Some rather disturbing news has come out today and although this is regarding the iOS platform, the implications can easily be applied to Android as well. EA Mobile has told owners of their iOS Rock Band game that they will be pulling the plug on the game at the end of this month.
Recently one of the developers from Halfbrick decided to venture out on his own and create his own game development studio called Total ArKade Software. Their first game has finally been released onto multiple platforms including Android is called AbraWORDabra.
Tribal Wars from InnoGames has been around for awhile now and during GDC 2012 we reported that a mobile version was heading its way over to Android soon and that eventually all their in-house developed games would be coming as well.. Well now InnoGames has released a public beta version of their popular MMORTS game onto the Google Play store.
Back in the beginning of March 2012 Sega announced that their upcoming Phantasy Star Online 2 RPG would be smartphone and tablet compatible for both the iOS and Android platforms. Along with that news came word that it would be a free-to-play game supported through in-app purchases but as the game’s series producer explains, it will be done the right way.
Interesting news coming out today over the recent Zynga acquisition (which cost them $210 million) of OMGPOP and their hit game Draw Something. It seems as though, since the acquisition of OMGPOP, that Draw Something has seen a steady decline in daily usage and it is no small number.
Nevosoft, developers of the Dream Sleuth and Mysteryville hidden objects games, have released another hidden objects game onto Android called Magic Academy: Part One. Like their previous hidden objects games, Magic Academy also comes with other puzzle to solve and mini-games to complete.
Valve seems to continue their push to being a bit more mobile centric. While news is floating around about Valve getting into the mobile hardware game, their Steam service has gotten a bit more mobile friendly thanks to some new improvements.
OnLive has been pretty successful when it comes to their mobile ambitions with their release of their service onto Android devices. Other services similar to OnLive must be taking notice as Gaikai is now jumping into the mobile sphere and having their client integrated into the upcoming WikiPad Android tablet.
While we wait for the release of the actual game you can be sure that Gameloft will be feeding us a healthy dose of preview videos. This is something they like to do with their bigger releases which N.O.V.A 3 will definitely be. In this new trailer though we get to see how multiplayer gameplay unfolds.
GREE last year made headlines when they bought out OpenFeint for a cool $104 million. This year GREE has decided to make headlines again with another acquisition but this time snapping up Android game developer Funzio, creators of Crime City, for almost double what they paid for OpenFeint.
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