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Mobile gamers looking to show off what they are playing are in luck as YouTube Gaming is introducing streaming for mobile devices. At the moment this is limited to Android devices, not iOS, according to a post on the official YouTube blog. In an article on Polygon, Google’s global head …
Read More »Tales from the Borderlands season finale arrives this month
Telltale has revealed the fifth and final episode of Tales from the Borderlands debut season will launch next week. As has become a standard for the studio’s episodic releases, Episode Five: The Vault of the Traveler will arrive first for PC, Mac, PS3 and PS4 – debuting for the platforms …
Read More »NHL Supercard launches on iOS and Android
2K Games has announced a follow-up to its free-to-play mobile trading card game property Supercard, launching NHL Supercard for iOS and Android platforms. The hockey game features more than 450 cards, which can be trained in playmaking, stick handling, focus, and skating. Players can participate in quick games to earn …
Read More »Nvidia’s Shield Android TV box arrives in the UK tomorrow
Two versions of Nvidia’s Shield Android TV box will go on sale in the UK tomorrow. The 16GB SKU will retail for 149.99 while the 500GB SKU will cost 219.99. Also available are the Shield Remote (39.99) and stand (24.99), while additional gamepads will cost 49.99. Also included in the …
Read More »Google doubles maximum size for APK files
Developers can now publish games of up to 100MB without Expansion Files
Read More »Blackberry is making an Android phone
As has long been rumoured, troubled smartphone manufacturer Blackberry is making the jump to Android. VentureBeat reports that the company has confirmed that it plans to launch a flagship handheld device that will run on the Android operating system with BlackBerry security”. The device itself is called Priv and stays …
Read More »Five Nights at Freddy’s RPG in the works for PC, Android and iOS
Scott Cawthon’s popular horror series Five Nights at Freddy’s is getting a fifth title, but it won’t be Five Nights at Freddy’s 5. The game will instead be an RPG by the name of FNAF World, Cawthon revealed in a post on theFive Nights at Freddy’s 4 Steam community hub. …
Read More »Square Enix pulling Final Fantasy VII G-Bike support in December
Final Fantasy mobile spin-off FFVII G-Bike will shut down later this year, Square Enix has confirmed. Gematsureports the studio will pull support of the iOS and Android release on December 15th, with money-based sales of in-game currency ending on October 13th. Although we were pushing forward with discussions until now, …
Read More »Android game streaming coming to YouTube
Game streaming is about to go mobile. YouTube has announced that it is to introduce game streaming to its Android app at some as-of-yet unspecified point in the near future. The feature, which was announced at The Tokyo Game Show, is being pitched in part as an effort to appeal …
Read More »Improve the performance of your Android game with this great free tool
Intel Developer Blog: How you can use Intel Graphics Performance Analyzers to analyse and optimise your game
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