Indie developers who are working on their games and want to have their next title available on Playstation platforms have a little bit more flexibility now as Sony will allow for game to be sold to customers even if the title is in an Alpha stage of development. Normally buying into a game that is in an alpha stage wouldn’t be something people would normally want to do, say 10 years ago or even 7 years ago, but now it’s a more widely accepted practice, especially after the success of Minecraft.
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The second day of GDC 2013 is starting and to kick things off Verizon has announced that they will be pre-loading a games portal style application onto future Android phones that are on the carrier. This games portal will be powered by their social mobile gaming hub and will apparently arrive on phones starting in Q3 2013.
Rovio announced through MTV’s Multiplayer Blog, for some reason, the next episode that would be arriving for Angry Birds Star Wars which will be called Cloud City. This update will bring with it around 20 new levels to work your way through as well as additional new hazards and mechanics that players will have to deal with.
Qualcomm’s in-house game development studio called Snapdragon Game Studio has released a follow-up to their Reign of Amir game called Reign of Amir: The Lost Kingdom. As you are probably guessing, this follow-up title is also exclusive to Android devices with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 (or better) chipsets inside them.
There is an interesting new game out on Google Play called Spider: Secret of Bryce Manor. This game, which was developed by Tiger Style, blends an adventure game with that of an action-puzzle title to form a rather unique hybrid of a game. In this game, you’ll be playing as a rather inquisitive spider who, while trying to get himself a meal, stumbles onto an abandon mansion.
Back in the beginning of February we talked about a rather cool looking minimalistic puzzle game that would be heading our way this month called PUK. Developed by Laser Dog, PUK puts players into a rather unique looking game with orange and white visuals and rather fast-paced gameplay.
Gameloft’s UK Twitter account posted a pretty interesting picture on their account along with the phrase “Warming up main core..” accompanying the picture. The picture itself simply shows to electric blow eyes glowing in a black background and unless you’ve been under a rock for the past few years then you’ll probably instantly recognize the eyes as those that belong to Iron Man.
GDC 2013 has just started and Qualcomm has announced that the company has teamed up with Unity, the makers of the Unity3D engine, in a development partnership which brings to the table better optimization for Qualcomm Snapdragon-based devices for developers when making their games using the Unity3D engine.
OUYA is nearing its official launch date, at least for backers of the rather successful Kickstarter campaign it had, with units slated to ship out on March 28th, 2013 to those who backed the appropriate level to receive an early unit. It appears that plenty of emulators are being worked on for the Android-powered console, most of which are Nintendo-based emulators.
Angry Mob Games have decided to make a video that is a bit of a walkthrough their newest games Alien vs Predator: Evolution. This walkthrough video is geared towards beginners of the game who may not be familiar with the whole storyline of the Alien vs Predator universe.









