Haptify has released a virtual pinball game onto the Android Market and unlike other pinball games currently available, Enzo’s Pinball features full tactile feedback. This means players will literally feel all the action during playing the game as the ball hits bumpers, targets and travels up ramps or any other action you’d feel during playing one in real life.
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Mono for Android now available. C# and .NET developers rejoice now that you can make apps for Android
It must be developer news day today or something, not that we are complaining. The more tools developers have, the better they can make good games with! Mono for Andorid, now available for general consumption, will allow developers to develop applications and whatever else they want to using technologies like C# and .NET.
[Update] Unreal Engine still not supporting Android officially, doesn’t mean you can’t make games with it though
Yesterday Kotaku and Gizmodo teamed up to unveil a closer look at the new Unreal Engine by Epic. One of the improvements coming to Unreal Engine is more mobile gaming support in a general sense. While the new Sony handheld system and iOS are supported, Epic has made no plans to announce Android support officially yet.
Rovio has mentioned via Twitter that Angry Birds Seasons will be receiving an update for Easter. We can only imagine that there will be eggs or egg baskets and possibly pigs with rabbit ears to follow the Easter theme. The update should be out before Easter according to Rovio who also mentioned upcoming updates for Rio and Original versions as well.
Amazon gets into the mobile game developing/publishing industry, also a second free game today on the App Store
Well here is some interesting information after doing a bit of digging that we came up with. Working on a tip from a reader, there is a second game available on the Amazon App Store that is free today called Airport Mania: First Flight. What is even more interesting than that is who it is published by: Amazon Digital Services Inc.
RTS game fans who own a Tegra 2 Android device are in for a real treat. While the selection of RTS (real-time strategy) games on the Android Market are slim but mostly all good, War Drum Studios is getting ready to unleash theirs onto Tegra 2 devices. History: Great Battles Medieval will feed that need for a serious RTS game.
Sony Ericsson drops two new promo videos for the Xperia Play. Not as strange as the first two batches.
Sony Ericsson must have hired a few people to sit around and think up ideas for strange, weird, disturbing or cool promotional videos for the Xperia Play. So far, after the sweatshop videos and the Kristen Schaal videos, they seem to be pretty on point with the strange and disturbing side of things. Looks like the new ads are shooting for cool next.
Today’s free app/game of the day over on the Amazon App Store is Backbreaker Football by NaturalMotion Games. Unlike a lot of football games though, Backbreaker Football blends together individual feats in Football with some pretty awesome 3D graphics and some serious tackles. If you like hurting people in Football, you’ll enjoy this game.
T-Racer HD, developed by Thumbstar Games, is a racing game that plans to throw as much eye candy at you as possible while you race against your opponents. Developed to take advantage of the Tegra 2 chipset, T-Racer brings a health dose of sci-fi racing onto your dual-core Android device, and you’ll be happy it does.
New tunnel racing game, Return Zero, brings retro-style tunnel racing to Android. Seizures not included.
There is a new tunnel racing game on the Android Market called Return Zero which features some pretty nutty retro-style graphics with a slight twist of Tron thrown into them. Anyone who suffers from something similar to vertigo will really enjoy this game. As the developer describes it, it is “beautiful, psychedelic and ultra fast”.