It’s been quite a while since we’ve had reason to talk about Rayark’s Implosion – Never Lose Hope (Free), but more than 4 years after its last update a new update has arrived today adding support for all the newer mobile device screen sizes and resolutions as well as a few other goodies. Implosion has been near and dear to my heart ever since I first laid eyes on it way back in September of 2013. Implosion was a character action game with a sci-fi motif and bad ass mech-based combat, and it really looked to buck the trends that the App Store and mobile gaming were heading towards at the time. This was a full-blown, high production value affair designed explicitly for mobile, and it was aimed at a more hardcore gaming audience as opposed to the more casual mainstream. Tt was also selling for a one-time purchase price of $9.99, which was (and still is) considered on the high side in the world of mobile. It was the type of game I always envisioned being made for mobile devices had the “race to the bottom" mentality and free to play monetization strategy not strangled the entire industry.
I digress. Hype for Implosion was through the roof following that 2013 announcement, and that hype only grew as the game was delayed a few different times, missing its intended 2014 release window and finally arriving on iOS in April of 2015. And boy was the wait worth it. Implosion was everything I had hoped it would be and more, and it earned an eas...