Where's Wally= Where's Waldo

You did it Epic!

Although I was looking forward to:

Last Dream
Lizard Adventure
Ultra Beef Man
N.Y. Thriller.
Doug Huggem Always
Speedy the Needlemouse
Dash Dingo
Wrench and Bolt

I think I'll just skip those and play the "real" versions instead. My appetite is too mighty for those little morsels. Give me the Six Dollar Burger, motherfuckers, because this puny White Castle thing just won't do.

So Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Part 2; DS port? Console part with awful controls?

No guessing it will be awful.

"Gameloft catches crap for "ripping off" console games, and it can be pretty shameless at times. However, it also produces some pretty good quality mobile gaming..."

Just because it's a good rip-off doesn't get them off the hook for what they've done: ripped off someone's hard work.

I have an iDevice and even I'm ashamed to have downloaded some of these games out of pure curiosity and then felt shite afterwards realizing they were a straight port/clone/ripoff.

Jim, what beguiles me the most is how you can support or be 'for' anything Gameloft, yet be so adamantly against (please forgive me here for lack of memory) that one iOS developer who copied a game and sold it on the app store a few months ago(again, vague comment is vague but I can't remember back that far and can't be arsed to do so on this damn iPhone keyboard/browser).

I just don't get it.

Oh and about their GTA ripoff; 'Gangstar' and Vice City ripoff; 'Gangstar: Miami Vindication' ...seriously? At least TRY to make them different in ANY way! If I was a regular Joe Schmoe working at Rockstar, I'd be pissed.

I realize it is a complete rip-off of WoW, but Order & Chaos is a pretty impressive game. Had Blizzard released something similar, they could have reaped many rewards.

@Epic
Where's Wally? is what Where's Waldo? is called in not-America. Just getting that out there since it seems that you're mocking it for being a typical Gameloft "mobile adaptation".

God, I hate Gameloft's new logo. It's like it's got a mutant combover. That is also droopy.

Gameloft made Order and Chaos, which I bought for .99c, and it's a pretty good mobile mmo (if you buy 3G unlocker for cydia, that is)

How many Asphalt games will people buy?

We're on six? It's the NOW Music collection of gaming. Coming next year, Asphal7. What worries me is that this crap is obviously selling and this isn't even including the DS iterations.

Erm... i read on an android blog earlier that this is not a smartphone launch list, its "feature phones" so symbian and nokia, java based games.

And I will purchase every one of these durring their inevitable $0.99 sale. Gameloft has me by the balls.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/06/29/gameloft-announces-upcoming-games-for-the-remainder-of-2011/

Civ5!? WOO!! I loved Civ Revolution though that was done by 2K Games China.

I've tried two Gameloft free-roamers so far. While it's obvious where they draw their inspiration from, they do come up with their own characters, dialogue, missions, map layouts, etc. Knowing Vice City like the back of your hand does not help you get up to speed in Miami Vindication.

I've bought a bunch of their games and they great fun. The IOS Avatar game is allot better then the console version

Sorry, but fuck Gameloft. I can't support a developer like them.

personally, I love the rip-of- er inspired mobile versions... shadow guardian (uncharted clone) was great as was blades of fury (soulcallibur clone) as were a number of others, some of which weren't ripping of-... er paying homage to other games.

These guys also work hard to bring us these imo high quality games. Is there a law wich says only rockstar is allowed to develope free-roamers? Same with dungeon crawlers and the other genres Gameloft is the only is the only puplisher releasing high quality for a price not worthy to be mentioned. As long as aaa devs/puplisher like rockstar sitting on theire lazy butts and giving a shit about the posebiletys bringing theire games to smartphones etc people will buy the 'rip-offs'

Rammstein: You're being a little over dramatic. Gameloft may be making the poor man's version of console games but they are actually putting a lot of effort and original content into them. It not like the makers of those games are going to bring them to iOS anyway. I know some of the IPs are on there, but not in the same way that apes their respective console version.

In the cases your alluded to (The Blocks Cometh, Canabalt) are straight up plagiarism. Somebody has taken somebody else's game, assets and all, put it up for sale and claiming it's their own work.

They should make Pirates and Zombies, starring Michael Draig as a pirate with a zombie bracelet.