A few weeks ago we posted an article about the fall of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sega in general. Needless to say there is still a decent amount of discussion going on over in the comments section for that article and we haven’t even posted part 2 yet. So when we were tipped off about a petition for a remastered version of Sonic 3 to be released onto Android, it was something we obviously had to check out.
Tag: Development
Nvidia is gearing up for a big announcement at their pres event during the upcoming GDC 2015 and while no one truly knows what the company plans to unveil, besides Nvidia themselves, a lot of talk is happening about what the possible things the announcement could be. One of the more interesting ideas, and something mentioned in the comments in our previous article about the upcoming event, is a set-top box. However this idea we’ve been reading about goes further than that, making the set-top box be geared towards Nvidia’s GRID gaming on demand service.
[Updated] World of Tanks Generals Closed Beta has begun. Browser version first, Android version coming in the near future
Wargaming.net has announced their new World of Tanks Generals game has begun closed beta testing and that sign-ups are now live. To start off with, the closed beta will be browser version only but will have an Android and iOS version added to the closed beta testing phase in the near future.
[Update: Game Released] The developers of Dark Guardians are bringing a new game to Android soon called Slashing Demons
Studio Balkin, the crew behind the Dark Guardians game, have announced a new game that will be heading to Android soon called Slashing Demons. To accompany this announcement, a new trailer has been released as well showing off the rather unique visuals and some of the gameplay that will be coming with Slashing Demons once it is released.
It is no secret that Nintendo has been a strong opponent when it comes to bringing official franchises from their platform onto mobile devices. The company absolutely refuses to consider any of their games for non-Nintendo mobile gaming devices. It’s something that we have reported on a few times in the past and yet, here we are talking about Nintendo and an application that may be coming to mobile devices.
The Big Indie Pitch is coming and will be at GDC 2015. Pitch your game, get judged, and possibly win prizes!
Steel Media regularly holds indie Pitch events throughout the year. These are events where developers can pitch a game they are currently developing, to a panel of judges. If you are in the top three then you win various prizes that are meant to help you out with your game’s launch. However, a few times a year there are also Big Indie Pitch events and these are much bigger versions of the regular indie pitches. This means the prizes are also bigger.
Curiosity winner promised life changing prize but has gotten nothing instead. Devolver Digital steps in on God making duties.
Many of you may remember 22Can’s rather interesting social gaming experiment called Curiosity which essentially had thousands and thousands of mobile gamers tapping away at a giant cube in the hopes of being the person who gets the last tap to reveal the very center of the cube. This person was promised a life changing reward for getting that last tap. 18-year-old Bryan Henderson happen to be that person and when he accessed the center of the cube, he was greeted with a video congratulating him, giving him a contact email address to use in order to claim his life changing prize.
Machineers is an interesting episodic puzzle construction game that has done pretty well for itself since the first episode was released. Since then the developers, Lohika, have been working to get episode 2 finished and ready to go. Well it seems as though it is almost complete as Lohika has announced that episode 2 for Machineers will be arriving next month.
[Update: Released] Acquire announces their upcoming combat strategy game Fort Raiders Smaaash! Arriving February 12th for Android
Acquire, the Tokyo-based game development studio behind the Way of The Samurai and Tenchu series, has announced their newest game today which will be heading to Android in just over a week’s time. The new game is called Fort Raiders Smaaash! and it is a new combat strategy type of game.
You may not have heard of a company called Yezz and that’s probably because they are kind of a small company lurking in the shadows of the mobile industry, at least here in the United States. They are a bit more well-known over in Europe. The company deals with producing phones and tablets for Android, Windows, and Firefox. Since they are already in the hardware business, Yezz has announced that they will start developing and producing modules for Google’s Project Ara.









