Atari, one of the world’s most recognized publishers and developers of interactive entertainment, today announced the App Store release of Breakout: Boost+, a new version of its popular brick-breaking game Breakout: Boost® for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
Available for £0.69, Breakout: Boost+ features one hundred brand new levels with all the challenging and frenetic brick-breaking action of the original iOS hit that achieved over two million downloads in the first month after launch.
Download Breakout: Boost+ to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch now from the App Store.
Breakout: Boost+ features:
One hundred brand new levels with unique brick layouts to smash through
Boost Control allows players to manually adjust the ball’s speed, scaling up the speed to increase the score multiplier
Special ball upgrades to aid your destruction, such as the Fire, Acid, Splitting and Grenade balls
New and unique brick varieties standing in your way, including Exploding, Mystery, x4 and Metal bricks
Save and restore in-progress games, so you can stop and start at your convenience
Game Center and OpenFeint integration for score leaderboards and achievements
Those interested in trying out Breakout: Boost may still download the original title for free, including five levels and additional content available through in-app purchases from the Apple App Store.
For more information about Atari games and the latest news vist www.atari.com.
It may have been a mild winter so far here in the UK, but it’s still pretty cold outside.
I am blessed with a local casino, bingo evenings and several amusements for those who enjoy feeding the slot machines. But it doesn’t compare to sitting indoors in the comfort of my own home, dry and warm, where I can play online casino games.
Online casinos enable players to gamble on casino games; and along with poker, popularity has exploded over the past few years.
As with everything on the World Wide Web, there are good and bad gaming sites. My advice is to take a good look around a few sites before you start playing. Everyone who plays games for money knows how easy it is to get sucked in. So before you get hooked, at least have the peace of mind that the site you are using is reputable and offering you good odds. Online casinos generally offer odds and payback percentages similar to offline or traditional ‘bricks and mortar’ casinos. Just remember, if an offer looks too good to be true, it probably is!
Some online casinos offer what’s known as ‘Live Gaming’ in an attempt to give the game more of an authentic feel. This is where online casino sites offer the gamer the chance to play popular casino games such as roulette and blackjack with a real-life card dealer. Gamers can interact with the dealer and in doing so give the impression of a real-life game rather than simply playing against the computer. As with any live streaming, the quality of a ‘Live Gaming’ experience depends on the speed of your broadband.
There are two types of online casinos – web-based and download-based. Websites that offer the gamer to play directly from the website mainly use Flash or Java software. Both require web browser plug-ins. Most browsers come with these plug-ins but it may require you download a latest version.
Download-based online casinos require the user to download software onto their computer before they can play the casino games. The online casino software connects to the casino service provider and handles contact without browser support. Download-based online casinos generally run faster than web-based online casinos since the graphics and sound programs are located within the software client, rather than having to be loaded from the Internet. This is worth consideration if you have a slow or shared internet connection.
Before you download any software to your computer, be confident it is legitimate software and is unlikely to include a virus.
I have planned a trip to Las Vegas next summer. But that’s more about visiting the casino capital of the world and playing at the same table as the rich and famous. But for now, I am happy to play poker and casino games online.
Shienryu is another 2D shoot’em-up classic Japanese import made available in Europe by MonkeyPaw Games for the first time on the European Playstation Network Store (PSN). The game is simple for anyone to play and with a cooperative two player mode; you and a friend can both join in with the action and destroy anything that even slightly moves.
However, Shienryu does offer some challenges as you must reach the end with only a few lives, although pick-ups will help you along the way by giving you lives, increased ammunition, faster shooting or being able to shoot lighting!
At the end of the game you can record your score on a local leaderboard to see all your scores. Shienryu can be played on both PS3 and PSP.
Although it isn’t the number 1 shoot’em-up around, it is worth a go for anyone looking for a bit of cooperative madness, and is well worth every penny of the price- £3.99.
The Sims 3: Pets enables anyone to play as they want, whether it’s the builder who creates the ultimate pet sanctuary, the achiever who solves all the mysteries in town, the experimenter who has a lone Sim and a house full of cats, or the storyteller who expresses himself through the adventures of his Sims and their pets.
Create perfect-or imperfect-pets for your Sims, from loyal dogs to daring kitties, as you determine their looks and personality traits. Then take control of these pets and experience the world from their perspective. Enjoy a little mischief by destroying furniture or impress others by mastering new skills like hunting. Lead your Sims on adventures, like uncovering relics and solving mysteries.
Players take creativity by the reins and play out the stories they want to tell whether it’s the single guy in the dog park picking up women or the criminal overlord and her evil cat. Across all platforms, The Sims 3: Pets players will be able to create, customize and control over a hundred different kinds of cats and dogs like the Australian Shepherd and the Maine Coon, and can breed and share them with friends providing endless possibilities to create new and exciting breeds.
For the first time ever, The Sims 3 Pets allows you to play as truly unique and customisable animals with personalities and looks all of their own!
Explore a new town, solve mysteries, unleash new Karma Powers and more in The Sims 3 Pets for console. With over 100 hundred breeds of cats and dogs to customise, there are infinite possibilities for creating the designer pet of your dreams. From loyal tuxedo cat to playful Chow Chow, explore the world through your pet’s eyes.
Whether the player prefers to customize the newest designer breed or be mischievous with their dog or cat, The Sims 3: Pets gives them the tools to play with life and create the perfect pet.
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Vogster Online has announced that GangWars, the second major expansion to the free-to-play online MMORPG ShooterCrimeCraftwill launch on 5th December.
“We’ve been working with our community to develop end game content that’s relevant for our veteran players and that’s what we’ve created with Territory Wars – it allows gangs to own and control sections of the city,” said Lead Game Designer Alexandr Soloveyko. “In addition, we’ve also streamlined the user experience for new players, with our Quickplay interface which gets them into the action faster than ever.”
CrimeCraft GangWars, is set in the bloody aftermath of the Bleedout Campaign and the destruction of the Scorpion Chamber, the governing body of Sunrise City. Gangs now fight for control of the city.
CrimeCraft GangWars will be available through www.CrimeCraft.com and Steam.
CrimeCraft GangWars features include:
MMORPG Shooter – CrimeCraft takes the best persistent world RPG features (thousands of other players, loot, guilds/gangs, crafting, trading, missions, skills, PvE and PvP Combat) and combines it with the action and skill based gameplay of a shooter.
Quickplay – Access CrimeCraft’s core gameplay features through a simplified interface that lets you shortcut RPG gameplay and get right to the action. Players can switch between the streamlined Quickplay experience and the fully featured lobbies with the click of a button.
Free Updates – Frequent huge free content updates. Previous updates have added: player controlled nightclubs, new maps, new gameplay modes, new weapons, new skills, tournaments (daily, weekly and monthly).
Fast and Furious Action – CrimeCraft features 20 maps and eleven game modes including Core Annihilation, an epic game mode that blends PvP and PvE combat. Players cooperate with AI controlled soldiers to destroy an opponent’s core while protecting their own.
