It’s hard these days to come up with something completely unique in the gaming industry but developer Xlabz Technologies may have actually done that with their new GPS social game called GeoSocials. This is a location-based social game where all the players control what happens.
ngmoco and AT&T have teamed up to bring their huge social gaming network, Mobage, to Android users in the US. AT&T customers will have access to this huge social gaming network which is now even better funded since DeNA purchased ngmoco last year for $400 million.
It seems as though Snoopy and his friends will be making their way to smartphones and tablets soon thanks to Capcom’s new mobile game development studio Beeline. Capcom has signed an agreement with Peanuts Worldwide for rights to use Snoopy and friends in an upcoming social game title.
Once in awhile there is news that just gives mobile gaming a little bit more of a push into the limelight as a viable way of gaming. This is one such instance. Ex-Capcom producer, Keiji Inafune, at a recent joint press event announced his first game since leaving Capcom six months ago.
Last year when the App Inventor for Android came out, we were in the original beta and saw a few features that had yet been implemented. These features including transferring data to and from game servers and other similar features. We took an educated guess at this being a similar system like iOS has with their Game Center.
Last year a company called DeNA bought another game studio called ngmoco and along with it their Plus+ social gaming network. DeNA already had their Mobage social gaming network as well. This purchase of ngmoco was to help DeNA to expand into the US social gaming market and it looks like that is starting to happen.
It has been quite a week in the social gaming network sector of mobile gaming so far. First we had OpenFeint getting purchased by GREE for a cool $104 million. Next, a few days later, DeNA announces a partnership with NTT DoCoMo. Now it is Scoreloop’s turn today as they announce a new partnership with CSL Limited.
DeNA last year bought ngmoco, the publishers of Pocket God on Android and future social games that are on the way. Well DeNA are direct competitors of GREE who purchased OpenFeint on Friday for $104 million. DeNA has now signed a partnership with NTT DoCoMo to bring their social gaming network, Mobage, to devices on DoCoMo.
Like Scrabble-type games? Well you’re in luck today if you do because Amazon’s free app of the day today is a Scrabble-like game called Wordsmith. Actually for the most part it is Scrabble with a few variations to the gameplay and points. In fact you can really rack up the points in this game by Second Breakfast Studios.
Tap Tap Revenge has been waiting to come out on the Android platform for awhile now and thanks to Google actually having in-game purchasing go live today, Tap Tap Revenge (a.k.a Tap Tap Revenge 4 or TTR for short) is also now available for all you music-loving gamers out there who enjoy Guitar Hero style games.
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