Rumor: Amazon Android game console in the works
Amazon may be looking to jump into the increasingly competitive Android console market, joining Ouya, Shield, and Mojo.
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Amazon may be looking to jump into the increasingly competitive Android console market, joining Ouya, Shield, and Mojo.
Shield, Nvidia's Android-based portable gaming console, has been a success. Well, according to Nvidia, at least.
PlayStation All-Stars Island is quite the head-scratcher. Exclusive to iOS and Android, the free-to-play app has nothing to do with last year's PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale.
Nvidia's Shield already offers the ability to play Android games and stream games from your PC, but Nvidia's also adding the ability to hack right into your device.
At E3, one of the big features DICE showed off was second-screen functionality through "Battlescreen." That feature won't be coming to PS3 or Xbox 360 versions of BF4, however.
Shadowrun Returns may be out for PC and Mac (I completed it over the weekend: I liked the bit where I got a rad roboarm), but oh, there's still so much to do. Developer HareBrained Schemes dropped a dev update on Friday, with news on the Linux, iOS and Android versions, as well as the Berlin add-on campaign that'll be free to backers.
Mobile games are no stranger to unnecessary celebrity collaborations, and weird brand tie-ups. But adding Usain Bolt into Temple Run just makes so much sense.
Yet another heavyweight is throwing its hat in the mobile games publishing ring. Facebook's "Mobile Games Publishing" initiative is exactly what it sounds like.
Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman says game sales are "better than we expected" and predicts that by the end of the year, a few developers will have made a million dollars.
Neil Gaiman is partnering with The Odd Gentlemen and Moonshark for his first jump into video games. Wayward Manor is coming this fall to PC, Mac, and tablets.