Back in February we reported on GameSpy and their indie developer initiative that gave access to all the technology GameSpy uses to indie game developers to use and integrate into their games. Some of these include Dungeon Defenders by Trendy Entertainment and Fruit Ninja by Halfbrick.
PAX Prime is coming up and the crew behind the gaming event have created a new 2-day event just before the start of PAX Prime called PAX Dev. The PAX Dev event will be for indie game developers only that will features workshops focused on design mechanics with some great speakers like our friends from Trendy Entertainment.
IndieCade has announced that it has teamed up with LG for a new event at the conference for indie developers interested in developing games that are glasses-free 3D enabled for the LG Thrill 4G. This would also apply to other devices that handle glasses-free 3D as well.
Rovio has announced the next Angry Birds Seasons update during a press conference in China the other day. Dubbed the “Moon Festival”, this update will bring a whole new episode to Angry Birds Seasons themed around China and also ties into another product, Angry Birds Moon Cakes.
We tend to cover all things Minecraft here at DroidGamers from time to time since it will be available for the Xperia Play. It will also be available for all Android devices roughly a month after the Xperia Play exclusive time frame. Markus Persson, Head Mojang man, has released a couple of screenshots of the Endermen, the new creepy mob coming to Minecraft.
NCSoft has developed/published a multitude of PC-based MMO games across multiple genres although most are MMORPGs but have always tip toed around the whole mobile scene. With their recent hit from last year, Aion, they did release an app called Aion Exchange. So what this this purchase of Hotdog Studio about?
Well here is something to make you think this Monday morning. Fresh off the lovely thing we call the internet is a story about a former Gameloft employee who is accusing the mobile gaming publisher of overworking their employees who also cites “dangerous working conditions”.
It seems Gamevil knows that, even though they have many in-house hits themselves, helping developers and buying IPs can also be very successful. With that said, Gamevil has announced a $10M partner fund for developers to strength their list of quality smartphone games.
Mark Rein, Co-Founder of Epic Games, sat down with Edge Magazine to talk more about Unreal Engine 3. Of course, as with any interview with Mark, the questions always come up about Android, which is great except he is probably sick of it by now. Either way, he does mention problems still with Android.
Once in awhile one or more of the big companies in gaming have to voice their opinions on mobile gaming. Is it because it is a threat and they just don’t want to come off worried or perhaps it is just the fact that they look down on the little guys sometimes. Sony’s boss, Jack Tretton, brings us a little gem of wisdom today about mobile games.
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