A few days ago we received an email from our friends at N3V Games regarding a post on their blog about how changing their icon for their Trainz simulation series of games had substantially increased their sales across all platforms. We have talked about icons briefly in the past and how a good icon helps and N3V Games has provided a real world example of how it does help to have a good icon.
DeNA today has announced that the company has signed agreements with four more game development studios to bring future games to DeNA’s Mobage social gaming platform. The four companies are Machineworks Northwest, Grab Games, 4PLAT and Oktagon Games with all four companies bringing future titles to Mobage.
Stargate SG-1 fans can go ahead and lose your minds now out of excitement as the series will be coming to Android in the near future in the form of an episodic interactive adventure game called Stargate SG-1: Unleashed. This will be developed by Arkalis who managed to sign a deal with MGM to get rights to the Stargate SG-1 franchise license.
Activision and ABC TV have teamed up to bring the rather popular TV show Wipeout to Android but in the format of a game you can play. Featuring some hefty balls that you can play with, fans of the show will now be able to try and tackle all the obstacles from the show but on your Android device instead.
PlayJam’s GameStick is currently being developed, having undergone a redesign recently and plans to launch a month after OUYA ships out to backers of their Kickstarter campaign and a retail release in June 2013, and in an interview PlayJam’s chief marketing officer Anthony Johnson talks about OUYA as a competitor, retail backing and how GameStick may be updated with new hardware.
Ever heard of Canabalt? Well, if you have, then Vector should look and feel familiar to you. This is an auto-running platformer where you jump on rooftops and smash into buildings while escaping from a totalitarian regime. What’s unique about Vector is that alongside traditional platforming mechanics, it features jaw-dropping acrobatic stunts inspired by Parkour.
Electronic Arts and Firemonkeys have finally decided to let the world know when Real Racing 3 will be released for all platforms. While Firemonkeys had been teasing everyone about the game with their developer diary videos, it was always stated that the game would be coming to mobile, using the generic term instead of saying iOS or/and Android.
The developer of the rather popular Galaxy on Fire series of games for iOS and Android have announced a new spin-off themed around the Galaxy on Fire universe. This new spin-off game will be an MMORTS title for both Android and iOS phones and tablets called Galaxy on Fire – Alliance.
Recently nVidia decided to show off Project Shield a little bit more by loading up Borderlands 2 onto it and giving it a whirl. In the end it looked quite good and played smoothly. This time they want to show off another game running on Project Shield and that is Vivid Games’ newest title Real Boxing.
Interesting news coming from Qualcomm today where Qualcomm’s Snapdragon boss Raj Talluri came out to basically say there is no real point to nVidia’s Project Shield and that it is basically useless. Following that statement Raj Talluri went on to say that Qualcomm won’t be building anything to compete with Project Shield either and that there is no real need for a dedicated Android device for games.
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