Christmas is coming up pretty fast and that means you’ll be spending lots of money buying people presents and perhaps yourself a little gift or two in the process as well. With all the new gaming related gear that has come out for Android gamers or will be coming out, it can be a little daunting deciding which devices or peripheral to purchase.
Nintendo has remained an interesting company when you look at their stance over the past couple of years regarding bringing some of their popular franchises over to mobile device for mobile gamers to enjoy. Awhile back the company stated that it would never bring their games over to smartphones and tablets and there is a logical reason as to why they would think this way – they have their own mobile gaming platform to worry about.
In one of the strangest cross-overs we’ve come across to date, Warner Bros and GungHo Online have teamed up and Batman: Arkham Origins characters will soon be appearing in GungHo’s very successful game Puzzle & Dragons. This will happen in an event that will take place in Puzzle & Dragons that will begin tomorrow and go on until November 12th, 2013.
A new action strategy game will be heading to Android this Thursday called Mech Conquest. Currently this game is already available to play over on Facebook but the company behind the game has been working to port Mech Conquest over to Android and will finally release the mobile version of the game tomorrow.
The company behind the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset has been teasing mobile support and mobile integration with the headset for some time now, even mentioning that there is an SDK in the works for mobile game developers to use. It is now confirmed that the Oculus Rift will be coming to Android and that Android users will also have their own headset.
As we near the end of this year we can expect Mad Catz to finally launch their Mojo Android-powered game console. Along with the console, Mad Catz already has a wide selection of peripherals available to use with it or any bluetooth enabled Android device. We can now add one more to the list and that being a new gaming keyboard called S.T.R.I.K.E.M.
DotEmu has announced today that the company will be bringing the entire Double Dragon trilogy to Android by the end of this year. This means that we will soon be able to play Double Dragon, Double Dragon 2: The Revenge, and Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone on our Android devices when DotEmu launches all of them.
Interview with Josh Presseisen, Founder and CEO of Crescent Moon Games. Connoisseur of all things retro.
Josh Presseisen: My first memory of video games would be my aunt’s Atari, I used to play Combat and Pac-man on it when I’d go to visit her.
It was very exciting back then! I was very into video games. When I was young I had a few computers that my uncle got for me, the Timex Sinclair 1000, which also came with a game programming book. I’d spend hours messing around with the games in the book and trying to make my own. The coolest computer I had for programming games was the TI–994a – it looked like a Delorean!
When the NES was launched, I was really obsessed with Super Mario Brothers, Zelda, and Metroid.
There was a brief time of a few years where I wasn’t doing video game stuff, which was in my band years – I was in a band and touring for a while, then got a job doing graphics stuff. My interest in video games returned after that.
Cie Games are the developers of the top ranked multiplayer drag racing game on iOS called Racing Rivals. During the Samsung Developers Conference that is going on right now, the company announced that an Android version is on the way and should be landing on Google Play ‘shortly’.
Amazon seems be getting into the holiday spirit of Halloween and in order to celebrate the upcoming candy-filled monster parade that will be October 31st, 2013 Amazon has started a rather large sale on a big selection of games for their Kindle Fire tablet as well as any other Android phone or tablet that has access to the Amazon AppStore.