There are plenty of mobile game development studios that get created every day and of all sizes, from the two-man team hoping to make it big with their indie title to sudden 100 staff member teams forming their own companies. So when there is news of a new studio floating around it is unusual, mostly in a good way, and that is the case with a new company called Nuclear Division. So what is unusual, or newsworthy, about this company? The fact that it is being created by the co-founder of the Call Of Duty franchise and Titanfall.
Day: 30 April 2014
[Updated] The next Modern Combat game from Gameloft has an official title now, storyline details released
Gameloft has finally let the cat out of the bag in regards to the next installment into their Modern Combat franchise, announcing the new game’s official name as well as details regarding the storyline. So what is the official name of this new Modern Combat game? It will be called Modern Combat 5: Blackout.
The original arcade hero is back in Pac-Man Monsters the new puzzle RPG from Gree and Namco Banai
Alright Pac fans the Pac-Man is back for a new adventure on Android and iOS. This time he is staring in a new puzzle game with Pokemon style collecting and Puzzle Quest type combat with some great stylized art. You lead a party of Pac People and Monsters (including Ghosts) to help restore Pac Land to its rightful order after a new evil force invades.
Perfect World announces their new 3D MMORPG called Dawn of the Immortals, pre-registration now live
PC MMO game publisher Perfect World recently broke into the mobile gaming industry with the release of Elemental Kingdom onto Android. Now Perfect World has announced their newest game slated for release onto Google Play soon called Dawn of the Immortals and while Elemental Kingdom was a TCG style of MMO game, this new one is a full-fledged 3D MMORPG.
Indie developer Michael Olp has been working on his new game for Android called Blockadillo and it appears that it is getting closer to release onto Google Play. Blockadillo is an interesting looking physics-based puzzle games where players must figure out how to solve each stage, clearing the colored block from it before moving on to the next stage.
Important job opening update, Mecha indie Android store developer registration now open and more
Last week we posted an open invitation for anyone interested in getting in on becoming a part of the DroidGamers team as a nighttime / weekend writer to submit their applications via email. Needless to say there was a huge response to this. In fact there were so many applications submitted for the two positions that we had announced as being available that we’ve decided to make five opening available instead of just two.
We all know there are those out there that are looking for a way to play your Android games or run your apps on a bigger screen. There are a few options currently for running Android on your desktop using BlueStacks and YouWave (or Splashtop depending on how you want to do it) but now there is another choice, Andy.
Rovio profits drop by almost half but this isn’t the beginning of the end for Angry Bird publisher
On Monday Rovio published its most recent revenue statement for all of the company’s profits. Up until now the company has reported huge profits thanks to their Angry Bird franchise and all the games under that umbrella (including Bad Pigges and other spin-offs) as well as games published under the company’s third party publishing brand Rovio Stars. However this new revenue report shows the company’s profits slashed by almost half.