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HareBrained Schemes has debuted its next project, a hybrid tabletop/video game that uses real pieces with a mobile device for score-keeping. It will start crowd-funding in August.
Mad Catz is also getting in on the Android microconsole business, vying for the same audience that Ouya is currently targeting.
GREE has announced X-Men: Battle of the Atom, a mobile card-battling game that ties into the upcoming comic storyline. It's due this fall for iOS and Android devices.
Nvidia's 'Project Logan' is the company's next-generation mobile processor. And the GPU embedded in the chip is based on the Kepler architecture found on PC. That means upcoming mobile devices can support the same features that high-end desktop cards can: OpenGL 4.4, DirectX 11, tessellation, deferred rendering, etc.
The curious gesture controller Leap Motion launched yesterday for PC and Mac, and so has Double Fine's enigmatic game for it, Dropchord. The Psychonauts developer describes it as "a music-driven score challenge game" and it certainly does appear to have sounds and colours. Dropchord will hit iOS, Android and Ouya next week too.
Indie developer Ludeme Games has announced "Chess 2: The Sequel," a twist on the classic game with six armies, new win conditions, and a dueling mechanic.
Stunningly realistic co-op starship bridge simulator Spaceteam has finally arrived on Android, supporting cross-platform play with the iOS original too. Grab some chums and a selection of phones and tablets and whatnot and prepare to hate each other whilst failing to pilot a starship.
Games Workshop may be best known for its Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 wargames, but the company has made plenty of weird and obscure board games and RPGs too. Single-player board game Chainsaw Warrior is becoming a video game thanks to Auroch Digital, giving us an hour and a hefty chainsaw to save New York from invading mutants and zombies.
Nvidia Shield is finally coming out at the end of the month.
Ouya has announced a $1 million pool of funds to be doled out towards promising Kickstarter Android projects that commit to 6 months of Ouya exclusivity.
