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July 30, 2014

Delay of game overturned: Blood Bowl hits iOS & Android tomorrow

The last holdouts report to camp.

The last holdouts report to camp.

About a week after we lamented the lack of updates over its whereabouts, Focus Home Interactive have announced that the delayed tablet version of Blood Bowl will be out tomorrow on both Android and iOS.

I just had a peek around the Kiwi App Store (where the game would already be if it were getting a midnight release) and I don’t see any sign of Blood Bowl there yet, so it’ll probably go live in the middle of the day sometime tomorrow. This appears to be a straight port of the PC version of the game that’s been out for some years — FHI are advertising that there’s cross-platform play between mobile and PC. There’s also same-device hotseat play. The game will ship with Human and Orc squads, and there will be Dwarfs, Skaven, Wood Elves and Chaos available as “additional races” — presumably DLC within the app.

There’s no trailer for this tablet edition yet, so after the jump I’ve got an hour of Total Biscuit walking you through the (presumably near-identical) PC version. Not familiar with Blood Bowl? It’s basically what Vince McMahon was trying to do with the XFL, except a bit more serious. The video below should give you a good grounding, or you can have a look at the tabletop version that inspired all these digital ones.

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