Amazon has announced a new expansion plan that doesn’t involve expanding their service to new countries but instead expanding their catalog of apps and games available through their app store. However these won’t be coming in the typical fashion everyone is used to and that is because these will be web applications made using languages like HTML5.
Sega launches a comeback campaign for Kingdom Conquest II, returning players offered a special prize
Sega has decided to launch a ‘comeback campaign’ for their Kingdom Conquest II title on Android and iOS. This little promotion of theirs is geared towards players who haven’t logged into the game between June 25th and July 25th, 2013. If you happen to have not played the game during that month of time, and you log into the game before September 5th, 2013, you’ll receive a rather large package called the “Super Luxurious Eleven Item Set”.
Wizards of the Coast happens to be planning a big event that is supposed to reshape the Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms world in its entirety. The company plans to do a variety of things in regards to this but the one thing that is of interest to us Android gamers is the fact that Wizards of the Coast will be bringing an official D&D Forgotten Realms game to mobile.
Yodo1 is a third-party publishing company that specializes in publishing Western smartphone games over in China. The company has announced that it will soon begin publishing select games to a global audience as well instead of their usual publishing destinations and their first game will be arriving mid-September and will be Cavemania from BonusXP.
It seems that integrating music into games on a more interactive level is becoming a rather popular thing to do as of late. Some games have done it very successfully such as Beat Hazard Ultra whose developer recently reported that the game has made over $2.2 million across all the platforms it is available on since the game’s launch. Impressive for a one-man development team. Now we have another game on the way called Pitch Jumper which uses your own music in a pretty unique way.
Red Radiant Media is a game development studio made up of former Crackdown and Bioshock developers and they happen to be gearing up to release a new game soon onto Android called Planet Rush. This particular game is a joint effort between Red Radiant Media and Hunted Cow and is inspired by those old school arcade ‘defend your planet from aliens’ type of game.
Crescent Moon Games has another title on the way aside from the Doom-style FPS game that they will be publishing soon. This other game is an interesting looking one called Mines of Mars and it seems to take cues from other titles such as Metroid and Motherlode. So what exactly is Mines of Mars all about?
For those of you out there in Android land who always happen to be on the lookout for new and unique games, there is a new title now available on Google Play that will probably do a good job feeding that need of yours for something new and different to sink your time into. Developed by Rezoner, QbQbQb is a minimalistic falling blocks game which incorporates music into the mix.
Back in May we were reporting on a really great looking MMORTS that was slated to be published by DeNA onto their Mobage social gaming platform called Apoc Wars. Developed by Gloops, this game has a sort of futuristic Borderlands feel to it in regards to the visuals and it is actually pretty close to a proper RTS style of game.
Gameloft looks like they are gearing up to release their next installment into the NFL Pro series of games they currently have. Officially called NFL Pro 2014, Gameloft has begun teasing this upcoming game with a new gameplay trailer as well as letting loose some details about this new football game.