Back in the beginning of February we talked about a rather cool looking minimalistic puzzle game that would be heading our way this month called PUK. Developed by Laser Dog, PUK puts players into a rather unique looking game with orange and white visuals and rather fast-paced gameplay.
Gameloft’s UK Twitter account posted a pretty interesting picture on their account along with the phrase “Warming up main core..” accompanying the picture. The picture itself simply shows to electric blow eyes glowing in a black background and unless you’ve been under a rock for the past few years then you’ll probably instantly recognize the eyes as those that belong to Iron Man.
GDC 2013 has just started and Qualcomm has announced that the company has teamed up with Unity, the makers of the Unity3D engine, in a development partnership which brings to the table better optimization for Qualcomm Snapdragon-based devices for developers when making their games using the Unity3D engine.
A few months ago Kairosoft release their highly anticipated Ninja Village to the Japanese Play Store and and made us drool over Ninja warfare in Japanese. It is now 2 months later and true to from Kairosoft has just released the English translated version to the masses. For those of you who are not familiar with Kairosoft it is a company that releases city management style games (some of them with a flare of combat others with out) done in a lighthearted cute pixel-art format. In the case of Ninja Village your job is to lead you Ninja Clan and unite Japan.
This past January, the young Hong Kong-based startup, Phonejoy, publicly displayed their first Kickstarter project, the Phonejoy Play, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Frustrated by the lack of adequate Android gaming hardware, the duo of Martin and Alex founded Phonejoy in 2011 and set out to create the best gamepad for Android devices. In doing so, they created the original Phonejoy (or Phonejoy Analog), a Bluetooth controller for Android devices. Executing on what others had failed to do at the time.
OUYA is nearing its official launch date, at least for backers of the rather successful Kickstarter campaign it had, with units slated to ship out on March 28th, 2013 to those who backed the appropriate level to receive an early unit. It appears that plenty of emulators are being worked on for the Android-powered console, most of which are Nintendo-based emulators.
Angry Mob Games have decided to make a video that is a bit of a walkthrough their newest games Alien vs Predator: Evolution. This walkthrough video is geared towards beginners of the game who may not be familiar with the whole storyline of the Alien vs Predator universe.
It’s time for another round-up of all the sales going on right now for Android games. Since we have a moment to breath from all the PAX related stuff coming at us from every angle, we figured this would be a good time to get word out to you, our readers, about all the deals going on right now for Android games.
Things are going strong over at PAX East 2013 and Gameloft is showcasing the next addition to the Dungeon Hunter series, appropriately named Dungeon Hunter 4, and now we have some additional details regarding the game that have come out during PAX East. Battle arenas are still in the game but are not the main focal point in this new game.
PAX East 2013 is well under way now and plenty of gaming news is flowing out of this year’s event. The creative minds behind the rather twisted version of Oregon Trail, called Organ Trail, have announced a new game that they are working on and it is a rather uniquely themed shmup called Wizards & Warp Drives.