This is another game we got to play with back in CES 2011. Coming from Halfbrick, the crew that brought us Fruit Ninja, comes Fruit Ninja THD. This is a high definition version of the Fruit Ninja game with all the graphics redone for Tegra 2 Android devices. When we played this at CES 2011, it looked 100x better.
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Another Tegra 2 Android game has landed on the Android Market, this time revolving around some awesome 3D graphics while you smash your way through football games. When it comes to a football video game to play on a mobile device, Backbreaker THD is pretty much at the top of the list of ones to get.
The massive 1GB+ monster-sized tactics RPG by HyperDevBox called Spectral Souls has been updated with support for the nVidia Tegra 2 chipset now. This means that if you are lucky enough to have a Tegra 2 device already, and happen to own Spectral Souls, then you’ll be seeing quite the performance boost.
It was going to happen, you knew it was. The Tegra 2 games are starting to roll out onto the Android Market and one of the first titles to land on the market is by MADFINGER games with their simply awesome manga-style Samurai II: Vengeance game. Made with Unity3D and optimized for Tegra 2 Android devices, this is a great game.
GameSpy has just announced today that they will be making available all their tools and APIs for developers to use across all gaming platforms including Android. If you have played Dungeon Defenders then you may have seen the GameSpy logo at the start up of the game. Dungeon Defenders is the first Android title to use GameSpy Open.
OrangePixel always seem to create great retro-style games, usually completely unique in theme and gameplay. Meganoid is their newest creation and the devs are actually keeping a development blog going as the game develops from start to finish. Currently at around 60% completed, Meganoid is shaping up really nicely.
So GDC 2011 is almost upon us with a measly 5 days before it starts. There is going to be a ton of gaming news going on and that includes Android gaming news! We will be heading out to San Francisco the evening of Feb. 28th, 2011 and we will be there for the entire conference! We have lots lined up already.
Indie game developers can qualify for some pretty awesome programs these days thanks to other major developers offering up programs to help the indie guys out. MocoSpace is another one getting into the developer helping arena with their new million dollar developer fund for HTML5 mobile game developers.
The world of statistics and analytics always seems to provide us with food for thought and yet again it is about what we mobile gamers are worth but not so much as an exact monetary value but instead, to advertisers, we are now considered the mass-market. This is a position that, up until now, was held by the hardcore console gamer.
One of our favorite Tower Defense games just got a huge update with two new campaigns: Oregon and Dakota. Also coming in this update are some other overall game features such as new difficulty settings to choose from (three in total) which are not only for the new campaigns but for all of them currently in the game.