For those of you participating in the beta testing group for Minecraft: Pocket Edition, there is a new version available for download today. This update, which is tagged as version 0.11.0 beta 6, comes with two new features and a bunch of bug fixes. Are there skin packs yet? No would be the answer to that question. However, you will want to update your copy of MCPE beta anyways.
Day: 22 April 2015
Creative Mobile has released a new Nitro Nation game onto Android a few days ago called Nitro Nation Stories. Unlike the first Nitro Nation game, which was an online title, this new one is an offline game that players can partake in.
Released by indie developers from Vancouver, Kaiju-a-go-go is a game where players use a 100 foot tall robotic monster, and attempt world domination. Players assume the role of Norman E. Farious (N.E.Farious) who is the mad scientist that created the monster, aptly named Ginormasaurus.
From the creators of King’s League: Odyssey comes Tiny Guardians, a strategy tower defense game with a twist, the twist being the absence of towers to defend. Tiny Guardians puts you in charge of Lunalie, who is embarking on a journey through the wilderness of Prism in search of her missing aunt, the Sorceress and you’ll get to summon among 12 guardian classes, with 4 upgradable levels each to help you on your adventure.
All of you Nvidia Shield Tablet and Shield Portable owners out there in Android land who have been waiting patiently for Android 5.1 to arrive, there is some good news today. Nvidia has confirmed that the Android 5.1 update for both Shield devices will be arriving soon. This announcement came by way of a post on the Nvidia community forums by an administrator.
Back near the end of March 2015 we reported on HTC and the fact that they would be offering developers a chance to apply for a free Vive Developer Edition virtual reality headset which they can use to develop games for. The only thing that developers were waiting for was to have HTC launch their official website that developers would be using to sign-up for the headset.
Konami brings Contra to Star Wars with a new themed mini-game as part of their Star Wars: Force Collection update
Konami has brought a little Star Wars love to Contra with a new Star Wars themed mini-game that has now gone live today. If you are a fan of either franchise, you will want to check this out, especially if you like anything related to Chewbacca, since the big hairy beast is the main character of this new mini-game.
Rovio Stars recently releases Sky Punks onto Google Play a couple of weeks ago and they are already following it up with another release today, this time it is a game called Plunder Pirates. As the name of tis game suggests, Plunder Pirates is all about plundering the goods of other captains/pirates, which can be either computer controlled or another player.
Earlier this month we reported on Zenonia S getting a second closed beta round of testing. Well this new round of beta testing is now live as of yesterday and if you were in the first closed beta round then you are already accepted into this new one. Regardless if you were in the first round or are a new beta tester, it appears that a fresh install is required.
While only residents of a select few regions can play Mortal Kombat X on Android right now, another game has launched globally instead. After a couple rounds of closed beta testing, and a two week early release in select regions as well, Dungeon Link is now available for everyone. This also means that if you pre-registered for this game, or happened to be in the closed betas, should have already received your reward codes and can now redeem them if you haven’t already.