Qualcomm has really fired up their whole push with Android gaming as of late. Their newest announcement comes during Uplinq 2011 which started today and is a ‘Game Pack’ which will feature a slew of titles from a few top game developers that are optimized for their Snapdragon chipset.
Tag: App
Lots of people want to play Tegra 2 games but don’t currently have a Tegra 2 device. This leads to lots of sad faces but there is hope in the form of an app called Chainfire3D. So what is Chainfire3D? It is an OpenGL video driver that lets you do some pretty awesome things in general but the main thing is with graphic manipulation.
While Blizzard has had the World of Warcraft Remote App out for Android for some time already, it only had remote auction house functions enabled. Depending if you were signed up for the subscription or not, you could do just about anything with the auction house in-game. The app has now been updated with the new guild chat feature.
We should be surprised by this but we are not. Perhaps it is the few conversations I’ve has with Cory Trese, developer of Star Traders RPG over the Amazon’s terms of agreement for their App Store for Android. In short, the IGDA (International Game Developers Association) has issues an open-letter warning game developers about the terms of agreement.
World of Warcraft players who are already using the Remote App by Blizzard to check the auction house and buy/sell on there are in for a treat. If you haven’t used it, you might want to consider it now as Blizzard is planning on adding remote Guild chat to the application. As the name suggests, you’ll be able to talk to guild members on your Android phone.
Well it is a trio of Amazon news in this post starting off with the fact that the Amazon App Store is now open for business! We knew it was going to happen and while the offerings on the App Store (3,800 apps/games at launch) are what you can get on the Android Market, Angry Birds Rio is exclusive only to the Amazon App Store.
A few days ago word got out that the landing page for the upcoming AppStore for Android by Amazon has gone live a little early. A source has told Wired that the actual launch will be March 22nd (tomorrow) and although the source has remained nameless (due to NDA’s from Amazon), they are considered a trusted source by Wired.
Once in awhile we stray from the standard format of all thing Android and gaming to cover a story that we find interesting, humorous or just generally awesome in some fashion. Thanks to Apple, we have another one of these posts to provide all of you, our readers, with a little Monday morning humor and some chuckles while drinking your morning coffee.
It’s rare that Google launches a product or feature for something without that nasty ‘beta’ tag that has become Google’s signature (ehemm, Gmail). YouTube Leanback was fairly uninteresting to us before the Remote app launched on Android for various reasons, including control from the couch. Who wants to get up and change the video anyway?
OpenFeint’s Spotlight app has been pretty handy when trying to find new games that have OpenFeint integrated into it. Now with this new version that the team has put out onto the market, they hope that it will help game developers with OpenFeint gain better visibility through social features.