4 new minis in the World this week
Actual Crimes: Jack the Ripper is a hidden object game. Its PC version got pretty good reviews from critics.
Paper Wars: Cannon Fodder is an extension of its iPhone origins, this game isn’t serious about itself and calls itself the worst game ever but it did receive rave reviews as an iPhone app.
Caterpillar is still unkown, will update you as soon as it becomes available (the announcement comes first before it actually goes available in the PSN Store)
Interestingly enough, Tehra: Dark Warrior and Dynogems are now available as a bundle.
Here’s the release list:
*Red = New Worldwide
US Minis
- Coconut Dodge –-($3.99)- Review
European Minis
- *Actual Crimes: Jack the Ripper– (£3.49/€3.99)
- *Paper Wars: Cannon Fodder– (£3.99/€4.99)
- *Caterpillar– (£3.99/€4.99)
- *DynoGems/Tehra: Dark Warrior Bundle– (£3.49/€3.99)
Price Drops
- DYNOGEMS — Sale (was–$2.99 now–$1.99)-Review
- Tehra: Dark Warrior — Sale (was–$4.99 now–$2.99)-Review
Price Drops (EU)
- Monsters (Probably) Stole my Princess!–Sale (was – £3.49/€3.99 now – £1.99/€2.49)-Review
3 new minis in the World this week
Arcade Air Hockey & Bowling is a sports game featuring classic air hockey and bowling.
Fort Commander: King’s Gambit is a twist on the tower defence genre of strategy games as the player has both defensive and offensive game play modes.
Hive Sweeper is a mine sweeper kind of game. Let us see if they can offer something new.
Here’s the release list:
*Red = New Worldwide
US Minis
- *Arcade Air Hockey & Bowling – ($3.99)
European Minis
- *Hive Sweeper (£3.49/€3.99)
- *Fort Commander: King’s Gambit (£3.49/€3.99)
Price Drops (US)
- Let’s Golf! – Sale (was $4.99–now $0.99)- Review
Price Drops (EU)
- Let’s Golf! — Sale(was – £3.99/€4.99 now – £0.99/€1.19)- Review
- Breakquest — Sale ((was – £2.49/€2.99 now – £1.74/€1.99)- Review
2 new minis in the world this week
Fish Tank is a match 3-slash-reflex game. Let us see if this gameplay combination mixes well.
Here’s the release list:
*Red = New Worldwide
US Minis
- Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter ($3.99)- Review
European Minis
- *Fish Tank (£3.49/€3.99)
Price Drops
- Nothing
Mediatonic, makers of the well received (by most) Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess, have just announced their new Mini, Who’s That Flying?!
It keeps the humorous slant of the previous title, let’s hope it has more lengthy gameplay. At first glance it seems to be a cartoonish side scrolling shooter (much like the upcoming Ace Armstrong and Flying Hamster), but apparently it has some tower defense elements. Check out their blog for more details.
The game’s core mechanic is a mixture of a side-scrolling shooter and a tower defence game. As the hero you must prevent a certain number of enemies from escaping into the city in each level in order to save the city from the invasion.
As the ultra powerful hero you?re both awesome and indestructible but getting hit means that you?re out of action for a while ? giving enemies a chance to escape. If you let too many enemies past you the city will be destroyed and you?ll lose the level.
In addition to the story mode the game has four different ‘infinite’ mode levels and a special challenge mode with twenty five unique challenges to take on – we’ve managed to squeeze in a lot of great content.
I think they actually mentioned they had more on the way, but thanks to the ESRB, we’ve learned that they are Caterpillar, Panda Craze, and Shapo.
Both Caterpillar and Shapo seem to be some sort of puzzle games, while Panda Craze looks to be some sort of platformer game.
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As you might surmise by the name, this, Mahjongg Artifacts, is the prequel to Mahjongg Artifacts: Chapter 2 from G5 Entertainment, which was one of the first Mini titles released. Why are we getting it 8 months after the sequel? Well, Chapter 2 was released for all platforms back then, so I guess it was easier for them.
Like Chapter 2, Mahjongg Artifacts is a solitaire mahjong game (sometimes called Shanghai). While regular mahjong is incomprehensible to me, solitaire mahjong is quite simple – a set of mahjong tiles (sort of a combination of cards and dominos) is laid out in a pattern (which can be simple or quite intricate). You remove identical pairs of free tiles, free meaning that at least one end of it is not touching another tile. The goal is to remove as many pairs as you can.
It’s really a relaxing, casual sort of gameplay, at least when there is no time limit as is the case in this. It doesn’t tax your reflexes or wits, just your eyes and the pattern recognition part of your brain. It’s not for everyone, but it’s something I’ve enjoyed since I first played it about 20 years ago on the PC (Mah Jongg -V-G-A 3.0 was my introduction to these games).
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