1，据game zebo的消息称，他们总结了早先发行但依然能够在2015年让人惊艳的五款游戏。

分别是发行于2014年的Hearthstone，发行于2013年的BADLAND，发行于2011年的Minecraft: Pocket Edition，发行于2014年的Vainglory和发行于2012年的The Simpsons: Tapped Out。

vainglory（from gamezebo.com）

2，据game zebo的消息称，Rovio在加拿大测试发行了新游戏Party Monsters。该游戏有三消和塔防的诠释。

party monsters（from gamezebo.com）

3，据touch arcade的消息称Square Enix 将推出Final Fantasy IX的iOS，Android和PC版本。

4，据game zebo的消息称，他们推出了2015年度十佳iPad游戏。分别是Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadville、This War of Mine、Dungeon of the Endless、The Room Three、Don’t Starve: Pocket Edition、Metamorphabet、Galactic Keep、Guitar Hero Live、Sid Meier’s Starships以及Her Story。

best iPad games（from gamezebo.com）

5，据gamesky的消息，从2015年12月30日起针对18个游戏项目类型进行玩儿趣奖的评选。活动的链接地址为：gamesky（本文由游戏邦编译，转载请注明来源，或咨询微信zhengjintiao）

1，When people talk about the best games of the year, they tend to focus exclusively on the games of that year. This used to make a lot of sense. After all, if the Academy Awards weren’t limited to just one year, The Godfather II would have won Best Picture 41 times now.

But movies and games aren’t the same thing, and as we move deeper into the world of “games as service,” ignoring a game just because it’s older doesn’t necessarily jive with today’s business models. With that in mind, there are some games that continued to wow us in 2015 regardless of their release date. These are the five titles that provided so much fresh content and so many new tweaks that we couldn’t help but keep playing.

Hearthstone

First released: 2014

We’ve already touched on what a fantastic year Hearthstone had, but for those of you not paying attention, here’s a recap: In just twelve short months the game has seen two new single-play adventures added to the game in the form of Blackrock Mountain and the recently-released League of Explorers, and a major expansion with August’s The Grand Tournament. Collectively, this new content resulted in the addition of more than 200 new cards to the game and plenty of reasons for replay.

Though this year’s real replay value came in the form of Tavern Brawl.

Joining the game in mid-June, Tavern Brawl is a game mode that quickly became a part of the core Hearthstone experience. A weekly event, Tavern Brawl provides players with a unique set of rules that they’ll only be able to play with for seven days. Spiders, Spider, EVERYWHERE!, for example, stuffed a players deck with 23 webspinners (who would summon a different beast card when they died). Unite Against Mechazod! experimented with co-op mechanics in Hearthstone for the first time.

With a fresh set of rules coming every week, Tavern Brawl is proof in the pudding that Blizzard knows how to keep gamers coming back time and again. From the house of Warcraft, should we have expected anything less?

BADLAND
First released: 2013

As one of the most beautiful games ever to hit the App Store, it would be easy to say that BADLAND continued to wow us just because we kept looking at it. But the developers at Frogmind didn’t rest on their laurels this year. More than two years after its initial release, this former Apple Game of the Year recipient was updated with a level editor that lets anybody build their own BADLAND levels. And it’s not just any level editor, either. This is the same tool that Frogmind uses.

Super Mario Maker, eat your heart out.

Kicking things up again in late October, BADLAND debuted as one of the first games on Apple TV, so you can spend the afternoon building levels on your iPad and the evening testing them out on the big screen. We live in the future.

Minecraft: Pocket Edition
First released: 2011

When Minecraft first came to mobile four years ago, it was a fairly feature-limited alternative to what desktop gamers had come to know. That didn’t stop it from earning a practically-permanent spot on the App Store’s Top 10 Paid Games index, mind you, but few would have considered the pocket build of the game a suitable alternative to its much meatier desktop and console cousins.

But as time marched on, so did the development of Minecraft: Pocket Edition. And its 30 million players have been very happy about that.

In 2015 the game saw the addition of fishing, the Nether, brewing stations, desert temples, and — most importantly — Redstone. In fact, they’ve added so much new content this year that we’d need to devote an entire article just to list it. Should you want to read such a thing, Microsoft has done just that. (Heck, they’ve even made a video, which you can watch above).

Yes, there’s still a long way to go, but this popular portable version of Minecraft is nearing ever closer to feature parity with other platforms.

Vainglory

First released: 2014

If you want to run a successful MOBA, you need to keep your game balanced, fresh, and react to player demands on a constant basis. It’s a huge undertaking, and the failure to follow through on any one of these elements can be more than enough to force your ship of dreams to run aground.

Vainglory has had no such problems, because they really know how to keep their players happy. The following notes regarding August’s update 1.7 sums up their approach perfect.

When we say “we’re listening,” we mean it … and we took an entire update cycle to address the deep-rooted player pain and feedback we’ve heard time and again. We’ve focused on fundamental technical improvements, which means there’s not a lot of wiz-bang in 1.7. But these changes — individually and together — make every match feel better and create new possibilities for casual and competitive players alike.
In addition to keeping things running smoothly, they’ve added a ton of content to the game by way of new heroes and skins, and have spent much of 2015 launching Vainglory in new regions around the globe including Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and China. Why does this make the game better? Because they’re focused on serious competition.

Vainglory has quickly become the biggest mobile-only game in the eSports world, with the Vainglory International Premier League having launched this past August. And if you’re decent at Vainglory, there could be a pretty big payout in your future. The Autumn Season global prize pool, for example, is over $200,000.

The Simpsons: Tapped Out

First released: 2012

My wife doesn’t play many mobile games. In fact, there are only two that she feels are worthy of her time. She plays both everyday, like they were some kind of religion. One of those games is Clash of Clans. The other? The Simpsons: Tapped Out.

Tapped Out is more than three years old at this point and offers very little in terms of interactive gameplay, yet continues to keep a wide range of players (like my wife) engaged daily. How do they do it? Two words: fan service.

EA has created a universe that properly celebrates the people, places and things of The Simpsons, and goes so deep on appealing to fans that even a self-declared Simpsons guru such as myself occasionally needs to google a reference or two. In 2015, special events included building your own monorail, dealing with the shenanigans of Sideshow Bob and the whole Terwilliger family, and a superhero special featuring everyone from Bartman and Pieman to Krusty’s 60’s Batman villain, “Clownface.”

Even seasonal content brought fans everything they could ask for. Who doesn’t want to unlocking 300lb Homer in a moomoo at Thanksgiving?

With 583 episodes to draw from, there’s a seemingly bottomless well of Simpsons wackiness to draw from — and EA isn’t afraid to dig deep.（source：gamezebo.com ）

2，Sneaking onto the App Store in Canada quite recently, Party Monsters is Rovio’s newest game, and there isn’t a bird — angry or otherwise — in sight. Just lots of angry old people and cops. Known as “Party Poopers,” these old folks and authorities will try and kill the raging party that it is the player’s job to ensure rocks on through the night.

The game is best described as a match-3 / tower defense combo, where players combine shapes to power up the monsters they have placed along a pathway. The monsters need to defend the DJ at the end of the path from the onslaught of Party Poopers.（source：gamezebo.com）

3，Final Fantasy fanatics officially now have something super awesome to look forward to with the new year: This morning Square Enix quietly announced that Final Fantasy IX is coming to iOS, Android, and PC. It’s surprising news considering there’s been rumblings for the last decade or so that Squeenix lost the source code for Final Fantasy IX, and if that’s true, this is likely just an emulated version of the original PlayStation game… Which is A-OK with me. Here’s the trailer（source：toucharcade.com ）

4，2015 had some fantastic games, and even though most of them can be played on your iPhone, it doesn’t mean they necessarily should. Sometimes a bigger screen is just better, and the following ten games are more than happy to prove that.

What follows are the 10 best iPad games of 2015 according to Gamezebo. If you only have an iPhone, yes, you should still take the time to play most of these. Just know they’d be a smidge better on a bigger device. And if you’re worried your favorite didn’t make the cut, don’t fret — it may very well be in our roundup of 2015’s best iPhone and Android games.

But enough chit chat. Get out your tablets. It’s game time.

10. Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadville

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City management games come and go — but few pit you as the chief rebuilder of society in the face of a zombie apocalypse. Sarah Northway’s Rebuild series has tackled that particular niche for a few years now, and Rebuild 3 is far and away the best version of her undead society builder to date.

Much of the game is focused on deciding which of your survivors are best to assign to which task (building, defending, zombie-blasting down at the ol’ Circle K, etc..), but you’ll also spend a lot of time making decisions that could make or break the lives of your people depending on the outcomes. All of these decisions come together in a new way for the Rebuild series as, unlike the first two games, Rebuild 3’s action unfolds in real time.

There’s the option to go back to the turn-based method if you really want — but what fun is that? There won’t be any turn-based decision making when the real zombie apocalypse comes. Treat this like training.

Download on the App Store
9. This War of Mine

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There are a lot of games about war. Too many, if you stop to think about it. And for the most part they’re all about one thing: battle. Whether we’re talking first-person shooters or finely-detailed strategy titles, war games are about soldiers and little else.

This War of Mine is different.

A simulation about surviving in a nation torn apart by war, This War of Mine sees players making hard choices, scavenging for whatever they can, and discovering where they stand on the fine line between morality and survival. It’s gut-wrenching stuff — and a perfect example of how games can open our eyes in a way few other mediums could.

Download on the App Store
8. Dungeon of the Endless

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One of 2014’s coolest PC roguelike / strategy titles made its way to the iPad this year, bringing all of its frantic “crashed spaceship survival” gameplay along for the ride.

Players in Dungeon of the Endless control a team of survivors as they attempt to assess and traverse floor after floor the alien building they find themselves in. Survival means exploration, but it also means creating stations and generating resources. Setting up defenses, powering up rooms, and fighting off hordes of enemies are very real problems — and they all take place in real-time. You’ll need to decide if you want to split your team up to discover (and protect) more of each floor, or stay together to rely on strength in numbers. (And if you do split up, who is going to stay behind and protect your crystal?)

Dungeon of the Endless is a tough balancing act, and can be a pretty punishing adventure — but if you can dig the “oops, now you’re dead” nature of roguelikes, you’ll really enjoy what Amplitude Studios has crafted.

Download on the App Store
7. The Room Three

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Puzzle gamers longing for a beautiful, polished, object-based challenge have been well catered to since The Room debuted in 2012. The series is known for its puzzle boxes and doodads that activate other doodads when manipulated in just the right way, and The Room Three continues this tradition in their biggest release to date.

Ultimately, yes, it’s more of the same — but when “the same” means intricately crafted puzzles that prove deeply satisfying once solved, it’s hard to complain. And there are some new additions here, too, including some fleshing out of the series’ narrative, multi-room puzzles, and an enhanced eyepiece that lets you travel inside of certain objects to solve puzzles you might not have otherwise spotted.

Download on the App Store
6. Don’t Starve: Pocket Edition

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Back when it launched on PC in 2013, we gleefully included Don’t Starve as one of the best games of that year. And now that it can fit in your pocket? We’re delighted to include it once again.

But the “pocket” sized version of Pocket Edition isn’t really the best way to experience its survivalist ways. Playing Don’t Starve on a smaller smartphone screen is something of a challenge, especially with all of the icons you’ll be tapping. Playing on a tablet, by contrast, is a breeze — making this a perfect example of why some games end up on this list rather than the smartphone one.

This version includes almost all of the DLC from its PC counterpart (only the multiplayer DLC is missing) and is available for a fraction of the price, making this a sound investment for anyone who managed to miss Don’t Starve in its earlier incarnations.

Download on the App Store
5. Metamorphabet

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Our #5 entry for this year’s best iPad games isn’t really a game at all; at least, not if you’re over the age of 4. Regardless, it’s hard to not be wowed by the artistry that’s gone into Vectorpark’s Metamorphabet.

So simple a toddler can enjoy it (that’s the point!), Metamorphabet is a chance to poke, prod, and explore letters to trigger different animations and learn the different sounds they make. The A, for example, will grow antlers, amble, and finally form an arch.

This is the living, breathing, 21st century reimagining of how Sesame Street taught you your ABC’s. Sure it would be weird to buy this if you’re not a parent… but if you’d happily sit through the PBS mornings of your youth again regardless, you’ll be delighted to digest what Metamorphabet has to offer.

Download on the App Store
4. Galactic Keep

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Can an indie RPG really live up to six years worth of anticipation? If that game is Galactic Keep, the answer is a bonafide yes.

Originally announced in 2009 (and delayed a few times since), Galactic Keep hit the App Store this year and delivered on everything the team at Gilded Skull Games had promised. A tabletop-inspired RPG complete with grid-paper environments, dice rolling and tokens for characters, Galactic Keep is wrapped tightly in the sort of perfect sci-fi story that only a true Dungeon Master can weave. The writing in Galactic Keep is spectacular, and the battles are brutally hard (though if you opt out of Hardcore Mode, deaths won’t be permanent).

Best of all, it’s all draped in the fantastic, retro art style we’ve come to love from Gilded Skull. If you like colors that pop and monsters that stun, Galactic Keep is like a painting of your teenage tabletop years come to life.

Download on the App Store
3. Guitar Hero Live

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Last year Activision made our best iPad games list by flawlessly bringing the console release of Skylanders Trap Team to the iPad. Now they’ve made our round-up for the second year in a row; this time bringing the revival of the Guitar Hero franchise to the App Store. But as great as it is to play the guitarless “tap” version of Guitar Hero Live on the iPhone, you really need an iPad and a plastic six-string to get the proper experience.

In addition to the sort of gameplay you’ve come to expect from the franchise, you’ll now be playing alongside a band captured in full-motion video that reacts to your performance. Play well and they’re all smiles and high fives. Play poorly, and you’re less than a roadie in their eyes. The same goes for your adoring / abhorring audience.

Guitar Hero Live also features a 24 hours music video station that you can jam along too, bringing back the golden era of MTV without any of those pesky VJs.

Download on the App Store
2. Sid Meier’s Starships

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Sid Meier’s Starships is a game you either love or hate. Considering its inclusion (and incredibly high position) on this list, it’s not hard to imagine which camp we fall into.

Starships is a game that takes place in the same universe as the current generation of Sid Meier’s Civilization games, “Beyond Earth,” which plays very much like the Civ games that came before it — but its space-faring cousin is built less on diplomacy than it is domination at the end of a laser cannon. Players will build, deploy, and coordinate fleets of starships as they battle against other factions to expand their territory.

If you’re starting to think this sounds like other space tactics games, you’re right — but Meier sets his game apart by distilling complicated concepts into user-friendly gameplay, making this a perfect entry point for fans of space and strategy, but like to keep things simple. For Starships‘ naysayers, this is the game’s biggest turn off. But for the rest of us? That’s what makes the experience so damned fun to play.

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1. Her Story

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If you haven’t played Her Story yet, it’s all too easy to pigeonhole it by the headlines you’ve read. “Oh, it’s that game that uses full motion video in 2015.” “Oh, it’s that found footage mystery thing.”

Stop what you’re doing right now and play it. Her Story is the most unique, inventive, and bone-chillingly suspenseful game this year.

Her Story offers up a faux-true crime vibe, making it an easy sell to fans of projects like Serial and Making a Murderer. To discuss the story in much detail would take away much of it’s appeal, so we’ll try to stick with the basics. You’ve gained access to an old police video database from 1994, and can search through interviews with a specific suspect in a murder case — but only by keyword. Videos can be anywhere from 5 to 50 seconds long, and every word spoken is searchable (in the context of the story, you’re technically searching the related transcripts), so you’ll need to pay close attention to try and uncover the keywords that will reveal the bits of the story that you want to know.

And you’re going to want to know all of it. Her Story is an absolutely riveting piece of fiction, and it’s told in a way that requires you to use real deduction if you want to find your way to the end. Playing detective has never seemed more real than this.（source：gamezebo.com ）