Love ’em or hate ’em, Pomplamoose can really rock the hell out of the covers that they do. Their arrangements are pretty clever, and they’re clearly musically gifted, so perhaps it was only a matter of time before they gave Angry Birds some of their treatment. The popular game has seeped deep into every crevice…
Zen Studios bringing Zen Pinball THD to NVIDIA Tegra 2 devices
If Pinball HD wasn’t enough for you, then you may be excited to hear that another pinball game is on its way for Tegra 2 devices. Zen Studios will be bringing its PS3 game Zen Pinball to Android smartphones and tablets with the NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor, and will be giving demos of the…
Blammo Games to develop two games for Glu Mobile in the next 12 months
Glu Mobile announced a multi-title partnership with Blammo Games, founded by the game industry veteran Christopher Locke, who most recently built and ran the studio responsible for freemium top ten grossing iOS titles Smurfs’ Village and Zombie Cafe. Moreover, he also served as external producer on another popular game – Lil’ Pirates. As part of…
NAMCO BANDAI Android and iOS games on sale this weekend
NAMCO BANDAI Games America is organizing a weekend sale of some of its iOS and Android games. Select Android titles are available for 2 bucks ($1.99), while select iOS games could be yours from $0.99 to $2.99. Here’s the list of games that are on sale: Android Games (all games cost $1.99) More Brain Exercise…
Pinball HD for Tegra 2: Rich graphics, loads of wasted time await
Tegra 2-optimized games are not as plentiful as we would like to see at the moment, but we’re assured that more will be on the way in due time. One such game that’s soon to land in the Tegra Zone store is Pinball HD, and it’s quite stunning to play. One may not be completely…
Glu Mobile to make mobile games based on the work of best-selling author James Frey
In what seems as a strange partnership, Glu Mobile is teaming-up with Full Fathom Five, the publishing company of best-selling author James Frey, for a “groundbreaking transmedia collaboration.” As part of the deal, James Frey and Full Fathom Five will work closely with Glu on the creation of a minimum of four original story ideas…
Nokia offers free Symbian^3 games in select markets
Nokia is currently running a promotion in the Ovi Store, offering a number of high quality Symbian^3 games for free in select markets, including France, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Sweden and the United Kingdom. We don’t have the complete list of countries where users can download free games, so if you spot something “interesting”…
Video: BlackBerry PlayBook Running Multiplayer Quake
The clever guys at RIM-owned The Astonishing Tribe have ported the open-source first-gen Quake game to the BlackBerry PlayBook, and have the game running in multiplayer across three tablets. One device acted as the server, and all three could handle laser beams, explosions, and gibby body parts all while maintaining 60 frames per second. RIM…
EA Acquires Flight Control and Real Racing Developer Firemint
If you own an iOS, Android, or WP7 device, then Firemint is a name you should know by now as their games, Flight Control and Real Racing, are some of the most popular titles on each platform. EA has announced today they have purchased Firemint for an undisclosed amount. Firemint will be placed into EA’s…
Angry Birds coming to BlackBerry PlayBook, making it a semi-useful tablet
Which will come first? Angry Birds for PlayBook, or a native e-mail client for RIM’s lukewarm tablet? It’s hard to say, but if I had to guess, it’d be the beloved avian-versus-swine game. This morning during Mike Laziridis’ keynote speech at BlackBerry World in Orlando, Florida, it was announced that, in addition to the 3,000…