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Recap of other Android gaming news from Google’s Keynote

On Jun 26, 2014 3:15 pm, by Ryan Ballard

Yesterday was the keynote for Google’s 2014 developer conference, Google I/O. They’ve touched on several topics, some of which have gaming relevant ramifications. For starters, with the next OS upgrade (currently called “L”), they touched on two things that will benefit gaming: graphics and battery life. With the former, Google demo-ed some game footage running on the Unreal 4 engine (which currently is for PCs). For the latter, Project Volta was announced to help slow down battery drain by showing users more information about where battery drain is going. While this isn’t directly game-related, more juice means more gaming.

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Transformers: Age of Extinction Movie App Out Now

On Jun 25, 2014 5:06 pm, by Zack Kaplan

While not specifically a game per se, Transformers: Age of Extinction is an app with game elements that ties in with the upcoming movie of the same name. The app features a bevy of features, all of which involve promoting the movie, obviously. Character Bios, trailers, a photo gallery, and a look at all the new Transformers toys themselves are all a part of the app.

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Amazon’s FireTV gets the Grand Theft Auto Trilogy, TwitchTV, Walking Dead Season 2 and more

On May 15, 2014 8:32 pm, by AndrewH

Rockstar Games has released the entire Grand Theft Auto trilogy that is currently available on Android already but this is over on Amazon’s Marketplace. This release of all three games is for both the Kindle Fire as well as Amazon’s new set-top box, Fire TV. In case you are not familiar with what games are in this trilogy, they are Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas .

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Nintendo actually releases their first companion app onto Android for Mario Kart 8

On May 13, 2014 9:10 pm, by AndrewH

Back in March of this year we mentioned that Nintendo was toying around with the idea of companion apps to extend the experience of their games. In that case we were talking about Animal Crossing at the time. Nintendo has long had a stanch refusal to move into the mobile market which as been reported on a few times already. However, due to a combination of terrible Wii U sales, sinking company-wide profits, and other factors, it looks like Nintendo is now finally moving into the mobile space with these companion apps and their first release confirmed as a Mario Kart 8 app.

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Pokémon Company International brings Pokemon TV to Amazon’s Kindle Fire

On Apr 24, 2014 8:22 am, by AndrewH

While we may never see an official Pokemon game make it to mobile devices anytime soon, The Pokémon Company International wants everyone to be at least able to watch all the Pokemon episodes they could ever want. Originally released onto Android through Google Play, Pokemon TV is now available for those of you who own a Kindle Fire tablet. This also means the probable compatibility with Amazon’s new set top box at some point in the near future.

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TwitchTV finally to bring game streaming to mobile, announces new SDK for developers

On Mar 08, 2014 1:11 pm, by AndrewH

One thing that has been a pretty major pain in the ass is trying to live stream mobile games on services like TwitchTV. Generally you have to come up with your own solutions to get this to work and half the time it is generally too slow to run through an emulator or anything like that. Lag is another issue half the time. The advent of Android-powered micro-consoles has helped this a bit though.