In this ever growing Android market, it has become a usual thing to see iOS developers coming to our beloved environment. It’s to no surprise that ultimately they’ve all wanted a piece of that huge and delicious Android cake. Now, the time has come for zGames, a development studio that was first spotted with apps like Talking Cookies Kid or “Charlie Bit Me!!!” under the name of Viral Spiral Group. Today, zGames s coming with a little gem called Red Weed, and based upon Jeff Wayne’s award-winning Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.
If you are into keeping it real retro when it comes to gaming, mobile or otherwise, then you will be pleased to know that Activision has released a huge collection of classic games in their Activision Anthology release. This anthology offers up the entire 2600 catalog by Activison for you to peruse through and buy what you want.
During Konami’s 25th anniversary Metal Gear Solid event, the company announced a couple of new games that will be coming to the franchise, one of which will be for mobile gamers. If you are expecting this to be filled with sneaking around and letting you slice people’s throats open, you will be surprised. Instead this will be a card battle game with a ‘Mother Base’ element layered onto it.
Rovio, through their Bad Piggies Twitter account, released a new video to tease everyone about what we are guessing is the upcoming pig-themed game called Bad Piggies. It’s been rumored for awhile that Rovio would be making a new game in the Angry Birds universe that would tell the story from the pig’s perspective and this could very well be it.
This may seem like a strange title and a strange article overall but because Android devices can easily play HTML5 games, we are reporting on it. Thanks to Atari teaming up with Microsoft, we now have a selection of classic Atari games that we can play through their new games portal on our Android devices.
RuneScape has been around for a long time, a veteran of the MMO scene who has managed to survive this long in the ever changing landscape that is the MMO universe. Developed of the game are preparing to evolve it, making it accessible on both tablets and SmartTVs to ensure it survives for a long time to come.
A new Kickstarter campaign has been launched for a new product that was inevitably heading our way at some point, especially after the success of the OUYA Android-powered game console. This new product, called the MG, is being developed by PlayMG and is being touted as the first dedicated handheld gaming device powered by Android.
Herocraft is getting in on the Back to School action with a game sale covering four of their games, all of which will be discounted down to $0.99 for a limited time. The sale starts tomorrow and will last until September 3rd, 2012 at which point the games will go back to their regular pricing.
Good news for all our European readers out there today who, until now, have not had access to the Amazon AppStore. This means you’ve been missing out on the free games/apps of the day, the promotional deals and so on. However, that changes beginning today as the Amazon AppStore rolls out access to Europe.
Vivid Games is more known for some of their movie-based games on Android but today sees the release of something a little different from these developers. Called Neon Blitz, this is a puzzle game which takes some influence from Burn The Rope but switches it up into a time-based race against the clock puzzle game.