Developer Pixelbite’s Space Marshals games are some of the very best mobile-original premium games around. I mean, we are spoiled when it comes to mobile ports of great games from other platforms, and there’s plenty of smaller-scale original games on mobile that feel like they kept things toned down simply because they’re mobile games. But both Space Marshals ($3.99) and Space Marshals 2 ($4.99) feel like the sort of games that would have been huge hits on something like the PSP, and you wouldn’t have batted an eye paying 30 bucks a pop for each one if this was circa 2006. Unfortunately the mobile market has evolved in such a way that it’s tough for developers to spend time and resources creating “core" gaming experiences made specifically for mobile when they’re very likely not going to get a return on that investment. Well Pixelbite is still out there fighting the good fight, and they’ve announced that a Space Marshals 3 is not only in development, but its first chapter is complete and should be launching later this month. Here’s a screen!
You can find a bunch more screenshots of Space Marshals 3 over on Pixelbite’s blog post announcing the game, as well as an explanation of the pay model of this entry. You may remember that the original Space Marshals was episodic, but you paid for the whole game upfront and got the first chapter while both chapter 2 and 3 were released as free updates later on. Sp...