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Browncoats rejoice! Firefly Online is coming to PC, Mac, iOS & Android, with voice acting from the original cast and you can sign up for the Beta now!

The full original cast will be joined by Michael Dorn (Warf from Star Trek: TNG), in this strategic online role-playing game which allows players to assume the role of a ship captain, create their crew, customise their ship and seek out adventures. You’ll be able to explore and misbehave in Joss Whedon’s Firefly universe, with cross-platform multiplayer and unique social features to connect Firefly fans.

Sign up for the Firefly Online Beta now!

Rising Generals is a PvP oriented strategy MMO with a Modern Warfare setting, designed from the ground up to allow cross-platform play between iOS, Android and home computers.

Rising Generals is designed for short, but intense gaming sessions with a high focus on action. With more than 20 different units, including heavy tanks, infantry, helicopters and warplanes you’ll have plenty of options available to you. Unlockable technologies as well as officers and generals will also provide helpful bonuses and perks.

The Rising Generals game worlds will have space for up to 40 thousand players who can band together into Battle Groups and fight for dominance. Real-time 3D animations give each battle a unique feeling and will also provide valuable information about the course of the battle. It’s a strategy MMO that plans to offer fun and exciting battles which are just as fun when played from a home computer as from a mobile device.

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We also have 50 Beta Keys to Giveaway through our new Facebook page here!

The Witcher Battle Arena is a fast, fun and accessible MOBA game based coming out on the mobile platform (android, iOS, Windows Phone) where you can play as your favorite character from the Witcher universe and battle it out with other players online.

The game will be free to play with no pay-to-win elements, and so you can unlock every piece of content in the game through gameplay progression. It’s unusual to see a MOBA on the mobile platform but it will be interesting to see what CD Project RED bring to the table.

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Weldling is a fun non-profit 2.5D physics toy-box that allows users to easily weld objects together to build a multitude of structures and even create their own mini games.

Welding plans to be 100% free to play, with no DRM, micro-transactions or adverts, while still providing hordes of content and post release DLC at no cost. The game is planned to come to PC/Mac/Linux & mobile, and features a simple and easily accessible interface that works well with a mouse and touch screen. Touch screen is where the real joy will be though, as the tactile nature of the game makes it feel like a you’re playing with a physical toy-box.

The Pre-Alpha is obviously still very early in development, but it offers a great showcase of the games build-and-play nature and it’s realistic physics engine. It’s great fun messing around with the various building blocks, the elasticity of the welds is a great touch - allowing you to create fun non-rigid structures that can be used in a variety of ways. The tools available are fairly simple at the moment, but the dev plans to add multi-player, NPC Animals, multiple layers, time manipulation, animal breeding and a variety of new tools including one which allows you to create your own shapes.

With it’s ease of use and toy-box feel, Weldling is an impressive sandbox that revels in the joy of creation - like Lego, but with bendy bits and you don’t have to clear up afterwards!

Check out the Kickstarter and Download the Pre-Alpha Free (Win, Mac, Linux & Android)

Escape the Hellevator! is a fun and inventive escape-the room puzzler coming to iOS and Android next month.

You play as Clarence Ridgeway, who is being rushed to the ER when a mysterious priest commandeers his elevator. There are 6 fully 3D rendered rooms for you to explore and escape from, each one reflecting one of Clarence’s sins. To escape you’ll have to solve fiendish and inventive puzzles, and relive the sin to escape the room.

It’s a great looking game, that looks set to offer a similar style of gameplay as The Room, but with a fun tale of sin, redemption and elevators!

Download the Beta, Free (Android Only)

Hyperdrive 3D is a good looking futuristic racing game where the multiplayer is completely integral to the single player experience, yet remains optional.

You’ll be able to complete campaign races to earn credits to upgrade your vehicle, wager credits with other players in multiplayer races with up to 12 other people. You can upgrade and customise your vehicle to suit you play-style, focusing on speed and handling or making your racer a juggernaut of destruction.

It’s a highly customisable, multiplayer orientated, cross-platform WipEout-style racer, where how you play is up to you.

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Super Awesome Quest is an interesting new RPG for iOS and Android with unique token-flipping combat and an in-depth crafting system.

The token-flipping combat looks pretty interesting and well suited to touch-screen devices, offering up a simple, fun and tactical fighting system. It also offers up regular RPG staples such as crafting, equipment, multiple playable characters and loot drops.

With it’s unique combat system Super Awesome Quest is looking like a fun an innovative way of making an RPG work on touch screen devices. It’s due for release in September, but you’ll be able to play it early by signing up for the Beta.

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GunBlocks is a fun mix of Tetris, Worms and Terraria, where you control a crew-mate of a crash-landed spaceship who has to put up with an incompetent captain and an over-fiendly super computer while on a quest to repair the ship.

The gameplay is pretty easy to pick up, each move you must use the Tetris-like blocks in your inventory to aid your progress across the world, then aim and fire, then finally move forward 4 spaces. The screen automatically moves forward each turn, so if you get stuck behind some scenery for too long you’ll die. Likewise, if you fail to fill in any gaps in the scenery and fall through as you automatically move forward 4 spaces you’ll die. There’s not much chance of this happening in the relativity easy Pre-Alpha Demo, but it’s easy to see how the difficulty could be ramped up with larger gaps and obstacles.

The Pre-Alpha Demo is pretty short, but it does give a good indication of what to expect from the finished game. As well as it’s innovative gameplay features, GunBlocks also has a great sense of humor, with an incompetent crew helmed by a captain that allows his pet pig to fly a spacecraft, a super happy ship computer, and your character who’s all to happy to point out the ridiculousness of his situation. Coming to PC, Mac, and iOS/Android Tablets, GunBlocks looks set to be a fun puzzle platform adventure with an interesting mix of of gameplay mechanics and a great sense of humor.

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Stratega is a fast paced RTS/Tower Defence hybrid, where you gather minerals, survive waves of enemies attacks and attempt to capture the enemy base.

It features an interesting node-based building function, reminiscent of the way you build structures in World Of Goo. Set in space, you have to defend your Hive, expand it and take down your enemies. Gameplay is extremely fast paced and a bit more hectic than your usual RTS.

Stratega is coming to iOS, Andorid and is currently on Steam Greenlight. Successful applicants will be gifted a copy of the finished mobile version, when ready.

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Rubble N Strafe is an addictive side-scrolling helicopter game with some wonderful pixel art and fast paced arcade gameplay inspired by Harrier Attack.

After you’ve chosen your helicopter (Rubble or Strafe), you set forth into a 2D procedurally generated pixellated battlezone, blowing up things to an excellent soundtrack reminiscent of John Carpenter scores. As in the old classic Chopper (NOT Flapppy bird - this is definitely NOT a Flappy Bird clone), you constantly travel forward, using the left mouse button to fly higher, while the right muse button drops bombs.

You then machine gun, bomb and rocket your way through an infinite horde of enemy troops, completing missions, blowing up buildings, terrain, aircraft and boats, all the while collecting ammo and fuel so you don’t run out. Complete missions and keep your chopper in the air for as long as possible and you’ll earn a place on the online leader board.

It's an addictive, action packed piece of retro arcade action, full of destruction and pixellated carnage.

Download the Beta, Free (Windows & Android)

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