Since Gamescom 2013 is Europe’s premier gaming industry conference and France happens to be a partner country for this event, there is a service called ‘Le Game’ which helps promote French game development companies to the international crowd. Le Game has come up with a bundle type of sale to help accomplish this where there will be a total of three bundles available for a short period of time.
We’ve talked about the open source media player XBMC and that it would be making its way to the Android-powered game console Ouya at some point when a stable version of the application actually exists. Well it seems that a stable version has finally been compiled and the XBMC media player is now officially available for download through Ouya’s marketplace.
There has been some confusion as of late as to whether or not FIFA 2014 would be making an appearance on Android. Well EA has cleared that confusion up during Gamescom 2013 by announcing that the game will be a free-to-play title this time when it is released for mobile gamers to play.
Gamescom 2013 is well under way and while a lot of the focus right now is on the next gen consoles, mobile is certainly not out of the picture and is actually a pretty big part of the gaming-centric conference. To start things off, EA has made a couple of announcements with the first one being the mobile version of Dungeon Keeper which will be making its way to Android this Winter.
Back in July of this year we reported on the news that the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset and the company behind it were strongly considering supporting mobile devices in one way or another. Well it looks as though the update to the SDK for the Oculus Rift developers use to create games will soon be getting an update that brings that mobile support to the platform.
An upcoming skill-based platformer that will be released onto PC soon through Steam will also be heading to Android in the near future. Developed by Michael Todd Games, Electronic Super Joy is a rather challenging platformer that has pounding electronic music going in the background.
Electronic Arts is apparently going to be releasing another Dragon’s Age game soon but this time it will be a sort of spin-off game for mobile devices called Heroes of Dragon Age. While there isn’t a whole lot of details right now regarding this game, there are a few details available to share about Heroes of Dragon Age.
Many people like to think of themselves as crazy, creative, insane, geniuses, and makers of the best waffles. Very few can live up to being all of these things. We’re close, writing this post at almost 4am PST in the morning here. However the brothers who make up Butterscotch Shenanigans live up to all of these prestigious titles and then some. Now, starting today (Monday August 19th, 2013) at 8:30am CST and lasting all week, the developers of Towelfight 2 and Quadropus will be hosting the Butterscotch Jam.
Papers, Please is an interesting sim game that was recently released for PC and has since gained a cult following which continues to grow. The developer of the game, Lucas Pope, is also planning to bring the bureaucratic sim over to Android and iOS tablets as well. While the Android version won’t have a problem with being released onto Google Play, the developer is weary about Apple’s approval policies and isn’t sure the game will get approved for iOS devices.
Back in March of last year during GDC 2012 we sat down with InnoGames’ Head of Public Relations Dennis Heinert where we talked about the company’s catalog of MMORTS games and how they would be heading to Android soon. Since then Tribal Wars arrived and is still labeled as a beta. One of their other big MMORTS titles called Grepolis has also been slated for release onto Android and it looks like the game could finally be getting released soon.