Trailer for Astroforce, new free shmup for Android

Extragalactica Infinite available on Steam

Extragalactica Infinite is a new shmup available right now on Steam. Both Windows and macOS versions are available and it's coming to iOS and Android too.

Engadget guide to pairing PS4/Xbone controllers to iOS/Android devices

A guide to pairing.
This is mostly new to iOS since  newly released version 13 allows pairing, Android has done this for some time.

Truxton/Tatsujin available for Android, iOS

Seminal Toaplan shooter Tatsujin (Truxton to us in the west) has launched for iOS and Android under the inspired name Tatsujin classic. The graphics seem stretched but the gameplay looks intact.

CAVE finally going to update iOS games

In what can only be described as a (very welcome) surprise announcement, CAVE has shared the news that they will be updating their iOS apps to 64-bit versions to allow us to enjoy the games moving forward. We can finally start updating our iOS devices!

No word on the Android apps yet.

EDIT: The update will be free of charge _and_ there will be an anniversary sale for people who missed out the first time.

The following titles are getting updates:
Dodonpachi Blissful Death
Dodonpachi Resurrection HD
Dodonpachi Maximum
Deathsmiles

EDIT2: Trailer.

Strikers 1945 Plus and 1999 headed to home consoles

Psikyo's revered Strikers series gets two new entries ported to home consoles.

Strikers 1945 Plus is coming to Xbox One, PS4 and Nintendo Switch from Hamster in their ACA series. It has been available for iOS and the Sony PSP in the past.

Strikers 1999 is coming from ZeroDiv and has only been confirmed as an upcoming title for Switch so far. This is the first appearance of this particular Strikers game on any home console, only being ported to Android before.

A quick update on Astro Tales

The Astro Tales team reached out to me after my blog post about the game last week.


It turns out the target platforms are iOS and Android and they are hoping to release at the end of 2018. Expect more announcements when they start spinning their PR machine in a few weeks.

Upcoming shooters: Astro Tales and Flight of the Athena

Astro Tales, a vertically scrolling abstract shooter, claims to be "coming soon". Information is quite scarce but I believe it to be targeted at Windows - correction: its actually coming for iOS and Android.



Flight of the Athena is also a vertically scrolling shmup but with a release date TBC (and looking at the trailer, with one release window already missed) but targetting Steam, so again basically Windows.

One last bit of Nintendo Switch news before heading into 2018

Aka to Blue, this years best danmaku shooter for mobile phones, is rumoured to be heading to Nintendo Switch.


If true this is great news! The Nintendo Switch has been steadily building up an impressive library of STGs. Lets hope the trend continues!

On an unrelated note, I hope 2017 was great and I wish you a happy new year!

Rez Infinite now available for Google Daydream

Rez Infinite, previously available on PlayStation 4, an expanded version of Rez with updated graphics and support for Virtual reality has been ported to Googles VR platform for Android; Daydream. Rez Infinite is simply the best PlayStation VR game available today so i'm guessing it will play a similar role in these new waters.