Category Archives: Android

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Sick and tired of the way mobile games treat players, Team Meat aims to do things differently. More »

Kenji Hisatsune says goodbye to Bandai and hello to Square.

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Hot on the heels of the World Cyber Games reformat, Major League Gaming in venturing into the mobile space.

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An AdAge report states Zynga plans to add brands into Draw Something as word items for players to draw. The firm is currently selling advertisers the option to include branded item names into the game, starting with the National Hockey League. Granted, you can already draw Doritos and KFC in the game – as our horrible depictions of a KFC bucket can attest – but it sounds as if there will be more brands heading into the game in the near future. Like many gaming apps on mobile, the free version of the game supports ads, where as the paid-app does not.

Replay Games has secured the required funding – and then some – for Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards.

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Gameloft has released a video for N.O.V.A. 3 – Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance showing off the multiplayer in the iOS and Android shooter. The game includes 10 weapons, six maps, six game modes including Free For All, Capture The Flag & Team Deathmatch , vehicles and customizable characters with weapon add-ons and perks. The game hits the App Store and Google Play this month.

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A report from analyst group App Data suggests daily usage for Draw Something has fallen by five million users in one month. The 33% decline comes on the heels of the Zynga buyout of OMGPop which saw the social game firm outbidding other interested parties with a $210 million acquisition. The title continues to fall towards the bottom of the App Store charts, with DAU peaking at 15 million in April to 10 million 30 days later. Thanks, Develop.

If you’ve been feeling left out of the latest social gaming craze because you don’t have an Android phone or iDevice, take heart – you can now grab the game for your Kindle Fire. What, you don’t have one of those either? Son, I can’t help you. Try Pictionary. Grab Draw Something from the Amazon Marketplace for free, or for 99 cents if you prefer to play ad free.

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French site Nintendotown has posted a new batch of Wii U rumors, one of which is rather plausible due to previous comments made by Nintendo.

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A Forrester Research report states tablet sales are expected to hit 375 million by 2016 with 760 million tablets in use worldwide, an annual growth of 46% compared to the 56 million tablets purchased in 2011.

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Mojang has updated Minecraft Pocket Edition on iOS to Version 0.3.0, which among other things adds crafting. The update is available on Android as well. Get the update notes through here.

Trendy Entertainment’s hosting a map making contest for Dungeon Defenders. Prizes range from map inclusion into the Ranked & Open mode with $1,000 in cash and a Dungeon Defenders prize pack – to be decided -for first place. Second place nets $500 and a DunDef pack, third place walks off with $250 and a DunDef pack, and fourth gets the pack and no cash. official rules and instructions can be found through here, and the Dungeon Defenders development kit can be downloaded for free via Steam.

Zynga has pushed out a free update to the iOS version of Draw Something which allows players to save and share their own drawings.

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The Android version of Imangi Studios Temple Run has been downloaded more than 10 million times since it launched three weeks ago. The game was released on iOS last year and has since been downloaded over 36 million times on the format.

Indie studio War Balloon Games, which raised $37,000 for its iOS game Star Command, has said it spent around $10,000 on the project’s tiered pledge system.

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Ex-Halfbrick veteran and industry old-timer Tony Takoushi has set up shop as Total ArKade Software. Takoushi, who’s been in the industry since 1979 for CVG, Sega Europe and Codemasters as well as Halfbrick, is currently in the process of creating the studio’s first game for iOS, Android and Samsung’s Bada service.

Via GI International.

Beachhead has said now that it’s finished “working furiously” on the mobile app for Call of Duty: Elite on Android and iOS, it’s next project was to start on a app for tablets. However, don’t expect it to be a port of the mobile application according to product director Noah Heller.

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Rockstar’s announced the iOS version of Max Payne Mobile, an optimised version of the first game, will launch this Wednesday. An Android version of the Remedy action title comes out two weeks later on April 26. The game was announced for mobile devices last year alongside the re-announcement of Max Payne 3.

The mobile version of Sega’s popular Football Manager is due on Android on Wednesday.

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