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.
Author: AndrewH
The ‘Wild West’ style of Google Play is ending, Google will be reviewing apps developers upload
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.
We haven’t posted about a game from Herocraft in some time but today changes that with the announcement of World of Dungeons, a new game Herocraft is currently developing. This game is a little different than what you might expect from Herocraft who has made such games as the Majesty and Farm Frenzy franchises.
Fish Labs popular Galaxy on Fire: Alliances title has received an update called Disrupting the Nebula which, according to the developers, is the biggest update in the history of the game to date. The official version number is 1.12 and brings with it a “plethora of enhancements, adjustments and extensions”.
The developers behind a pair of rather addictive games, called Madfist and Madfist Retro, have decided to release free versions of each one onto Google Play. Both versions offer up the game for free with ads supporting each one.
AdWatch Tournament Edition is a game about watching ads and has no actual gameplay… which is actually the game
Enjoy watching ads but hate the fact that you have to play a mobile game in order to enjoy wondrous mobile ads? If that sounds like something you deal with on a regular basis than you should be happy to know that there is now an Android game that gives you all of the joys of watching ads without the need to play a game. Welcome to AdWatch Tournament Edition.
[GDC 2015] Interview with Niantic Labs about their upcoming alternate reality title Endgame: Proving Ground
One of the stories from GDC 2015 we had to sit on was our interview with Niantic Labs about their upcoming title called Endgame. Well today we can finally talk about everything including a bit of the gameplay we saw for Endgame: Proving Grounds. For those of you not familiar with these developers, Niantic Labs are the folks behind the rather unique location-based game Ingress. So what is Endgame: Proving Grounds about? We sat down with Niantic Labs during GDC 2015 to find out all about it.
MiniDrivers is a rather unique racing game that is now available for Android devices. Developed by Ivanovich Games, MiniDrivers has players taking control of a Formula 1 race car as you try to become the world champion. While this doesn’t sound overly unique, more like a typical racing game, things do get a bit interesting in this title because you can change the rules.
Madfinger Games announced their next title just before GDC 2015 started and it was another zombie shooter called Unkilled. The company was on hand at the Unity booth at GDC 2015 showing off a technical demo of Unkilled which we decided to swing by in order to get a little hands-on time with the early build of Unkilled that they had on display.









