{"id":101673,"date":"2019-10-11T12:46:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T12:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/articles\/best-new-ios-android-releases-october-11th-2019\/"},"modified":"2019-10-11T12:46:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T12:46:57","slug":"the-weekender-hold-my-strategy-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/11\/the-weekender-hold-my-strategy-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekender: Hold My Strategy Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s been a bit of a mixed week – I\u2019ve been trying to go back and look at some historically performing content and see what I can do with it, as well as testing the waters with things like the CoD Mobile<\/em> guide<\/a>, and skimming some stuff off reddit. The Mario Kart Tour<\/em> Challenges<\/a> article is still proving quite popular at the moment, so you may see that float to the top of the article list quite regularly.<\/p>\n

Happy to say though that with most of that out of the way, I can start refocusing on some of our favoured topics. Quite a few games have been released recently that are more relevant to the core readership, so will be getting reviews sorted for them pronto.<\/p>\n

Just as an FYI – I\u2019m going to be at PDXCon next week from Thursday, so end of week posts might be a bit sporadic. It\u2019s also unlikely that they\u2019ll be a Weekender update next week, but if anything mobile focused comes out of the event I\u2019ll be sure to write it up.<\/p>\n

Out Now<\/h2>\n

There\u2019s actually been a couple of new Apple Arcade games releases over the past week or so. We\u2019ve updated our master list<\/a> and added a \u2018new\u2019 tag to the newcomers, so check them out if you\u2019re still looking for new games to try. We\u2019re a little bit behind on our reviews, but we\u2019re sticking with the batch-approach for now.<\/p>\n

Xenowerk Tactics (iOS<\/a> & Android<\/a>) – $6.99 – Full Review Pending<\/em><\/h3>\n

You know what? I\u2019m really, really glad this game exists. I noticed the other day we\u2019d only reviewed four games between August\/September, but after some digging I realised that\u2019s about right, because there\u2019s been nothing in the premium space worth covering lately. Xenowerk<\/em> reads like it was made for us, and from what we\u2019ve tested so far it\u2019s a pretty decent real-time tactics game. It\u2019s single-player only, but you control a squad of mercenaries who work for a corporation, and it\u2019s basically your job to clean up their messes. It involves squad development and base management and all that XCOM<\/em>-like goodness.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s free to try on Android – you get to play the first part before paying the full price as an IAP to unlock the rest of the game. On iOS it\u2019s premium up-front. We\u2019re going to try and get a full review on the table ASAP for you.<\/p>\n

[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IVXqyk3S6SY?controls=0]<\/p>\n

Versus: Unfriendly Frenzy (iOS<\/a>) – $3.99 – Review In Progress<\/em><\/h3>\n

It\u2019s been a strangely good week for strategy gaming on mobile, with Versus: Unfriendly Friendly<\/em> also releasing this week. We\u2019ve already got Michael working on a review so hopefully that will drop next week. Versus<\/em> is a real-time strategy game that boats outlandish factions and units and \u2018fast-paced\u2019 action. There\u2019s a 29 level solo campaign, and you can play head-to-head against someone on the same device, which sounds interesting.<\/p>\n

[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8ny1TNTSIeg?controls=0]<\/p>\n

And yeah, there\u2019s another free-to-play gacha battler game, this time based on the Digimon<\/em> franchise. It\u2019s called Digimon ReArise<\/em> (iOS<\/a> | Android<\/a>) I\u2019ll be honest guys, I\u2019m kinda burned out on this stuff at the moment so we\u2019re going to wait and see with this one. If it proves popular maybe we\u2019ll look into it in more detail but I\u2019m not in any rush. Here\u2019s a trailer anyway:<\/p>\n

[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WD5ttx_QEJc?controls=0]<\/p>\n

Updates<\/h2>\n

A few things to update you one, some of which we accidentally forgot about:<\/p>\n

Black Desert Online Mobile (iOS<\/a> & Android<\/a>)<\/h3>\n

MMO\u2019s are an odd prospect on mobile – for the longest time, the term was appropriated by developers who made trashy F2P games, but as mobile tech improved it\u2019s now quite possibly to put actual, \u2018legit\u2019 MMOs onto mobile devices. Black Desert Online<\/em> is a fairly popular Free-to-Play MMO that\u2019s been around for quite a few years now. It\u2019s managed to walk that line between given players worthwhile content to engage in, and offering a business model that sustains them. Their freemium stuff is mainly cosmetics, although you can buy some shortcuts. I played it on PC for a spell and I actually had quite a lot of fun with it. The only thing was I didn\u2019t think it facilitated party-play that well, but it may have improved since then.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve known it was coming to mobile since E3, but what I forgot to mention a couple of weeks ago is that pre-registration is now available on iOS and Android. The mobile version is due to land in December 2019.<\/p>\n

[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7rrIBXJWOuQ?controls=0]<\/p>\n

PS4 Remote Play App (iOS<\/a> & Android<\/a>)<\/h3>\n

Playstation recently updated their core PS4 Firmware to Version 7.0 this week, and with that came an update to their Remote Play<\/em> app. The nuts and bolts of this latest update means that Android users beyond Sony Xperia phones can now get in on the action, and iOS users can now use their Dualshock 4 controllers with the app.<\/p>\n

For Android, you just need to be running Android 5.0 or higher although if you have Android 10 installed, you can also get in on the Dualshock action by connecting your controller to your phone via Bluetooth.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll need to have iOS 13 to be able to use your controller on that end of things. You’ll also be able to choose whether or not the on-screen controls remain visible as well as choose whether or not to lock the orientation.<\/p>\n

Heroes of Steel RPG (iOS<\/a> & Android<\/a>)<\/h3>\n

Ticket to Earth<\/em> isn\u2019t the only game to seemingly get a fourth episode update this week. The Trese Brothers have taken a break from constantly updating Star Traders: Frontiers<\/em> to release the \u201cfinal\u201d episode for their Heroes of Steel RPG, the Siege of Sur-Relliar Glacier.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the full change-log, if you\u2019re still interested in playing this game:<\/p>\n

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