Kotaku: Tower Defense

Little Empire is a Massively Multiplayer Backstabbing Simulator

Mike Fahey — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:30:00 EST

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Camel Games' high-polished "massively multiplayer online" empire building game Little Empires neatly demonstrates why we should never open ourselves up to the inevitable pain that friendship brings. Pretty heavy for a game with cartoon elves, right? More »

Tetris Plus Tower Defense Yet Again, But Better This Time.

Stephen Totilo — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:00:00 EDT

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In game designer Eitan Glinert's mind peanut butter must be tower defense and jelly must be Tetris, because for the second game in a row, the young creator has smushed the two great gaming styles together. He's just done it radically different this time, as if switching from making PB&J sandwiches to—I don't know—PB&J tacos. More »

How a Wish and A 9-Year-Old Led To a Great Game

Max Abrams — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:30:00 EDT

Tanks and Hovercrafts rage against the evil purple Flamions. Shots are fired on both sides as the player attempts to subdue the oncoming hoard of enemies. Sounds like a fun game, if not a little common in it's setting. But Allied Star Police, and how it came into being, is anything but typical. More »

Basement Defense? Anomaly Warzone Earth Turns Tower Defense On Its Head

Joel Johnson — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:40:00 EDT

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I think the moment where Anomaly Warzone Earth—I don't see a colon on the game's website; letting all three words of the title evenly plod from the mouth pleasingly highlights its Eastern European pedigree—really grabbed me was the first time I rerouted my caravan of tanks and mechanized walkers to loop to endlessly pummel a poor, doomed laser turret. More »

The Battle For Hoth Comes To The iPhone

Mike Fahey — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:40:00 EDT

The huge list of video games depicting the opening battle from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes back gains another entry with Fluffy Logic's Star Wars: Battle for Hoth for the iPhone and iPod Touch. More »

Plants VS Zombies Pollinating Other Platforms

Mike Fahey — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:40:00 EDT

One of the strangest tower defense variations around is spreading its seed, as PopCap Games reveals plans to spread the Plants VS Zombies PC love to other platforms. More »

Plants vs Zombies Micro-Review: The Seeds Of Success

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:30:00 EDT

While tower defence games have seemingly been done to death, there's still room for innovation in the genre. Like the kind that PopCap Games' Plants vs Zombies provides. More »

Plants vs. Zombies Music Video Causes Cute Overload

AJ Glasser — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:00:00 EDT

PopCap Games' Plants vs. Zombies sounds weird, plays well and looks so cute in this music video, it makes me want to dance and puke at the same time. More »