Archive for November, 2011

Sports Car Challenge – Enjoy the world’s hottest supercars on your iPhone and iPad!

Friday, November 25th, 2011

Sports Car Challenge - The new 3D premium racing game by Fishlabs and Volkswagen (China)If you’ve kept an eye on our releases throughout the last couple of years, you will have noticed that we have not only put out a variety of critically acclaimed original titles, but also produced a number of high quality ad-games for blue chip clients such Volkswagen. Since premium racing games such as GTI Edition 35 or Scirocco R 24H Challenge have enjoyed a huge success among the mobile gaming community, Volkswagen has now upped the ante even further and got five of the most prestigious brands of the Volkswagen Group, namely Porsche, Audi, Bugatti, Lamborghini and Bentley, on board for a new iOS racing experience entitled Sports Car Challenge! The production of the title took half a year and an enormous amount of hard work and effort has been put into the creation of a 3D premium racer, which is absolutely unrivalled on the App Store when it comes to state-of-the-art graphics, top-notch sounds and unprecedented attention to detail.[full]

Sports Car Challenge - The new 3D premium racing game by Volkswagen (China) and Fishlabs

Our sound designer Gero recording the powerful engine sounds of the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport

For the recording of the authentic engine roars, our sound director Gero has not only moved all around Germany but also visited locations in France and England and the console-level visuals allow photorealistic depictions of the cars, as well as the race track and its surroundings, thanks to highly detailed 3D models and special shaders for the cars’ individual paintworks, metal parts and surface areas! This already led the the UK’s prior mobile gaming website Pocket Gamer to praise the graphics of Sports Car Challenge as “extremely high-end” in a recent article on the game!

 new 3D premium racing game by Fishlabs and Volkswagen (China)

The making of a super sports car (Bentley Continental Supersports ISR)

Before you hit the track and get ready to set a new record, you can customize your car’s rims and painting in the show room and take high resolution screen caps of your finished work. As soon as the lights turn green and the race starts, however, you won’t have much time for such aesthetic shenanigans anymore, because the minute your engine screams and your tires squeak, the thrill of speed will totally suck you in and the adrenaline will rush through your veins like a flood! No matter whether you slide along the demanding track’s sharp curves via touch controls or accelerator, the game’s action-packed gameplay will always make for an outstanding racing experience and give you a thrilling feel of what it’s like to kick the pedal to the metal behind the steering wheel of the world’s fastest, hottest and most amazing supercars!

Sports Car Challenge - The new 3D premium racing game by Fishlabs and Volkswagen (China)

Kickin' the pedal to the metal with the Porsche Cayman R

Here at Fishlabs we are all extremely pleased with the finished game and the pursuit of new personal and in-house best times and track records has already started! The game is available for your iPhone and iPad for free, so you’d better hop over to the App Store right away and download this red-hot premium racer ASAP. The Sports Car Challenge is on, guys, and we’re eager to find out whether you got what it takes to master a powerhouse super sports car such as the lightning-fast Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport or the marvellous Bentley Continental Supersports ISR!

Click the following link to download Sports Car Challenge on the App Store for free: http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/sports-car-challenge/id477469043?mt=8

Out now: Valkyrie for Xperia PLAY and Galaxy on Fire 2 for free!

Monday, November 14th, 2011

GOF2 Valkyrie for Xperia Play (Thumbnail)Mayday, Mayday… here’s Keith T. Maxwell speaking. I’m a former wing commander of the Terran Space Fleet and currently working as a gun for hire for the Deep Science research association. I’m currently on my way to Her Jaza system and I’ve just experienced a strange and rather peculiar abnormality in the time space continuum. Unexpectedly, my Hawk fighter was struck by a gleaming white light and a few seconds later, when I opened my eyes again, my on-board computer systems were all of a sudden switched to an operating system called Android. A little while later, I received a call from a certain Tim Harrison, who introduced himself as the Head of Content Marketing & Strategy at Sony Ericsson, one of the galaxy’s biggest and most advanced manufacturers of progressive means of communication and other highly developed technical assets and gadgets, saying that “Galaxy on Fire 2 was one of the earliest titles to launch on Xperia PLAY, and has continued to enjoy critical acclaim and great success across multiple platforms. So we’re particularly pleased to be bringing Xperia PLAY owners this stunning game for free – and offer the Valkyrie update exclusively – this holiday period.”[full]

This call was followed by another message from my old friend Michael Schade of Fishlabs Entertainment, who added that “Not only has the Galaxy on Fire series set new standards for the sci-fi genre on mobile devices, but also does our popular outer space adventure have its seeds on feature phones by Sony Ericsson. Back then our action-packed space trader had been fully optimized for Sony Ericsson’s K-series and it had been given one award after another by the mobile gaming press. Today, we still max out the hardware and the gaming controls of the PlayStation Certified Xperia PLAY to the fullest in order to offer all sci-fi fans an out-of-this-world gaming experience on a totally unique smartphone.”

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An advanced Cronus vessel of the Deep Science faction approaching Mkkt Bkkt's floating den of iniquity, the infamous Kaamo Club!

At first I didn’t really know what to make out of this, but after I had connected the dots, it became crystal-clear to me that Fishlabs Entertainment had just released Galaxy on Fire 2™ – Valkyrie, the critically acclaimed add-on to their award-winning sci fi shooter Galaxy on Fire 2™, exclusively for Sony Ericsson’s PlayStation-certified Xperia™ PLAY smartphone. And that’s not all. To celebrate this long-awaited release, Galaxy on Fire 2™ itself will be offered to all Xperia™ PLAY users as a free download on the Android Market until 1/1/2012!

Now, if that ain’t a reason to open up a bottle of Behen Wine! Ever since its initial release on the App Store, the Galaxy on Fire™ fans have been asking for an Android version of the Valkyrie™ add-on as well and now it’s finally live and ready to be obtained via in-app purchase for U$ 4.99/ € 3.99/ £ 2.99. So board your missiles and burst your engines, gentlemen. The galaxy is waiting to be set on fire on your Xperia™ PLAY device!

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In the new black market system Shima, all kinds of shady deals are being negotiated...

For further information on Valkyrie™ in general, and the Xperia™ PLAY version in particular, please check out the following links.

Official GOF Homepage: http://www.galaxyonfire.com/en/galaxy-on-fire-2/game/addons.html
Official Fishlabs Homepage: http://www.fishlabs.net/en/games/galaxy-on-fire-2-valkyrie/
Official YouTube Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FANWV_kWW4Q
Official Sony Ericsson Website: http://www.sonyericsson.com/play/
Download GOF2 on the Android Market: https://market.android.com/details?id=net.fishlabs.GalaxyonFire2

Fire Sale: Buy Snowboard Hero on the App Store for 99 Cent!

Monday, November 7th, 2011

Snowboard Hero by Fishlabs Entertainment - KittyOur action-packed wintersports spectacle Snowboard Hero, winner of two prestigious IMG Awards (Best Sport Game 2011 & Oeprators’ Choice 2011), is up for a Fire Sale! The users of OpenFeint’s free Game Channel app have helped us to meet the voting threshold pretty quickly and hence the game, which many fans and critics consider to be “as classy as it is cool” (Pocket Gamer), can now be downloaded from the App Store for sensational 99 Cent! However, the Fire Sale is strictly limited in time and will end tonight, so you’d better not miss this one-time opportunity and download this “hugely enjoyable, addictive and accessible game” (TouchGen) right away. Take over the role of the chilled Dude, the sexy Kitty, the cool Kurt and three other fun-to-play characters and race down the steepest hillsides and sharpest curves at breakneck speed in pursuit of new high scores and unbeatable track records![full] While playing Snowboard Hero you not only “get to perform spectacular tricks, get some insane airtime, and go downhill at super fast speeds” (Find My Soft), but you will also experience “great-looking graphics, solid controls, and enough challenges and unlocks to keep you coming back for more” (Cnet). If you’re still uncertain whether to buy this game or not, check out the kick-ass trailer below and hopefully you will have made up your mind afterwards, because you surely won’t find a game that many critics consider “the best sports game of the year” (App Chronicles) in the 99 Cent category all too often…

So what are you waiting for? Hop over to the App Store at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/snowboard-hero/id413472707?mt=8 and download this “slick snowboarding experience“ (Tap!) right away. And while you’re at it, we’d also recommend you install OpenFeint’s free Game Channel, which you’ll find at http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/game-channel-free-games-from/id349406668?mt=8, in order to stay up to date about upcoming Fire Sales and lots of other red-hot news and cool mobile events!