It was going to happen, you knew it was. The Tegra 2 games are starting to roll out onto the Android Market and one of the first titles to land on the market is by MADFINGER games with their simply awesome manga-style Samurai II: Vengeance game. Made with Unity3D and optimized for Tegra 2 Android devices, this is a great game.
GameSpy has just announced today that they will be making available all their tools and APIs for developers to use across all gaming platforms including Android. If you have played Dungeon Defenders then you may have seen the GameSpy logo at the start up of the game. Dungeon Defenders is the first Android title to use GameSpy Open.
OrangePixel always seem to create great retro-style games, usually completely unique in theme and gameplay. Meganoid is their newest creation and the devs are actually keeping a development blog going as the game develops from start to finish. Currently at around 60% completed, Meganoid is shaping up really nicely.
So GDC 2011 is almost upon us with a measly 5 days before it starts. There is going to be a ton of gaming news going on and that includes Android gaming news! We will be heading out to San Francisco the evening of Feb. 28th, 2011 and we will be there for the entire conference! We have lots lined up already.
Indie game developers can qualify for some pretty awesome programs these days thanks to other major developers offering up programs to help the indie guys out. MocoSpace is another one getting into the developer helping arena with their new million dollar developer fund for HTML5 mobile game developers.
The world of statistics and analytics always seems to provide us with food for thought and yet again it is about what we mobile gamers are worth but not so much as an exact monetary value but instead, to advertisers, we are now considered the mass-market. This is a position that, up until now, was held by the hardcore console gamer.
One of our favorite Tower Defense games just got a huge update with two new campaigns: Oregon and Dakota. Also coming in this update are some other overall game features such as new difficulty settings to choose from (three in total) which are not only for the new campaigns but for all of them currently in the game.
Well it seems as though Rovio isn’t wanting to wait for in-game purchases to be fully integrated into their game via their Bad Piggy Bank. Instead they are going to be releasing a new version of Angry Birds without ads for a small price. According to a tweet, Rovio will have this ready within a month’s time, right near the Rio version’s launch.
There are only a few good pinball games available on the Android Market and after awhile they do get kind of boring. Pinball Deluxe is the new kid on the block when it comes to pinball games and offers up some great graphics and lots of true pinball action. It also comes with some other features not yet seen in any other pinball game for Android.
In today’s world, it’s hard to find a taxi that can get you to your destination of choice within the time you’ve set out. Well you’ll be pleased to hear that future taxis will be fitted with rockets… and they’ll be inter-galactic speed machines! This is great news especially if you need to pick up some groceries on Mars.