An indie developer has posted a new game over on the XDA forums based off the FPS (first-person shooter) game Counter-Strike. Some people may call it a port but it really is a game built from the ground up using Unity3D that happens to use some of the Counter-Strike assets.
Day: 20 January 2012
HeyZap has announced today that it has expanded it’s partnerships by adding 12 new major game developers to their list of partners. For those of you unfamiliar with what HeyZap is, it is a mobile game network where you can check-in with games you play, similar to services like Foursqaure, and share them with friends.
Good news for all you Resident Evil fans out there, LG has brought Resident Evil 4 over to Android. Yes we do mean LG has brought it to Android, not Capcom. Now you can get all excited for a minute, go ahead, we will wait until you are done.
Seems like Minecraft addicts also like crafting on the go. Mojang’s Minecraft: Pocket Edition reached a whopping 700,000 downloads in a span of two months. Developer Daniel Kaplan revealed in a tweet the astounding number of the combined download for both iOS and Android.
We are not exactly sure why companies decide to randomly come out and speak against certain things but the latest to do so is Namco Bandai. For some particular reason they have come out to speak against the Freemium business model that is currently gaining a lot of momentum on Android.
Mobile gamers eager to get additional information on Madfinger Games’ Shadowgun multiplayer serving are in luck. In an interview with PocketGamer, Marek Rubas (co-founder), shed some light on the upcoming online frag fest (yes it will include grenades) title.
If you have been in the Android scene for any amount of time then you have probably heard of CyanogenMod or ClockworkMod. Well a member of the CyanogenMod team, a rather well known member of the Android community, “Koush” has announced he is developing an alternative Android Market for banned applications.
It seems that Rovio has no plans in stopping the onslaught of Angry Birds for the New Year. In celebration of Chinese New Year, Rovio has released an update to their cash printing hit, Angry Birds Season, aptly named “Year of the Dragon”.
Another quad-core Android device has decided to show up today, this time coming from LG. Currently we know of two quad-core devices in the works, one of which is from Fujitsu which we played with at CES 2012, and the second rumored to be from HTC. Now we have a third which is coming from LG called the X3.