OpenFeint has been busy it seems with providing developers more ways to be successful on the Android platform. Today they are launching an expansion to their OFX platform and offering up a new set of tools for developers to use to create free-to-play games for Android. Maybe you’ll make the next smash hit Freemium game?
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During Google I/O 2011 which just finished, word came out that there would be a Nexus 3 coming out by the end of this year. Also, Android’s newest OS version, Ice Cream Sandwich, will also be coming out at around that time. Now we have nVidia’s CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, hinting that the Nexus 3 could also be quad-core.
Fans of Larva Labs little 8-bit retro RPG game Gurk have some good news. After awhile of wanting and waiting in hope that a sequel of some ind would come out, Larva Labs quietly released Gurk II onto the Android Market. Chalk full of 8-bit retro RPG goodness, this is what all you Gurk fans have been waiting for.
Well it is a bit past the initial release date but what is a few more days of waiting right? Well you won’t have to wait any longer to get your Micro Machines style racing fix now that Bang Bang Racing THD is finally available for purchase! Being a THD title, this means you will need that shiny Tegra 2 Android device to play this.
Well here is a bit of a different way to do an update. Unlike Angry Birds Seasons where the Amazon App Store paid version didn’t see an update for Easter until almost a week after it rolled out onto the Android Market version, Angry Birds Rio on the Amazon App Store got the Volley Ball update first.
It seems Gameloft is truly impressed with how Google is improving the Android Market, so much so that when we reported on Modern Combat 2: Black Pegasus hitting the market, the rumor was that the next game would be Asphalt 6. Well that has come true as well as it is now available on the market.
Gamevil’s newest release onto iOS and soon Android is an addicting little game called Air Penguin. It’s become such a hit that Gamevil is looking into licensing it out for merchandise and even a TV show! However, with success comes problems and a developer by the name of SAI has released a fake version of the game.
It’s been a little bit since Amazon threw up a game for free on the Android App Store. Today’s free app/game on the Amazon App Store is a game called Chalk Ball that is sort of a blend between pong, breakout and pinball style gaming. This weird little mesh of gaming style today is free for you to download and play.
Sony Ericsson’s Android gaming device, the Xperia Play, has been out for a little bit now and with the ability to play games using the control pad, you would think people would be all for buying Playstation One games. Being a Playstation certified device comes with some benefits, sales apparently isn’t one of them though… yet.
If you are a fan of TNA Wrestling Impact! then you will be happy to hear that there is a game coming to Android centered around exactly that. Titled TNA Wrestling Impact!, the game will be a 3D wrestling game that you be able to play on your Android devices and features a lot of the main wrestlers for you to play as.