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You can blame Beau Hindman from Massively for this article and most likely my possible disappearance for the next few hours. After watching his live streaming of Gameloft's Order and Chaos, he had to go and post an article detailing a new application for mobile devices that, aside from being productive, will let you play games on your mobile device from your PC. We have been hearing for awhile about PopCap bringing some of their big games over to Android. Two specifically mentioned, and highly wanted, games are Peggle and Plants vs Zombies. We have heard and reported on numerous occasions different time lines from PopCap. It seems we now have a bit more of a definitive answer. I'm not sure if anyone out there who watches Adult Swim can actually say they don't like Adult Swim and all of their shows, or at least a majority of them. Adult Swim also has mobile games, one of which is already out on iOS and is coming to Android tomorrow. What game is this? Why it is Robot Unicorn Attack! Just to round off Adobe's recent update to Flash which is providing Honeycomb support and performance improvements for non-Honeycomb Android devices, Adobe Air just had its update released onto the Android Market this morning as well. Included in this update is Honeycomb support, so all your XOOM owners should be happy now. All you XOOM owners have been looking forward to this day, probably since you got your tablets. Well the wait is now over and you'll be able to enjoy Flash on your snazzy dual-core XOOM tablets and play flash games online or through the Kongregate Arcade App which now supports Honeycomb as well! There are other features as well though. Kongregate's Arcade application that allows you to play over 400+ flash games from the mega gaming site on your Android device has just updated their app to include support for Honeycomb. This means that you XOOM owners will be able to play all those flash games on your nice 10.1" screens once you receive you Flash update. We reported on a nifty little app that helps you play online Flash games a little over a week ago. Essentially it would allow you to load any Flash game onto your Android phone from your SD Card, direct URL or the developers 2D Tsunami database and play it like it was actually made for your Android device with much better controls. The other week Kongregate, the internet's biggest community Flash gaming site, released their much awaited Arcade app for Android onto the market, only to have it pulled off within hours by Google. The reason? It was in violation of the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement because the app itself was distributing other apps. Our friends over at Kongregate, one of the biggest sites for playing high quality Flash games, released an app the other day called the Kongregate Arcade App. This was to give all us Android gamers access to over 300+ Flash games to play on our Android devices. Unfortunately, a few hours later it was pulled off the Android Market. A while back when everyone was jumping on the Flash games support bandwagon when Flash was announced to be available on Android, one of the major Flash game companies, PopCap, announced it would be supporting/converting games for Android. Plants vs Zombies and Peggle were the first two to arrive for Android devices. A few weeks back we reported on the beta for Full Tilt Poker's mobile game of Rush Poker coming to Android. Well it has now been officially released for public consumption onto the Android Market. This will allow you to play Rush Poker on your Android phone and win money... or lose it, depending on how good you are at poker. Sony's listed another Android job posting and it may be related to the last. Could it be improvement on previous products or ones we don't know about yet? Is it cross platform integration we've been hearing about for a while or maybe something we've never considered. DroidGamers speculates. PopCap must be feeling a bit of pressure regarding the mobile gaming scene, specifically regarding Android. While other flash gaming sites have jumped on board with Android with full support, PopCap seems to have fallen behind after their initial announcement of supporting flash gaming on Android. Today they announced some good news though.
With NVIDIA's newest mobile platform, launching later in the year for phones and tablet devices developer support continues to appear strong for the promising new, graphics heavy platform. Developer SouthPeak Interactive has announced multiple games to take full advantage of the newer, more powerful mobile chipset. Adobe Max 2010 is currently underway and some of the announcements that came out of today already have been some major goodies and could mean a lot when it comes to gaming on your Android phone. While detailed information is still currently being released here are some things you might want to drool over while you wait. We are seeing a lot more quality games being released onto the Android Market on an almost daily basis now. Some built normally, while others are 3D and more still using AIR. Alchemist II is one of those built using AIR that is a high quality puzzle game with an adaptive AI that will adjust to how you play the game. Ready to use that brain of yours? So you're rocking the Flash player on your Android phone and you've got Adobe AIR installed as well, but what now? There isn't a whole lot of selection just yet regarding games. Well, luckily for you, we here at DroidGamers spend way too much time sifting through the games section of the Android Market and testing out games so we can recommend (or not recommend) them to you. This is literally one of the crazier projects I've come across in a long time in gaming. Question: What do you get when you combine Flash Player, Unity3D, Google Maps? A browser based wicked looking Flash game that uses real world maps/locations. Throw an Android phone into the mix and now you have portable F1 3D racing in any real city. Although the iPhone recently announced it will more then likely be supporting Flash soon (surprise surprise), Kongregate has long supported gaming on mobile phones since the idea of Flash on Android came to light and was one of the first sites to make their games playable on Android devices. Well now developers have a chance to win part of almost $30,000 in prizes! With Froyo on it's way to a Android 2.1 phone near you, Flash gaming is on the way which we have talked about multiple times already. The test release of Froyo and Flash 10.1 beta gave us the ability to test it out a bit. Kongregate already mentioned that they will support Android 2.2 as have other sites including Popcap but today they came right out and officially announced it. Myself, along with probably every other developer and Android site, got an email today inviting us to join in on the Adobe Air pre-release. I've taken a bit of time to look through everything and I have to say it is pretty impressive, of course speaking in a strictly gaming aspect. When signed in to the pre-release program you have access to the beta Air 2.5 SDK with Android support. So you are one of the lucky people to have gotten Froyo onto your Nexus One, downloaded Flash 10.1 Beta and want to check out flash gaming through your Android browser but when it comes time to go to any specific site, you are left wondering if it's compatible. Have no fear, Droid Gamers is here to help you with a list of sites supporting flash Android gaming. With the recent news surfacing about Android 2.2 (Froyo) already being tested live, thanks to some statistics posted by Taylor over at Android and Me, the question for all us game fans that arises is pretty obvious: What does this mean for gaming with Android devices? This is a good question especially since the recent update to the Android NDK. |