Qualcomm has really fired up their whole push with Android gaming as of late. Their newest announcement comes during Uplinq 2011 which started today and is a ‘Game Pack’ which will feature a slew of titles from a few top game developers that are optimized for their Snapdragon chipset.
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Sometime we witness growth so great that we end up going “WTF” when reading the news. Well this is one of those cases where the numbers are just so massive that believing it at first can be difficult. Today, OpenFeint is reporting such a scenario with their member growth.
Lots, and I mean lots, of people are waiting for the official Teamspeak client to drop on Android. Currently still in the early beta development stages (since we last checked), what is there to use on your Android phone as a substitute? Mangler has got you covered for now in that department.
While Blizzard has had the World of Warcraft Remote App out for Android for some time already, it only had remote auction house functions enabled. Depending if you were signed up for the subscription or not, you could do just about anything with the auction house in-game. The app has now been updated with the new guild chat feature.
Today Qualcomm has taken the leap and launched their Augmented Reality Platform for Android. Last year it was released in beta form for developers to play around with and develop apps/games for the developers challenge. Now it is available in non-beta form for developers to actually release apps and games commercially.
With Minecraft getting an official date of release (being in November I believe), it is time to get read for it and luckily for us Android users, there are some apps to help you out in various ways depending on what you actually do when playing Minecraft. Everything from admin tools to builders are available. Here’s a list for you to check over.
A lot of gamers use Teamspeak for talking with teammates or guildies, depending on the game you play, for a lot of reasons whether it is to plan a raid or, more often than not, provide better teamwork in FPS (first-person shooter) games. We also know a lot of people want a mobile version, especially for Android.
Mono for Android now available. C# and .NET developers rejoice now that you can make apps for Android
It must be developer news day today or something, not that we are complaining. The more tools developers have, the better they can make good games with! Mono for Andorid, now available for general consumption, will allow developers to develop applications and whatever else they want to using technologies like C# and .NET.
Our friends over at Battery Powered Games have been hard at work with a new project we thought would end up being another game. However, as it turns out, it isn’t a game at all but an entire development framework for cross-platform game development. Called BatteryTech, it is available for indies developers and bigger studios as well.
Google has flipped the switch to the “On” position for a neat tool for Android developers to use. When signed into you Android Market account, you will be treated to a new link under each app/game you have uploaded to the Android Market labeled as “Statistics”. This will give you a break down of all sort of helpful information.