Last Halloween we took a peek at a preview for Mad World. Another MMO? Yawn! Not so. One of the reasons why Mad World is interesting is because it just uses HTML 5 to run. There’s no downloads needed. You can run it any modern browser. We now have a mood trailer and Jandisoft’s game […]
Halloween free alpha: Mad World MMO entirely in HTML5
Mad World MMORPG is a post-apocalyptic MMORPG from Korean developer Jandisoft. The game is significant for two reasons right now. Firstly, it uses just HTML 5 for its massively multiplayer connected world. If you’ve a modern browser for a desktop machine or mobile then you’ll be able to play without downloading any software. Secondly, until […]
Fighting Fantasy Legends launches
Tucked away in the English down of Lymm, in Cheshire, there’s a small team of veteran digital designers called Nomad Games. They’ve got their hands on the Fighting Fantasy license! Here’s what Steve Jackson had to say about that! We are proud to have been working with Nomad on Fighting Fantasy Legends. Throughout the development […]
10 ideas for new Ingress items
Ingress is the augmented reality game from Niantic that came before Pokemon. It’s less random, has only two factions and a great community. One of the clever things Niantic got right was to introduce sponsored items rather than adverts to the game play. The most powerful shield you can hope to deploy, right now, is […]
Chat app and gaming platform Plato debuts
Okay, Plato’s pitch probably doesn’t find much traction with your average reader of Geek Native. You’re above average. The chances are you’re already into social gaming. Plato is for everyone else. The concept seems simply enough. Plato has a library of casual games and has chat built into them all. These are traditional games, though, […]
We’re unlikely to see a third faction in Ingress despite New Wave rumours
There have been rumours of a third faction being added to Niantic’s Ingress since the beginning of the game. The rumours are back again thanks to Niantic actually talking about a third faction and the Via Lux plot appearing to introduce a group known as the New Wave. It’s unlikely we’ll ever see a third […]
Ingress sub-factions could turn politics and plot into gameplay
I’m fond of the augmented reality game Ingress, recently suggested some shard alternatives even though they may well be controversial or dismissible and expressed my concerns about the Resistance plot. I think those Resistance concerns have been validated. Since the original box post more plot politics have been revealed. We now know that Resistance founder, […]
4 alternatives to Ingress’ Shard anomalies
I’m a fan of Niantic Lab’s augmented reality game Ingress. Players belong to one of two teams and compete to capture portals, places of interest in the real world, and link them together to form triangular ‘control fields’. Throughout the year Niantic organises events in which cities become centres of “anomalies” and hundreds of agents […]
Ingress mistake threatens Oxfordshire’s man job as augmented reality goes wrong
A player of Niantic’s augmented reality game Ingress is appealing to the game’s moderators to help remove a “portal” he created. After leaving Google, Niantic suspended the ability of players to suggest new portals – points of interest and locations to battle over – in the game. Before the (temporary) suspension came into force players would […]
Sega offers apology for calling a Sonic character “Boob”
Sega’s Sonic Runners mobile game has a character called “Boob”. Oops. Sega has explained the Halloween update was supposed to introduce a character called Boo. The name “Boob” is a mistake. I'm dead pic.twitter.com/dEOVZwbw27 — Paul Veer (@pietepiet) October 23, 2015
