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Origin8 has just sent us news on their up and coming sequel to Sentinel: Mars Defense. Appropriately titled Sentinel 2: Earth Defense, the game expands upon the critically acclaimed gameplay of the original game, plus a host of new features.

It’s war, and this time it’s too close to home. The Martian mission may be over, but the aliens haven’t finished playing space invaders yet!

Action now takes place across varied, lushly rendered Earth environments as the dropship Sentinel battles to repel an extra-terrestrial threat to humanity. The alien assault force has grown more vicious than ever. Luckily, human turret technology has also advance, thus the ship weapons system provides for a spectacular new way to eradicate the uninvited invaders.

Here’s a rundown of what’s new in Sentinel 2: Earth Defense:

• Unleash the Sentinel’s incredible ship weapons system – if you’ve got the power to do so
• Deploy mobile attack drones to harass the enemy and augment static defenses
• Construct boosters to buff your offense, and upgrade to top-tier towers for devastating special moves!
• Pit yourself against previously unseen members of the star spawned horde
• Mission mode provides quick tactical challenges. Beat a scenario to earn achievements
• Full online highscores, achievements, friends and chat using the OpenFeint 2.0 system.
• Exclusive new music written by Specimen A

Classic Sentinel features such as specialised structures and units, usable landscape and destructible defenses, resource harvesting and interest system as well as visually stunning environments, towers and enemies will still be available so players of the original game should feel at home.

Sentinel 2: Earth Defense has been submitted to Apple for review and approval, and should be available shortly. Watch out for an announcement when it arrives and our review of the game later. For now, feel free to check out the screenshots and gameplay footage of the game.

If you have yet to check out Sentinel: Mar Defense, the game is currently on sale at only $1.99 a copy. Our review of the game is available here: Review – Origin8’s Sentinel. Get it from the iTunes Store after checking out the review!

written by xcool \\ tags: Games, iPhone, iPod touch, Preview

We last took a look at this highly-anticipated title in early May. In between, EA Mobile has released a teaser-app and also some more screenshots as well as (yes) a trailer of the game. Taking notes from the trailer, the release date is set for June 2nd, 2009!

Check out the screenshots here (click for larger version), and also the trailer further below. Enjoy and don’t forget to mark your calendars for June 2nd, 2009!

written by xcool \\ tags: Electronic Arts, Games, iPhone, iPod touch, Preview

We did a preview of this awesome game some time back, so if you are not accustomed with it, then feel free to have a look here: Preview: Toki Tori by Two Tribes

Chillingo sent us word of the coming contest, so we are sharing it with you here firsthand.

In preparation of the May 22, 2009 launch of Toki Tori on the iPhone as well as the WiiWare version’s one year anniversary, developer Two Tribes and publisher Chillingo are inviting games to show off their creativity via the newly launched Toki Tori Promotion Contest. Entrants will be challenged to think of cool ways to promote the game.

Interested participants of this contest may check out the official rules and submit their entried at the following web site: http://www.tokitori.com/contest. Show off your creativity thru the display of your original promotional plans in action. Some examples include dressing up as Toki Tori, pimping out your MySpace page, creating a YouTube video featuring Toki Tori or even organizing a Toki Tori party and showing off the results. Creativity has no bounds!

The contest begins today and ends on June 26 2009. The production teams at Two Tribes B.V and Chillingo will judge all entries and pick the respective winners. The most creative entry will receive the first price consisting of a 200 dollars/euro worth of iTunes Gift Card or Wii points, a chicken to be adopted in your name and a Toki Tori figurine. The top nine runner up entries will all win a Toki Tori figurine.

The winners and their designs will be announced on June 29th at http://www.tokitori.com/contest.

written by xcool \\ tags: Contest, Games, iPhone, iPod touch, Preview

Coming soon to an iPhone/iPod touch racer near your is Handmark’s take on the WipeOut-like futuristic racing genre. Check out Phaze, developed by the guys at Pazzazzz Games who brought us titles superb titles like GTS World Racing and Hellfire (review, 4.0/5.0 Taps).

There’s not much info about the game at this moment, other than the fact that it’s an anti-gravity racer. In fact, the game is still very much in development with some of the graphics not being finalized yet. Nevertheless, Handmark has released three screenshots (click for larger version) and a sneak peak video of the game in action. Check them out!

written by xcool \\ tags: Astraware, Games, Handmark, iPhone, iPod touch, Preview

Mobirate has just buzzed us with news of their latest game called Brain Fit, and addictive puzzle game.

I’m sure everyone in us do a lot of workout to stay physically fit. Brain Fit is aimed at making sure that our brains stay equally fit as well – simply by solving a few puzzles every day.

Brain Fit is quite similar to the more famous genre of ‘parking lot’ puzzle games, but with a difference. Your aim instead, is to move the colored blocks from one end of the board to the other end, making sure that it is rearranged into a rectangle. It sounds simple, but wait til you get your hands dirty with the game. There are three different difficulty settings and 90 levels of puzzle to be solved.

Find out more about Brain Fit from the iTunes Store – then get the game for only $0.99 and start exercising that brain! Make sure to also check out Mobirate’s other titles, like Space Bikers (published by Chillingo) which we reviewed previously.

Here’s a gameplay video of Brain Fit in action, as well as some screenshots further down below.

written by xcool \\ tags: Games, iPhone, iPod touch, Mobirate, Preview