Valve has confirmed that not only are they looking into the possibility of building gaming hardware for the living room (a.k.a a console), they are apparently interested in the idea of building a mobile gaming device using an open hardware solution.
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Good news for all you Leisure Suit Larry fans out there that were sitting on the edge of your seats hoping its Kickstarter project would be successfully funded. It is now officially funded and still has about 6 days to go. This also means it will indeed be coming to Android along with a plethora of other platforms.
Our friends over at The Binary Mill were kind enough to pass along a preview build for their upcoming Android game called Mini Motor Racing. Featuring a top-down perspective similar to Reckless Racing, you will be racing across a variety of tracks with a variety of vehicles at your disposal including a Fruit Ninja car and Santa’s sled.
The folks over at Slashgear have made an interesting observation over today’s Angry Birds Space update which could be a hint at things to come in the future, or not. However, the inclusion of what looks to be the pink Simpsons donut, being munched on by an Angry Birds pig, seems to be an interesting little visual.
It looks like we can expect to see some hardcore social games heading our way starting this Summer thanks to a new partnership between ngmoco and Kabam which will bring Kabam titles to Android, taking advantage of ngmoco’s Mobage platform.
Every time we write about this game it seems as though it is only positive news about the game getting better and better. This particular instance is now exception to that rule either. When the game was originally announced on Kickstarter, the developers had mentioned that the music would be close to the original game’s style.
Kairosoft seems to be starting a habit of letting all of us know when the next game for Android will be coming and what game it will be. In the past they have never said anything until the game is released except for their most recent title Cafeteria Nipponica and now Pocket Academy.
Gamevil is certainly making a push this month on Android with multiple game releases already. Today they have released yet another title onto the Google Play store, this one being a ‘social’ war game called Last War. I will say the term ‘social war game’ does make me chuckle a bit.
It seems as though more news regarding the Nexus brand is starting to come out today. Yesterday we saw the Galaxy Nexus arrive on the Google Play store in an unlocked HSPA+ version for $399. While we wait for the inevitable release of Google’s tablet, news about the next Nexus phone is starting to come out.
While not the biggest update in the world, Rovio’s Angry Birds Space has just received an update that fixes a few bugs that was causing the game to crash on older Android devices. Aside from that though, it does bring some new levels along with the bug fixes.