Last week Nvidia pushed out their OTA update for the Tegra K1 Shield tablet that featured plenty of bug fixes and optimizations. Today Nvidia has pushed out another update but this time it is for their Nvidia Shield Android TV unit. Sorry, no LTE version of their Shield Tablet update as of yet.
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As the number of publishers turning to the free-to-play revenue model continued to proliferate across the mobile space, French developer, Gameloft, remained the last bastion of premium priced experiences void of in-app-purchases. Gamers that sought refuge from the oft maligned “freemium” approach to content found that Gameloft offered a library of titles that were sold as complete games for one price; the revenue model most familiar to those who play games on dedicated gaming devices, and a model that many veteran gamers still expect on mobile platforms such as Android and iOS.
Activision and Sony announces a new Ghostbusters game heading to Android this Summer called Ghostbusters: Slime City
Announced jointly by both Activision and Sony, Android gamers will now have a new Ghostbusters game to enjoy soon. Dubbed Ghostbusters: Slime City, this game will focus on events that are to take place after what’s to be shown in the upcoming movie. As the premise goes, players will be assuming the role of a squad of rookies, who have been charged with watching over station while their more famous counterparts are doing more high profile work around the country.
[Update: Game Released] Turn-based dungeon crawler Dungenious will be landing on Android next week
Next week on April 14th is turning into a pretty busy release day for Android games and there are even more being announced for that Thursday, with the newest title being Dungenious. Developed by Noizoo Games, this turn-based dungeon crawler is actually a bit of an unusual hybrid game, meshing dungeon crawler with RPG mechanics and a quiz system.
[Update: Game Released] Bulkypix upcoming Mars Mountain is a Q*Bert style game arriving next week
Bulkypix has announced that their next game arriving for Android is called Mars Mountain, which takes a lot of inspiration from the old school arcade game Q*Bert. However, instead of hopping up and down pyramid shaped levels, in this game you’ll be continuously hopping in the same style but endlessly.
Like we mentioned in our previous article, Square Enix has announced a few games today that are coming to mobile devices in the near future. Another one of those game is Valkyrie Anatomia: The Origin, which is the prequel to their other game called Valkyrie Profile. Like Project: Rising’s news, there is very little in the way of details right now regarding Valkyrie Anatomia outside of a teaser trailer.
Square Enix decided that today was a good day to begin announcing a bunch of games heading to mobile, and one of them is a title called Project: Rising. Unfortunately there isn’t a whole lot details about this game, mainly because Square Enix is just teasing this game’s official revealing which will be happening next week.
Back at the end of March Snail Games announced the arrival of Taichi Panda Heroes which was heading into closed beta testing that day. Since then we have been playing in the closed beta, which is actually quite a lot of fun. Today, however, Taichi Panda Heroes has dropped the closed beta tags and instead soft launched in a few select regions.
If you’re a fan of indie games, puzzle games, or both, then there is a new title heading to Android soon that you’ll want to keep an eye out for called Zenge. Developed by Hamster On Coke Games, which is made up of acouple of indie developers, one being Michal ‘Hamster’ Pawlowski and the other being Korad Januszewski, who did all of the illustrations, Zenge is actually quite the good looking game both visually and in terms of how the gameplay checks out.
Shortly after the release of Minecraft: Pocket Edition, one of the main features everyone wanted was some sort of server service where players could join up and play together, just like the PC version of Minecraft. This was to be Minecraft Realms, which was going to be hosted by Mojang themselves. Of course players of the PC version could always set up their own servers and a lot of players did. However getting that done for Minecraft: Pocket Edition was nowhere as easy, although with the launch of PocketMine it did become easier for sure.









