As pretty much everyone knows by now, Angry Birds Epic is a turn-based title featuring the birds that are always angry. However many people have questions about how this gameplay will be and unless you’re in the soft launch locations, you won’t get to play the game until its global release.
Day: 17 March 2014
Gameloft is the first company to add TwitchTV live streaming to their games – 24hr stream ensues
TwitchTV annoucned recently that they were releasing an SDK where mobile game developers could use it to add the ability to stream live gameplay from within mobile games. While it is already possible to stream to TwitchTV with mobile games, its a real pain in the ass to set up for the most part. This new SDK allows the functionality to be built right into mobile games.
Amazon is celebrating the third birthday of their Appstore just as anyone else would who runs a marketplace, put a bunch of games and applications on sale. In this game there are some pretty good title available at up to 60% off their normal prices. Amazon’s actual birthday is March 22nd but they are having sales to celebrate it over the next 2 weeks.
A new hybrid game is heading to Android tablets soon called Card Hunter. This little game is a mash-up of CCG (Card Collecting Game) and a board game which is currently being developed by a company called DropForge and has been under development for almost a year already.
A developer going by the name of Tricore has released a video showing how to achieve remote multi-touch using your Android devices and the Mad Catz MOJO game console. This is done through the use of tweaking a few settings on the Mad Catz MOJO console (rooted I believe) and Tricore’s keymapper which is apparently still in development.
Google has announced today that Google Play Games will be getting support for multiplayer gaming cross-platform with iOS devices. This means that developers on Android that also make iOS games and have multiplayer gameplay can now mesh the two platforms and their player bases together.