [...]

 Interesting start of the week, with plenty of releases, some of them new, some of them for free for iOS and Android devices. First up, we have the official Pokedex app for iOS. This is an illustrated encyclopedia essential for any Pokemon fan, as it contains more than 640 characters, providing them a new and [...]

Miniclip has just launched Everplay Interactive’s popular retro-inspired hack and slash iOS title, Spellsword, on Android! Spellsword follows the path of an unlikely hero as he quests to unleash the power of his newly found “Spellsword”.  Spellsword features 60 missions and 9 endless arenas where the player will fight to unlock new items and spell [...]

DotEmu’s Raiden anthology, Raiden Legacy, has arrive on the iTunes App Store and Google Play Store for both iOS and Android devices. This compilation of retro shmups bearing the Raiden arcade game lineage consists of the following titles: Raiden, Raiden Fighters, Raiden Fighters 2,  and Raiden Fighters Jet. In Raiden, the ground-breaking first title, Earth [...]

Christmas has arrived early at Nineoverten.com, at least in the form of press releases and e-mails informing us of new iOS & Android apps and updates coming in conjunction with the Yuletide season. Here are a select bunch of games and apps that should pique your interest: Christmas Advent Calendar This brand new app from [...]

Fans of Talking Tom, the wisecracking cat on iOS and Android, you guys will get to purchase iconic items from Star Trek: The Next Generation in the Talking Tom 2 app. This collaboration is in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of Star Trek and the items will be made available in two-tiers. Beginning from the [...]

Imagine that you have it good with a hit game on both Android and iOS platforms, and someone plagiarises your game, submits that new game into a competition and then wins it. The whole scenario sounds incredulous, but for the sake of argument, if I were the developer of the plagiarised game, I would be [...]

My 7-year old nephew was showing off a favourite game of his on Sunday when I was back at my grandmother’s place last Sunday. It was Chillingo’s Robbery Bob, a fun little game which involved breaking and entering into houses, offices, and stealing stuff while trying not to get caught. Kinda like Assassins Creed or [...]

I wonder why the likes of EA hasn’t bought over South Korean mobile games developer  and publisher GAMEVIL. That company’s so large that they are having a huge presence at G-Star 2012 at the BEXCO Convention Centre in Busan, South Korea. The theme for the expo would be “Gaming in a Smartphone World” and get [...]

One of Disney’s premier voice-over actor in Italy, Luca Eliani, has taken a rather interesting step in coming up with a brand new game for both iOS and Android devices. Having given voice to Donald Duck, and being an artist surrounded and influenced by art and cartoons, he aims to bring this unique world view [...]