If you happen to be a game developer who uses Unity3D to make your games and have been contemplating adding Google’s new Google Play Games service to your current and future titles, you’ll be happy to know that a developer in the Unity3D community has created a plug-in to make it a little bit easier to integrate Google’s service into your games.
News like this doesn’t happen often these days and actually it is usually the opposite when it comes to a game developer changing their business model for their upcoming game. Usually we have to report that a game originally planned as a paid game has gone to the free-to-play model. However today we get to report some very good news regarding Robert Bowling’s upcoming tactical warfare game Breach & Clear.
One game a lot of people have been waiting for is Harebrained Schemes’ Shadowrun Returns title which had a very successful Kickstarter campaign last year. Originally this game wasn’t slated for release onto Android but thanks to all the funding the campaign got, the stretch goal for an Android version was easily reached.
For those of you who are into MOBA games and like beta testing new titles, Sneaky Games has their upcoming turn-based tactical MOBA game Arena of Heroes has gone live for open beta testers to jump into the game early and check everything out. This particular type of MOBA game is a bit different than your typical MOBA title like of League of Legends or DOTA 2.
While Gameloft was at E3 2013 showing off Asphalt 8: Airborne and Modern Combat 5 (which is pretty damn good), the developers over at Gameloft have been hard at work on an update for Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour which is being called the ‘Meltdown’ update. While most updates don’t usually have a name given to them, this one is actually a pretty big update in terms of content.
Kemco has been a fixture on the Google Play store when it comes to releasing retro-style RPGs. However at E3 2013 the company decided to break the mold they had formed with releasing only that type of game with the announcement of Alphadia Genesis, their first 3D RPG which will be heading to Android soon.
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.