Up until now the next iteration of Android has simply been known as Android M. That, however, has changed today as Google has made it official that Android 6.0 will be called Android Marshmallow. Along with the new name, the new developer preview is now available as well as the new SDK 6.0 for developers.
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Between now and the upcoming release of Gameloft’s sequel to their popular MMORPG Order & Chaos, the company will be revealing some of the new features coming with Order & Chaos 2: Redemption. Today Gameloft has revealed a new race as well as a new class that will be making their first appearance in this new game.
Square Enix shows off Armor Blitz, a new game being developed within the Square Enix Collective program
Square Enix has been running a new program lately called the Square Enix Collective program which is basically the company’s third-party promotional arm. Square Enix provides indie developers various support while they developer their games. Today they are showing off a rather interesting Anime-style game called Armor Blitz.
Released by Breta Games, Upong is a simple, break-breaker like game yet has its own identity. Upong retains the idea of a bouncing ball and a horizontally sliding pad that players control at the bottom of the screen. Where it differs is is the fact that players will be responsible to navigate the square shaped ball around obstacles instead of destroying them.
Laser Dog, known for previous games Puk and Alone, have been working on a great retro-style platformer called Hopiko for awhile now. In fact we reported on this game coming to Android back in April of this year. So it has been a few months since we’ve heard anything about when this game will be released. Now we have a release date finally thanks to a post on Vine from the developers.
Firefly Studios has announced today that they will be bringing their popular PC strategy MMO game called Stronghold Kingdoms to Android next year. The Android version of this game actually came about because of the game’s community requesting it enough that it literally made the Android version of the game a reality. Originally, this game was only announced for iOS.
Phosphor Games seems to have teamed up with NRG Energy for a game called The Path To Luma which was just released onto Android the other day. We don’t get to use the word beautiful too often with mobile games unfortunately, but visually, The Path To Luma is a beautiful game.
[Update: Availability] Ankama soft launches their strategy arcade game Tactile Wars onto Android in select regions
Ankama seems to be quite busy these days when it comes to developing mobile games. Currently the company has at least three games that we know of in the works for Android, a couple of which we have already talked about including WAKFU Raiders. We can now add a fourth game to this list called Tactile Wars which just soft launched today onto Google Play in select regions.
A new FPS-strategy hybrid game will be arriving for mobile devices soon. Currently in the beta testing phase of development, Dead Union is a blend of FPS gameplay with base building strategy mechanics, and zombies of course. However this game may not be exactly what you are thinking it is.
It’s Friday which means it is time for another round-up of Android games currently on sale. There is a lot of good games discounted right now including Double Fine Productions putting a couple of titles up for sale, Ikaruga going on sale, and plenty of others as well.









