You can now hit the road with the new update for The Sandbox. The free-to-play game now has vehicles; including a sports car to drive, a truck to carry things around town, and a tank for if things get a little crazy. The update also adds new contraptions and blueprints, along with new levels for the zombie campaign. If you aren't one of the 5 million people to download the game, make sure you speed on over and see what this world building is all about, especially now with the new sports car! VROOM VROOM!
Hmm, can I take my tank onto a battlefield that's full of zombies?
Pocket Gamer reports that The Sandbox has been improved with a small, but powerful new update. Players will find themselves with two new elements to use for quickly destroying on-screen creations, the Meteorite and Bomb.
The update also adds three blueprints (wizard magic tower, futuristic tower, and giant robot), additional Facebook integration, and more ways of earning free mana.
In the latest update, players will discover 15 new survival levels in the new Zombie Attack campaign. These walking dead creatures hunt and eat humans, turning them into other zombies, and it's your job to track them down throughout the city and stop them. However, there is also a new magic powder that turns your humans into zombies, if you choose.
Bulkypix's new free-to-play musical runner is set to release on iOS, on June 20th. SongRush is a 2D runner that features generated levels based on the music you're listening to. Here's the best part; choose any song from your own playlist and it will create a level that fits the melody. You'll be in control of Ink, the main character, and it's your job to avoid obstacles by grooving to the music's tempo. Feel the music and be rewarded as perfectly timed slides and jumps will earn you combos to increase your score.
The Sandbox receives an update and adds a new campaign, Lasers & Pipes, that features 10 levels. On top of that, players will notice 5 additional levels in the Dinosaurs campaign and in the Pixel Art campaign. The update also adds 7 new elements and new musical instruments, including the guitar, bass, drums and trumpet.
7 new elements: Laser, E. Laser, Gas Sensor, Insulator, Pump, Pipe & Drain
New Music instruments: Guitar, Bass, Drums and Trumpet
Fixed Crash Bug of Human Campaign - Day 5 - finish it now!
The Contraptions campaign is now FREE for all players!
Bulkypix has plenty of new games coming up, one of which being a casual title called Candymeleon. Players tilt to move a chameleon, and tap on the screen to launch its tongue upward in order to eat the candy above, but there's certain candy that's bad. Currency can be earned in-game to unlock powerups and new chameleons. Expect this in the next month or so.
For the impatient, Runaway: A Twist of Fate releases on Thursday. This is the first episode of an extended point-and-click adventure series, similar in controls to The Walking Dead, with more episodes arriving in the coming months.
Developer: Taco Graveyard Price: $1.99
Version Reviewed: 1.0
Device Reviewed On: iPhone 5, iPad 2
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Taco Graveyard knows names. Their new game Penumbear has players controlling a shadowy bear, as the portmanteau would suggest, through mysterious puzzle-platforming environments.This bear doesn’t quite know where he is or what’s going on, but he has one ability: the power to remotely turn on and off light switches, which is one of the more practical superpowers out there, although with remote home automation, it can be had. But see, for Penumbear, it’s especially useful, as he has the ability to walk on light. He can’t pass through dark to light, but he can use that to his advantage, strategically disabling and enabling lamps to find the keys in each level and moving on to the next one, and hopefully closer to the truth about himself.
The game is a puzzle-platformer, but it doesn’t forget about the ‘platformer’ part of the game, as it’s definitely got plenty of actual challenging jump sequences to take on. The lighting effects are fairly impressive as well, with clever uses of objects hidden in shadows that can help the player, or hinder them. The game also pulls out a lot of variety in its levels, with some that are more linear in scope, and others that are mini-explorations.
Penumbear also comes with a boatload of content: 100 levels will last a long time in this game, particularly as the early levels are not easy at all. This game will take plenty of time to beat and to see everything. There’s also the “bonus bears” to collect, which are hidden throughout the levels. They encourage exploration and discovery, which is a fantastic thing, because the game is perfectly set up for clever secrets. However, it’s rather annoying that any collected bonus bears are lost when dying and returning to a checkpoint. I collected the bonus bear, I should be able to keep it instead of having to constantly backtrack.
Penumbear may be made of shadows, but the sounds that he makes, and his animations make him surprisingly adorable. He controls fairly well too, with the ability to compensate for some close jumps. I felt like it was possible to maneuver him through tight spots effectively. Activating the four buttons for different switches could be annoying because on iPhone in particular they’re clumped so close together. Also, the settings boast of iCloud support, but it did not seem to work at launch. What a shame. The game also supports only one landscape orientation with the home button on the right, and on the iPhone 5 and iPad 2, that makes it very uncomfortable to play with headphones plugged in.
Penumbear is a clever puzzle-platformer that definitely grew on me as it went along. It’s got a ton of content for a cheap price, and it takes great advantage of its concept. Snuggle up with Penumbear.
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