Strange news today coming from the folks over at Gameloft. While the company just announced their Q4 2012 earning which shows the company making quite the improvement when it comes to profit, showing a 27% increase in revenue over Q4 2011 profits. For Q4 2012 Gameloft pulled in a consolidated sales total of €57.7 million which also marks the company’s bigest quarter last year. So with such an increase in profit, news of Gameloft shutting down their India studio seems a bit strange.
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While OUYA recently announced improvements to the controllers, based on feedback the company has gotten, that will be coming with the Android-based game console, one of their direct competitors has also received a new look based on feedback from backers of their Kickstarter campaign. On top of that, thanks to the successful backing that GameStick received while on Kickstarter, the unit will now come with a docking station as well.
Yesterday we talked about Rovio teasing a new content update for their pig-centric physics-based puzzle game Bad Piggies and now today we get to talk about another update coming our way although this time it is for their Angry Birds Star Wars game. A few moments ago Rovio posted a teaser image of the Millennium Falcon flying into an underground tunnel. An underground themed update perhaps?
We’ve talked numerous times in the past how Epic and their games division have not released, nor ever had plans to release, anything on Google Play. It’s been a topic of conversation here on the site plenty of times and how we have always felt that it is stupid that they don’t release anything for Android, only iOS. So imagine our surprise when we got a tip saying that Epic Citadel was now available on Google Play.
You might recognize the name Asobimo and that could very well be because we’ve talked about this company and some of their games in the past such as Celes Arca and Iruna Online, both of which are MMORPGs for mobile. Their newest game that is currently in a limited open beta phase right now is called Avabel Online and is also a rather impressive looking cross-platform MMORPG.
Almost two weeks ago we mentioned that two Kairosoft games had appeared on Google Play for residents of Japan and users who use Market Enabler. Kairosoft is usually pretty quick now with translating their Japanese released games over to English and so two weeks after posting about those games, Kairosoft has released one of them called Dream House Days onto Google Play.
Radiation leak at a nuclear power plant? Your next door neighbor acting odd and eating brains? Well now you can take care of this sort of thing by grabbing your guns and taking out the trash in this new side-scrolling, zombie filled shooter from Triniti Interactive called Call of Mini: Brawlers.
Recently OUYA started a ‘game jam’ called CREATE which, in reality, is a bit more of a development competition more than an actual game jam. Regardless of how you want to look at it, OUYA has been offering up $45,000 in prizes across different categories for great games submitted by developers for the OUYA console.
It is time for the first giveaway of many to come this week with our week long giveaway craziness we are holding. We are going to start off by giving away two $25 Google Play Gift Cards to a couple of lucky winners for doing pretty much nothing at all. Entering this giveaway is real simple.
Glu Mobile has just announced that a sequel to their rather popular top-down arcade shooter Gun Bros will be arriving soon on Google Play. Appropriately named Gun Bros 2, Glu Mobile has decided to announce this sequel by releasing a cinematic trailer for this upcoming game.