Niklas Smedberg of Epic Games made an interesting statement during GDC Europe 2012 citing that mobile is now the new PC in terms of gaming. This is a fact we have been saying for the past year and a half at least but that is besides the point. It is interesting in that this is coming from Epic Games and the statement goes as far as saying that right now mobile is “starting to competing with current consoles”.
Mass Effect Infiltrator is a seemingly perfect fit for my Nexus 7 tablet. It looks great, offers mostly intuitive controls and pushes the boundaries of what we might be used to when it comes to mobile gaming. While much of that is accurate it’s closer to the truth to say that Mass Effect fans will be the true beneficiaries of this new game.
Android tablet gamers who also own an OnLive account have a bit of a treat as Darksiders II from THQ has arrived onto the cloud gaming service and yes, it is playable on your Android tablet. In fact you won’t get any scaling down on the visuals either and can enjoy the eye candy just as you would on a high-end PC since it is streamed through the Cloud.
Aside from the rather colorful name this game has, Orc Genocide is an interesting blend of what the developer is describing as tower defense and conquering gameplay. It is essentially turn-based strategy, that is derived from RTS games, and comes in the form of a chess like game.
Back when Minecraft: Pocket Edition first came to Android, we ran a series of articles called Minecraft Structures, geared towards showcasing reader made buildings, and whatever else, built completely in Minecraft: Pocket Edition. We had a lot of pretty impressive stuff sent in at first but after awhile the submissions died down as everyone got more involved in Minecraft: Pocket Edition in other ways including building, surviving, crafting and modding the hell out of it.
“Oh man! here we go! wait! where’s the station!…..um……Found it!” The man says to his girlfriend as she rolls her eyes back at him. “Ugh! what am I doing here?” she asks herself jokingly. That’s what I’d like to imagine the man and woman from in the intro to the game Outrun are saying.
The second Shadowrun themed game has successfully been funded on Kickstarter and will now be fully developed and released on all platforms including Android tablets and the upcoming OUYA android-based gaming console. We’ve talked about Shadowrun Online a few times in the past as the developers have updated their campaign, including prototype in-game footage.
A couple of bigger names in the gaming scene, mostly on the mobile side of things, are teaming up to bring iOS and Android gamers a new series of games based off of Robert Jordan’s best-selling fantasy series, The Wheel of Time. Jet Set Games and Red Eagle Games have teamed up and are already announcing the first title in the Wheel of Time series of games called First Banner of the Rising Sun.
Along with the announcement of Asus and Wikipad partnering with Sony to bring Playstation Certification to their devices at Sony’s GamesCom 2012 press conference, Sony also announced Playstation Mobile, the official re-branding of the Playstation Suite and along with that, some details on how it will work.
The Sony press conference is currently going on right now at GamesCom 2012 and during this press event Sony had a small portion set aside for Playstation Mobile which includes Android devices. During the small segment, they announced something pretty much no one had any idea would be happening.
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