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The Room Three hits iOS, Android in Spring 2015
It must be Christmas for fans of cleverly designed virtual puzzles, as developer Fireproof Games has just announced a third entry in its critically-beloved, best-selling series The Room. "Also today we're officially announcing this ol' game: The Room Three," reads a tweet from Fireproof co-founder Barry Meade. Meade's message is accompanied by the image above stating that The Room Three will be available on iOS and Android devices in Spring of 2015. Unfortunately, that's the extent of what Fireproof is currently willing to say about the game. On a more positive note, anyone who has yet to play The Room or The Room Two can grab either excellent game for very little money. The Room is available on iOS and Android for $1, while its sequel can be found on iOS and Android for $3. [Image: Fireproof Games]
The Room opens up to Steam next week
The Room will launch on PC via Steam on July 28, Fireproof Games announced this week. The PC edition of the game is a "fully-enhanced HD version," which the developer said has been "many months in the making and has involved recreating almost every asset in the game from the ground up." Fireproof's puzzler launched on iOS in September 2012, arriving on Android in March 2013 before achieving two million total downloads in May of last year. The game's sequel, aptly dubbed The Room 2, carried on the lock-breaking mystery in December. As for a third game in the series, Fireproof Games only noted that "all we can say is stay tuned." Head past the break for a video comparing the visuals of The Room's mobile and PC versions. [Image: Fireproof Games]
Humble Mobile Bundle 5 explores The Room 2, The Cave, and more
Humble Bundle is back with another serving of high-profile Android games, featuring Double Fine's The Cave, Fireproof Games' The Room 2 and other standout apps in the newly launched Humble Mobile Bundle 5. Pay at least $1 and you'll get Crescent Moon Games' action-RPG Aralon: Sword and Shadow, Hidden Variable's grocery-bagging puzzler Bag It!, and an Android port of Irem's classic arcade shooter R-Type 2. The Room 2, The Cave, and Carcassonne are available for buyers who beat the bundle's average purchase price (currently under $4), and more games will be added at a later date. Humble Mobile Bundle 5 will be available through April 29. [Video: Humble Bundle]
The Room series unlocks sales of 5.4 million copies
Indie developer Fireproof Games has revealed that the two entries in its gorgeously designed mobile puzzle game, The Room and its sequel, The Room 2, have sold more than 5.4 million copies to date. "[T]oday Fireproof received word The Room Two has sold 1.2m," tweeted Fireproof Games co-founder Barry Meade. "Combined with The Room we're at 5.4m sales over 14 months." Following this revelation, Meade ruminated on the unorthodox path Fireproof took to reach this impressive milestone. "[T]his all happened without Fireproof spending any money on marketing or PR or analysts or analytics," Meade wrote. "We had no experience of mobile, we made it up as we went along, our game wasn't a service & we believed in gamer word of mouth." Finally, Meade left his Twitter followers with something of a moral to this story. "[M]aybe what mobile games needs is less databollocks and more devs who believe in gamers & what gamers want." If you're now suddenly curious about The Room and its sequel, pay a visit to Fireproof's website. There you'll find everything you need to grab a copy for your mobile device of choice. [Image: Fireproof Games]
The Room 2 opens the door to Android
Fireproof Games has made good on its promise to port its puzzle sequel, The Room 2, over to Android before Valentine's Day. You can download the Android version right now for $3 from Google Play and Amazon. The Room 2 is a physics-based puzzle game where players explore unnerving locations while following clues left behind by a mysterious scientist. With only the scientist's letters to guide them, players must interact with a variety of 3D objects through touch-based controls and unlock their secrets in order to progress and solve the mystery. The Room 2 launched last year on iPad before being ported to the iPhone last month. The first game won Apple's iPad Game of the Year award and has sold more than 2 million units. [Image: Fireproof Games]
The Room 2 hits iPhone this Thursday, Android by Valentine's Day
Fireproof Games will launch The Room 2 on iPhone this Thursday and will arrive on Android "on or before" February 14, the developer confirmed to Pocket Gamer. Fireproof supplemented the news with a tweet today that the Android version will be out "within three weeks." The Room 2 first landed on iPad in December. Smaller iOS device holders will need either an iPhone 4S or fifth-gen iPod Touch or better to crack the game's puzzles. The developer also added via Twitter that it doesn't have plans to support Windows Phone at the moment.
Twenty developers you don't know, but should
Between consoles, PC, mobile and everything in between, there are so many games released today that it's impossible to keep up with everything that's coming out – and it's even harder to keep up with the studios behind them. Even with a gaming public that's grown accustomed to following big developers like Valve and small studios like Double Fine, countless other studios slide under the radar. In the interest of sifting a signal from the noise, the Joystiq crew has selected 20 developers that deserve your attention. These studios are making games you should play, and their future work should be highly anticipated. This list is by no means exhaustive, and we invite you to share your own favorites in the comments!
Unlock The Room 2 on iPad today, play the original for free
Normally news of a second The Room would tear us apart, Lisa, but this is Fireproof Games' follow-up to last year's mysterious, acclaimed puzzler, and it's out right now. You, Lisa, and everyone else can enter The Room 2 on iPad, provided you have the key - the key being $5 spare in your App Store wallet. iPhone and Android users will have to sit and wait outside The Room 2, as it won't unlock on their devices until sometime next year. The game's App Store description doesn't give too much away in terms of plot, asking players to "follow a trail of cryptic letters from an enigmatic scientist known only as 'AS' into a compelling world of mystery and exploration." It doesn't require a detective to work out that fans of the first game can expect more elaborate mysteries to decipher and plenty more fiddly locks to open, all rendered in a tactile 3D engine. Fireproof will be hoping to repeat the success of the first game, which picked up Apple's iPad Game of the Year award and sold over 2 million units. To celebrate the second game's release, Fireproof is making The Room free on the App Store for a limited time.
The Room 2 puzzles players on iPad in December, Android in 2014
Indie developer Fireproof Games plots a December release for its iPad puzzler The Room 2, with iPhone and Android launches scheduled for next year. Released last September, The Room is a tactile puzzle game in which players examine 3D objects affixed with complex locking mechanisms. Success hinges on the player's ability to observe weaknesses in these security systems, which grow trickier as new puzzle layers are uncovered. The Room 2 will hit the iTunes App Store on December 12 for $4.99.
The Room unlocks 2 million sales
The Room has cracked 2 million sales since its launch in September 2012. Speaking at the Game Horizon conference in the UK, Fireproof Studios Commercial Director Barry Meade revealed the new milestone. The iOS and Android puzzler hit 1 million sales in January, shortly after earning Apple's iPad Game of the Year award. Meade put down the ex-Criterion devs' success to The Room being featured on Apple's store, and this generating word of mouth. He also noted originality as significant. "We did not want to do a better version of someone else's game, or an update of a genre," Meade told the audience at Game Horizon. "We thought we're not doing our jobs properly if we don't add to what's out there. As a game creator that's your responsibility. If you're not doing that, if you're chasing what other people are doing, you don't deserve success because you're not showing respect to the audience." Interior detectives can look forward to The Room getting a sequel this fall, with a free chapter due beforehand.
The Room opens up for Android end of summer, a sequel this fall
Fireproof Games has announced a sequel to its iOS safe-crackin' sim The Room, coming later this year – not to be confused with that other room. "A new, more spectacular setting to continue the story," the announcement tweet promises. A free chapter will be released this summer, leading into the launch of the sequel in the fall.Fireproof Games also promises an Android version of The Room, slated to launch on the platform "by the end of the summer." The Room is currently available for $1.99 on the iPad – or in The Room Pocket, a free version available for iPhone 4, fourth generation iPad devices and above.
