Archive for November, 2009
Android Game of the Day – 24/11/09 – Cestos Full
Nov 25th
It was not as easy today as I thought. There were two strong contenders for the title, but in the end innovation and casual game-play won over frantic counterstrikesque action.
It was a busy day for games on the market today. I had 22 candidates to choose from. Here is the list:
Zombie MMO for Consoles by Undead Labs
Nov 24th
From the Undead Labs website:
Welcome, zombie fans! And MMO fans. Oh, and of course console gaming fans. And if you don’t fall into one of those categories, you are welcome to hang out anyway if you are console-zombie-MMO-curious.
Undead Labs is a Seattle, Washington-based game development studio that’s on a mission to take online gaming in bold new directions. Our singular focus is to create the definitive massively multiplayer zombie game (MMOZ) for console gamers. Nothing screams funny quite like wading into a group of rotting zombies with a lawn chair and a box of sharpened #2 pencils, and nothing says fun quite like doing it with your friends, whether online or on your couch.
Do I like zombies? check! Do I like MMOs? check! Did I sell my desktop and bought a console? check! Can’t wait!
Android Game of the Day – 23/11/09 – Crystallight Defense Free
Nov 23rd
Today I downloaded and blitz-tested 16 Android games!
(in the future I will keep track of games that are only updated and only give them a mention or the title if the upgrade changed the game significantly.)
Here is the list for Monday, the 23rd of November 2009:
Android Game of the Day – 22/11/09 – Space Physics
Nov 23rd
This is the first installment of a daily series of blog posts. Every day, I will download every game (currently only free or trials because returning an application within 24h of purchase could cost the developer money) that is published on the Android Market and try it out. The game of the day will be announced every day at around 11:00pm to 12:00am GMT.
Today there were 12 games that I downloaded and tried:
cnet – Brin: Google’s OSes likely to converge
Nov 22nd
cnet has this interesting article about how and why Chrome OS and Android might converge in the future. I think this questions has been nagging us since the developer release of Chrome OS last week.
Here’s a snippet from the article:
Google said in a statement in response to questions about how and when the two projects would merge. “Having two open source operating systems from Google provides both users and device manufacturers with more choice and helps contribute a wealth of new code to the open source community.”
This also allows Google to pick and choose the best ideas to emerge from each project, setting up a bit of friendly internal competition to develop new operating-system technologies. The main difference is that while Android is a shipping product, Chrome OS is still very much in the research stage, with devices not expected until late 2010.
Read the full article over at CNET.