Safety car’s out — no overtaking until midnight.
Motorsport Manager has set hearts a-flutter around here like an open-wheeled Mata Hari. Part of its allure must be because it’s resurrecting a long-dead genre of racing management sims (Microprose RIP), but another aspect of the appeal is the game’s beautiful tilt-shifted aesthetic. It’s drop dead gorgeous and looks like a Tyco slot car set designed by Jonny Ive.
After the jump, let’s watch the Motorsport Manager trailer five hundred times and will the clock to spin towards midnight a little faster. Oh yeah, and all of tonight’s other new releases, too.
Motorsport Manager is a wonderful light sim in the mould of Football Chairman, and if you like autosport at all then I recommend it to you. Read my hands-on preview for more details, but I suspect that if you’re the audience for this game, then the trailer below will tell you everything you need to know. It’s a one-man production, believe it or not.
Motorsport Manager will be $5 when the App Store refreshes in your country; 11pm Eastern in the US, midnight local time on other shores. It’s iOS Universal. Full review right here tomorrow.
I’m fond of Hunted Cow’s light wargames, though I’m always wishing their tactical scenarios would get a little bigger in scope. Ancient Battle: Hannibal squarely addresses my desires by marching out the biggest maps I’ve seen yet in a Hunted Cow game, and getting to play as everyone’s favourite Carthaginian (sorry Dido) is just a bonus. I’ve messed with a press beta of this and though I haven’t fully sunk into yet it, it looks promising.
Ancient Battle: Hannibal will be a buck later tonight, iOS Universal.
Hannibal, Hasdrubal, Mago, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo.
Letterpix isn’t your everyday word game — like an heirloom tomato or a Fantastic Four member, it has an exceptional origin. The game’s designer is no one less than Mike Elliott, the respected board game designer behind Quarriors!, Thunderstone, and Star Trek: Fleet Battles. Elliot is starting his own game studio, Leiden Labs, from which Letterpix is the first offspring.
In Letterpix, you will compete with other players (or AIs) to find words on a word search grid and uncover hidden images. It’s free and iOS Universal, out worldwide later tonight.
What’s in the box?
Horror adventure Organ Trail was one of our favourite games back in 2012, and developers Men Who Wear Many Hats are releasing their first major new game since then tonight. Max Gentlemen is “an extreme manners simulator” with many, many, many hats in it. Many hats and the collection thereof. It’s quite arcadey but it’s also absolutely free for some mind-boggling reason, with no monetisation at all. Perhaps MWWMH have discovered the secret to a cashless utopian economy and Max Gentlemen is the means by which they will reveal it to us.
Or maybe it’s just fun. Max Gentlemen is free later tonight on iOS, and it’ll also be on Android at some point tomorrow. Do yourself a favour and watch the delightful trailer.
Another free word game. Wordrix is a word puzzler with 72 levels of time-attack… word puzzles. These games are hard to write descriptions for.
Wordrix is free, with IAPs for power ups. It’s out worldwide right now.
Hey, I found Doctor Who’s real name.
Finally, BoxPop is out. Again. Remember this one from last week? It didn’t actually launch then for some reason, but now it’s here.
BoxPop is free when it releases later tonight. It’s a chess-inspired light puzzle game.
Based on a 9th-century analysis of chess, we’re told.
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