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Electronic Arts announces that 13 titles will be available for the new Nexus line-up

While the general Android population enjoys, at least to some degree, pointing out Electronic Arts’ weird selection of supported devices whenever they launch a new game, the company themselves has decided to address the issue in a way that will make future Nexus owners fairly happy. EA has announced that 13 titles will be available when the new Nexus line-up launches on November 13th, 2012, which is pretty much their entire catalog of games on Android.

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Shadowgate creators hit up Kickstarter to re-imagine their hit classic first-person adventure game

The creators of the classic first-person adventure game called Shadowgate have gone over to Kickstarter to bring a new re-imagined and revamped version out to the world and this new version will be made available on a variety of platforms including Android tablets. This inclusion of Android tablets as one of the supported platforms isn’t a stretch goal either, which is something that happens with a decent amount of these Kickstarter project. Instead, it will be released onto Android tablets when the game launches.

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The ultra-violent game Hotline Miami may end up coming to Android

The indie developer behind the rather twisted and ultra-violent indie game Hotline Miami has announced that talks have been happening to bring the game to Playstation devices. Jonatan Söderström, the developer behind the game, told PocketGamer that he has been in talks with Sony to bring the game to the PS Vita and, quite possibly, to other mobile devices such as Android ones.

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Rovio releases the first in-game footage for Angry Birds Star Wars

Rovio gave warning a couple of hours ago on Twitter that they would be showing off the first in-game footage for their upcoming Star Wars / Angry Birds crossover game, appropriately named Angry Birds Star Wars. While Rovio has pumped out a video or two a week for the past few weeks since they announced the game, none of them have actually shown anything about the game. Now we get to see actual gameplay footage.

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The classic Dreamcast game, Expendable, is getting remastered and its coming soon

Back in 1999, Rage Software released a game onto the Dreamcast called  Expendable which eventually made its way onto the original Playstation as well as the PC. Back then it had some cutting edge graphics and used some of the best technology at the time to make a pretty impressive action game. Well now that game is getting remastered and will be heading to Android real soon, complete with a new name called Expendable Rearmed.

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Square Enix may be considering dropping their mobile game prices

Square Enix has been doing a decent job with bringing games to Android and even though iOS has more titles from the company, Android is slowly catching up. However, it is no secret that the prices Square Enix happens to be charging for their titles are more on the higher end of the scale. For instance, Chaos Rings rolls in at $12.99 while Final Fantasy III is sitting at $15.99. Recently Square Enix talked about their pricing and defending the price tags that come with some of their games. However, that may be heading for a change soon.

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Dead Trigger gets an update for Halloween, sticks you in a haunted graveyard

Yesterday we took the day off because it was my birthday and the night before we had already started celebrating it. However, yesterday morning, in an attempt to at least give you, our readers, a heads up on a few items of news before taking the day off, I jumped onto our social media networks to let you know about a couple of games. One bit of information was that Madfinger Games had released an update themed around Halloween for their FPS game Dead Trigger.

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Rockstar officially announces Grand Theft Auto: Vice City for Android

We had a feeling more of the Grand Theft Auto series would be coming to mobile and it seems that Rockstar has gone ahead and confirmed this today as they have officially announced that Grand Theft Auto: Vice City will be arriving to iOS and Android later this Fall. This release, similar to Grand Theft Auto III‘s release, is to celebrate Vice City’s 10th anniversary since it was released back on October 29th, 2002.

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Beasts & Blades 3D RPG hits up Kickstarter, but you can play the beta now

The developers of a new 3D turn-based RPG has hit up Kickstarter for funding to help finish their game called Beasts & Blades. However, unlike a lot of Kickstarter projects, which usually don’t have any sort of playable alpha or beta, mostly just some video footage of it, Beasts & Blades have a playable beta which only Android users can get a hold of for free and start playing the game already.

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Angry Birds Seasons gets its annual Halloween update, complete with new Ghost Blocks

Rovio has released their annual Halloween update, officially called Haunted Hogs, for their Angry Birds Seasons game and this time you won’t be smashing pumpkins and pigs outside. Instead the pigs have gone into hiding inside a haunted house, being careful of ghosts and other spooky things while trying to take the pigs out and get their eggs back. Did we mention there is also a new block you’ll have to deal with?