Following on the heels of Pippa’s annoyance at Order Up!! and its shameless in-app purchasing model, I’ve read a very interesting post from Spry Fox LLC’s game designer Daniel Cook on Google+. In it he explains why they’ve decided not to go with the traditional 99¢ sales model and instead are pursuing the free-to-play route. “There’s a specific revenue graph [...]
Daniel Kaplan, business developer at Mojang has announced that the next update to Minecraft: Pocket Edition will not include crafting. To add survival mode and crafting to the game Mojag is having to make major changes to the game code and the UI as it was never in their original plan for the mobile versions. The next update will include: [...]
Sony Ericsson have announced that the Android version of FIFA 12 is now available to download for free. Yes, completely free, but for a limited time only, like the 4 other free EA mobile games. Until the 21st Feb 2012, the game will be exclusive to the Xperia PLAY. Other Android handset owners will have to wait until after this [...]
Games like Stand O Food 3 by G5 Entertainment are my not-so-secret-anymore guilty pleasure. I wouldn’t like to admit to the amount of burgers I’ve flipped, beauty salons I’ve managed and huffy customers I’ve placated with cups of coffee. There’s something incredibly addictive about time management games. Memory recall, quick thinking and a flair for interior design are good skills [...]
Next month Xperia PLAY owners will be able to play Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light exclusively on their handset. Square Enix has been beavering away to bring the hit Xbox LIVE arcade title to the Android platform. For those who haven’t played the game on Xbox LIVE Arcade, Guardian of Light is not your standard Tomb Raider game. [...]
You may have already heard of OnLive, which is another facet of “cloud gaming“. In a nutshell, OnLive run all the games on their monstrously powerful servers newly set up in Europe. You use their technology to stream the video to your rather than buying the hardware and the game to run things locally. Seems a little weird given that [...]
Sony Ericsson invited me along to an Xperia PLAY event in central London last week to play some of the hottest games available for the smartphone. To start off the event a few games were demoed on an Xperia PLAY linked up to a massive TV using the phone’s HDMI output. Sadly, this was a special presentation-only Xperia PLAY that [...]
As soon as Sony Ericsson officially announced the Xperia PLAY smartphone at this year’s Mobile World Congress I was asking the Sony Ericsson people when WipEout was going to be available. WipEout was one of the launch games for the original PlayStation when it finally reached the UK on the 29th Sep 1995. This was the start of my love [...]
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