A brave move perhaps, combining two very saturated genres, but that is what Klonk Productions have done with their first person shooter/tower defense hybrid, Fight For Dawn.

Yes, it has been done before and in good form – Sanctum anyone? But you do have to wonder how much zombie/mutant shooting and turret placing we can do. Regardless, Fight For Dawn doesn’t look to bad in all honesty, we particularly love the game’s bold outlines and comic book visuals in general. The game has a simple and pretty familiar story in that the town of Scave has become victim to a mutagen leak which has turned the inhabitants into, well…mutants.

You play as a hired mercenary whose job it is to move on into the town and kill every mutant you see. You’ll be armed with just a plasma pistol so you’ll have to rely on your range of turrets, landmines, force fields and tesla to help you defend each area. There’s no anticipated release date or information on what platforms it will be coming to. Safest bet is at least Windows PCs.

More information on Fight For Dawn can be found on the game’s official website.

Hey you! You like free games right? Well, over on IGM Mobile we’re holding a big giveaway in which you can win free games for your PSP and iOS device.

There’s lots of games up for grabs and all you have to do is follow the instructions within the simple “app” over on this page. It’s all kept relatively simple we promise – you can increase your chances of winning liking our Facebook page, following us on Twitter and answering a question. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.

You have a whole two weeks to enter and increase your chances of winning in the giveaway, until Saturday, May 26th 2012 in fact.

So what are you waiting for? Get over to THIS PAGE and check out the games you could win and enter already! Good luck to you all!

Archifishal Software, developer of Inferno, has announced their next game intended for release on XBLIG – Aqualibrium looks to be a madcap platformer with plenty going on to test your wits.

Call the graphics retro or whatever you prefer, Aqualibrium isn’t going to blow you away visually but the water trickling effects are quite pleasant to look at. Anyway, we’re here to inspect gameplay here and with 40 levels, two levels of difficulty and (hopefully) online highscores/best times for each level; there should be plenty going on during your time spent with the game.

The idea of Aqualibrium is that you must make your way around your ship which has submerged under an alien ocean after an unavoidable crash landing. The pressure is starting to build up so you’ll frantically need to rush around and rid the water trapped in each section. While doing this sounds hectic enough, you’ll have to also worry about the number of exotic aliens which have found their way into the ship – just hope your guns don’t malfunction at the wrong time.

There’s no release date for Aqualibrium as it is still under development but it should be soon and it will definitely be on XBLIG. Check out the game’s trailer below:

More information on Aqualibirum can be found on the developer’s official website.

Stand back from the platform edge please. Cube Trains is just pulling up and we wouldn’t want you to get hurt now, would we? Today it’s delivering the new playable beta for Windows and Mac which comes with better graphics and more levels to try out. Shall we?

In Cube Trains you start off with the basics of urban planning and averting train crash disasters with simple railway construction. Success will soon cave to more challenging levels which will have you managing multiple tiers upon which to lay the tracks for the trains to travel along and hopefully not crash and burn. Huge towers, bridges and all kinds of other challenges will be thrown your way and you’ll be expected to prevent disaster!

At the moment, you can download the beta version of Cube Trains for free over on the official website, but the final version of the game will cost just $2 when it is released this coming summer.

More information on Cube Trains can be found on the game’s official website.

Kiz Studios has announced that their free-to-play MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena), SmashMuck Champions, will be entering closed beta on May 29th.

The arena has long been a place of ferocious battle, of death and decay, but SmashMuck Champions adds a bit of sparkle to such a symbolic battle pit. With a cartoon visage, 10 playable characters and four different game modes; SmashMuck Champions might be the best zero dollars you’ve ever spent. Yes, it’s free-to-play but it’s only in its beta stage at the moment and as such you’ll need a beta key if you want in on May 29th when players can have a bash at each other.

We’ve told you about the beta keys before so hopefully you already have one. If you don’t, then there are to be some giveaways over the next few days on MMOBomb, MMOSite, FreeToPlay and other sites so keep an eye out. If you want to get a better look at the game then you can peer through the CGI of the pre-beta trailer below and see some decent looking gameplay.

You can register for SmashMuck Champions and find out more information over on the game’s official website.

With the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft releasing on May 9th, a launch trailer has been released which shows plenty of gameplay of the splitscreen variety.

For those few people who haven’t played Minecraft before due to waiting for its release on the Xbox 360, your time is nearly up. Minecraft will be released on Microsoft’s console on May 9th and will cost 1600 MSP, which works out to about $20/£13.20.

This console version of the hit title from Mojang will come with 4 player splitscreen and will support 8 players online in a single map. The main thing missing from this edition of Minecraft is the modding support and other customisation features, but these may be added at a later point.

Though the wait is nearly at a close, you’ll no doubt want to see some gameplay, in which case you should consult the just released launch trailer for the game. You can see that everything looks about the same, there’s a few tweaks to adjust to the gamepad controls in the crafting screens by the looks of it, but that’s about it. Enjoy!

More information on Minecraft can be found on the game’s official website.

The developer behind Cobalt Runner for the PSP – your portable Mirror’s Edge fix – is now remaking the game for the PS Vita with lots of level creation and sharing ambition.

Cobalt Runner was an anticipated Quake mod amongst the PSP community for its capturing of freerunning on the portable device. Not much came of it in the end though and people were disappointed that it promised so much but came to nothing. However, the developer has suddenly appeared again and has decided to work on the game for the PS Vita.

A couple of years have passed so their plans for the game have changed a little, as you can read below:

“The new premise is that of a social game, more or less. You create levels by placing objects ala Trackmania or Modnation Racers, and then can race against people online for global high scores or just chill out and play game modes as the map cycle rotates through user generated maps.”

If this does manage to make it out of the developer’s hands and into players then this should be a popular game, presuming everything comes together. At the moment the development process is still very early as the game is being built from scratch in the PS Vita SDK. After just a few days, the developer has released a bit of gameplay which has unfortunately been recorded with an iPhone, but you can still make it out.

Hopefully some better quality media assets will be on the way soon. For now, you can have a look at what the game looked like as intended for the PSP back in 2009 right here – it looks to be pretty much the same kind of thing.

More information on Cobalt Runner can be found on its official IndieDB page.

Volumes of Fun’s blockstastic bonanza Voxeliens is now finally finished and available for purchase on Windows platforms.

The game has most commonly be touted as a 3D Space Invaders inside a quaint voxel world. From all the footage we’ve seen, it looks very much as though there’ll be a particular emphasis on lasers, power-ups and total destruction – all the good stuff, in short. Having recently called out to the online community for help with the testing process as the game reached its completion, the developers are now confident that Voxeliens is in a suitably stable and polished condition to make its commercial debut.

Although the game’s release is restricted to Windows right now, Volumes of Fun remains intent on bringing the game to Mac and Linux in the very near future.

To purchase the DRM-free Windows version of Voxeliens for $4, or to sample a free demo version of the game, visit its official website.

After a few technical hitches, as we reported on earlier, A Valley Without Wind has finally made its way onto Steam. As with both GamersGate, the Mac Game Store and Arcen Games’ official website, the game is available at a 10% discount, due to expire on 1st May, and there’s also a special four-pack that’s subject to a similar temporary price cut. Those looking to purchase multiple copies may be pleased to know that Steam is offering it for a lower price than its Impulse counterpart, which appears to be available at full price from the get-go.

After a good long time in development and an ever-increasingly level of hype in its sails, A Valley Without Wind is now available to purchase and download through several different digital distrobution vendors.

And the good news is that there’s plenty of choice. The game’s up for grabs at a 10% discount on developer Arcen Games’ official site, with GamersGate and the Mac Game Store following suit with a similar price cut, effective for one full week. You can also pick up the game at IndieCity and Gamestop’s Impulse platform, the latter of which also offers a special four-pack at a slightly discounted price for a cheeky bit of multiplayer action.

Conspicuously absent from the current list of digital sellers is Steam, although Arcen Games have revealed via Twitter that “things are progressing” on the prospect of the game seeing a release on Valve’s service later today. We’ll keep you updated on proceedings. In the meantime, here’s another look at A Valley Without Wind‘s launch trailer to whet your appetite.