DeNA last year bought ngmoco, the publishers of Pocket God on Android and future social games that are on the way. Well DeNA are direct competitors of GREE who purchased OpenFeint on Friday for $104 million. DeNA has now signed a partnership with NTT DoCoMo to bring their social gaming network, Mobage, to devices on DoCoMo.
Today over at the Amazon App Store there is a free game available for today’s free app of the day called Roller. Developed by Camel Games, Roller is a Skee ball game for your Android phone featuring some pretty nice graphics and gameplay. It also comes with a variety of table design too!
With Minecraft getting an official date of release (being in November I believe), it is time to get read for it and luckily for us Android users, there are some apps to help you out in various ways depending on what you actually do when playing Minecraft. Everything from admin tools to builders are available. Here’s a list for you to check over.
We got word in advance that something was going on but it seems today there is good and bad news coming from Faeria Studios. The bad news is that their MMORPG project called Rūnes is going to be put on the back-burner but might still launch this year. The good news is they have a new game in the works for iOS and the almighty Android OS called The Ascent!
Want to eat people and animals? Want to cause chaos and destruction everywhere? Be a Death Worm and you can!
Have you always wanted to cause as much destruction and chaos as possible? Defeat armies and blow up vehicles? Probably. Have you dreamed about doing it as a giant worm? Probably. Well you might not be able to do it in real life but you can certainly do it on your Android phone thanks to PlayCreek releasing Death Worm.
A nice little surprise regarding news and OpenFeint this morning. We didn’t even know talks were under way for any sort of purchase regarding OpenFeint but apparently there were. Today it is official that GREE, a Japanese company in the Social gaming sector, has purchases OpenFeint for an easy $104 million.
One game we have been eagerly waiting for from War Drum Studios has been their upcoming RTS (Real-time strategy) game called History: Great Battles Medieval. We knew it was coming this month and now the wait is officially over. It is now available on the Android Market so you can get your RTS fix.
When Polarbit releases a game onto the Android Market, you already know a couple of things: 1) it will have 3D graphics and 2) it will be a good high quality game. Polarbit’s newest release, called Toki Tori, fits right into both of those categories. It’s a great looking 3D platformer for your Android device.
Amazon Free Game of the Day – April 21st: The Secret of Grisly Manor. Other games up to 50% off!
If you enjoy games on the PC like Myst then you’re in for a bit of a treat today as Amazon’s App Store is offering up a similar style game for free. The Secret of Grisly Manor by Fire Maple Games is a Myst-style hunt for clues and solve the mystery type of game for Android. Sort of like Scooby Doo but without the 80’s invading it.
So with the coming of the Easter update for Angry Birds Seasons the other day also came news of an ‘alternative reality game’ featuring Angry Birds Seasons as well that will be launched soon. Interestingly enough, Rovio just mentioned via Twitter that there are a lot of secret levels to find in the Easter update.