This is my first aritcle that’s not a game review, so bare with me while I find my feet. Recently I’ve been thinking about where gaming on android is headed. Now when the Tegra 2 chipsets hit a vast array of devices, a lot of people weren’t too happy as it was thought it would add to the fragmentation that already exists in Android.
Day: 14 December 2011
NeonPlay has finally brought their 3D traffic control game called Traffic Panic 3D over onto the Android Market. This is a great new take on the traffic control genre where, just like other similar games, you want to keep the traffic organized to avoid and collisions.
Wildbit Studios is giving players of Paper Zombie a chance to earn up to $70 worth of free zCash this holiday season in a promotion where you just have to share/invite your friends to play the game. In other words you can get up to 19,000 in free zCash, not too shabby.
Best Buy and Hooked Media have apparently teamed up to host an Android game developer contest called Get Discovered!. The contest is pretty simply really and apparently the only real work you will have to do is use the Hooked SDK in a new game of yours which will integrate Hooked Media’s new discovery platform with your game.
What would you do if you where an alien that’s just made it to planet earth… that’s right, goes around abducting every living thing in sight. Packed full of hostile humans, you have to survive long enough to carry out all the missions set for you by your home planet!
At the time of its injunction, mobile gaming has bunkered on lowest level of video game caste system. Regarded worthwhile only to pass the time while waiting on line, cell phone games have been casually dismissed by hard core gamers as time wasters. Not fit to fly under the banner of video games, cell phone games also felt the same discrimination from their mobile cousins, the Nintendo and Sony handhelds.
Yesterday we reported on a rather cool looking FPS game from Craneballs Studios called Overkill. Since we posted about it a lot of people had been wondering why it wasn’t compatible on their particular device(s) and were unable to play it. Here is an update regarding that.
Considering all the weirdness that seems to be following the Transformer Prime quad-core Android tablet release with things like delays and pre-orders being cancelled, it seems things could be getting back on track, at least over at Amazon as there is a new 64GB model up for pre-orders.
Barely 24 hours after posting that PopCap’s two hit games, Peggle and Plants vs Zombies, happen to be on their way to the Android Market they actually show up and are now available for download. Up until now both games had been exclusive to the Amazon App Store.
We only have two days left of this ten day promo from Google to celebrate passing the 10 billion downloads mark on the Android Market. Today is Day 9 and we have all new apps and games available for a mere dime and today’s selection is pretty good.