One of the more anticipated racing games heading our way right now happens to be coming from Electronic Arts, who will be publishing the game when it’s ready. Developed by Firemonkeys, which is the new development studio under EA that was formed when Firemint and Iron Monkeys joined forces, Real Racing 3 looks to be quite the impressive racing game.
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The classic puzzle game that seems to somehow manage to survive after all this time, Tetris, is now available on the Amazon AppStore for free for today only as Amazon’s free app of the day. While we are pretty sure everyone on the planet knows what Tetris is, and probably owns a copy of the game in one form or another, if you happen to have access to the Amazon AppStore, you can grab a copy of it today for free.
Last month we reported on a Kickstarter project started by a new company called PlayMG who are trying to get additional funding for the ‘first’ dedicated Android-based handheld gaming system which is geared towards more casual and freemium / free-to-play titles. Since it is geared towards these types of games, the hardware for the PlayMG was a bit on the lower end of the spectrum.
Good news for future Kindle Fire HD tablets owners and annoying news for those of you who own a device that EA hasn’t brought game compatibility to yet, they have announced that they have already begun making their games optimized for the new line of tablets from Amazon.
Electronic Arts have been speaking a lot over the past few days about their stance in the gaming industry in general, talking about how they are saving any new IPs for when the next-gen consoles are released and that they won’t be making the same mistakes next year as they did this year. Now word has come out that they have completely dropped the notion of single-player games and are now, instead, focusing solely on multiplayer games and interconnection between platforms, something we have seen slowly making its way onto their mobile games lately.
Gamescom is underway and today during Electronic Arts’ press conference, they announced that their Origin game store would be arriving on Android at some point. Interesting news considering yesterday’s story about EA looking to Windows 8 mobile as their possible central platform focus for mobile gaming.