Angry Birds developers, Rovio, decided to spill the beans about the upcoming update to the Android version at a press conference today. The big feature that is coming: in-game purchases! To be available first in Finland and then spreading elsewhere, Rovio will be introducing in-game purchases for two major features users have been asking for.
SystemPanel is an interesting tool from developer NextApp Inc. who brought us Websharing, the WiFi remote access tool we’ll be taking a look at soon. If you’ve noticed battery draining quickly and you’re looking for a great task manager on your Android phone that manages to stay relevant on Froyo or even Gingerbread, you should definitely keep reading about SystemPanel.
Some games that comes out for Android are great to play right off the jump while others are good but have the potential to become great. Tank Hero Beta is one of those games that has the potential to be great. As it stands, in beta form, it is a good, addictive game to play, especially if you like driving around and blowing other tanks up!
Want some more Sony Android Playstation Phone news? How about another video as well? Great because you’re in luck! Engadget is reporting on a video that someone sent to them showing off some in-game graphic rendering and benchmarking. While the initial benchmarking scores aren’t all that impressive, neither the software or hardware is final, keep that in mind.
David Ko is the SVP of Mobile over at Zynga and was on stage at LeWed talking about the future of mobile gaming and Zynga. Mentioning that Mafia Wars is coming to Android is one thing, mentioning it would be available this month though is another. With Poker by Zynga already on the Android Market, Mafia Wars looks to bring more Zynga to gamers.
In our last post regarding the Madden 2011 game by EA Mobile, we mentioned it was coming in an update to the Droid X. The version within the update is, indeed, a demo version which we figured it would be. Upgrading to the full version will set you back $9.99 which really isn’t bad considering the quality of the game.
Based out of Canada, Ratrod Studios Inc has released their popular 3D drift racing game, Drift Mania Championship, onto the Android Market. In the fashion of Gran Turismo style of racing, you’ll have some sweet looking cars to whip around tracks, drifting all over the place and trying to get the fastest time possible for each track.
Hackers with political motivation, being called hactivists by the media are using a tool known as Low Orbit Ion Cannon (found on the internet with a simple search) to attack PayPal, MasterCard, and Visa. Credit processors stopped donations to WikiLeaks, a Whistle-Blowing website out of fear of legal recourse. It disrupted the ability to make purchases in the Android Market for several hours as a result.
Mega Jump by Get Set Games is making the journey to Android from iOS. Having received 7.5 million downloads from the iOS version, this game is quite popular. Camel Games based their Hyper Jump game off of Mega Jump and everyone likes Hyper Jump! The goal behind the game, get your little creature as high as he can get while collecting coins!