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Apr

15

2011

Android eating into Nintendo DS market share – nom nom nom

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by Jesse Bauer
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In a new report from research firm Flurry Analytics, Nintendo is starting to feel the pressure from mobile gaming, particularly from Android and iOS devices more than any other. As we showed yesterday, Android apps in the market are over 350,000, with a good percentage of those being games. Major game developer companies like EA [...]

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Mar

11

2011

Scoreloop Assisting iOS Developers with Android Game Porting

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by Mitch Wright
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As all of you in-the-know people are aware (and if you’re on this site, clearly you’re in the know), Android has seen an exponential increase in sales and users over the past couple of years. Not wanting to miss the opportunity to bring their hard work to a larger user base, many iOS developers have [...]

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Mar

9

2011

The9 and OpenFeint Look to Boost Android Gaming by Paying Developers to Switch Platforms

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by Michael Murphy
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OpenFeint has been pushing to boost game development on the Android platform for quite a while, and has got a nice assortment of games that they’ve developed themselves. However, they’re looking to help taking Android gaming even farther, but partnering up with Chinese developer The9 to promote Android game development by funding developers transitioning to [...]

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Mar

9

2011

Pocket Legends Developer Says They Make Substantially More Money From Android than iOS

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by Michael Murphy
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While Android has come a long way in the gaming world, there are many who contest that it is still very inferior to Apple as a gaming platform.  Protagonists love to cite “fragmentation” and an obstacle to developers, saying that it’s just not worth it for people to make game for the Android platform.  Well, [...]

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Mar

2

2011

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play teams up with Havok gaming tools

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by Jesse Bauer
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The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play has been seeing a fair amount of action online, and Sony is looking to cement the Xperia Play into gaming minds and hearts alike. How do you do that? Push the Xperia Play into the hands of professional gamers that’s how. Sony will be teaming up with Havok, who provides [...]

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Mar

2

2011

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play getting GSM approval from FCC

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by Jesse Bauer
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We know that the Xperia Play will be hitting Verizon in the U.S, as well as O2 in the UK, but we haven’t heard much about where else it may be heading. Rogers Canada will be launching the Xperia Play this Spring as well, but we now see that the Xperia Play is htting the [...]

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Feb

23

2011

Minecraft will be coming to Android later this year

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by Jesse Bauer
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The hugely popular sandbox building game Minecraft will be coming to Android platform sometime later this year according to the game developer Mojang. The game has sold it’s millionth copy in January this year, and is still in beta form, meaning it’s actually got some 8-bit lovers enough that the developer thinks it’s time to [...]

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Feb

17

2011

Xbox Kinect working on Android OS thanks to developers’ handy work

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by Jesse Bauer
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This probably wasn’t anything like the uses Microsoft had in mind when they launched the Kinect, but like everything coded, you simply just need someone to tell a determined developer that it can’t (or shouldn’t) be done. In the video below, you’ll see the Xbox Kinect functioning in an Android OS environment, which looks like [...]

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Feb

12

2011

LG Optimus 2X Showing Off Unreal Engine 3 Technology (Video)

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by Joe Sirianni
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This, without a doubt, has to be a sure sign of great things to come for the Android gaming community.  Caught on tape is the LG Optimus 2X running Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3 technology.  During a look at the 2X, we saw the “Epic Citadel” tech demo running on the device and being mirrored [...]

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Feb

12

2011

AT&T bring Gaming Platform to Android

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by Jesse Bauer
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With AT&T’s commitment to bring more focus to its Android customers, and potential new customers, AT&T will develop a new gaming platform specifically for Android devices. They won’t be doing this alone, as they’ll be partnering with existing Android gaming platform OpenFeint to deliver the goods to AT&T’s 65 million registered users. AT&T commented that [...]

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