The “secret project”, which our Laurent Grumiaux recently referred to in his tweet laments about crunch time, is now officially revealed. Traveling at mach speed from the danger zone to your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch — After Burner Climax! The elite aerial dogfight game originally developed by Sega AM2 has barrel-rolled its way from the arcades to the AppStore.

We’re very grateful to SEGA for giving us the opportunity to port this frenetic Arcade classic to mobile, and to be completely honest, we’re very proud of what we’ve done with it! After Burner Climax bursts great 3D textures while delivering smooth high-speed animations despite the technical limitations of the platform. The game is playable using either touch or tilt.

The reviews are pouring in too!

AppSpy – 4/5

AppAdvice – 4/5

TouchArcade Plays!

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Here we go again for the last, but not the least, lesson of Creatures’ history. Today, let’s learn a bit about Creatures 3, the latest episode released… until we get to write our own chapter together with you folks

Living on their little coin-shaped planet, the Shee were not happy at all with the growing disturbances from the spreading Grendel species. Watching the stars, they spotted a fantastic spherical planet which looked much more impressive than Albia. Soon enough the Shee were on their way to Sphericus, embarked on an Ark with their creatures, the Norns and the Ettins.

However, approaching the planet of their dreams, the Shee found out that the Grendels’ Mother had snuck aboard. So they were forced to abandon the spaceship, leaving their poor creatures to their own fortunes.

Naturally it fell onto us, gamers, to help them again, educating those Norns as well as we could. Some of them were reluctant to say “gadget” because of a brain mutation but we did our best. Although we all ultimately failed to create an absolute balance within the spaceship’s environments, we still managed to create some amazing twins (identical or not). And that alone is pretty awesome!

In a word, the third opus of a pure gold series, although more technology focused, was still fantastic for expressing biological creativity, and was filled with a lot of humor and a touch of cuteness

One month ago we gave our first formation on Kinect. A true opportunity for young developers and artists to show what they are made of when it comes to be innovative with some new technology, here the Microsoft Kinect camera (on PC).

In one week they created two games that were played at the VIA festival on giant screens in Mons, Belgium by hundreds of people. That’s not a cheap achievement!

You can find on our Youtube channel a short backstage movie of this first Kinect Camp (in French):

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