A new mobile game development studio is starting up and considering who is already on board on the staff, this is looking to shape up to be a bit of a ‘dream team’. The studio, called Industrial Toys, includes Bungie’s co-founder Alex Seropian and ex-DreamWorks R&D manager Brent Pease.
The ESRB are looking into a new way to better, more efficient, way rate mobile and digital games. Last year the ESRB created a new system that was suppose to cut down on the requirements for getting your Android or iOS game rated by the ESRB. This was in preparations for the flood of games that are being released onto these platforms.
For those unfamiliar with Indie developer Vector Unit, you might have come across their popular Android title, Riptide, GP (read our review here) and recently released Shine Runner (review here) which introduced gamers to realistic racing in incredible water physics. While starting out on consoles, Vector Unit brought the same hard hitting quality and fun gameplay to our devices.
Best Buy and Hooked Media have apparently teamed up to host an Android game developer contest called Get Discovered!. The contest is pretty simply really and apparently the only real work you will have to do is use the Hooked SDK in a new game of yours which will integrate Hooked Media’s new discovery platform with your game.
Developers who have been waiting for the Ice Cream Sandwich source code to be released may not have to wait much longer to get their hands on it. According to the CEO of Notion Ink, Rohan Shravan, the source code is planned for a release date of November 17th.
Today Sony has begun accepting developer sign-ups for the beta version of their Playstation SDK. The SDK from Sony is to provide developers a more uniform platform in which to develop games for the PS Vita and Sony’s Android devices which include the Sony S and Sony P tablets, the Xperia play as well as future devices.
Digital Harmony Games has announced that the beta for it’s new real-time cross-platform gaming technology has opened up for developers to sign-up, test out and introduce their cross-platform technology into their current and future games. This will let all developers connect all smartphone, tablet, and browser platforms into the same environment in a cloud-based network.
OpenFeint has been working full steam ahead when it comes to adding new features to their social tools that developers can use in their games. This new announcement, however, isn’t so much of a tool for them to use in their games as it is for them to get exposure for their games.
Our friends over at Appbackr dropped us a line to let us know that they have launched a new service under the Appbackr brand called Xchange. This service is to help developers get distribution for their Android game or app over hundreds over storefronts with as little effort as possible.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately then you’ve probably heard about Lodsys and their patent trolling ways. More and more Android developers are receiving their friendly patent infringement ‘welcome package’, as we like to call it, and Google has remained rather silent… until now.
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