The other day news came out that Microsoft was gearing up to release some of their more classic games onto Android with the first game slated for release being the original Age of Empires. There was also speculation that other titles would soon be following as well. Today Head of Microsoft Studio Phil Spencer came out to clarify a few things regarding the news from a few days ago.
Quick piece of news for those of you who are trying to purchase the Android-powered game console Ouya but haven’t had any luck as of yet due to the fact it has been selling out pretty much everyone. Only hours after going on sale publicly through retail outlets, many were reporting that they were sold out with Amazon being the first. Well there is some good news for you today.
In an ominous tweet from the fine folks over at Butterscotch Shenanigans, the company tweeted a quick Vine video of a game that will be making its way to PlayJam’s GameStick portable Android gaming console. What game would this be? Well it is their newest and currently incredibly popular release Quadropus Rampage.
Freyr Games have released their second title onto Google Play called Bounty Hunter: Black Dawn. This particular FPS game isn’t just your pure first-person shooter but instead meshes into it plenty of RPG elements as well to create a Borderlands style type of games. Visually the game’s playable characters almost look like they could be from a Team Fortress game.
While this news isn’t 100% related to Android gaming directly, it does affect possible Android game developers who live in Canada and have been wanting to crowdfund a future game that they would like to work on. Today Kickstarter has announced that it will begin accepting Kickstarter campaigns based out of Canada later this Summer.
It’s time once again to take a look around and see what Android games are on sale that everyone can take advantage of. This would be our mid-week round-up and surprisingly there are actually quite a decent amount of games on sale right now, most of which are also pretty good games.
Some more Ouya gaming news for those of you who have their units already or will be getting them real soon. Vlambeer’s Super Crate Box is currently available on Ouya for free for a limited time only. For those of you who like challenging platformers, you’ll want to nab this one while you can do so for free.
There is a new MMO for Android gamers to check out from a company called Free Thought Labs. The game is called City of Splendors and this is actually the company’s first English release onto Android. With that said, their English debut game is actually a pretty solid MMO for you to sink your time into.
Well some bad news for those of you who were looking forward to the imminent release of Plants vs Zombies 2. According to a tweet from the official Plants vs Zombies Twitter account, the game has been delayed with a new release date simply being “later this Summer”.
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