Tag: Development

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Nexon and Square Enix team up to bring their MMORPG Final Fantasy XI to mobile devices

On Mar 19, 2015 4:26 pm, by AndrewH

If Nintendo teaming up with DeNA to bring their IPs to mobile deices wasn’t hell freezing over then perhaps today’s news about Square Enix and Nexon will manage to pull that off. After Square Enix announced that no more major Final Fantasy games would be coming to mobile after Final Fantasy VI, due to a lot of reasons, today Nexon and Square Enix have announced that they are teaming up to bring Final Fantasy XI to mobile devices. What is even crazier is that we already have confirmation of a Western release, so it won’t be Japan only.

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Everywear Games is a new game development studio focused solely on wearable tech games

On Mar 18, 2015 5:24 pm, by AndrewH

Today a new game development studio has announced that not only do they exist but that they will focus on nothing but wearable games. According to the company, called Everywear Games, they are the first studio in the world to focus solely on this type of platform. Everywear Games is made up of veteran executives that have worked for some other big companies in the industry including Remedy, Digital Chocolate and Rovio.

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Club Nintendo will be replaced with… something… with this new DeNA / Nintendo partnership

On Mar 17, 2015 5:16 pm, by AndrewH

Earlier this morning Nintendo and DeNA announced a partnership where the two companies would be working together to bring Nintendo IPs to mobile gamers. These will be coming in the form of completely new games that will be based off of currently existing IPs like Super Mario Bros. on their other platforms. Part of that announcement also was about a new multi-membership service that will be built.

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Google I/O 2015 registration begins today. This time Google is doing it differently.

On Mar 17, 2015 2:29 pm, by AndrewH

There is a decent amount of news coming from Google today and there is a reason for that, Google I/O 2015 registration begins this morning at 9:00am PDT. However, before you go bananas with the reload button, trying to get your ticket before the site crashes or they are sold out in 10 minutes, which happens every year, Google will be doing things a bit differently this year.

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The ‘Wild West’ style of Google Play is ending, Google will be reviewing apps developers upload

On Mar 17, 2015 2:10 pm, by AndrewH

One thing that has always been great about Google Play is that developers can immediate publish their applications and games right to the market without any wait time at all. The same goes for updates that need to be pushed to their existing apps and games. However that appears to be changing now with Google announcing that they will begin reviewing apps and games to uncover any violations (TOS violations, inappropriate content, rating violations etc etc) and malware.