While the topic of piracy is always a hot one regardless of your stance on the situation, news is out today that three major players in the app piracy scene have had their website seized by the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) during a sting operation in conjunction with a variety of U.S. and foreign governments.
One game we are all keeping our eyes on is Wild Blood from Gameloft which will be their first Unreal Engine built game. We will be honest, we have been all over this game since we found out it was coming, even digging up the name before it was officially announced. Now we actually get to see in-game footage thanks to a new trailer.
For those of you eagerly awaiting the next update to Minecraft: Pocket Edition and what it may or may not bring, we now know a couple of things that it will come with. The next update will be labeled as 0.4.0 and will come with a couple of major items, most notably the possibly most hated creature in the game, The Creeper.
Back over on the fruit OS, Pebble Universe has a fairly good following. Developed by Itatake, Pebble Universe is now available over on the Google Play store for Android gamers to enjoy now as well. So what is this game about? Well it is a physics-based puzzle game where you will need to save the pebbles.
N3V Games and their slightly scaled down version of their Trainz Simulator game for phones, called Trainz Driver, will soon be getting an update that will bring with it a whole new category of trains into the mix for you to drive. While the full game features landscape modeling and customizable track lay-outs, that is only for tablets.
Last month we talked about a new cross-platform MMO that would be arriving on Android called Chaos of Three Kingdoms. Developed by RenRen Games, this MMO is based off of China’s Three Kingdom era and the history around it. When we originally posted our preview to this game, a lot of people seemed interested in it.
Ah yes, the topic of piracy has once again come up and once again Madfinger Games has released some interesting information to consider. Everyone knows that Dead Trigger went free-to-play due to the piracy rate being high for it, almost 80% to be exact. What a lot of people don’t know is that Shadowgun had worse piracy.
Continuing with our adventures with OnLive these days, those of you who were excited at the prospect of having OnLive on your future OUYA boxes will be happy to know that the Android-based gaming console will still come with OnLive when it launches in early 2013.
For all of you Android developers out there in Europe, especially those of you near London, Apps World will be arriving this October and will have a dedicated 2-day workshop there called Droid World. As you may be guessing, this workshop is geared towards Android development and is free to attend.
While we will slide this under the Rumor category of things, it does appear to have some solid ground to stand on in terms of how flaky rumors can be. In this case it appears that Google and Samsung could very well already have another Nexus device in the works, codenamed Superior, which brings a specs bump to the Galaxy Nexus.