Don’t be so cavalier about it.
Owen here, covering Out Tonight while Dave gallivants around San Francisco on a press trip. Or at least, that’s what he told me he was doing. Dave, you better not be lollygagging out on the Best Coast. No lollygagging, Dave.
This week’s releases are very, very sexy, people: Slitherine’s early modern warfare game Pike & Shot is making the jump from PC to iPad tomorrow. Not tonight, strictly speaking — Slitherine will pull the release lever tomorrow morning, but I’ll be sure to let you know when that is.
There are other releases worth looking at for the night owls who want to watch the App Store tick over at midnight. Let’s chat about ‘em and watch videos after the jump.
So Pike & Shot–as I said above–ain’t coming tonight, but tomorrow. I was a major fan of this on PC (as I discussed at length in my hands-on preview from September): it’s a game that takes the hardy Battle Academy engine and morphs it to suit a radically different era of warfare. Instead of tanks and GIs, you’re dealing with massive tercios of pikemen, mounted pistoleers, and winged hussars (who don’t actually have wings but take that up with the Poles). It’s not just a re-skin: the mechanics and gameplay are fundamentally different, and the scenario design is better than top shelf — it’s the super nice stuff they hide under the bar. Watch for this tomorrow.
There’s no gameplay video of this yet on iPad so here’s Craig J’s remix of “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy” instead. Watch for this on iPad tomorrow — I’ll give you a holler when it’s up.
Prolific publishers Crescent Moon have already given us the closest thing to a Bethesda-style first-person open-world RPG on touchscreens with Ravensword Shadowlands. Tonight they’re going to try and best that with Exiles: Far Colony. You’re an “Elite Enforcer”, trying to save a distant human colony that’s been infected with a lethal virus. Maybe they should have sent an Elite Pathologist?
This thing looks very, very sharp, so if you’re not opposed to playing first/third-person games on a touchscreen, this just may be worth your time. Exiles is already out on Android, and it’s out on iOS at midnight wherever you are, or 11pm Eastern in the States. iOS Universal app, $5.
Indigo Prophecy (AKA Farenheit) was the first release from idiosyncratic French game dev David Cage to get much buzz — and it got a lot of buzz. If you know anybody who likes Indigo Prophecy, you’ve already heard an earful about it since 2005 when it first released on PC and consoles. Cage is big into creating interactive cinematic experiences — you might be more familiar with his later stuff like Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls (the latter of which starred Juno and Jesus from Last Temptation of Christ, sort of). Cage’s games are adventures that had really unusual gesture-centric controls on console, which makes me think that touchscreens might be the perfect platform for his stuff.
Indigo Prophecy is $10 tonight at midnight. It’s iOS Universal but it wants no less than 6 gigs of space, so start deleting pictures of your family and animated gifs of cats right now.
Finally tonight, there’s The Witcher Battle Arena, which is a MOBA based in the same universe as the PC/console RPGs and The Witcher Adventure Board Game. We’re probably not going to review this one (most PT staff members think that MOBA is a lesser-known Hutt) but Matt Thrower liked it plenty.
Witcher Battle Arena is already out: it’s on iOS and on Android for free, with IAPs. Sad face.
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