{"id":92257,"date":"2019-04-19T11:31:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T11:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/articles\/best-new-ios-android-games-april-18th-2019\/"},"modified":"2019-04-19T11:31:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T11:31:49","slug":"the-weekender-token-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/19\/the-weekender-token-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekender: Token Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/the-weekender-token-edition.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s a Bank Holiday here In the UK, so for various reasons this is an incredibly token edition of The Weekender \u2013 apologies! Quite honestly though, I\u2019ve not been taken by this week\u2019s release slate so you\u2019re not really missing out on much.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re coming up towards the end of the month now, but there\u2019s still some goodies still left to drop \u2013 Richard is working on another game compilation, There\u2019s a couple more reviews to drop, and Nick\u2019s working on a Beginner\u2019s Guide for <em>Hades Star<\/em>, mainly as a test to see how popular that game is at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in mobile gaming\u2026<\/p>\n<h3>New Release: Egypt: Old Kingdom (<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/id1457813078\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.clarus.egypt2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a>) \u2013 <em>Full review Monday!<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>So you may remember from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/articles\/best-new-ios-android-games-march-29th-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 29<sup>th<\/sup> update<\/a> we talked about the release of <em>Egypt: Old Kingdom<\/em>, the follow up to <em>Predynastic Egypt<\/em>? Turns out that was a mistake and the developers accidentally launched it on iOS.<\/p>\n<p>We had to delay our review since the game was due to go through a few more updates, but I can confirm that it\u2019s officially slated to release today, if it\u2019s not already out. Our review will drop Monday once Matt\u2019s had a chance to check out the released version.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-wgN5BpKssY?controls=0]<\/p>\n<h3>Update: Star Traders: Frontiers (<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/star-traders-frontiers\/id1442583232?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.tresebrothers.games.startraders2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a>) (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/reviews\/star-traders-frontiers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Review<\/a>)<\/h3>\n<p>Our favourite Sci-fi RPG has been awfully quiet this past month, but for good reason \u2013 the brothers Trese have been working on adding Carriers and small craft to the game. The update officially <a href=\"http:\/\/https\/\/steamcommunity.com\/games\/335620\/announcements\/detail\/3464866264432530978\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hit the Steam version earlier this week<\/a>, with the Android and iOS version expected to drop soon \u2013 basically, the moment Apple\/Google approve the updates. Just in time for Easter! (Hopefully &#8211; the update still hasn&#8217;t turned up yet.)<\/p>\n<h3>Sales<\/h3>\n<p>We let you know about one Easter Sale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/articles\/warhammer-quest-2-easter-sale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">earlier in the week<\/a>, but there are plenty more!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Acram Digital are discounting their modest catalogue of games on both <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/developer\/acram-digital\/id1016459119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/dev?id=9052427338891655444\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a>, which includes the excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/reviews\/review-eight-minute-empire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Eight Minute Empire<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Ironhide are running discounts on their most recent TD game, <em>Kingdom Rush: Vengeance<\/em>, as well we <em>Iron Marines<\/em> on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/developer\/ironhide-s-a\/id558612918\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/dev?id=6098018911218203911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>SteamWorld Heist<\/em> is half price once again on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/app\/id1093396572?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a>, and last but certainly not least, both <em>Fighting Fantasy Legends<\/em> games are also going cheap.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>That\u2019s all we\u2019ve got time for this week \u2013 hope you enjoy your weekends and normal service will resume next week!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a Bank Holiday here In the UK, so for various reasons this is an incredibly token edition of The Weekender \u2013 apologies! Quite honestly though, I\u2019ve not been taken by this week\u2019s release slate so you\u2019re not really missing out on much. We\u2019re coming up towards the end of the month now, but there\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile-game-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}