Over the last few days Rovio has been pumping out the news over a variety of topics ranging from a new expanded licensing agreement with Hasbro to teasing a new Angry Birds game called Angry Birds Go!. What this all means is that there is still plenty of the Angry Birds franchise coming our way.
Gameloft has released a brand new trailer for the newest in the Asphalt series titled Asphalt 8: Airborne. The newest addition of the series is getting a make over and is sporting a new physics engine as well as environments, including snow, rain and dust, that will impact the way you race and the have an effect on the tracks you race on.
Starting last week Mojang has begun to roll out available Minecraft Realms server slots for folks interested in hosting their own server so they can play with their friends. Since this is still labeled as an Alpha release, there are some bugs with Minecraft Realms that are currently being worked on, with some of them already being fixed and others being made ready to be released in the upcoming 0.7.2 update for Minecraft: Pocket Edition.
So as many of you may have noticed over the last five or so days, there hasn’t been much activity here on DroidGamers aside from the community keeping things going over on our forums. Some of you may be wondering where we had run off to, if we had tripped and fallen off the face of the planet or some other similar accidental event had happened.
Electronic Arts held their press event announcing plenty of gaming information as one would expect to see at these events. One of the mobile related tidbits of information to come out of the press conference was that the upcoming Need for Speed: Rivals game will feature cross-platform multiplayer gameplay but not in the traditional sense.
NimbleBit’s Pocket Planes game that was released onto DeNA’s Mobage platform was apparently at one point going to be a game about trains called Pocket Trains. Somehow, along the way, the trains grew some wings and the trains ended up becoming planes instead. Well it looks like those trains may be coming back and heading our way in the near future.
While a few major gaming sites have their own live streams set up for the upcoming E3 2013 press conferences, TwitchTV also have their own official live stream of the press conferences coming up. Not only that, the company will also be covering booths and other aspects of E3 2013 live as well. The first press event is that of Microsoft’s Xbox event but there are a total of four major press events today.
Last week Mad Catz announced a rather large amount of news regarding their peripherals under the GameSmart brand of technology. Along with that news came the announcement that the company would be getting into the Android-powered game console market with Project M.O.J.O., planning to officially unveil it at E3 2013 which kicks off today with press conferences while the showroom opens up tomorrow.
Even though it is Summer time and school is out, we have a couple games today that you will need to use some math you were learning about while you were studying hard in class. Numbers can be fun once in awhile!
Radiangames and their titles on iOS have quite a bit of a cult following and now the developer has finally begun bringing their games over to Android as well starting with Slyndris. This game is like a sliding block game but with blocks dropping from the top of the screen like they do in Tetris.