A new Humble Bundle is out and this time it is a combination of PC and Android games. Humble PC & Android Bundle 12 features a total of seven games you could possibly get depending on what you pay for this particular bundle, with three of the games currently available making a debut on Android.
Day: 17 March 2015
Madfinger Games has a little St. Patrick’s Day sale for a couple of their classic titles, both updated with Android TV support as well
Madfinger Games has decided to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by hosting a sale on some of their classic games on Google Play. On top of that, both of their classic games that are going on sale have also been updated today with improved optimization and performance on newer Android devices as well as Android TV support.
Earlier this morning Nintendo and DeNA announced a partnership where the two companies would be working together to bring Nintendo IPs to mobile gamers. These will be coming in the form of completely new games that will be based off of currently existing IPs like Super Mario Bros. on their other platforms. Part of that announcement also was about a new multi-membership service that will be built.
Google has announced that they will begin using the industry standard for age ratings on Android games on Google Play. This means Android games will now have a rating similar to the ESRB rating system which is currently used to rate games on PC and console.
There is a decent amount of news coming from Google today and there is a reason for that, Google I/O 2015 registration begins this morning at 9:00am PDT. However, before you go bananas with the reload button, trying to get your ticket before the site crashes or they are sold out in 10 minutes, which happens every year, Google will be doing things a bit differently this year.
One thing that has always been great about Google Play is that developers can immediate publish their applications and games right to the market without any wait time at all. The same goes for updates that need to be pushed to their existing apps and games. However that appears to be changing now with Google announcing that they will begin reviewing apps and games to uncover any violations (TOS violations, inappropriate content, rating violations etc etc) and malware.
Breaking news is coming out of Tokyo this morning as Nintendo has announced that the company has teamed up with DeNA to bring games to smartphones and tablets. On top of that, the agreement is also to build a new multi-membership service accessible worldwide.