Unveiled during E3 2012, Kemco has officially announced what their next big retro style JRPG will be. The official name is Symphony of the Origin and will be a prequel to their currently released JRPG called Symphony of Eternity which has done pretty well on the Google Play store.
It is time for another semi-holiday this weekend and with that you can expect some sales on games over on the Google Play store. EA is the first to announce their Father’s Day sale with a promotion called Games for Guys which will have select titles up to 40% off during the sale.
When I saw the name of this game, Jumping Electron. I was intrigued. Having a degree in Chemistry, I thought this game would be right up my alley. Jumping Electrons is fun arcade type game with a bit of a flare for the technically inclined.
Recently it was uncovered that the mobile application for Google+ had a games feature in it. While not even remotely close to being finished or functioning, the fact that it was there points to Google making their Google+ Games available for mobile devices. In a twist though, a couple of game developers have pulled their titles from Google+ Games.
Another practice that is starting to become common place is the development of companion apps for games. There are already plenty of them available for a variety of games from World of Warcraft to the Ghost Recon Network app. Now the Playstation 3 game Starhawk has its own companion application called Starhawk Uplink.
To us it wasn’t a huge surprise to see the My Xbox Live application arrive on Android since we knew it was coming awhile back. However today’s little nugget of Microsoft weirdness comes in the form of a new release from them with their Kinectimals game.
We’ve been reporting on Farsight’s Pinball Arcade Kickstarter project since it went live. The original goal was to get enough funding to be able to get the license for the rights to digitize the Twilight Zone pinball table. Well that goal has been reached and they are already half way to getting enough funds for their stretch goal which is the Star Trek: Next Generation table.
Back in May 2012 we talked about Leviathan Games who were gearing up to release their newest game called Besieged 2. Well for those of you who have been waiting for this game, it is now available on both Amazon’s AppStore and the Google Play store.
Game Insight is one of the biggest casual game developers right now on Android. They actually develop for other platforms as well and with that said, Game Insight is planning to bring their very popular Facebook game Mystery Manor.
Well here is an interesting concept we were just told about by the CEO of Peripheral Games, David Colson. This concept has the community helping design their next game by submitting ideas. When you submit an idea or fifty, they will be put up for a vote and the highest voted idea will be made into the “Community Game”.