NetEase Games has announced today that they will be opening up a new fund for mobile game developers in order to help them becoming successful. In fact that is pretty much what the fund is called, the NetEase Success Fund for mobile game developers.
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Normally we don’t do Android game sale round-ups on a Thursday, since we usually do them as an end-of-the-week sort of thing. However there are some new additions that have gone on sale that people may want to take advantage of that may not be there tomorrow.
Back in May of this year we reported on a partnership between Cartoon Network and D3 GO! for a new Adventure Time game called Adventure Time Puzzle Quest. This game was announced for Android with a release time frame of this Summer. Well this game is now available for Android devices.
Released by independent game developer Richard Lord, is a game where players assemble “freaks” at a factory. The gameplay is puzzle oriented, as players are cramming as many as possible in the allotted amount of space. For a frame of reference, the game is laid out in a nearly identical fashion to the more commonly known Bubble Shooter games, only with Freak Factory, there’s no apparent way to remove the freaks once they’re in place.
Kill the Plumber is a Mario-style platformer where players actually play as the enemies instead of the Italian plumber. However, one thing you can see in Kill the Plumber is the heavy influence it has taken from Mario games in regards to level design, enemies, pretty much every aspect. Another game called Kill the Maliao is basically a rip-off of Kill the Plumber, which could technically be considered a rip-off of Mario games.
Nvidia Shield Portable owners are starting to get an optional update rolling out to them today which brings with it Android 5.1 ad Chromecast support among other features. While the update brings plenty of goodness with it, there also happens to be some features being removed with this update as well.
We’ve have been following the development of Fedeen Games’ newest mobile MMORPG Forsaken World Mobile since it was announced as coming to Android. Now, after a short beta testing phase and a soft launch, Forsaken World Mobile is available for download off of Google Play.
Hearthstone is Blizzard’s popular virtual CCG for multiple platforms including mobile handsets that’s based on the World of Warcraft universe. Recently, Blizzard released a custom card back that was made exclusively available for those playing the game on a Galaxy S6. If you don’t have a Galaxy S6, but you’re OCD about collecting every card back in the game, that means there will always be one missing from your collection… or does it?
OKAM Studio and Deep Silver FISHLABS have announced that they have signed a partnership deal for the development and publishing of a new mobile game coming in the near future. Deep Silver FISHLABS is the company behind the Galaxy on Fire series of games, while OKAM Studio has released a total of seven games on Android across different genres, all of which are of pretty high production value.
After a somewhat lengthy beta testing phase, followed by a full release onto iOS, Earthcore: Shattered Elements has finally been released onto Android devices now. While there are already plenty of these types of games for mobile devices, Earthcore falls into the category of a more serious CCG, similar to games like Magic the Gathering and Hearthstone.