Android Games

10 indies to receive free Ouya dev kits

December 21, 2012

The first Ouya dev consoles are set to ship later this month and 10 lucky indie developers have been chosen to receive free Ouya dev kits through a Twitter promotion. Over the past 10 days, Ouya picked a different hopeful Ouya developer each day, the list of which is presented below along with links to [...]

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Rumor: Disney Infinity is a sandbox game for consoles, iOS and Android

December 21, 2012

Next month, Disney Infinity will be revealed to the press at an event in Los Angeles. Aside from a lenticular invitation, there’s nothing else concrete on Disney Infinity right now. According to a Polygon source, what we’re going to see is an open-world sandbox game with characters from Disney and Pixar. It mixes elements of [...]

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Serj Tankian composing the beats behind Morning Star

December 20, 2012
Serj Tankian composing the beats behind Morning Star

Morning Star, the first mobile FPS from Alex Seropian and Tim Harris’ studio, Industrial Toys, will feature a full musical score from System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian. Seropian and Harris are pretty serious about their premiere, and this sounds like part of that effort to make a truly hardcore mobile game. “We’ve been [...]

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Zen Pinball HD loaded into the Android chute

December 19, 2012
Zen Pinball HD now on Android

The folks at Zen Studios will not be content until their digital pinball wares exist on every platform known to man. Today the developer lets loose Zen Pinball HD onto the Google Play store, a free download for Android 3.0 devices and up. Zen Pinball HD includes the “Sorcerer’s Lair” table gratis – within the [...]

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Final Penny Arcade 3 DLC on Steam this week, card game coming to iOS

December 19, 2012
Final DLC for Penny Arcade 3 coming Thursday to Steam, card game to iOS

“The Beginning of the End” is the final set of free DLC coming to Penny Arcade’s On the Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness 3, and Zeboyd Games has announced that it’s arriving on PC and the Xbox this Thursday, December 20. The DLC, which aims to fill in the story between the first three episodes, [...]

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Borderlands Legends, Civ Rev, Pirates! and other 2K mobile games on sale

December 18, 2012
2k mobile sale

2K Games is dropping the price on several of its iOS games until January 2, 2013. The recently released Borderlands Legends, along with Civilization Revolution, Pirates!, Carnival Games Vol. 1 and 2 and NHL 2K11 are $ 1 apiece. NBA 2K13 is $ 3… because it’s baller like that. Borderlands Legends, Civ Rev, Pirates! and [...]

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Minecraft documentary world premiere on Xbox Live, Dec. 22

December 18, 2012
Minecraft documentary premieres on Xbox Live on Dec 22

Minecraft: The Story of Mojang, a documentary from 2 Player Productions, will premiere on Saturday, December 22, on Xbox Live for Gold members in the US, UK, Ireland, Belgium, Portugal, Austria, France, Finland and Sweden. The documentary, strangely enough, tells the tale of Mojang founder Markus “Notch” Persson as he rises to indie fame with [...]

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The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Triple Town

December 17, 2012
The Joystiq Indie Pitch Triple Town

Indie developers are the starving artists of the video-game world, often brilliant and innovative, but also misunderstood, underfunded and more prone to writing free-form poetry on their LiveJournals. We believe they deserve a wider audience with the Joystiq Indie Pitch: This week, Spry Fox’s David Edery discusses the real impact of social gaming with his [...]

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You Don’t Know Jack on eye oh ess now

December 16, 2012

You Don’t Know Jack is available now as a free download on Apple mobile devices, developer Jellyvision announced today. The app is available through the App Store for: A) iPadS) iPhoneD) iPod TouchF) All of the above, silly. The answer is F, which happens to be the first letter of Facebook, which was the latest [...]

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