Amazon prepares to make video games?

If Amazon today aims to become one of the industry giants is that the steps that have been giving lead to think about it. Arguably, by acquiring companies and make arrangements with those beyond their control, the online store born in Seattle aims to replicate the achievements with books making its way slowly but surely through games.

In fact there are several parallelisms between both industry. Amazon has become a benchmark for when buying games at attractive prices. Imagine their power when drag faithful, announcing that enter the market of resale of the shares got GameStop games should fall by 14%. As with copies to electronic books, success in the physical market only prefaced what then continue with digital copies, Android bandwagon with its own shop and even expanding PlayStation Network offers its own section in which purchasing codes became a festival of offers improved the Sony.

If videogames give money, the next step was more than clear, first come developments and thereafter, the platforms. Creating Amazon Game Studios and bulging current account that promise a personal and professional future were able to drag heavyweights like Kim Swift ('Website') and Clint Hocking ('Far Cry 2'), and all the sole purpose of creating games for their digital stores and mobile platforms.

The Amazon Phone Fire followed Amazon Fire TV, a media center also focused on the game on the big screen room that despite not promise great virtues over other competitors in the video game industry, yes smells another of those small steps the company adds up until you get to reach a goal that by now know.

Only then can we get the head to acquisitions as the Double Helix Games, creators of the latest 'Killer Instinct' and the recent revision of the classic 'Strider', are part of sense, because right now the Amazon catalog Game Studios is so scarce as little hopeful. Something similar happens with the recent agreement with Crytek, one morterada between 50 and 70 million dollars with which we can use the CryEngine and, incidentally, that the Germans should do them a favor for having managed to save the furniture company. Remains to be seen how movements continue to surprise us, because something is brewing in Seattle offices. Obvious. If it is an assault on the throne of the industry or a simple strategy for Amazon appears Listings in another sector only time will tell. I with an agreement with Sega to launch a new console (under American direction, do not want more smoothly Japanese) and I was happy.

Amazon prepares to make video games?

Space Liner game, original and addictive mobile game

Space Liner is a platform game for smartphones and tablets released on December 23, 2014 and developed by Hexamob, the company dedicated to developing software optimized for mobile devices.

Space Liner is set in a world in which Artificial Intelligence dominates almost everything and organic species are near extinction. You will be a hero sent by Technots, beings that maintain the balance of the universe using the Eternal Core, its power source. After a dispute in the line of succession, it will be stolen by ARIS, the second heir to the dynasty. With you as the last hope to regain power source, you will embark on a great adventure. You will have to get enhancers and face space enemies that do not put things easy. The game features three worlds and over 50 levels full of action and challenges.

Once in space, you just have to use your finger to guide you through it. Draw lines that your character will follow and accumulates gears while shooting the enemies that stand in your way. Avoid colliding with meteorites, dodging projectiles fired by the enemy and get to your destination to restore the balance.

In terms of gameplay, Space Liner is a win-win. Created specifically for mobile devices, it only requires a finger to enjoy: show the way to your character by drawing lines on the screen and prevents it from falling into the void or for being trapped by any other enemy character. The game gets complicated in terms of difficulty, as you level up, but always in a very fun way that will find you hopelessly hooked.

In short, Space Liner is a very entertaining and simple game to enjoy thanks to its innovative and intuitive controls, with graphics and sounds above the average, which will delight any gamer with Android devices in their possession.

You can download it for free from Google Play. Save the Technots, retrieves the Eternal Core and go from being a hope to be a certainty, with Space Liner.

Space Liner game, original and addictive mobile game

Facebook Beta would integrate a button to share on WhatsApp

Many questions arose after the purchase of WhatsApp by Facebook. WhatsApp has a great usage share, so that the main suspect was always that Facebook absorbed the company to consolidate its influence in the mobile market, but a new rumor claims that WhatsApp could be integrated into the new Facebook application, fueling suspicions.

There are new screenshots of what could be the new Facebook application in version 31.0.0.7.13 where there would be few changes from the current version, but with a very important detail, which would integrate with WhatsApp, as suggested the following screen.

In this screenshot, we see a redesign buttons: Like, Comment and Share away from the visual style we know from Facebook while giving space to a fourth button, which is sent via WhatsApp. After pressing this button it would take us to our list of contacts and groups in Whatsapp, to post our favorite publications from Facebook.

Looking at the last capture, we realize that the procedure for share posts by facebook is similar to the traditional way in which shared content into any other application in the case of a simple shortcut by which Facebook would prioritize chat service bought for 19,000 million dollars against other applications, including Facebook Messenger.

Remembering the conference last week Facebook Messenger not only has not been abandoned to the detriment of WhatsApp, but continues to evolve as a result more than WhatsApp, generating us questions about the Facebook strategy of maintaining two competing services including.

Source: Geektime

Facebook Beta would integrate a button to share on WhatsApp

DuckTales: Remastered, the classic NES game on Android

People who have certain age and since we were smallish players remember great titles that are now classics and some of them reach today as the Castle of Illusion of Mickey Mouse, which was a pleasant surprise to many Android users.

If Disney often releases good and fun titles as Maleficent or Cars, this time comes to brighten the day with the introduction of DuckTales, the classic game that had its successful moment on NES and GameBoy, which offered the greatest entertainment and also the smallest.

In this fantastic adventure, we again control Scrooge McDuck, where accompanied by his nephews we offer an extended story with new very nice graphics as they are hand drawn in a way very reminiscent of Paper Mario and that will appeal to everyone.

In this remastered version of the classic we will travel through the Himalayas, Amazon, Transylvania, African mines and the Moon where enemies will try to make us front and end our adventure, which also find bosses, legendary treasures and collectibles gem that will unlock Series artwork in original television called DuckTales.

A positive addition is that, from now supports controllers and gamepads, that will facilitate much control of our protagonist. And something negative is its price, it may seem high to many, as it is for 11.12 euros.

DuckTales: Remastered, the classic NES game on Android

Nexon M and Big Huge Games joined to launch DomiNations

Nexon M, the mobile division of Nexon, and Big Huge Games has teamed up to release DomiNations, a free strategy game available for iOS and Android devices.

The game follows the style of video games like Civilization, but fully adapted to mobile platforms. As usual, you will try to rise a nation from a small village in the Stone Age. Your town will develop along the timeline until reaching the Space Age.

You start with a small village in the Stone Ages, and as you advance through the history, will have to choose a nation among seven possibles: British, Romans, Chinese, Germans, French, Japanese and Greeks. This choice will determine your strengths and weakness as a nation, so think carefully before deciding which one you want to play with.

The game will challenge you to divide your attention and focus on three different aspects: exploration, conquest and development.

In addition to pay attention to research and development, you have to take care of the city defense as well as maintain an offensive army to conquer new territories. These new cities will provide you with additional resources, such as gold and food, that will can use to improve your own city.

The combats are in real time, and you can chose the target your troops will attack. When the city falls, your rewards will change depending on the buildings have destroyed and the total damage that you were able to inflict during the 3 minutes that the combat lasts.

You can join an alliance to play against players from all over the world. The alliance allows you to chat, donate troops and receive help from your allies. This multiplayer mode expand the possibilities of the single campaign, although you can perfectly play alone if you want.

You can have a look at this video to get an idea of the basic principles of the game.

The game is free but it include in-app purchases. You can either play for free or buy gems to avoid the construction time of the new buildings. You can also use these gems to obtain more resources and skip the time limits of the free game.

DomiNations is available for iOS and Android, you can get it from the App Store and the Google Play respectively.

Source: Droidgamers.

Philips Hue Go: LED lamps with rechargeable battery

Philips has introduced a new range of LED lamps to the Hue family, leading to Hue Go to particularize by having a battery that, besides allowing to place anywhere, provide a range of up to three hours. The Philips Hue Go illuminate where you need it, thanks to its rechargeable battery.

We took a couple of years closely following the Hue of Philips, little by little they are becoming a range of related lighting products, and in recent months with the decor, design lamps.

For those who have never heard of the Philips Hue, it is a collection of bulbs and lamps with LEDs RGB we can control from our phone, which provides us the ability to turn them on or turn them off remotely, modify the intensity of light or the color. Clearly, this is a product to make room to a certain area of ​​our house.

The last thing that brings the European company is called Philips Hue Go, and through its second name, we can already guess what it's about: the lamp that can be taken with us anywhere we want, because it has its own batteries. Like the rest of Hue catalog elements, we can let it plug to the electrical outlet and take advantage of their chances too.

We still have control of their parameters via smartphone - off, intensity, notifications, color, cycles - and engagement with smart home through WiFi connectivity. Logically has its physical controls to the main functionalities. On the positive side of the new Philips Hue Go, besides being able to be controlled with the smartphone, include physical checks that allow us to select up to five different environments without relying on mobile phone.

Philips Hue Go: LED lamps with rechargeable battery

Final Fantasy Record Keeper, all the series together

The best moments of the series come together in Final Fantasy Record Keeper. After the long wait, we have officially available in both the App Store and Google Play the expected remix with the greatest moments of the Final Fantasy series, which comes on the heels of DeNa Corp. in collaboration with Square Enix under the title  Final Fantasy Record Keeper and arrives after being released in Japan reaping a huge success.

We know that Square Enix pampers its saga like gold cloth, but has not been entirely successful in regard to adaptation for mobile devices titles we both enjoyed in our consoles, but with Final Fantasy Record Keeper the situation has taken a dramatic turn and we are now faced with such an interesting and addictive game that definitely everybody will enjoy from the beginning.

The first thing to know about Final Fantasy Record Keeper is that we live our adventures from the point of view of Tyro, a young guard charged with protecting the memories of different Final Fantasy in a sort of alternative world.

In the Kingdom of Memories all those great moments are stored, but now its safety has been compromised and Tyro have to get into the pictures to relive the battles and keep out the threat.

Gameplay is standard in the classic Square Enix, turn-based combat. Yes, Final Fantasy Record Keeper adapts the system to our mobile devices, and now the use of magic is limited during combat.

The magic points we have available is not regenerate, so we must think the strategy we want to follow along battles to not stay without magic in the very beginning, which means focusing the combat more so in the strategy.

One of the strengths is certainly that will add character to our belonging to the saga like Cloud, we'll almost from the beginning and when we have enough participants can choose from our group and equip weapons and other objects that we will receive as we win battles through the world.

On the other hand, we go jumping from epic to epic moment in time without apparent order, so we can not wait to enjoy them in chronological order starting from the first games. For example, start reliving the first battles of Final Fantasy VII.

Final Fantasy Record Keeper is available for free through the App Store and Google Play, and although a free-to-play which includes many micropayments, not necessary to recourse to them to enjoy the game, at least in the first bars thereof.

It is certainly a game that deserves a place in our devices, first because it is a breath of fresh air and enjoyable and second because Final Fantasy Greatest Hits is at least a luxury, and more being for free.

Final Fantasy Record Keeper, all the series together